Review
Album Review
KISS Sonic Boom
- Modern Day Delilah
- Russian Roulette
- Never Enough
- Yes I Know (Nobody’s Perfect)
- Stand
- Hot & Cold
- All The Glory
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- I'm An Animal
- When Lightning Strikes
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Despite having their own coffin, a rogue military outfit devoted to being their fans, selling thousands of albums, and uh, pleasing many, many groupies, Kiss have never had a number one album. That might change with Sonic Boom, the band's new album, which will be released in a partnership with Wal-Mart. Sonic Boom is the band's first album since 1998's Psycho Circus, and while the cover up there might make it seem like it's the original line-up working on Sonic Boom, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer are standing in for Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. The album was produced by longtime singer Paul Stanley, who only agreed to do the album if he could decide its direction, which seems self-absorbed, but it's Kiss, so it seems totally normal.
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YES!! CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
flexx
I'm sorry, is that meant to be a review? Do you actually get paid for this?
James Wynne
Gene paid for that review. Come on... a #1 album at this point? Are you high. Hey I'm glad they put out some new good tunes - good for them. But it is totally lame to use Ace & Peter's classic makeup on their replacements.
smellygirl
smellygirl:
"lame to use Ace & Peter's classic makeup on their replacements".
Sick of this words. Ace and Peter are to too old to really understand :) Ace is ok now, but he did a lot to destroy the band in the past. So they let him go - as hi wished!
MishaMoscow
HOLY HOLY HOLY COW!!! This album just seriously ROCKS. I'm blown away, can't believe it...who would have thought it after the tragedy of Psycho Circus??? Following Revenge, that was such a disappointment but here it is over a decade later and KISS delivers the best album since, man, what...Revenge, Creatures, Destroyer? TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE. "Say Yeah" is so dang catchy. I can't believe how fresh this sounds while also hitting on nostalgia. For once you can tell the members of KISS had fun instead of laboring. As for Tommy Thayer, well, I never accepted him as a true member until now. Granted, he's not Kulick but he's not shabby! As Paul sings, "Let me hear you say yeah". YEAH!!!
Mark Stone
Come on now, the glowing reviews this thing is getting thus far are simply ridiculous. The song "Psycho Circus" is itself FAR better than anything on "Sonic Boom". It just isn't a very good album at all, it most certainly doesn't come anywhere close to the band's early classics. In fact, after spinning it a few times I have to say it ranks among their worst efforts, it's way more "Crazy Nights" than "RnR Over". Paul and Gene have been writing variations of the same song over and over again since "Lick It Up" and it's about time someone called them out on it.
If you have to choose between the two, buy the Ace album, it contains actual memorable riffs and songs that don't all blend together into one big yawn-fest. Once again Ace proves that he was the musical engine that drove the band, without him Gene and Paul are one-note ponies incapable of pumping out anything but cliched, formulatic pap.
Odelay Dibango
This is possibly one of the poorest releases by Kiss, no energy, no passion, no spirit. Four old guys trying to recreate 75-77 and falling flat on their faces. Its time to put those heels away, wipe the greasepaint from your faces and go home guys. Ace's new release just rocks out and is far batter than Sonic Whimper. Between the two release, Ace's is the one that you have got to buy, buy Sonic Whimper just to complete your collection, just don't expect too much.
Deadstar