Kiss - Hotter Than Hell [Remastered] (CD 1997)

1. Got To Choose
2. Parasite
3. Goin' Blind
4. Hotter Than Hell
5. Let Me Go Rock 'n' Roll
6. All The Way
7. Watchin' You
8. Mainline
9. Coming Home
10. Strangeways


Details
Number of CDs: 1
Producer: Kenny Kerner
Recording type: Studio
Distributor: Universal Music
Recording mode: Stereo


Album notes
Kiss: Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley (vocals, guitar); Gene Simmons (vocals, bass); Peter Criss (vocals, drums).Recorded at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California.Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio at Sterling Sound, New York, New York.Released in late 1974, HOTTER THAN HELL was the second of four albums Kiss would release in a two-year span. Adorned with a kabuki-inspired cover (which helped spark their huge appeal in Japan), the album is filled with tightly written songs packed with sex and attitude. Die-hard fans immediately associated these songs with certain members of the band. "Parasite" and "Strange Ways" are two early Ace Frehley tours de force, while Gene Simmons' offerings included the suggestive "All The Way" and "Watchin' You." Of all the criminally overlooked material on HOTTER THAN HELL, two songs stand out in particular. The rare Stanley/Frehley collaboration "Comin' Home," and "Goin' Blind," a Wicked Lester song originally called "Little Lady," reworked by Simmons. Despite this album's poor initial sales, the phenomenon known as Kiss would explode by the end of the following year.