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KISS - The Box Set (5CD, 2001) RESTORED

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KISS - The Box Set (5CD, 2001) RESTORED

KISS - The Box Set (5CD, 2001)
FLAC+CUE+LOG or MP3 CBR 320 | 364:51 min | 2,67 GB or 840 MB
94 tracks of hits, rarities, demos, and live material

For nearly 30 years, Hard Rock god KISS have been notorious for their trademark face paint, lavish costumes and larger than life concerts. Often overlooked, however, is the band's gargantuan back catalog - one that includes roughly 35 releases, 26 charting singles and more than 100 hours of music. This box set lumps together 64 classics and 30 previously unheard tracks into KISS: The Boxed Set, a mammoth project spanning the group's entire history.

Longtime Kiss fans have come to expect things done on a grand scale by their masked heroes, and everyone's favorite rock & roll merchandising machine doesn't disappoint with their 2001 anthology, Box Set… each disc chronicles a certain time period of the band. Included are demos of such Kiss classics as "Strutter", "Deuce", "God of Thunder", and "Love Gun", as well as demos of tracks that never made it to any of their albums: "Doncha Hesitate", "Mad Dog", and "Love Is Blind", among others. But it doesn't end there; you'll also find tracks by the pre-Kiss group Wicked Lester (including an almost unrecognizable version of "She", a song Kiss would later re-record themselves) and a live take of the oft-overlooked Ace Frehley gem "Talk to Me", plus an unreleased Kiss version of "It's My Life" (the song was only previously available on an obscure Wendy O. Williams solo album) from their final studio album, 1998's Psycho Circus. The balance between the obscure and the well-known is tempered out with the inclusion of such scream-along arena rockers as "Black Diamond", "Do You Love Me", "Detroit Rock City", "Rock and Roll All Nite", and "I Love it Loud", as well as spotlighting such underrated album tracks as "Strange Ways", "Parasite", "Goin' Blind", "Larger Than Life", "Sure Know Something", and "War Machine". Although the quality of the material begins to dip on the last two discs (both focus primarily on the group's wishy-washy unmasked era, when Simmons and Stanley were the only two original members left), there's a little something for each Kiss fan to sink their teeth into on Box Set'.

~ Greg Prato, all media guide

Kiss Box Set:
CD 1 (1966-1975)

01. Strutter - (previously unreleased, 1973 demo)
02. Deuce - (previously unreleased, 1973 demo)
03. Keep Me Waiting - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
04. She - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
05. Love Her All I Can - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
06. Let Me Know - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
07. 100,000 Years - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
08. Stop, Look To Listen - (previously unreleased, Paul Stanley 1968 demo)
09. Leeta - (previously unreleased, Gene Simmons 1969 demo)
10. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
11. Acrobat - (previously unreleased, live at The Daisy 1973)
12. Firehouse - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
13. Nothin' To Lose
14. Black Diamond
15. Hotter Than Hell
16. Strange Ways
17. Parasite
18. Goin' Blind
19. Anything For My Baby
20. Ladies In Waiting
21. Rock And Roll All Nite

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CD 2 (1975-1977)

01. C'mon And Love Me - (live, Alive! version)
02. Rock Bottom - (live, Alive! version)
03. Cold Gin - (live, Alive! version)
04. Watchin' You - (live, Alive! version)
05. Doncha Hesitate - (previously unreleased, 1975 demo)
06. Mad Dog - (previously unreleased, demo)
07. God Of Thunder - (previously unreleased, demo)
08. Great Expectations
09. Beth
10. Do You Love Me?
11. Bad, Bad Lovin' - (previously unreleased, demo - early version of Calling Dr. Love)
12. Calling Dr. Love
13. Mr. Speed - (previously unreleased, demo version)
14. Christine Sixteen
15. Hard Luck Woman
16. Shock Me
17. I Stole Your Love
18. I Want You - (previously unreleased, soundcheck recording)
19. Love Gun - (previously unreleased, demo version)
20. Love Is Blind - (previously unreleased, Gene Simmons demo)

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CD 3 (1976-1982)

01. Detroit Rock City - (edit version)
02. King Of The Night Time World - (Alive II version)
03. Larger Than Life
04. Rocket Ride
05. Tonight You Belong To Me
06. New York Groove
07. Radioactive - (previously unreleased, demo)
08. Don't You Let Me Down
09. I Was Made For Lovin' You
10. Sure Know Something
11. Shandi
12. You're All That I Want, You're All That I Need - (previously unreleased, demo)
13. Talk To Me - (previously unreleased, live at Parreta Stadium 1980)
14. A World Without Heroes
15. The Oath
16. Nowhere To Run - (1989 remix)
17. Creatures Of The Night - (1985 remix)
18. War Machine
19. I Love It Loud

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CD 4 (1983-1989)

01. Lick It Up
02. All Hell's Breaking Loose
03. Heaven's On Fire
04. Get All You Can Take
05. Thrills In The Night
06. Tears Are Falling
07. Uh! All Night
08. Time Traveler - (previously unreleased, Paul Stanley 1986 demo)
09. Hell Or High Water
10. Crazy, Crazy Nights
11. Reason To Live
12. Let's Put The X In Sex
13. Hide Your Heart
14. Ain't That Peculiar - (prev. unreleased, Eric Carr 1989 demo - early version of "Little Caesar")
15. Silver Spoon
16. Forever - (single version)

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CD 5 (1992-1999)

01. God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
02. Unholy - (edit version)
03. Domino - (previously unreleased, demo 1991)
04. Every Time I Look At You
05. Comin' Home - (live, unplugged)
06. Got To Choose - (live, unplugged - bonus track)
07. I Still Love You - (live, unplugged)
08. Nothin' To Lose - (live, unplugged)
09. Childhood's End - (with coda, previously unreleased)
10. I Will Be There
11. Psycho Circus - (edit version)
12. Into The Void
13. Within - (edit version)
14. I Pledge Allegiance To The State Of Rock & Roll
15. Nothing Can Keep Me From You - (from Detroit Rock City soundtrack)
16. It's My Life - (Psycho Circus outtake, original version)
17. Shout It Out Loud (live 1996, from Greatest Kiss album)
18. Rock And Roll All Night - (from unreleased Alive IV version)

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The first disc opens with unissued 1973 demos of "Strutter" and "Deuce," the former the lead off song from Kiss's 1974 self titled debut and the latter cut the band opened with at most of its shows up until 1976 (and later on their reunion tour). The tracks are "the original Eddie Kramer produced demos that got the band signed (to Casablanca) in the first place," says Thommy Thayer. Three more unreleased offerings follow: "Keep Me Waiting," "She" and "Love Her All I Can," earlier takes from a shelved album that pre-Kiss assemblage Wicked Lester created in 1972-73. The latter two tracks were recorded later as Kiss songs.

Seven more unheard cuts follow on the first disc, featuring four takes from Kiss's 1973 Bell Sound Studios sessions - "Let Me Know," "100,000 Years," "Let Me Go, Rock 'n Roll" and "Firehouse." Also included is the oldest track on the box, a 1968 Paul Stanley demo of "Stop, Look to Listen," which the guitarist recorded with some unnamed friends. "I'm hearing more Humble Pie and Grand Funk Railroad on that track," says Thayer.

Representing Simmons's early influences is his "Leeta" demo, recorded in New York in 1969 under the moniker Bullfrog Bheer. "Gene's got some very serious Beatles roots going on," Thayer observes. The disc's final unreleased track, "Acrobat," was recorded at a New York Kiss show in early 1973.

"It's actually two songs," Thayer says of "Acrobat." "Half the song was later used on the first record as 'Love Theme from Kiss.' The second half, ЊMuch Too Young,' never appeared anywhere else, although it has a guitar riff that was influential on "Detroit Rock City."

Many other early demos on the box were also reworked into later classics. Parts of "Mad Dog," including the guitar riff, became "Flaming Youth;" "Bad Bad Lovin'" evolved into "Calling Dr. Love;" "You're All That I Want, You're All That I Need" is an early version of "You're All That I Want;" and the Eric Carr (late Kiss drummer) penned "Ain't That Peculiar" was reworked into "Little Caesar."

Among the other notable box offerings is "Childhood's End," a song recorded during the Carnival of Souls sessions that now arrives with an unreleased coda. "It went off on this tangent at the end," Thayer explains, "and I think everybody decided that it should probably be clipped off."

Rounding out the unreleased tracks are demos for "God of Thunder," "Love Gun," "Love is Blind," "Radioactive" (on which Simmons performs all instruments, "Time Traveler" and "Domino." The original version of "Doncha Hesitate" - recorded during the Alive/Destroyer era - also appears, along with "Nowhere to Run," lifted from the 80s's European only Kiss Killers release.

In conjunction with the unissued studio track, "It's My Life," three live cuts cap off the list: a soundcheck recording of "I Want You," from a summer 1977 show at Los Angeles' Forum; "Talk to Me," performed in Australia in 1980; and "Rock and Roll All Nite," recorded at Kiss's Millennium concert and slated to appear on next year's planned Alive IV.



Release Date: November 20, 2001
Number of Discs: 5
Format: Box set, Original Recording Remastered
Label: Mercury / Island Def Jam
Catalog No.: 314 586 5***

What's new
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Just a long time requested re-up.