Review Summary: in summary this Kiss album is an excellent album, mainly due to the experience that the band acquired with its predecessors, with Ezrin's bold production the band took a leap in its performance on this album.
1 – Detroit Rock City - (5:17)
A worthy start to a great album, it begins with Detroit Rock City was the ultimate card for Kiss, music with a strong rock n roll footprint, to the sound of Detroit the city that the band took as one of the symbols of the band. This song is very good, with a very cool rhythm and an even more sticky chorus to the sound of Get Up, Get Down You gotta lose your mind in Detroit Rock City that takes part in the song and makes everyone sing along.
The lyrics also tell the story, even before the first chords a story seems to come from a newspaper or newscast, about an accident right there in the city of Detroit. After the first few chords Detroit Rock City becomes a good song and an excellent opening shot of Destroyer its 5 minutes and 17 – the biggest song on the album – do not tire one bit, in fact the point out of the curve on an album of little more than half an hour.
Note 4.5/5
2 – King of the Night Time World (3:19)
The second song stands out first in the lyrics where it seems to tell a story of someone who left his city in the case of New York behind to live something, once he misses the jokes he made there, once he is happy to be with a special person in this new place. Not to mention that when the second song starts, it seems that Kiss released it purposely so that it sounded like it was a continuation of the first Detroit Rock City, so much so that when it starts, the similar chords make us think that Detroit Rock City continues to play.
The chorus creeps through various parts of the song, thus making the song a little better than it looks. It's 3:19 where King of the Night Time World stands out for a well-synchronized guitar solo and the good use of the orchestra that accompanied the band in the recording of this album.
Note 4/5
3 – God of Thunder (4:13)
God of Thunder, the fourth biggest song on the album at over 4 minutes, and the third on the album begins with a child before the heavy chords of Ace's guitar, which finally kicks off on the album. Here we see very explicit sound effects, from the mixture of effects with the voice of the musicians as effects in the background of the music to give a little more enrichment in the sound. With Gene on vocals this is one of the heaviest sounding and with a very heavy and pulsating chorus like the song. I think here that the melody is good, and the sound is much better and the guitar sound takes the music all the time, so highlight to Ace who made an excellent melody on guitar to the bass vocal of Gene Simmons.
Note 3.5/5
4 – Great Expectations (4:24)
This in my opinion is the best chorus of the CD with Great Expectations, in a reasonable lyric with a double entendre or more, of course the song has hit to be ballad of the album, and it is in a way, but depending on each one.
Great Expectations is a good song with a good melody starting with an acoustic guitar that accompanies the whole song and a guitar with the weight in measure, a melodic song and once again here the orchestra and the back vocals stand out and help a lot in the rhythm of the song once again sung by Simmons.
The problem with Great Expectations is that the sound and melody is nice, but the more than 4 minutes with several times the chorus repeating itself, leaves the song being cool singing one, two and three times. After that the music starts to become predictable and slurred.
Note 3.5/5
5 – Flaming Youth (2:59)
Flaming Youth is a good song, once again the band betting on the repetition of the chorus several times in the song, as it has done in the first 4 songs, Flaming Youth is no different the chorus repeats, repeats and repeats several times, not that this is bad, making chorus and repeating them is something that makes a lot of a song turn pop, But sometimes it seems a certain exaggeration, in this song in another lyric that sounds like a wild youth where you do things and have a lot of fun, it's a lively lyric.
The song isn't the best on the album, but it's still a good song to listen to at just 3 minutes.
Note 3/5
6 – Sweet Pain (3:20)
Sweet Pain opened the sixth song of the album with another song with the effects that the band had been bringing in some, effects that complete and fill the songs well, here we see another fast song, with another chorus being repeated several times, Sweet Pain follows the rhythm of the previous one in a good song, but without many highlights.
Note 3/5
7 – Shout It Out Loud (2:49)
Shout It Out Loud for me is one of the best songs on the album, here the band brings the joy that has been presenting on the album, with an excellent chorus, repeated several times clear, but quite different with a more tuned harmony and a solo that was little explored on the album, so it seems that this song was better worked and makes that despite repeating itself several times, don't get sick of hearing the chorus, it's more like a Van Halen Jump where everyone sings and jumps and doesn't get sick of listening.
This song is one of the most outstanding of the album in the music streams , its time of only 2 minutes and 49 seconds is another sure card for success.
Note 4/5
8 – Beth – Beth (2:45)
Beth has a beautiful melody, no doubt. Listening to the music at least to me it seems to be watching a movie from the 70s, obviously the album is from the 70s, but it seems to me that the music was made for a soundtrack of some movie, with the effects similar and a simple arrangement with effects of a keyboard / piano that starts the song with a calm catch, quite different from what Kiss appears to be, it is obvious that the band always has its ballads, but in Beth the music does not seem to be intended as a ballad.
One of the few lyrics where drummer Peter Criss participates in the writing, incidentally here the producer Bob Ezrin is present in the construction of the lyrics, in 6 of 10 songs he participates.
Beth sees a good harmony between the keyboard sound with the voice of drummer Peter Criss who takes over the vocals, and a good percussion which is what it seems to be made for a movie.
Beth's high point that also has status for if a ballad is that it's only 2:45 of music which does the opposite of Great Expectations, passes fast and doesn't give you time to get sick of it, thus making it a good song.
Note 3.5/5
9 – Do You Love Me – Do You Love Me? (3:40)
On Do You Love Me Kiss closes the CD with another song full of repeated chorus and Do You Love Me repeats and drags through the more than 3 minutes of the song, which actually seems to be a little longer than it should. But here the good percussion with a background effect with the harmony of the song makes a good song Do You Love Me, the drums as in the whole album is right in the background, which does not disturb neither the song nor the album, in Do You Love Me Stanley's vocal is well tuned at the peak of his career.
Note 3.5/5
Vocals and Guitar: Paul Stanley
Guitar: Ace Frehley
Bass and Vocals: Gene Simmons
Battery: Peter Criss
Produtor: Bob Ezrin
Gravação: Detroit Rock City
Label: RIAA
