Ram

What do you guys think of this song?

Hokeyboy

Who's KISS?

edclem

IMO: worst. song. ever.

Coral

Terrible song by an awfully terrible band.

nodeerforamonth

Oh come on. There's PLENTY of worse songs than this. Anything by Pink Floyd. Anything by U2. Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters".

nodeerforamonth

Thanks for the threadcrap.

johnbook

Great song by an amazing great band.

benedict

THis was no more a threadcrap than was your posts citing Pink Floyd & U2. The OP simply asked for opinions and duly received one.

I can see this thread descending into trashtalking and name-calling etc but I'll leave it open for those that a) can transcend such behaviour or b) just need enough rope.

JAA

Back in the day I would never have admitted liking it, but I (secretly) did. It was what it was . . . a crossover (disco-groove) song that was perfect for the time.

B5Erik

Two of my favorite versions of the song....

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Giantrobo

People can hate on IWMFLY all they want for being a Disco Sell Out or whatever. But the truth is it's a great song and KISS really turns it up a notch when doing it live. I know people who hate KISS but still like that song.

Josh-da-man

"I Was Made for Loving You" was proof positive that "KISS Meets the Phantom" wasn't just a fluke, and the band was indeed on a downward spiral into camp.

chino77

dont you mean great song by an awfully terrible band?

chino77

yes please keep your negative opinions to yourself when replying to a thread that asks for opinions.

this thread should have been a poll btw.

porieux

Kiss didn't sell out because they were never really about the music in the first place.

Personally, I do not care for anything by them.

Rocketdog2000

Spoken like a true non-KISS fan. Tell that to Paul Stanley, because I'm sure he'd have some issue with it. Same for Ace and Peter. Gene, on the other hand, well I can't defend him so much.

Anyway, some info for the uneducated. The song was initially written as a lark, just to prove how easy it was to write a song in that style (disco). The fact that it became a huge hit despite that, says more about the "general" music listening/buying public that it does about the band.

Personally, a bit of a guilty pleasure - but I much prefer the way the band performs it currently. It least it has some balls now.

chino77

spoken like a true kiss fan. so that song was written as a lark but the rest of the cd was serious? what is your excuse for the rest of the cd? what about lets put the x in sex? wow kiss is a great band! they are the worse band to ever to ever be called hard rock.

DaveWadding

What does a song written almost 10 years after Dynasty have to do with Dynasty exactly?

B5Erik

If you mean, "They are the worsT band ever to be called hard rock," then the answer is, "Not even close." There have been some absolutely godawful bands out there - most of which you've probably never even heard of (and most of which I've forgotten about since the 80's and 90's).

As to, "Let's Put the X in Sex," that's a crap song, IMO. Most bands have crap songs during their careers - at least if they last past the first or second album. If you survive for 35 years it's almost impossible NOT to have an entire album's worth of crap songs spread out over that span of time.

KISS, on the other hand, have written and recorded some of the absolute best Hard Rock songs ever. "Strutter," "Firehouse," "Cold Gin," "Deuce," "100,000 Years," "Black Diamond," "Got To Choose," "Hotter Than Hell," etc, etc, etc. Great songs.

The singles do not do them justice. Well, some do, some don't. People tend to remember the fluff, unfortunately, and either never hear or forget the really good stuff (because it never gets on the radio).

B5Erik

This song kicks ass!
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nodeerforamonth

Yeah, but I gave examples of how "I Was Made For Loving You" was NOT the "worst song ever". It may be close, but it's not "the worst". If anything, I was defending the song by pointing out that I disagree with edclem.

I didn't actively go into a Pink Floyd or U2 thread and say "they suck and are horrible", which I believe is the defintion of "threadcrap".

Rocketdog2000

Well, yeah genius, you got me there - I'm a KISS fan alright. (And PS, jokes like that are usually only funny the first time someone makes them, so you're a bit late there. Nice try, though no A for effort.)

I also don't need an excuse for the Dynasty album, because I've got no problems with it. I like it, you don't. End of discussion on that point. You wanna know more, head on over to the other KISS thread we got going (although somehow, I doubt you will).

As for "Let's Put The X In Sex" - as has already been pointed out, this song and Dynasty were 10 years apart, so what's one thing got to do with the other? Other than the fact that both were co-written with Desmond Child (maybe that's the problem?), and were performed by KISS, that's the only connection. However, while I like "I Was Made...", I too think "X In Sex" is pure crap. But, as B5Erik pointed out EVERY band, especially one that's been in the biz as long as they have, makes the occasional crap song here and there. EVERY band. Even the ones you like, that I'm sure others of us here don't, too. But just for your information, even Paul Stanley, the guy who co-wrote the song, isn't too proud of it either. Here's a few direct quotes about it from the horse's mouth in the book that accompanied the KISS boxset...

- It's sometimes difficult to talk about songs because it can be misconstrued. In retrospect, "X In Sex" was the best I could do at the time. So once again the effort was 100%. However, in a life span of band as long as ours, there are bound to be missteps and downright falls.
This song is way too cute for me, and derivative in a way that goes beyond being influenced by something and being obliterated by it. It's a song I have no real feelings for except it was again a blessing in that MTV played it and kept us in the spotlight at a time when music, when rock and roll was certainly not in it's finest hour.
It came from Smashes, Thrashes & Hits, which was a "best of" compilation that featured two new songs - both of which I had hand in, both of which I wish I hadn't had hands.

Gerry P.

It's definitely one of the best rock-bands-going-disco songs of the disco era.

Thumbs up.

kms_md

well said.

Hokeyboy

You couldn't sound more ignorant (and slightly illiterate -- the "worse" [sic] band ever? Sheesh...)

As TOO many people have mentioned, "Lets Put The X In Sex" was not on Dynasty, and in fact was released TEN YEARS after I Was Made For Loving You. And that DYNASTY has a bunch of really good, NON-disco songs on it, but I doubt you've ever listened to a lick of it. I'm not going to argue that KISS didn't devolve into self-parody more than a few times, but they have enough quality in much of their material (especially in the early phase, my personal favorite (debut album, Hotter Than Hell, Dressed To Kill, Alive!)) that to relegate them to the status of "novelty band" is just plain stupid.