Heat

Destroyer, from '76.



followed closely by Love Gun ('77).

johnbook

Lick It Up
Unmasked
Kiss
Animalize
Asylum
Revenge
Dynasty
Psycho Circus
Destroyer
Sonic Boom
Rock and Roll Over
Creatures of the Night
Carnival of Souls
Love Gun
The Elder
Hotter Than Hell
Dressed to Kill
Crazy Nights
Hot in the Shade

B5Erik

1. Revenge
2. KISS
3. Carnival Of Souls
4. Rock and Roll Over
5. Sonic Boom
6. Hotter Than Hell

So - Revenge, but not by much. Hell, it may as well be a tie - Revenge/KISS

But if you add in the ALIVE albums then ALIVE has to be at the top.

The Bus

The Bus

I scrolled through that other stupid threads and did not see boobs.

Supermallet

Revenge and Carnival of Souls are in your top 3?? I knew you were a crazy Kiss fan, but I never knew you were a crazy Kiss fan.

Hokeyboy

I'm constantly re-evaluating, but here's my overall list:

1. Alive!
2. Kiss
3. MTV Unplugged
4. Hotter Than Hell
5. Ace Frehley
6. Love Gun
7. Revenge
8. Creatures Of The Night
9. Paul Stanley
10. Alive III
11. Dressed To Kill
12. Destroyer
13. Rock And Roll Over
14. Sonic Boom
15. Lick It Up
16. Kiss Symphony
17. Dynasty
18. Unmasked
19. Carnival of Souls
20. Alive II
21. Music From The Elder
22. Animalize
23. Asylum
24. Gene Simmons
25. Crazy Nights
26. Psycho Circus
27. Hot In The Shade
28. Peter Criss

If you remove live albums and the 78 solo albums from the mix, my list would be:

1. Kiss
2. Hotter Than Hell
3. Love Gun
4. Revenge
5. Creatures Of The Night
6. Dressed To Kill
7. Destroyer
8. Rock And Roll Over
9. Sonic Boom
10. Lick It Up
11. Dynasty
12. Unmasked
13. Carnival of Souls
14. Music From The Elder

(the follow albums I *never* listen to. I might hear a single cut that i like on a box set or live album/bootleg, but they represent KISS at their most unlistenable)

15. Animalize
16. Asylum
17. Crazy Nights
18. Psycho Circus
19. Hot In The Shade

Supermallet

As for my list, it would probably go like this:

1. Alive!
2. Dressed To Kill
3. Ace Frehley
4. Love Gun
5. Kiss
6. Destroyer
7. Hotter Than Hell
8. Dynasty
9. Rock and Roll Over
10. Creatures of the Night

statcat

their earliest stuff is their most credible material in my opinion

SkullOrchard

1. ALIVE!
2. Hotter Than Hell
3. Dressed To Kill
4. KISS
5. Rock And Roll Over
6. Destroyer
7. Love Gun
8. ALIVE II
9. Dynasty
10. Solos '78
11. Unmasked
12. Creatures Of The Night
13. Lick It Up
14. Revenge
15. The Elder

B5Erik

These are Crazy Crazy Nights...

But there's not really anything crazy about rating Revenge so highly - that album just smokes! Now, COS? For half of the KISS fans that may be crazy, but for the other half it makes perfect sense.

(By the way, my two least favorite KISS albums are Hot in the Shade and Crazy Nights, just for further context...)

Rocketdog2000

As good as they are, I wouldn't count the live albums for the same reason I wouldn't count a "greatest hits" compilation, so they're out. Also, a bit of the same for (most of) the solo albums. That said, mine would be....

1. Kiss
2. Destroyer
3. Hotter Than Hell
4. Creatures Of The Night
5. Revenge
6. Rock And Roll Over
7. Love Gun
8. Sonic Boom
9. Dressed To Kill
10. Lick It Up

Cornelius1047

Love Gun

K.

Dr Mabuse

'Alive'.

hasslein

I've never listened to a Kiss album in its entirety, but Dynasty has my two favorite Kiss songs. Sure Know Somethin' & I was made...

Hokeyboy

If you like those two, you might wanna give Unmasked a try. It's a lot in the same vein, although perhaps with even more of a early 80s pop sheen.

Grainy

Hotter Than Hell. This was the first one I bought (in Dec. '74) so it will always have more sentimental value. Saw them live for the first time in Aug. '75 opening for Black Sabbath (w/ Ozzy) and they blew me away!

porieux

Kissing To Be Clever

Gerry P.

'Sure Know Something' is a great song. It never gets the love it deserves.

hasslein

^ I was surprised and thrilled when they included it in the unplugged set.

JeffTheAlpaca

I don't know about favorite album since I just got into them recently but I prefer the stuff that does not get played all the time.

Will they release new remastered albums since the last remasters came out in 1997 & I know they are whores when it comes to money.

One of my favorites

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BearFan

Awesome records

Rock And Roll Over
Ace Frehley
Alive!
Kiss
Dressed To Kill
Hotter Than Hell
Love Gun

Very good records

MTV Unplugged
Alive II
Destroyer
Revenge
Dynasty
Unmasked
Creatures Of The Night

Solid records

Lick It Up
Paul Stanley
Peter Criss
Psycho Circus
Music From The Elder
Animalize
Sonic Boom

Total Crap

Asylum
Gene Simmons
Alive III
Kiss Symphony
Carnival of Souls
Hot In The Shade
Crazy Nights

Ringmaster

You are way off IMO about Alive III. I know its a bold statement but here it goes, III is better than II. Alive III has a great mixture of early & later Kiss tunes. Plus, The band sounded like they were hungry again with the "Revenge" line up with II while I feel that most of the songs on II sounded a but routine for me. Kiss didn't even fill up the whole album with live material. II is still good but I recommend people give III another listen some time, it's great! Of course, Alive! is still king.

nodeerforamonth

So is ANY band that spends months writing songs, goes into a studio, records said songs, and then releases them on a record. They ALL want money for all that work. Any band that says that they don't, is lying.

Ringmaster