0153. Kiss
Destroyer
Thirty-tree minutes of the rockingest of rock coupled with the rollingest of roll, performed by three space-gods and a cat? Could be something and just looking at the tracklist makes my brain salivate. This pavlovian reaction is caused by the fact that Detroit Rock City open the album. With it's tragic story about a fan's crash on the way to one of their concerts, coupled with a simple, but great, bass-riff and the twin-guitar solo it's simply on of the greatest rock-songs of all time and an epitaph any fan would like.
Listening to Destroyer gives me the impression that every great track's been paired with a song that's there just to make the other look better as neither King Of The Night Time World (following Detroit Rock City) or Great Expectations (after God Of Thunder) are especially noteworthy (well, except from noting that they're not noteworthy I suppose) and sure enough, the ones they released as singles are the odd numbers on the album, while the even numbers were, at most, B-sides.
That of course also was the fate of the only Peter Criss-penned song, Beth (the ballad following Shout It Out Loud), which was released as the B-side of Detroit.., but gained so much airplay that it got re-released as the A-side.
The cat-man grew a couple of inches with that one I think.
Half the album's good songs, the rest are fillers, but it's okay, cause some of the good songs are pretty great.
I feel so good, I'm so alive
