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These 180gm reissues are great, mint albums,plus original covers,plus mp3download, plus original inserts where applicable how cool is that.
Kiss's heavy glam sound expanded with choirs, strings and sound effects on this 1976 album (a #11 LP). The ballad Beth was the smash, but Detroit Rock City ; the hit Flaming Youth , and God of Thunder gave fans more raging rockers to love!
Review:
The pressure was on Kiss for their fifth release, and the band knew it.
Their breakthrough, Alive!, was going to be hard to top, so instead of trying to
recreate a concert setting in the studio, they went the opposite route.
Destroyer is one of Kiss' most experimental studio albums, but also one of their
strongest and most interesting. Alice Cooper/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin was
on hand, and he strongly encouraged the band to experiment –
there's extensive use of sound effects (the album's untitled closing track),
the appearance of a boy's choir (“Great Expectations”), and an
orchestra-laden, heartfelt ballad (“Beth”). But there's plenty of Kiss'
heavy thunder rock to go around, such as the demonic “God of Thunder” and
the sing-along anthems “Flaming Youth,” “Shout It Out Loud,” “King of
the Night Time World,” and “Detroit Rock City” (the latter a tale of a
doomed concert-goer, complete with violent car-crash sound effects). But it was
the aforementioned Peter Criss ballad, “Beth,” that made Destroyer such a
success; the song was a surprise Top Ten hit (it was originally released as a
B-side to “Detroit Rock City”). Also included is a song that Nirvana would
later cover (“Do You Love Me?”), as well as an ode to the pleasures of
S&M, “Sweet Pain.” Destroyer also marked the first time that a
comic-book illustration of the band appeared on the cover, confirming that the
band was transforming from hard rockers to superheroes.
All Music Guide – Greg Prato
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