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Destroyer | 
| Artist: Kiss
Label: Mercury Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6014
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 34 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 532378
UPC: 731453237827
EAN: 0731453237827
ASIN: B000001EL3
Release Date: September 22, 1997
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Detroit Rock City | | • | King Of The Night Time World | | • | God Of Thunder | | • | Great Expectations | | • | Flaming Youth | | • | Sweet Pain - Bob Ezrin, Kiss | | • | Shout It Out Loud - Bob Ezrin, Kiss, Jay Messina, Corky Stasiak | | • | Beth - Bob Ezrin, Kiss, Jay Messina, Corky Stasiak | | • | Do You Love Me - Bob Ezrin, Kiss, Jay Messina, Corky Stasiak | | • | Rock And Roll Party |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
With their 1976 album IDestroyer/I, the band's fifth release in two years, Kiss began to expand their fan base by shedding a bit of their edge and taking on a more melodic, less menacing image. The Peter Criss ballad "Beth", written for the drummer's wife, is the most sentimental love ballad the group ever recorded, and songs like "Detroit Rock City" and "Shout It Out Loud" had the kind of arena-rock punch that kept subscriptions to the Kiss Army at an all-time high. Despite, or perhaps because of, the blatantly commercial direction the band seemed to be heading in, 1976 was the most creatively rewarding period in its lengthy career. In addition to releasing IDestroyer/I, the band pumped out the equally touted album IRock and Roll Over/I, which included the pounding "Take Me" and the groovin' "Calling Dr Love". The only finer year was 1978, when the band starred in the classic B-grade flick IKiss Meets the Phantom of the Park/I. I--Jon Wiederhorn/I
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 Gods of Thunder, Lords of Rock Roll June 23, 2006
Mr. A. E. Hall (Liverpool, UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
1976 was the year that KISS really took off. They were awarded their first platinum record (for 1975 Alive!) and scorred two top ten US hit singles as well as two tripple platinum studio albums. Oh, and the music wasn't that bad either!
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br / Opening with Detroit Rock City (generally regarded as the band's best ever tune) it sets the tone with its banrstorming stlye before leading into King of the Nightime World and God of Thunder. Then it takes a turn with the bizarre Great Expectations (cruelly ignored by the band for almost 20 years on stage) and Flamin' Youth. Sweet Pain is also a decent song but it is over the last three songs that the album picks up again. Shout it out Loud is classic arena rock. The heart pounding, adrenlin flowing, meat and potatoes anthemic metal was to become a KISS classics on stage for the next two decades. Then another twist with the softer ballard Beth. This was the song that got me into KISS and although many fans never forgave the band for losing the rock edge, it stands out as a must listen of their extensive and impressive catalogue. The album then fades into Do you Love Me, superbly produced and sung although often over played down the years it is none the less a fitting way to end the album. There is also an uncredited 'hidden' track, made up of Great Expectations and Paul Stanley's talking to the crowd at a show mixed together as if to sound ghostly. It must have freaked people out when they first heard it but it all added to the myth that was KISS circa 1976.
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br / Destroyer is often touted by KISS as their best and has been the yardstick against which all subsequent ones were judged. Although they go too far sometimes, it is not for no reason that the album is so loved. In Detroit Rock City, God of Thunder, Shout it out Loud and Beth you have four undeniable rock classics and the rest of the album is good enough to have been stand out tracks on most records today. Not my personal favourite but a brillaint record and one which any serious fan of rock should own.
THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST March 18, 2000
roderick.hall@telia.com (Stockholm, Sweden)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Featuring the band's ultimate ballad- Beth- and their greatest song- Detriot Rock City- and Gene Simmons' definitive song -God Of Thunder-, Destroyer fairs no worse than 2nd among KISS best studio recording.
overblown pretensious masterpiece!!! March 17, 2008
D. Whitfield (UK)
This is undoubtedly the high point in KISS's very long and successful musical career. The songs are all killers - Detroit R.C. is their all time best song - one of the most original intros from a band not renown for original! and some stunning dual guitar soloing.
br /Shout it out loud, Flaming youth and Do you love me are great driving/party anthems - in fact every song is except the gentler Beth and Great expectations which are brilliant none the less. I think beth could have benifited from some acoustic or slide guitar work but is still very listenable.
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br /If you only get one KISS album get this - the production and song writing both have far more kick and clarity than their earlier material (live or studio) and the later albums conatin filler which Destroyer certainly doesn't.
Hideous cartoon cover. Enjoyable record February 29, 2004
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Destroyer" is one of Kiss's strongest, most interesting albums. A couple of songs, like the "Flaming Youth" and the inane "King Of The Night Time World", are too much bubblegum pop for my taste, but most of what is here is very good, including the grand heavy metal stomper "God Of Thunder", sung with power and conviction by Gene Simmons, and the surprise top 10-hit "Beth", co-written and sung by Peter Criss.
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br /"Do You Love Me", "Detroit Rock City", and "Shout It Out Loud" are filled with big hooks and big riffs, and there a couple of lesser-known gems here as well, like the interesting, ambitious "Great Expectations" and the typically kinky "Sweet Pain", both of them by Gene Simmons.
br /Great production as well by Bob Ezrin, and one of the strongest collections of songs in the Kiss catalogue.
good album August 1, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first KISS album I got and I enjoy it very much. The album starts off with detroit rock city one of the bands signiture tunes. it then follows with king of the knight time road which keeps the pace up though its not as good as the detroit rock city. next is quite possibly the ultimate gene simmons song god of thunder which is very eerie and good. then comes great expectations which was a bit of a shock when i first heard it, but it does grow on you, though it is one of the weaker tunes on the album. Flaming youth and sweet pane are good upbeat KISS songs though nothing special. Then the party anthem of shout it loud follows which i prefer more than rock and roll all nite. Beth the peter criss ballard follows which was a big hit for the band though its pretty average. then after that follows the song do you love me? which has an excellent beat all through it. This album contains some very good songs and is a great party album. what makes it even better is that it has a great feel of the seventies in it. its also well put together.brCetainly worth purcahsing.
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