Fun time today on my Volume show doing my Kiss Top 20. If you missed it it’s now On Demand on the SiriusXM app. Tomorrow we will discuss and debate it with you and also have Kiss Top 20 lists from Tom Morello, Corey Taylor, Chris Jericho, Sebastian Bach and more! Listen live 2-4P ET on SiriusXM 106. If you missed my Top 20 here it is. And it was TOUGH to limit to 20! Feel free to post your lists here as well:
1: Detroit Rock City
2: Deuce (live )
3: Strutter
4: Love Gun
5: Black Diamond (Live)
6: King Of The Nightime World
7: Mr Speed
8: Got To Choose
9: Flaming Youth
10: Rock Bottom (live)
11: Cmon & Love Me
12: Creatures Of The Night
13: 100,000 Years
14: Magic Touch
15: I Want You
16: Strange Ways
17: Rocket Ride
18: Larger Than Life
19: A Million To One
20: Love Her All I Can
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Eddie, tried to email you but it kept bouncing back to me as “mailbox delivery failure policy error” and I couldn’t send anything. Jut thought you should know. Don’t know if anyone else is having the same issue. My email to you was as follows:
Eddie,
Here is my top 20 Kiss songs list. I really enjoyed your list but was shocked by some of the picks. I knew you’d go with some deeper tracks but as goes with lists, you inevitably leave out some amazing songs that I actually put in my list. Both of us included Black Diamond, Flaming Youth, Mr. Speed, and C’mon and Love Me!
Speaking of Flaming Youth, Destroyer was my first Kiss album and Flaming Youth was the song that got me to love Kiss. First time I saw Kiss was on some music trading cards and I thought they were some Gwar or Slayer esq type music. Boy was I wrong hahaha. Destroyer obviously was a letdown for me at first but Flaming Youth was the heaviest song and kept me listening over and over and eventually I came to love the band and Destroyer and become a massive fan of the band. Had I started with Kiss or Rock and Roll Over, I would of been hooked instantly.
A little quick note… my honorable mentions is a complete alternate top 20 list. So many songs to choose and so brutally hard to pick! So without further ado, my top 20 Kiss list! Enjoy Eddie!
Tyler – Indiana
KISS TOP 20
1. Cold Gin (Kiss)
2. God of Thunder (Destroyer)
3. Flaming Youth (Destroyer)
4. Black Diamond (Alive)
5. 2,000 Man (MTV Unplugged Version)
6. She (Dressed to Kill)
7. I Love It Loud (Creatures of the Night)
8. Domino (Revenge)
9. Mr. Speed (Rock and Roll Over)
10. Forever (Hot in the Shade)
11. I Was Made For Loving You (Dynasty)
12. Shock Me (Love Gun)
13. C’mon and Love Me (Dressed to Kill)
14. Parasite (Hotter Than Hell)
15. Reason to Live (Crazy Nights)
16. Love ’em and Leave ’em (Rock and Roll Over)
17. Hide Your Heart (Hot In the Shade)
18. Good Girl Gone Bad (Crazy Nights)
19. Unholy (Revenge)
20. Rock and Roll Hell (Creatures of the Night)
***Honorable Mentions***
We Are One (Psycho Circus)
War Machine (Creatures of the Night)
Fits Like a Glove (Lick It Up)
A Million to One (Lick It Up)
Thrills In the Night (Animalize)
Tomorrow and Tonight (Love Gun)
Into the Void (Psycho Circus)
Let’s Put the X in Sex (Smashes, Thrashes & Hits)
A World Without Heroes (MTV Unplugged Version)
I Just Wanna (Revenge)
Everytime I Look at You (Revenge)
Turn On the Night (Crazy Nights)
Who Wants to Be Lonely (Asylum)
Nothin’ to Lose (Kiss)
I Stole Your Love (Love Gun)
Creatures of the Night (Creatures of the Night)
Plaster Caster (Love Gun)
I Still Love You (Creatures of the Night)
Sure Know Something (Dynasty)
I Want You (Rock and Roll Over)
It’s impossible to narrow so many great songs into a top 20 list. And also the fact that KISS doesn’t get enough credit for their 80’s songs, I decided to make up 2 top 20 lists, my top 20 KISS songs from the 70’s, AND top 20 KISS songs from the 80’s!
The 70’s:
20) Rock Bottom
19) Flaming Youth
18) Deuce
17) 100,000 Years
16) Nothin’ To Lose
15) I Stole Your Love
14) Mr. Speed
13) Charisma
12) Strutter
11) Calling Dr. Love
10) Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll
9) King Of The Night Time World
8) Love Gun
7) Shock Me
6) I Want You
5) Detroit Rock City
4) Rocket Ride
3) Makin’ Love
2) Rock And Roll All Nite
1) Shout It Out Loud
The 80’s:
20) All Hell’s Breakin’ Loose
19) Nowhere To Run
18) Thrills In The Night
17) Tomorrow
16) Reason To Live
15) Turn On The Night
14) Get All You Can Take
13) What Makes The World Go ‘Round
12) I’m A Legend Tonight
11) Exciter
10) Down On Your Knees
9) Uh! All Night
8) Crazy Crazy Nights
7) Tears Are Falling
6) And On The 8th Day
5) Heaven’s On Fire
4) Who Wants To Be Lonely
3) I Love It Loud
2) Creatures Of The Night
1) Lick It Up
– That was exhausting! Fun, but exhausting! Cheers!! 🙂
Hey Eddie, I just had an idea for your next Top 20 list, – Van Halen! Maybe 2, a top 20 Van Halen (Roth era) and a top 20 Van Hagar era! Too many great songs from both eras for only 1 top 20! Same problem as KISS, too many great songs for only 1 top 20 list!
20) Easy As it Seems
19) Reason to Live
18) Baby Driver
17) I Just Wanna
16) Master and Slave
15) Domino
14) Psycho Circus
13) Lovegun
12) Parasite
11) Shout it Out Loud
10) Cold Gin
9) Rocket Ride
8) I Stole Your Love
7) You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best
6) Love Her All I Can
5) Psycho Circus
4) Black Diamond
3) Into the Void
2) Let Me Go Rock N Roll (Alive)
1) Deuce
My top 20:
.Flamin’ Youth
2.Mr. Speed
3.Deuce
4.Strutter
5.God of thunder (live)
6.Rock bottom
7. C’mon and love me
8. Young and wasted
9. Shock me
10. Strange ways
11.She
12. Creatures of the night
13. Got to choose
14. I want you
15.I stole your love
16.Rock n roll hell
17.Magic touch
18.Hard luck woman
19. Tomorrow and tonight
20. All american man
Honorable mention:
1.Shandi
2.Exiciter
3.Killer
4. i’ve had enough (into the fire)
5. Nowhere to run
6. Not for the innocent
7. Under the rose
8. Rocket ride
9. Mainline
10. Love her all i can
11. Is that you
12.Larger than life
12. Black diamond
13.Christen 16
14.Ladies room (live)
15. Room service
16.Two timer
17.Take it off
18.I’m a legend tonight
19.Dirty livin’
20. Naked city
Otis Mack from Bronx NYC
My personal KISS Top 20
Black Diamond (Live)
Anything For My Baby
Talk To Me
It’s My Life
Almost Human
Little Caesar
Cold Gin(Live)
Shock Me(Live 1977)
Hell Or Hallelujah
The Oath
Shout It Out Loud(Tiger Stadium 96)
Holigan
Thou Shalt Not
Unholy
Ladies Room
Uh! All Night
Psycho Circus
Modern Day Delilah
I(From The Elder) with album outro
R&R All Nite(Alive! Version)