First Kiss Record you got into & your favorite?

Alive Freaking Kicks @%$ It sounds so good and so raw at the same time another also it another one I own on LP

 

Love gun first and love gun favorite

 

A Carnival of Souls CD on sale for $5 at Zellers.

 

I had a friend that somehow had a copy of Alive! It was 76, and we were both 11. He only played me a song or two, no big deal. A few weeks later I was at a department store with my mom. They had a cool display set up for the Destroyer album. I asked her if I could get it and she said yes. We went to grab a copy but they were sold out. I "settled" on Dressed To Kill. Loved it. I have been back and forth with "favorites" over the years, but I always come back to Dressed to Kill. Still a fan.

 

Alive! was the first KISS I got into, via the neighbors Eight-track.

Dressed to Kill is probably my favorite album.

 

Dressed To Kill Is not a Bad Album. need to get that one on vinyl and a great one to start with with songs like Room Service,Love Her all I Can,She,C'mon and love me, and of course Rock n Roll all night. \m/

 

Sometime between later February and the summer of 1974, I was eleven years old, and I was in the music department of Woolworth's in Cleveland, Ohio (yes, they actually had a music department in Woolworth's back then--it was a lot like, say, Target is now). They had an endcap display of the first KISS album--so the cover was right in your face as you walked down that aisle.

My mom used to regularly buy me albums back then--I was a pretty spoiled kid--and I told her that I wanted "the album with the clowns on the cover." I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I just liked the absurdity of the cover--I liked the idea of a bunch of clowns as a spoof of the Meet the Beatles cover. I've always loved absurdism. I figured that if the music was even half as entertaining as the cover I'd have made a good choice.

I ended up loving them right away, and I've been a big KISS fan ever since.

 

Creatures of the Night was the first Kiss record that I heard probably back in '95 or '96 borrowed it from the library. My favorite Kiss album would be their debut album.

 

Animalize for both.

 

First: Kiss Alive II

Favorite: Kill Alive

 

Love Gun 1977

First real album I ever owned.

 

The first album was so Good not a bad track on it. and it was probably my favorite Christmas gift, got The Lp Back in 8th grade.

 

Destroyer was my intro to Kiss and is still my overall favorite of theirs.

 

I guess I didn't answer which is my favorite. That's actually quite easy since live albums don't count in my book (if they did it'd be Alive! in a landslide). It'd be the 1974 debut. It might lack in terms of production, but there are a ton of killer songs on that one. It's the best by far in my opinion.

 

Hotter Than Hell. Alive.

 

Same here. It was KISS Destroyer on cassette as well, and this was in 1993, when I was in the eighth grade.

 

I graduated high school in '79 and grew up in the "Age of Kiss". Kiss Alive! was the real breakthrough - everybody had/heard it in those days. But Destroyer was and is my favorite. The perfect Kiss album, in my opinion

 

First exposure to Kiss was the TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. First album I purchased was Lick it up and my favorite is Rock n Roll over.

 

Alive II got me, a friend played it for me and it blew my head off. My favorite now would have to be Alive! and Dynasty is my favorite of the studio albums.

 

Yep Kiss Destroyer would probably be my 6th favorite. in fact here are my 10 favorite kiss album in order
10)Psycho Circus(Freaking Underratted)
9)Revenge
8)Love Gun
7)Creatures Of The Night
6)Destroyer
5)Dressed To Kill
4)Dynasty(Yep I like this one more than Creature and Destroyer)
3)Rock N Roll Over
2)Hotter Than Hell
1)KISS S/T

 

Dynasty is a very good album. I rank it high in the order.

 

KISS: The Songs 1974-2012

Every single KISS song and album is discussed in this thread. Tons of ranking the albums, songs, etc. Solo albums, too.

 

Crazy Nights

 

First ones I got into were the first two Alive! albums. At least the first 3 sides of Alive II lol

My favorite now would probably be Dressed to Kill.

 

Destroyer was the first KISS album I heard.
Rock and Roll Over is my favorite. (At this point in time!) I switch back and forth between that, the debut, and Hotter Than Hell.

FWIW, you really can't go wrong with any of the 70's KISS records. The classic line-up, classic songs. Great stuff!