What is the most cringeworthy song by the band KISS ?

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Just A Boy is pretty effing cringey.
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pieceofme wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:52 pmMaybe Chip Z'Hoy is Jon Wurster


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Ha! Fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack...

I remember that article and I was DELIGHTED that somebody finally agreed with me.

I do think the lyrics are pretty bad, and I too hate the word "meal," but I think it's the overall jauntiness of the song that really gets to me. (I think "Nothin' to Lose" does this feel a lot better.)

None of it has that anthemic energy we usually get from Kiss; it sounds like it's in a hurry to get to the end.

I also hate the song "Tomorrow and Tonight." Don't know how Little Jonny Wurster feels but I bet he agrees!!
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Re: What is the most cringeworthy song by the band KISS ?

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Nothing against their of tongue-in-the-cheek-songs, my pick would be Then She Kissed Me
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Chip Z'Hoy wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:48 pm
pieceofme wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:52 pmMaybe Chip Z'Hoy is Jon Wurster


https://www.avclub.com/jon-wurster-on-w ... 1798232770
Ha! Fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack...

I remember that article and I was DELIGHTED that somebody finally agreed with me.

I do think the lyrics are pretty bad, and I too hate the word "meal," but I think it's the overall jauntiness of the song that really gets to me. (I think "Nothin' to Lose" does this feel a lot better.)

None of it has that anthemic energy we usually get from Kiss; it sounds like it's in a hurry to get to the end.

I also hate the song "Tomorrow and Tonight." Don't know how Little Jonny Wurster feels but I bet he agrees!!
Tomorrow and Tonight would be about 3 million times better if Peter Criss had sang it.
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pieceofme wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:48 pm
Chip Z'Hoy wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:48 pm
pieceofme wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:52 pmMaybe Chip Z'Hoy is Jon Wurster


https://www.avclub.com/jon-wurster-on-w ... 1798232770
Ha! Fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack...

I remember that article and I was DELIGHTED that somebody finally agreed with me.

I do think the lyrics are pretty bad, and I too hate the word "meal," but I think it's the overall jauntiness of the song that really gets to me. (I think "Nothin' to Lose" does this feel a lot better.)

None of it has that anthemic energy we usually get from Kiss; it sounds like it's in a hurry to get to the end.

I also hate the song "Tomorrow and Tonight." Don't know how Little Jonny Wurster feels but I bet he agrees!!
Tomorrow and Tonight would be about 3 million times better if Peter Criss had sang it.
You know, you're right on the money! Peter would have given it a cool vibe.

T&T was just Paul blatantly deciding he was going to have a RARAN of his own. I wonder how this made the cut for AliveII over DYLM and Take Me.


Pauls puss songs like Hold Me Touch Me and Take Me Away (from his supposedly "The most KISS-like" 78 solo album, feh) are up there in cringe.
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HueyRamone wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:52 pm
pieceofme wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:48 pm
Chip Z'Hoy wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:48 pm

Ha! Fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack...

I remember that article and I was DELIGHTED that somebody finally agreed with me.

I do think the lyrics are pretty bad, and I too hate the word "meal," but I think it's the overall jauntiness of the song that really gets to me. (I think "Nothin' to Lose" does this feel a lot better.)

None of it has that anthemic energy we usually get from Kiss; it sounds like it's in a hurry to get to the end.

I also hate the song "Tomorrow and Tonight." Don't know how Little Jonny Wurster feels but I bet he agrees!!
Tomorrow and Tonight would be about 3 million times better if Peter Criss had sang it.
You know, you're right on the money! Peter would have given it a cool vibe.

T&T was just Paul blatantly deciding he was going to have a RARAN of his own. I wonder how this made the cut for AliveII over DYLM and Take Me.
Yeah the live version of take me is really good as well. That song kicks arse.
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I'm too lazy to look it up but, didn't Paul write a song about an ascot for Scooby Doo or something?
That has to be an all time kiss low of some sort
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Room service is great
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Too much trouble
Double down tough
Danger you, Danger Me
Danger Us

........like Shakespeare......
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DangerZone wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:56 am Room service is great
Best song on the album together with C'Mon and Love Me. RARAN is overrated.
And the lyrics... at least they seem straight from the mind of 23 year old Paul back from living his rock star fantasies on tour.
Not like 60 (!!) year old Paul singing about someone dropping her dress for him in an elevator. If that happened, it was probably 1975. Or 85.
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This is like debating which animal's shit tastes worse.
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rockker wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:42 pm Danger you
Danger me
Danger us
Nightcrawler wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:35 am Too much trouble
Double down tough
Danger you, Danger Me
Danger Us

........like Shakespeare......
This one.
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Re: What is the most cringeworthy song by the band KISS ?

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(You Make Me) Rock Hard, complete with parentheses.
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