dEFROG ON 45 #78: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE CITAAAAAAYYY!
If you’ve been following this series, by now you’ve noticed the pattern and the general timeframe involved, and naturally yr starting to wonder:
“Where’s the Kiss records? Surely you have some?”
Fair question. And yes, though actually I wasn’t all that big on Kiss at the time. They were arguably the most popular rock band in my junior high school, with the exception of Lynyrd Skynyrd. (And I’ll admit, it was only much later that I appreciated the irony of my male 8th Grade classmates beating up kids for being [allegedly] queer whilst their favorite band was four guys in make-up, leather, high heels and fishnet stockings.)
Anyway, I liked what songs I heard, and I enjoyed their TV special and that Phantom Of The Park thing, but I wasn’t trying to paint my face like them or anything.
And given the nature of many of the other songs in this series, I guess it says a lot that the one Kiss 45 I bought was the disco cash-in.
That said, I didn’t really think of it as a disco song. Probably because of all the guitars.
In my defense, I did end up spending more time listening to the more hard-rockin’ B-side.
I think the B-side holds up better, overall.
FUN FACT #1: Looking these songs, I learned for the first time that Peter Criss didn’t play drums on these songs. They used a session guy - Anton Fig, a.k.a. the drummer in David Letterman’s band.
FUN FACT #2: I did have one other Kiss song I listened to a lot.
This is probably my favorite Kiss song. But I had it on a Ronco comp, not on 45, so it doesn’t count for this series.
The first step of the cure,
This is dF
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“Where’s the Kiss records? Surely you have some?”
Fair question. And yes, though actually I wasn’t all that big on Kiss at the time. They were arguably the most popular rock band in my junior high school, with the exception of Lynyrd Skynyrd. (And I’ll admit, it was only much later that I appreciated the irony of my male 8th Grade classmates beating up kids for being [allegedly] queer whilst their favorite band was four guys in make-up, leather, high heels and fishnet stockings.)
Anyway, I liked what songs I heard, and I enjoyed their TV special and that Phantom Of The Park thing, but I wasn’t trying to paint my face like them or anything.
And given the nature of many of the other songs in this series, I guess it says a lot that the one Kiss 45 I bought was the disco cash-in.
Click to viewThat said, I didn’t really think of it as a disco song. Probably because of all the guitars.
In my defense, I did end up spending more time listening to the more hard-rockin’ B-side.
I think the B-side holds up better, overall.
FUN FACT #1: Looking these songs, I learned for the first time that Peter Criss didn’t play drums on these songs. They used a session guy - Anton Fig, a.k.a. the drummer in David Letterman’s band.
FUN FACT #2: I did have one other Kiss song I listened to a lot.
This is probably my favorite Kiss song. But I had it on a Ronco comp, not on 45, so it doesn’t count for this series.
The first step of the cure,
This is dF
This entry was originally posted at http://defrog.dreamwidth.org/1539828.html. Please comment there using OpenID.