you wanted the best ...you got KISS
So, I have been a huge dork of a KISS fan my entire life. My dad took me to see them on the "Rock And Roll Over" tour in 1977 ....I was 3.
I still am and will always be a huge fan, but here is the review of the new KISS album "Monster" I sent to a couple of other dorks I know.
So, you know when you check into a hotel and walk through the lobby, down the hallway and then into your room ....more often than not while you make that journey you won't ever notice that someone has actually decorated the hotel. Hotel decor is usually done in a very tame and non-jarring color scheme with matching trim that compliments the base colors though adding a subtle contrast. The furnishings throughout the hotel will all blend into the color scheme and will have a classic contemporary style, nothing gaudy or extravagant nor will anything be too angular. There will also be paintings and framed prints on every wall, arranged neatly and symmetrical with sizes corresponding to available wall space. The style of these paintings varies a little, some will be "floral", some might be "watercolor scenery" of folks playing in a park of some nondescript town. Then the 80's brought us shit like "color splash accents", which I guess it could be called "abstract" (a tag they would avoid) but it just looks as if Jackson Pollock had Down Syndrome and loved mauve. I imagine that someone who fashions him or herself an "artist" created these "works of art" but they are not presented here to illicit a visceral response, they are there merely to offset wall space. These kinds of paintings, while technically well done and pleasing, are unremarkable, either intentionally or by accident. I mean, can you recall any of the artwork on the walls of the last Best Western you stayed at? ....no? neither can I, and chances are you walked past 25 different pieces of artwork, some repeatedly.
"Monster" by KISS is the aural equivalent of hotel artwork.
patrick
I still am and will always be a huge fan, but here is the review of the new KISS album "Monster" I sent to a couple of other dorks I know.
So, you know when you check into a hotel and walk through the lobby, down the hallway and then into your room ....more often than not while you make that journey you won't ever notice that someone has actually decorated the hotel. Hotel decor is usually done in a very tame and non-jarring color scheme with matching trim that compliments the base colors though adding a subtle contrast. The furnishings throughout the hotel will all blend into the color scheme and will have a classic contemporary style, nothing gaudy or extravagant nor will anything be too angular. There will also be paintings and framed prints on every wall, arranged neatly and symmetrical with sizes corresponding to available wall space. The style of these paintings varies a little, some will be "floral", some might be "watercolor scenery" of folks playing in a park of some nondescript town. Then the 80's brought us shit like "color splash accents", which I guess it could be called "abstract" (a tag they would avoid) but it just looks as if Jackson Pollock had Down Syndrome and loved mauve. I imagine that someone who fashions him or herself an "artist" created these "works of art" but they are not presented here to illicit a visceral response, they are there merely to offset wall space. These kinds of paintings, while technically well done and pleasing, are unremarkable, either intentionally or by accident. I mean, can you recall any of the artwork on the walls of the last Best Western you stayed at? ....no? neither can I, and chances are you walked past 25 different pieces of artwork, some repeatedly.
"Monster" by KISS is the aural equivalent of hotel artwork.
patrick