you might not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like

their live album from 1975 might be their best release ever

Bro you remember seeing this commercial back in the day ?

"Every bad boy has his soft side" /

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Yeah

@Elric you hear this freshly unearthed Madonna gem?

Damn between that and the Replacements cover of Black Diamond they had some indie cred in the 80s

No

lot of real ones f***ed with Kiss growing up

how deep did you get into her rarer stuff anyway

heard any unreleased gems?

J. Mascis is a big Kiss fan too

Don't think so

Kiss had that raw energy and crazy image. Plus they were bringing an American rock sound back

They got a lot of s*** cause they were lumped in with hard rock and heavy metal bands at the time, which just wasn’t their sound at all. They were much closer to glam and power pop. I think they’re still pretty spotty as a band, but the standouts are pretty nice. I really like Paul Stanley’s solo album. Goin’ Blind is amazing though.

Halfway through Haunting of Hill House pretty good

Rise told me to post this in here lol

All of their ‘78 solos had some good stuff. I love this side of Gene

I can’t do it with Mike Flanagan other than Midnight Mass.

true but i still would 100% say that hard rock is their overarching sound through every era

Sure, but they admittedly were pulling more from The New York Dolls and Slade than any of the standard hard rock of the time.

Somehow never heard this one before. Really nice. Sounds like Badfinger.

i think the glam rock influence is an underratedly important part of the hard rock sound anyway. There's a big difference in the stuff before that like Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple or something and then the bands coming after glam era few years later like Kiss, Queen, Van Halen. even ones like Aerosmith or Boston I hear the glam

(and see the glam lol)

Glam is kind of a vauge descriptor anyway. There’s a sound I associate with it, but I tend to view it as an inherently nostalgic genre that bridges the gap between 60’s styles (girl groups, psychedelia, baroque pop, etc) and eventual New Wave. It’s weird what people consider glam and not. The first few ELO records get labeled that, but their mid to late 70’s stuff fits in more neatly with what I think of as the genre. It’s a similar thing with Queen. Once they release Night at the Opera, they’re suddenly not glam anymore for some reason. But you’re right, I do hear it in some of the hard rock groups.

yeah i think also because it's so embedded in rock its hard to put a finger on. also feel like there's a distinct guitar approach i feel with it too. maybe in the tone especially

there's kind of an X-factor type quality that you know when you hear it. Like when something is super glammed up and you can almost smell the glam oozing from it

we love glam