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Title: Kiss Off
Review: Yet another platter chock full of the usual ancient party anthems. Since these tired old warhorses insist on throwing these same old songs in the public's face, it's high time they get a brutally honest appraisal stripped of nostalgic haze.Kiss was a band that couldn't funk like Aerosmith, couldn't muster the pop smarts of Cheap Trick and couldn't crunch with the authority of AC/DC. The band was a one-trick pony -- whose trick was thudding, unimaginative at that -- and this collection proves it.Without the grease paint, fire and blood to hide their musical deficiencies, the only songs here that stand on their own are "Rock'n'Roll All Night," "Shout it Out Loud" (key to the sound of the '80s hair bands) and a few more. The fact that the band can't come up with anything new only demonstrates their limitations.
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