Description
Red vinyl with cover
This compilation features rare studio outtakes in a wide variety of material mainly focusing on the 1970’s. Most of the material comes from the Simmons archive and his song writing ability is the main showcase on this release.
Howlin For Your Love 1976; Another leftover from the Rotten To The Core sessions and would eventually be re worked as Plaster Caster for the Love Gun record. Obviously there was a lot work put into this song, it has a polished feel complete with female background vocals.
Love Came To Me 1977; Another Love Gun out take that features more female background, it would eventually morph into the also un released Love Is Blind song, harmony guitar playing is decent but over all an annoying song.
I Don’t Want Your Romance 1976; Another from the rotten To The Core sessions, again with female background vocals. The song is an up tempo version of Ladies Room from Rock And Roll Over record, many of the lyrics are already in place. Thank god they did not keep the background vocals.
Jelly Roll 1975; A strange song that was worked on through out 1975 as it is on many sessions, kind almost sounds like Queen’s tie Your Mother Down with laughable lyrics, “She’ll make your jelly roll”.
Rock And Rolls Royce 1976; The original version of Love Em’ Leave Em’ from Love Gun with a little Sweet Pain guitar riff thrown in. A very together song complete with a great Ace guitar solo.
Reputation 1978; Again another song in the same vein as the above two songs, womanizing lyrics with a decent chorus. A bare bones affair with simple guitar and bass but no drums.
Rotten To The Core 1976; A song with a long history, it was worked on the previous year and never finished and would eventually be dusted off during the 1998 Psycho Circus sessions and finally revamped as Sweet & Dirty Love on Simmons 2004 Asshole record. Typical Gene lyric about sex, the song has a decent riff and some great drumming, very up tempo.
These are just a few of the rarities. There are of course plenty of more tracks that never made into an album like Eskimo Sun, Dorothy Lamour and so on. Any obsessed Kiss fan must have this one
Track list:
1. Howling For Your Love
2. Gypsy Nights
3. Love Came To Me
4. I Don’t Want Your Romance
5. None Of Your Business
6. Love By Invitation
7. Little Lady
8. Eskimo Sun
9. Jelly Roll
10. Dorothy Lamour
11. Rock And Rolls Royce
12. Reputation
13. Have Love Will Travel
14. Rotten To The Core
15. Stanley The Parrot
16. Fourever