Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Strutter (demo)
2. Deuce (demo)
3. Keep Me Waiting - Wicked Lester
4. She - Wicked Lester
5. Love Her All I Can - Wicked Lester
6. Let Me Know (Bell Sound Studios demo)
7. 100,000 Years (Bell Sound Studios demo)
8. Stop, Look To Listen (Paul Stanley demo)
9. Leeta (Gene Simmons demo)
10. Let Me go, Rock 'N' Roll (Bell Sound Studios demo)
11. Acrobat (Live at The Daisy)
12. Firehouse (Bell Sound Studios demo)
13. Nothin' to Lose
14. Black Diamond
15. Hotter Than Hell
16. Strange Ways
17. Parasite
18. Goin' Blind
19. Anything For My Baby
20. Ladies In Waiting
21. Rock and Roll All Nite

Disc 2:

1. C'mon And Love Me (Live)
2. Rock Bottom (Live)
3. Cold Gin (Live)
4. Watchin' You (Live)
5. Doncha Hesitate (demo)
6. Mad Dog (demo)
7. God of Thunder (demo)
8. Great Expectations
9. Beth
10. Do You Love Me
11. Bad, Bad Lovin' (demo)
12. Calling Dr. Love
13. Mr. Speed (demo)
14. Christine Sixteen
15. Hard Luck Woman
16. Shock Me
17. I Stole Your Love
18. I Want You (Soundcheck recording)
19. Love Gun (demo)
20. Love Is Blind (demo)

Disc 3:

1. Detroit Rock City
2. King of the Night Time World (Live)
3. Larger Than Life
4. Rocket Ride
5. Tonight You Belong To Me
6. New York Groove
7. Radioactive (demo)
8. Don't You Let Me Down
9. I Was Made For Lovin' You
10. Sure Know Something
11. Shandi
12. You're All That I Want, You're All That I Need (demo)
13. Talk To Me (Live)
14. A World Without Heroes
15. The Oath
16. Nowhere To Run
17. Creatures Of The Night
18. War Machine
19. I Love It Loud

Disc 4:

1. Lick It Up
2. All Hell's Breaking Loose
3. Heaven's On Fire
4. Get All You Can Take
5. Thrills In The Night
6. Tears Are Falling
7. Uh! All Night
8. Time Traveller (demo)
9. Hell Or High Water
10. Crazy, Crazy Nights
11. Reason To Live
12. Let's Put The X In Sex
13. Hide Your Heart
14. Ain't That Peculiar (demo)
15. Silver Spoon
16. Forever (single version)

Disc 5:

1. God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
2. Unholy
3. Domino (demo)
4. Every Time I Look At You
5. Comin' Home (live unplugged)
6. Got To Choose (live unplugged)
7. I Still Love You (live unplugged)
8. Nothin' To Lose (live unplugged)
9. Childhood's End (with coda)
10. I Will Be There
11. Psycho Circus
12. Into The Void
13. Within
14. I Pledge Allegiance To The State of Rock & Roll
15. Nothing Can Keep Me From You
16. It's My Life (original version)
17. Shout It Out Loud (live)
18. Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss Alive IV)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36992 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-27
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Best of, Box set
• Dimensions: 2.81 pounds

From Amazon.com
Set aside the makeup, pyrotechnics, and coffin sales, and all that's left of "the hottest band in the world" is the music. Fortunately, in the case of Kiss, the music is their strongest suit. This five-CD box set blends previously released recordings, demos, and unreleased live material. Rarities come in large part from the band's halcyon makeup period and include unheard songs from an assortment of demos. Among the curios are the Wicked Lester versions of "She" and "Love Her All I Can," replete with horn kicks and hand percussion. No less intriguing is the previously unreleased Destroyer-era, Slade-inspired stomper "Doncha Hesitate" and Paul Stanley's disco-influenced "God of Thunder." Other demos give insight into the band's proclivity for cannibalizing early material for portions of soon-to-be hits. Though most fans recognize the 1970s as Kiss's heyday, the 1980s material such as Creatures of the Night's "War Machine" and Asylum's "Tears Are Falling" holds up surprisingly well. The fifth CD, which consists of 1990s output, falls flat, though some sparks are rekindled with the rewrite of Argent's "God Gave Rock & Roll to You." The box includes a thick, full-color booklet with rare photos and insightful song-by-song commentary from the band. --Kelly Minnis

Chronique amazon.fr
Point de rencontre des "pulp magazines", du glam rock et du heavy metal, Kiss a incontestablement pesé de tout son poids sur le rock des années 1970. Ce coffret est l'occasion de rendre hommage au quartette infernal de New York, à Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Frehley et Peter Criss, sans qui Marilyn Manson et quelques autres n'auraient peut-être pas existé. Ce Box Set est constitué de cinq CD. Le premier, certainement le plus intéressant pour les fans, comprend plusieurs maquettes qui remontent aux débuts du groupe (alors baptisé Wicked Lester), maquettes qui, fort curieusement, témoignent de l'influence de la scène progressive britannique (Jethro Tull notamment). Les CD 2 et 3, en revanche, remettent les pendules à l'heure, puisqu'ils couvrent les années 1970, en d'autres termes la période la plus populaire (entendons heavy metal) . Quant aux CD 4 et 5, il renvoie à la dernière partie de la carrière de Kiss, marquée par le départ de Criss et Frehley (qui reviendront en 1995 le temps d'un concert "unplugged" dont on retrouve ici quelques titres). Kiss ou "quand la démesure fait loi" ! --Philippe Margotin

Customer Reviews

"Like The Unreleased Stuff But There's Not Enough"
KISS have been around for quite a long time, it's been a while since they came out in the early seventies which seem far away now and they continued since then and it doesn't seem like they're going to stop. They were initially supposed to stop after the farewell tour of 2000-2001 but then in 2002 they announced it wouldn't happen as planned and the band would continue. In fact they are still active as of now. After the farewell tour in late 2001 the KISS Box Set was released. Fans were excited to hear that there would be demos and previously unreleased songs on it. It's expensive alright but is it really worth it? Is the unreleased material good? Let's see.

At the cost of this set you would expect something of excellent quality. And that's what you get here the set is very well done, it looks great, the shiny KISS logo, it has five discs and an incredibly detailed booklet of 120 pages. It looks great but out of the 94 songs here there are about 30 songs that have not been released before when fans expect something that's entirely new, that's never been heard before. It's sort of a disappointment on that end, but let's focus on what is here and what is not okay?

The first disc is the best of the lot it has things every fan wants to hear for instance the demo to "Strutter"(with the amazing alternate solo) and some of the Wicked Lester stuff like "Keep Me Waiting(Wicked Lester),"She(Wicked Lester),""and the live "Acrobat" song which became "Love Theme Song From KISS". Disc 2 has more unreleased songs like "Mad Dog"(one of favourite of the whole set),"Doncha Hesitate", "Love Is Blind". It found the demos of "Love Gun" and "God Of Thunder" interesting, it also has the soundcheck of "I Want You". Disc 3 is where it gets worst: only the demo for "Radioactive", "Talk To Me" live and the demo "You're All That I Want, All That I Need". Disc 4 has the unreleased "Time Traveller" which is complete and wasn't released in the 80s, the single version of "Forever" and "Ain't That Peculiar". Disc 5 has "Got To Choose" unreleased from Unplugged, "Chilhood's End" unreleased coda, the demo for "Domino"," Nothing Can Keep Me From You" from the Detroit Rock City soundtrack, "It's My Life" unreleased song, "Shout It Out Loud" live from Greatest KISS and "Rock And Roll All Nite" live from what was the original Alive 4.

The booklet that comes with the KISS box set is amazing. It has detailed comments on EACH song here even the unreleased stuff and the demos which is great, mostly done by Gene and Paul but still. There are some really great pictures with many I had never seen before, the Creatures Of The Night ones were pretty cool and the Elder one too but I liked them all. The introduction by Jeff Kittis is pretty good too.The best this set has to offer is the early demos, Wicked Lester stuff. There aren't enough unreleased songs, "Time Traveller" and "It's My Life" are pretty good but I mean it's been said often here that KISS has said they had TONS of unreleased stuff but why didn't they put them on this box set or make a box set with all of those, fans would fully have gotten their money's worth. In the end is it really worth spending this much money for this box set? Probably not but the demos and unreleased stuff is really good and great to hear. It has a lot of stuff that fans mostly have, I for instance own every single albums and therefore did not need all this even if I thought the setlist was pretty good and did justice to KISS covering every album and eras of the hottest band in the world. But what's the point of having all this ONCE MORE? It's for fans who don't own much but I don't see much those fans buying this pricey set the way I would see completists and hardcore fans buying a fully unreleased set of songs demos and all that. 3 stars.

This Box ROCKS
This Box set is amazing, great packageing, awesome book, amazing sound and kick ass songs what more does a box set require!

A good but not great box set
[I'M BEING CRITICAL HERE BECAUSE I'M A BIG KISS FAN.]

For three decades, KISS has been one of the finest hard rock bands out there. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss are musical geniuses, and there's no denying. When artists get to be as popular as these guys, it's not unusual to see them release box sets. And now KISS has released a box set. Read on for my review of it.

PROS:
-The most obvious cool thing about this box set is the unreleased material. There are demos from the band's Wicked Lester days, plus other demos, live stuff, unplugged stuff, and many other cool rarities.
-You get a number of hits spanning the band's entire career.
-The set relies on more than just hits. You get plenty of underrated masterpieces as well, including stuff from the band's often overlooked eighties days, in which they had a few line-up changes.

CONS:
-There are two ways to do a career-spanning box set - the good way, which is a definitive collection of all your releases to date, or the bad way, which is a scattershot mixture of tracks. Sadly, KISS goes with the latter style. WHY DO ARTISTS DO THIS!?
-The band couldn't seem to decide whether they wanted to do a career-spanning anthology, or a rarities package, so they tried to cram both into one set. That makes this a very scattershot package.

OVERALL:
Overall this is some excellent music, but I recommend shelling out the extra cash and getting the albums. It just isn't worth blowing this much money on such an uneven set. Want the rare tracks found here? Download them.