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: #27073 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-27
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Best of, Box set
• Dimensions: 2.20" h x 7.48" w x 10.79" l, 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