What's the deal with KISS...

What's the deal with KISS? I always had the impression they were really popular and had diehard fans but their music isn't even good

They were the GWAR of their day. Live show phenomenon

They had some good early songs.
I think Anon Babble would appreciate Gene's getup more if they knew he was an OG weeb. The demon getup was Kabuki based.
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They're great. Fuck you.

Maybe on planet retard

I'd like to see you write a riff and guitar solo like DEUCE
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the S/T debut and Alive! are the best

they set the stage for 80's heavy metal, they're one of those bands people downplay the influence of like U2

Didn't ask about your birthplace

Ace is so cute

Early KISS isn't even that different from early punk. They're both glam influenced and stooges/Detroit influenced and emerged in the same grimy urban 70s rock landscape.
It's just because it's "KISS" that they get instant hate. They definitely got cheesier over the years, so I can't blame them.
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jews

How did Jews have control over so many teenagers minds in the 70s? Why are so many people apparently so susceptible to mind control? Did Jews make both Slash and Jerry Cantrell want a sunburst Les Paul so they could be like Ace Frehley? They couldn't be more different themselves, but somehow it was the Jews orchestrating it all.

I've always thought The Dead Boys sounded more like early Alice Cooper, than KISS, but, I guess, on some levels, the comparison is apt.

I have seen both KISS and GWAR.
Both put on great shows, but I think GWAR has better music.
I like KISS, but I only gravitate towards the classic line up/albums from 1074-79.

Well, I think they're both influenced by Alice, for sure.

Kiss is the weenie hut Jr. of rock tho

buttrock, but with facepaint

True dat!

Oh, so you admit that you like KISS?

Imagine the countless truckstop gloryholes visited by out-of-makeup Paul Stanley

What's the deal with KISS?

they have absolutely zero talent

I always had the impression they were really popular

eh, not really

and had diehard fans

yeah this is true, their fans are pretty much obsessive stalker psychos what with all that kiss army shit
I think they just like cosplaying

but their music isn't even good

correct
they had ONE good song, pic related
shame they had to hire a hit songwriter to write it for them
all their other songs are literally worthless trash

kiss were a mistake

one of the bests to ever to it

t. jazz/prog/Marrfag

they were the first act in music to prey on edgy white boy sensibilities in the way they did, and unlike other dark bands it wasn't enough that they appealed to teenagers, KISS loved them young: they're like McDonald's, they want you hooked early and their message is as good for impressionable young minds as McDonald's food is for your body

Gene's lyrics are always jewy as fuck, "Rob you of your virgin soul" is disclosure. Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath weren't predatory. You had to leave it to the jews to turn music into a weapon.

The music being shit is literally part of the vision

I think their classic stuff is back when they still had passion for their music to an extent. After that it was Gene chasing trends and whining about how everyone stole his spotlight.

Autobiographical song by Gene?

They have absolutely zero talent

They never claimed to be "Talented" in the first place. They have admitted, time and again, that they are mindless entertainment, and nothing else.

eh, not really

Uh, yes really. They have millions of fans world wide. The record sales numbers speak for themselves

yeah this is true, their fans are pretty much obsessive stalker psychos what with all that kiss army shit

I think they just like cosplaying
Actually KISS fans range from every age, come from all walks of life, and cross over many generations.
You have grandparents who were original soldiers in The KISS Army who make it a family gathering to attend KISS concerts with their children and grandchildren. That alone is a testament to their popularity, legacy, and staying power. Not many bands achieve this. KISS is one of the few bands since the invention of Rock and Roll that have.

correct

they had ONE good song, pic related
shame they had to hire a hit songwriter to write it for them
all their other songs are literally worthless trash

kiss were a mistake
When that single came out, KISS fans turned their back on them, and soldiers in The KISS Army went permanent AWOL.
Everything prior to that was pure gold, but I Was Made For Loving You, at the time was considered a "Sell Out" because KISS went DISCO. (They tried to justify it by calling it "KISSCO" that publicity stunt failed!)
It took a long time for KISS fans to forgive them, and for KISS themselves to realize what a huge mistake they made. They haven't performed that song since the 80s, and will probably never perform it ever again.
The BEST KISS songs were the ones they wrote themselves back in the early days when they were just starting out. There's a reason why everything from the first album up to Love Gun are considered "Classics" among die hard KISS fans.

I Was Made For Loving You was a mistake

Who the fuck do you think controlled Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper's careers?
Do your research.
And both of them were around before Haim Witz and Stanley Bert Elson even started to collaborate together on music.

They were one of the first black metal bands so even though their music isn’t the best they innovated an entire subculture of music

the band co-founded by Scott Ian Rosenfeld

Pottery

They weren't "Black Metal" in the least.
Oh, sure, people in the Black Metal scene apply make up to look like rejects from a KISS audition, I'll give you that, but KISS were basically derivative of early Alice Cooper meets The New York Dolls, and have more in common with those bands than they do with Burzum of Mayhem.

When asked to comment on the rising popularity of Venom’s ‘Black Metal’ album, Gene Simmons told reporter Jude Goldenstein, “Honestly, who gives a fuck that they gave the genre a name. They’re a bunch of fucking faggot posers who aped our style and sound.”

Source: rolling stone.com

aped our style and sound

No black metal band sounds event remotely like KISS. As for style, beyond the fact that they also wore costumes and make up, they were no more aping KISS than KISS were aping minstrels. But hey, kikes gonna kike

If Gene Simmons think Venom stole from KISS, then he's gone deaf.
If Venom stole from anybody, it would be Discharge, and NOT KISS.

This, coming from a band that publicly admitted stealing from SLADE to write I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night.....

Black Metal was only the name of the album.
Fans of Black Metal don't like Venom, and don't listen to them.
The album Black Metal, is just punk inspired thrash metal, and doesn't sound anything like Mayhem, or Burzum, or any of that garbage.