You Wanted the Best You Got the Best

You Wanted the Best You Got the Best

Editorial Reviews
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Kiss were always best known for their theatrical stage attire, explosive stage props and blood-spitting, fire-breathing antics, which is why many people continue to overlook the fact that many Kiss songs are tolerable at best. Even if the band's music is best used as loud background music for the band's visual extravaganza, the band did have a few jewels down the front of their bulging trousers. On You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!, they let them hang down to the ground, preventing the need to buy a full Kiss album ever again. "Firehouse," "Calling Dr. Love," "I Stole Your Love," and of course "Rock and Roll All Nite" shine through, and for the deluded die-hards, there are three previously unreleased live tracks and an interview with Jay Leno sure to raise the room temperature a few degrees. --Jon Wiederhorn

Tracks:

Room Service
Two Timer
Let Me Know
Rock Bottom
Parasite
Firehouse
I Stole Your Love
Calline Dr. Love
Talk To Me
Shout Out Loud
Beth
Rock And Roll All Night
KISS Tells All

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Kiss were always best known for their theatrical stage attire, explosive stage props and blood-spitting, fire-breathing antics, which is why many people continue to overlook the fact that many Kiss songs are tolerable at best. Even if the band's music is best used as loud background music for the band's visual extravaganza, the band did have a few jewels down the front of their bulging trousers. On You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!, they let them hang down to the ground, preventing the need to buy a full Kiss album ever again. "Firehouse," "Calling Dr. Love," "I Stole Your Love," and of course "Rock and Roll All Nite" shine through, and for the deluded die-hards, there are three previously unreleased live tracks and an interview with Jay Leno sure to raise the room temperature a few degrees. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews:

cool idea...just lied to.......2007-07-10

Ive been a KISS fan for over 30 yrs. The"unreleased live tracks" were obviously recorded in 1996 with a live audience track pumped in. Any KISS fan can tell the difference between the vocal range/change of Gene and Paul over the last 25 yrs.The drumming is alittle too busy...the lead guitars are alittle too slick...could this be Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer? I would bet that they are playing on these supposed "live tracks"
I will always love KISS...but who do you think that you are fooling?
not me

Great Unreleased Live Songs..........2007-06-06

I'll give this 5 stars just because the Summer of 1996 - Fall of 1996 was so much fun going to reunion concerts and Kiss was huge again. Kiss fans like myself were just so euphoric and caught up in the hoopla of the reunion! The "unreleased" songs are great. (Even though you can tell they were re-recorded...just compare Paul and Gene's voices with Alive 1 or 2 for proof) The best of them is "New York Groove" live from Austrailia 1980 if you snagged a copy of a Japanese version of this disc. But "Room Service" rips, as does "Let Me Know" "Two Timer" and "Take Me". The interview will always be a cool timepiece. There aren't many interviews with all four orignial members.

Why did KISS make this album?.......2005-10-20

I have been listening to KISS since 1977 and have always been a die hard fan. So I tend to buy every album they release and this one was no exception. I thought "WOW, Room Service and Two Timer live?"
Being a KISS fan I have noticed things about the vocals of Paul and Gene. These days and in the 90's it sounds like they had sinus surgery or something. I'm sure it's just age. Room Service definatley sounds like Paul of the 90's. No doubt. Obviously after reading the reviews I'm not the only one who thinks this. Two Timer does sound genuine but I still have a problem with Let Me Know. It's possible that maybe it's the music with dubbed over vocals or maybe just pure 90's remake. Room Service is definatly not from 1975. Hmm. Why do this KISS?

Anyhow the rest of the album is just tracks from Alive 1 and 2. It's an interesting CD and any fan should have it but go to your local used CD store and I'm sure you'll find one in the .99 cent bin. I bought mine for 2.00 and it was a promo. I still like it but am still curious about the first 3 songs. Knowing Paul and Gene anything is possible.

Make up your own mind but like I said don't fork out retail for it.

A Greatest Hits set of their first two live albums.......2005-06-04

I think Kiss has put out five live albums not counting this one of the boxed det, The 4 Alives and Unplugged. When I got this album I felt really jipped because the new tracks weren't very good and I had heard Alive! and Alive II so many times already. The interview was ok but anyone who doesn't have enoguh access to a Kiss interview either on TV or on the internet is a sad person. The tracks on it were very good and if you don't want to spend the money buying each seperatly then this album is a good buy but if you buy this you'll probably want the other two anyway. Kiss dieheard fans buy this for new material but they aren't worth it. Rock and Roll all Nite is one of the most successful live songs of all time but it's been released more times than the original version. Calling Dr. Love and Beth are brilliant on this album but get them on Alive II. Kiss has enoguh money that you don't need to support this album or you can download the unreleased tracks.

Don't make them even richer.......2005-04-08

This album is a rip-off.
The 4 "newly discovered" tracks are not vintage recordings, but new ones done when the band reunited. No one really knows if the original four are playing in them, since Kiss has been lying to their fans since 1976' Destroyer by not giving credit to outside musicians on their albums.

If you listen closely to Paul's vocals you'll notice they sound kinda shot, "ala '96" style. Also, the drum sound is recent, check it out. And oh those added crowd noises!!! They sound SO fake it's disturbing.

If you only want the four unreleased tracks, then borrow it from a friend. That'd be the smartest thing to do.

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