Track Listing

1. King of the Mountain
2. Any Way You Slice It
3. Who Wants to Be Lonely
4. Trial by Fire
5. I'm Alive
6. Love's a Deadly Weapon
7. Tears Are Falling
8. Secretly Cruel
9. Radar for Love
10. Uh! All Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275320 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.

Customer Reviews

C'mon Now....
The 80s' were a tough time for Kiss, what with losing Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, and the desperate struggle of Gene and Paul to stay with the times and not fade out like so many other bands have. But Kiss proved their staying power and on this record, their musical ability as well.

good,but not the best
this was a good album.it holds some of the greatest songs ever written in the 80s like "Tears Are Falling","Anyway You Slice It","King of the Mountain" and "I'm Alive".Although songs like "Radar for Love" were a disapointment.
But I dont really know why people put this album down.one of the greatest Kiss lineups started here.Bruce Kulice is one of the best guitarests to ever play with Kiss.Hiss solo for "Tears Are Falling" will prove that to you.And all in all,this may not be their best,but its a must-have!

Typical for Kiss in the 1980's
Kiss have at least since the 1980's been very sensitive to musical trends. After their excellent period of hard rock, Simmons and Stanley put their fingers up in the air to see where the winds were blowing... After two pop sounding albums ("Dynasty" and "Unmasked") the two leaders decided (against the will of Ace Frehley) to record a theme album: "The elder", which didn't work out. Kiss went back to hard rock but had lost something from their heydays. A couple of more or less decent albums followed but it became more and more clear that especially Simmons either lost his ability to write good tunes or simply didn't care anymore.

"Asylum" from 1985 gives us a band that jumped the "hair metal" train. For the first time in music history heavy metal/hard rock wasn't mainly for the boys, and a lot of band got more polished, ballad oriented and image became even more important due to MTV. A lot of new bands (Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Icon etc) popped up and gained success. Obviously Kiss wanted to be a part of the whole circus.

But what about the music? Well, this album include at least one good song: "King of the mountain", and a couple of average standard like "Any way you slice it" and "Uh! all night". Then we got "Tears are falling" and "Who wants to be lonely", two songs that by the times standard and musical climate was quite good, and were in fact smaller hits. With hindsight they didn't stand the test of time but they can be interesting as a document of the music back in 1985. Sad to say, the album also include some songs that are indeed not good like the awful "Love's a deadly weapon".

This is not Kiss best or worst effort, and actually deserves 2 1/2 stars.