Magazine Cover of the Week

CREEM

January 1977

KISS Solo Albums Promo Video 1978

LA TV promo about the KISS solo albums in 1978

Billboard Top Rock Albums (May 7th 2016)

Billboard Rock Albums Chart

Top 20

Week Ending May 7th 2016

20 - Love Letter For Fire - Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop
(Debut)
19 - Blues of Desperation - Joe Bonamassa
18 - Bang Zoom Crazy...Hello - Cheap Trick
17 - A Head Full of Dreams - Coldplay
16 - Weezer (White Album) - Weezer
15 - PersonA - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
(Debut)
14 - Phone Power - They Might Be Giants
(Debut)
13 - Generation Doom - Otep
(Debut)
12 - Chaos and The Calm - James Bay
11 - Dig In Deep - Bonnie Raitt
10 - This Path Tonight - Graham Nash
9  -  Immortalized - Disturbed
8  -  Death of a Bachelor - Panic! At the Disco
7  -  The Hope Six Demolition Project - PJ Harvey
(Debut)
6  -  Gore - Deftones
5  -  Blurryface - twenty one pilots
4  -  Origins, Vol. 1 - Ace Frehley
(Debut)
3  -  Cleopatra - The Lumineers
2  -  Santana IV - Santana
(Debut)
1  -  A Sailors Guide To Earth - Sturgill Simpson
(Debut)

Track listing[edit]

All songs written and composed by Sturgill Simpson except "In Bloom", which is written by Kurt Cobain. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)"	4:53
2.	"Breakers Roar"	3:33
3.	"Keep It Between the Lines"	4:01
4.	"Sea Stories"	3:17
5.	"In Bloom" (Nirvana cover)	4:01
6.	"Brace for Impact (Live a Little)"	5:49
7.	"All Around You"	3:36
8.	"Oh Sarah" (Was originally released on Sunday Valley's album To the Wind and On to Heaven in 2011)	4:15
9.	"Call to Arms"	5:30
Total length:		38:54

Top Ten KISS Songs

Album Spotlight

Hotter Than Hell 

Kiss

released October 22nd 1974

Track listing[edit]

[1]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Got to Choose"	Paul Stanley	Stanley	3:54
2.	"Parasite"	Ace Frehley	Gene Simmons	3:02
3.	"Goin' Blind"	Simmons, Stephen Coronel	Simmons	3:37
4.	"Hotter Than Hell"	Stanley	Stanley	3:30
5.	"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"	Stanley, Simmons	Simmons	2:15
6.	"All the Way"	Simmons	Simmons	3:18
7.	"Watchin' You"	Simmons	Simmons	3:44
8.	"Mainline"	Stanley	Peter Criss	3:50
9.	"Comin' Home"	Frehley, Stanley	Stanley	2:38
10.	"Strange Ways"	Frehley	Criss	3:18

Original vs Remake #8 (New York Groove)

Today the song is a little obscure but a good one. 
 "New York Groove".

A #9 hit in the UK in 1975 by the group Hello.

Then the remake by Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley on his solo album in 1978.

Ace hit #13 on the Billboard Hot 100