(Rock)[LP][24/96] Kiss-Killers (First Japanese Pressing) (Casablanca/Polystar 28S-58) - 1982, FLAC

Side 1

1. I'm A Legend Tonight
2. Down On Your Knees
3. Cold Gin
4. Love Gun
5. Shout It Out Loud
6. Escape From The Island
7. Sure Know Something

Side 2

1. Nowhere To Run
2. Partners In Crime
3. Detroit Rock City
4. God Of Thunder
5. I Was Made For Loving You
6. Shandi
7. Rock And Roll All Night (Live)

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This is the import only compilation album from the Band KISS. Released June 25, 1982 on Casablanca/Polystar Records. This was never released in the US. It was released in a number of countries, however the Japanese version is the only one to include all fourteen tracks. It also contains four previously unreleased new songs: “I’m A Legend Tonight”, “Down On Your Knees”, “Nowhere To Run”, & “Partners In Crime”.

By 1982, KISS’s commercial popularity was at its nadir. 1980′s Unmasked barely achieved gold certification, and the band toured exclusively outside the United States for the first time in their career that year. 1981′s Music from “The Elder” fared even worse, it failed to gain any certification and the band did not tour behind it at all. The album, released in November 1981, was off the charts by February 1982.

That month, Phonogram Records (the parent company of KISS’s label, Casablanca Records) requested that KISS record four new songs, to be included in an upcoming greatest hits album. Phonogram requested hard rock songs specifically, in contrast to the progressive rock style of Music from “The Elder”. The album cover, however, featured the same streamlined look the band had adopted during the “Elder” period.

Despite being pictured on the album’s cover art (from the photo-session for “Music From The Elder”), lead guitarist and co-founder Ace Frehley did not participate at all in the production of Killers. He had essentially ended his active involvement with KISS in late 1981, although he would not officially leave the group until the end of 1982, after the release of this compilation. His replacement for the Killers sessions was Bob Kulick, who had previously subbed for Frehley on a handful of studio tracks on 1977′s Alive II. However, whereas Kulick had been asked to mimic Frehley’s playing style when recording for Alive II, he was permitted to employ his own techniques for Killers.

In addition to the new songs, the other songs were remixed/remastered

I have included complete scans from the original Japanese pressing.