EPISODE 201: "PETER CRISS 1978 SOLO ALBUM"
This week Tom & Zeus review the 1978 Peter Criss solo album by KISS. This is the 4th and final 1978 KISS solo album to be reviewed by Shout It Out Loudcast. This is the 18th KISS studio album reviewed by SIOL.
Produced by future KISS producer, Vini Poncia, this was the most maligned and non-KISS album of the four solo albums. Peter was bold and chose to do an album that he wanted to do and went back to his roots and released an album filled with old school rock, soul and R&B flavored songs, along with a few ballads as well. The album also featured the first disco flavored song by KISS.
Many of the songs penned by Peter and his writing partner, Stan Penridge were songs from Peter's older band Lips. A couple were written by fifth member of KISS, Sean Delaney and another was classic rock and roll cover song. The musicians used for the album were top notch session players, filled with piano and horns as well.
As usual the guys breakdown and analyze the tracks and rank the songs SIOL style. As always, they then compare the album and album cover and rank it against the previous studio albums reviewed.
See if Zeus' love for Peter blinds him when he ranks this album, see if Tom is a fan of disco Peter and find out why Ace is fan of Panera bread!