Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Go To Hell” — Alice Cooper (1976)

You’d poison a blind man’s dog and steal his cane You’d gift wrap a leper and mail him to your Aunt Jane You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane! You can go to Hell… I told you I’d be back with some more Alice Cooper. And an even better song too. Go To Hell…

Album Review: “Destroyer” — Kiss (1976)

Destroyer was Kiss’s larger-than-life effort to keep momentum rolling after the multi-platinum success of their landmark 1975 live album Alive!. After releasing three studio albums to middling results, the band bet the farm on an album that endeavored to replicate their “live concert” experience, and successfully at that, even if the amount of actual “live…

Album Review: “Music From ‘The Elder'” — Kiss (1981)

In a lot of ways, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah that Kiss exhibited by dubbing their 1981 concept album Music From “The Elder” with that moniker. Almost immediately that title elevates the material to something of a new plateau; I mean, it’s not just another dopey album or anything like that. It’s the…