Animalize
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September 13, 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Mercury Records | |||
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9 |
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35:42 |
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Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons |
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Animalize is the twelfth studio album by the group Kiss , released in 1984, and is also the only one on which guitarist Mark St. John played.
History of origin
After a pop-oriented phase in the late 1970s / early 1980s, Kiss first had to fire their drummer Peter Criss and found a strong replacement in Eric Carr . However, the first studio album recorded with him, Music from the Elder , flopped, so the group didn't even go on tour. In this low phase of her career, lead guitarist Ace Frehley , who no longer agreed with his position in the band and felt left out in many decisions, also decided to leave the band, although work on the follow-up album Creatures of the Night had already started. As a replacement, Vinnie Vincent was presented, who played on the Creatures of the Night tour after Frehley's departure and then recorded the album Lick It Up with Kiss in 1983 . It was around this time that the decision to part with masks and costumes was made, and the group appeared in front of MTV's cameras for the first time without makeup on September 18, 1983 . After the end of the relatively unsuccessful Lick It Up tour in March 1984 (an average of 5052 visitors came to each concert) Vinnie Vincent had already been released. Following a recommendation from Grover Jackson , the owner of Jackson Guitars , Mark St. John became the group's new guitarist.
Animalize was recorded at Right Track Studios in New York in June and July 1984 , with guest musicians from Jean Beauvoir , Bruce Kulick and Allen Schwartzberg. Beauvoir played bass on the tracks "Get All You Can Take", "Under The Gun" and "Thrills In The Night" because Gene Simmons was not available during the entire recording: He worked as an actor on the film Runaway Death (1984), which was directed by Tom Selleck and based on a screenplay by Michael Crichton . Kulick contributed the solos to "Murder In High Heels" and "Lonely Is The Hunter".
publication
Animalize was released on record , MC and CD on September 13, 1984 and became Kiss' most successful album of the 1980s. It was the first album since Dynasty (1979) to reach the Top 20 on the Billboard Charts, and it also held the same position on Cashbox . "Heaven's on Fire" was released as a single , reached number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed in the charts for 10 weeks.
St. John's disease
Mark St. John fell ill during rehearsals for the following tour to Reiter's Disease and was replaced by Bruce Kulick at the concerts of Animalize tour in Europe, which was held from 30 September 1984 to 5 November 1984th When Kiss returned to the USA, St. John took part in the tour that began on November 15, 1984, but was also represented here by Bruce Kulick and watched the concerts from the stage or the auditorium. It was only at the concert in Baltimore on November 27, 1984 that he was able to perform with Kiss for the first time. St. John also played at the next two concerts, each the entire show, but had to be completely replaced by Bruce Kulick on December 2, 1984 in Indianapolis. St. John accompanied the band in the first week of December 1984, but received his notice on December 7, 1984 and was sent home. The unpredictable development of his illness was ultimately decisive for the decision to fire him.
Track list
- 3:53 I've Had Enough (Into the Fire) (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Desmond Child )
- 3:20 Heaven's on Fire (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Desmond Child)
- 4:40 Burn Bitch Burn ' (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons)
- 3:44 Get All You Can Take (vocals: Paul Stanley; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley, Mitch Weissman)
- 4:28 Lonely Is the Hunter (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons)
- 4:01 Under the Gun (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Eric Carr, Desmond Child)
- 4:21 Thrills in the Night (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Jean Beauvoir)
- 3:41 While the City Sleeps (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons, Mitch Weissman)
- 4:14 Murder in High Heels (vocals: Gene Simmons; music: Gene Simmons, Mitch Weissman)
literature
- Julian Gill: The Kiss Album Focus - Hell or High Water, 1983-1996 ; 4th edition, KissFaq.com 2005; ISBN 978-098225370-0
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs: Kiss Alive Forever - A Complete Touring History ; Billboard Books 2002, first edition; ISBN 0-8230-8322-5
- ^ A b Dale Sherman: Black Diamond - The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss ; Collectors Guide Publishing Inc., 1997, ISBN 1-896522-35-1
- ↑ David Leaf, Ken Sharp: Kiss: Behind the Mask ; Warner Books, New York, 2003. ISBN 0-446-53073-5 .