Jungle (Kiss song)
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| Kiss | |
| publication | October 28, 1997 |
| length | 6:49 |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock |
| Author (s) | Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Kurt Cuomo |
| Publisher (s) | Mercury Records |
| Award (s) | "Song of the Year" from the Metal Edge Reader's Choice Poll |
| album | Carnival of Souls |
Jungle is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss . It appeared on the 1997 album Carnival of Souls and reached number 8 on the American charts.
Emergence
In 1992 Kiss released the album Revenge , which reached high chart positions and gold status. Musically, it was considered by the critics to be one of the most successful Kiss albums. After that, the band wanted to break new ground and make more modern music. The band worked on the material for the new album Carnival of Souls for about a year and a half in advance. It was then recorded from November 1995 to February 1996. Since grunge was musically hip at that time , the songs on the new album should also go in this direction and sound dark and dark.
The song Jungle was written by band members Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick as well as co-songwriter Kurt Cuomo, who first worked with Kiss. Kulick had already written the riff, to which Cuomo added an accompanying melody with long, catchy notes. The lyrics came from Stanley and Cuomo. The technician Justin Walden programmed percussion - Loops and producer Toby Wright added TR-808 drum machines , djembes and Tablas added to generate a rich sound. The vocals are from Stanley, who also played the rhythm guitar. In addition to the lead guitar, Kulick also took on the bass parts. In order to achieve a special sonic effect, he played the instrument through a “Mutron Phasor II” effect pedal, which was popular in the 1970s.
The song's guitar solo is inspired by Cream and its melody is kind of a mix of Sunshine of Your Love and I Feel Free .
The song was released together with the album a year and a half later, in October 1997, because of the reunion tour of the original Kiss cast. It is the only release from the album and at 6:49 minutes the longest song on the band's studio album. A so-called radio edit, a shortened version with a length of 4:53 minutes, was created for the radio.
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Thematically, the song deals with the "dark side of the human psyche". The authors describe that the big city - in terms of New York, from which the band members came and where they still lived at the time - turns into a jungle as soon as the sun goes down. Then a beast wakes up and takes more lives. People without refuge, with nothing to lose, rushed into the night.
The refrain appears three times in a slightly modified form and is melancholy and dark:
Someone's safe at home
Someone dies alone
Someone's fallen prey
Some will take their fill
Like lions to the kill
Livin 'day to day
Chart placement, award and reviews
Jungle ranked 8th on Billboard Singles in the US in 1997 . A marketing music video was not shot. In other countries the song was not represented in the charts. In addition, the song won the 1997 Song of the Year in the Metal Edge Reader's Choice Poll . According to the music magazine Rock Hard, the “ingenious hooks” that would have made the band famous only shimmered through in a few compositions on the new album. In the "great Stanley track" Jungle, for example, this is the case.
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- ↑ Kiss Unmasked: The Official Biography. IP Verlag Berlin, 1st edition 2005, pp. 329/330.
- ↑ Kiss Unmasked: The Official Biography. IP Verlag Berlin, 1st edition 2005, p. 335.
- ↑ a b c Carnival of Souls -Restropective for the 15th anniversary of the album, published by Bruce Kulick on kulick.net, accessed on November 1, 2012.
- ↑ Kiss Unmasked: The Official Biography. IP Verlag Berlin, 1st edition 2005, p. 331.
- ↑ Allmusic
- ^ Rock Hard , November 1997.
