Kiss – The Best Of The Solo Albums (VG/VG) – LP, Australasia 1980

The Best Of The Solo Albums is an LP by Kiss from 1980 released on the Casablanca label.

About this album

Kiss’s Best Of Solo Albums turns the band’s 1978 solo projects into a brisk hard-rock showcase, with Ace Frehley’s hit New York Groove giving the set its most immediate payoff. Issued in 1979, the compilation pulls together standout cuts from the four individual albums and highlights the contrast within Kiss’s post-glam personalities: Frehley’s riff-heavy swagger, Gene Simmons’s darker edge, Paul Stanley’s melodic pop-rock instincts and Peter Criss’s smoother, soul-leaning approach. Rather than serving as a definitive Kiss album, it documents a curious and commercially shrewd moment in the band’s history, when each member stepped out on their own while still feeding the group’s larger mythos.

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