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KISS - Unmasked



6.3 | 135 votes |
Release date: 1980
Style: Hard rock

Owners:

163 have it
8 want it


01. Is That You?
02. Shandi
03. Talk To Me
04. Naked City
05. What Makes The World Go Round
06. Tomorrow
07. Two Sides Of The Coin
08. She's So European
09. Easy As It Seems
10. Torpedo Girl
11. You're All That I Want

Additional info
Label: Casablanca

Produced by Vini Poncia.
Recorded and mixed by Jay Messina.
Engineered by Gray Russell.
Mastered by George Marino.

Guest review by
Ace Frawley
Rating:
4.0
Kiss. The biggest gimmick band in history. The face-paint, the fancy costumes, the huge stage show with smoking guitars, blood, fire, explosions. They had it all. Gimmicks as far as the eye could see. By 1980, people were growing tired of it. Perhaps their fans were starting to grow up too? In any event, their 1980 album Unmasked seems like a direct pitch at popularity. It's a pop record. Pure pop rock. But this is Metalstorm, right? It sure is - that's why I'm not going to be very kind.

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published 11.09.2012 | Comments (15)

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Comments: 9   Visited by: 181 users
04.11.2010 - 23:24
Rating: 10
monsterpod2

Confession... I love this album.. it's definately my favorite by Kiss by a long shot.... I've been listening to Judas Iscariot: To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding all day... but I could just have easily put this one on instead.... I guess it's the same as enjoying a bad movie... you appreciate the cheese factor of it... this is my cheesy movie!!!.... and probably will be until it kills me....
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05.11.2010 - 00:16
JohnDoe
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Wow, 10 for this one? I dunno if i can give this rating to a/any Kiss album, not even to their classic 70s period albums, but after all tastes differ.

this one would get a 6.5.
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18.07.2012 - 08:53
Rating: 4
Ace Frawley
The Spaceman
This is bubblegum pop rock that should appeal to children under the age of fifteen. Lyrics are woeful and the songs are simple, yet catchy. Of course, there is merit here - I think the song "Shandi" has some incredible vocal harmonies. But if I'm assessing this as an album on a site dedicated to METAL, then this gets a rating of 4 from me. I loved some of this stuff when it came out (I was seven-years-old) but today it doesn't get me going. I'll probably play it to my daughter when she's about five or six.
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The sun shines over The Fool...
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03.04.2014 - 12:21
Rating: 2
Timelord

Written by Ace Frawley on 18.07.2012 at 08:53

This is bubblegum pop rock that should appeal to children under the age of fifteen. Lyrics are woeful and the songs are simple, yet catchy. Of course, there is merit here - I think the song "Shandi" has some incredible vocal harmonies. But if I'm assessing this as an album on a site dedicated to METAL, then this gets a rating of 4 from me. I loved some of this stuff when it came out (I was seven-years-old) but today it doesn't get me going. I'll probably play it to my daughter when she's about five or six.



THANK YOU!! Except for the Shitty Shandi I agree with you finally. This is their worst make up era album. Even "Music from the Elder" has better songs.
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03.04.2014 - 12:23
Rating: 4
Ace Frawley
The Spaceman
Written by Timelord on 03.04.2014 at 12:21

THANK YOU!! Except for the Shitty Shandi I agree with you finally. This is their worst make up era album. Even "Music from the Elder" has better songs.


Well it's good to finally agree on something.
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12.04.2014 - 08:11
Rating: 2
Timelord

Written by Ace Frawley on 03.04.2014 at 12:23

Written by Timelord on 03.04.2014 at 12:21

THANK YOU!! Except for the Shitty Shandi I agree with you finally. This is their worst make up era album. Even "Music from the Elder" has better songs.


Well it's good to finally agree on something.


Nothing wrong with a little debate. If we all had the same tastes would become so drab suicide rates would skyrocket lol
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12.04.2020 - 22:26
Maco
Pvt Funderground
6.1 for this? Criminal. Super catchy and fun music.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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13.04.2020 - 00:10
JoHn Doe

My least favorite album from Kiss (not counting Peter and Gene's albums from 1978 which I found rather mediocre, uninteresting to put it nicely).
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I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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10.08.2021 - 21:37
Rating: 9
Dorian75

There is no hope in humanity. Once again the inquisition of Kiss's Army ...hardcore fans, those who only like their debut album and progressive songs like .... I love it loud, and shout it out loud, condemned this album to the eternal fire. Another gem from this Great Band for those eager to listen. All the others we know ,,,,,your favourite songs from Kiss's discography are not even ten in number. This album among others contains one of the top five songs in the history of KISS. I am talking about Naked City. Of course, you don't know this song as long as you keep considering that KISS flavour is all about Lick It up, Shout it out Loud, Love it Loud and etc. You don't know what you are missing.....
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