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| From | Steve Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Why Kiss and Not Dolls? |
| Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:05:51 -0700 (PDT) |
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Don't you think it's a punk/pop-metal thing? It all sounds so tame now, but Dolls we're pretty snarling and aggressive at the time, even though they were bringing a pop aesthetic to the Stooges wall of noise. KISS, on the other hand, made metal safe for the kids, by adding anthemic pop to the mix and putting it all in a cartoon wrapper. I love 'em both, but for totally different reasons.
"Stupay, Robert" <RobertStupay@clearchannel.com> wrote:
Musically speaking only, I think that Kiss obviously had more commercial
leanings. Especially by the time they released their third record,
Hotter Than Hell. The live shows were becoming legendary and on top of
that they had hooky anthems tailored for radio, something the Dolls
never came up with.
I often think the same thing about Nirvana and The Pixies. Most of
Bleach and Nevermind were based on the blueprint the Pixies laid, but
the commercial sound on Nevermind put Nirvana into the stratosphere.
The Pixies never quite reached beyond cult status.
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Bennett
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:54 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Why Kiss and Not Dolls?
Kiss was more cartoony -- Alice Cooper was really more of an antecedent
to Kiss than the Dolls. Kiss blew fire and puked blood, and that horror
movie stuff went down like a storm in concert. Perhaps the Dolls could
have become stars if they could have held on for a couple more albums,
but they never would have had the success that Kiss had.
Mike Bennett
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>From: Michael Coxe
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Why Kiss and Not Dolls?
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:38:29 -0700
>
>My Korean friend Chin-Wha sez, re: the Dolls - drugs.
>They were a mess...
>
> - mc
>
>G FUENTES wrote:
>>My Korean friend Charlie asked me.."Why did Kiss become famous and the
>>NY Dolls didn't become famous?..It wasn't that Kiss was more talented
>>than the Dolls"
>
>
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