It seems vital to the story-line, but I forgot my 80’s Rock Opera Decoder Ring in my other Kiss lunch box, so we will unfortunately be none the wiser. I've certainly heard worse things. Gene sings the last line of the song, and the music fades with the light. hits with that damned Paul Stanley falsetto. You’re out of your mind! Over time, the album has come to be regarded as a cult classic by certain Kiss fans. I ended up ordering the cassette through a local record shop. Alcohol and drugs were destroying the band from within: drummer Peter Criss had been replaced by Eric Carr, and guitarist Ace Frehley’s behaviour was becoming ever more erratic. I’m down, First of all, this line made me laugh out loud and I’m still smiling: “Apparently Mr. Blackwell is feeling well.” Yep that’s about as much as I get out of some of these lyrics too, especially when played in that incorrect running order. Leave a review. It is a high energy track that rocks out and is the big chance for Eric to shine and be front and center. For me, only 4 songs are keepers. Sorry guys, you did it to yourselves. As others have said, it doesn’t sound like a Kiss album. Music from "The Elder" is the ninth studio album released by American rock band Kiss on the Casablanca Records label in 1981. From the opening Fanfare with its cheesy medieval tone we move to what can only be described as a pomp rock song Just a Boy which is admittedly alright. It is awful. This isn’t the first or last time that a band shifted gears and the fans didn’t climb aboard. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Startseite ... Review von BierBorsti. I’ve always heard Music from “The Elder” is bad, so I’ve never given it a listen until now. Complete your Kiss collection. A review of the 1981 release from KISS - Music from The Elder. I can't fault a band for trying, and in retrospect I believe that much of the scorn heaped on this album is due to its commercial failure. It has choirs, symphony orchestras, falsettos and odd arrangements, paired with nonsense lyrics about boys, councils, the "Order of the Rose” and all sorts of ominous imagery. Everyone hates Music from The Elder. Honestly, Paul is one of my favourite rock and roll voices, but that falsetto on this and Just a Boy is awful. The album was ‘The Wall”. Next up is “Just a Boy” which opens as an acoustic track and Paul on vocals. Pepper,” says Kiss bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons of his band’s greatest folly. Well done John. Sort of, but not necessarily in good ways. Finally we get a Gene song called “Only You” which is a perfect sounding Gene song. I give this an overall score of 3.0 out of 5.0 Stars. “We wanted a critical success. Of course, the re-ordering of tracks to emphasise the singles when first released messed up the narrative, and I would love to hear the spoken word passages recorded by Christopher Makepeace but not used. It took weeks to arrive but finally came in around December of 1989. This was a concept album, remember, so the actors were brought in to speak dialogue that would link the story together, but was nixed and only used for the very last song. Nummers "Fanfare" (Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin)"Just a Boy" (Stanley, Ezrin) ( Log Out /  Album Review: “Music From ‘The Elder'” — Kiss (1981) Hokeyboy / 11/05/2014 In a lot of ways, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah that Kiss exhibited by dubbing their 1981 concept album Music From “The Elder” with that moniker. Ace's presence is missed on Music From The Elder, and the concept is a bit hokey and ham-fisted but so are many concept albums. Not much chance of this album staying on the rails. Das Team hat im genauen Kiss the elder Test uns die empfehlenswertesten Artikel verglichen sowie die brauchbarsten Informationen aufgelistet. Yeah, sure. Even when Kiss “returned to form” with later albums, they never fully recaptured the magic of ’76 and earlier. Elder, however, is not one of them. Some more than others, but enjoyed none the less. The band was missing. The Oath sounds like one of those killer heavy tunes they’d churn out on Creatures, but then the chorus (is that a chorus?) Kiss: The Elder: A World Without Sun » Kiss: The Elder: A World Without Sun #1 - Volume One released by Dynamite Entertainment on April 2017. Some of us still say "Death to Disco". A review of the 1981 release from KISS - Music from The Elder. It was such a mish-mash of songs and most didn’t sound anything like Kiss. Things with Ace would start to deteriorate even more. I think the remastered version has the correct story order and I believe anything since, but the early versions all were the old order. The album was a gatefold and inside was another medieval looking table and chairs with a candle in the middle. I fucking love you”. You can find a loyal geeky contingent online and in the darker regions of KISS-dom that sing its praises. ), but I came to it with no preconceptions and really liked it. All from when I was getting into rock music in the early 80s and listening to everything that was recommended to me. Since no more Peter, his power was none. As a whole, it’s not good, but it’s got some good – even great – songs on it, if you can make it past the flutes and strings and Paul Stanley’s choirboy vocals. The record company changed the order of the songs. Along with Destroyer and Creatures Of The Night it’s one of my favourite Kiss albums. There are some cool vocal effects on it and it is another really great rock track on the album. 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Kiss came off a very successful Australian Tour thanks to Unmasked and the song “Shandi” being huge hits in that country, but in the States, Kiss had floundered significantly. This is not a Kiss sounding song at all and not sure how I would describe it. I discovered during the junior high school years that other music fans did not share my enthusiasm towards the pop direction the group was headed. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. For his part, Simmons is still embarrassed by the whole fiasco. Who is Mr. Blackwell? Well, much of it doesn’t. I’ve never heard of this album! They should have let Ace rock it out a bit and encouraged his participation. Delete “Mr. First, there was the over-exposure, the sheer arrogance of releasing literally millions of the four simultaneous solo albums, which served heavy duty in cut-out bins for years afterwards. The band had to do something drastic, something big, something artistic. I’m not a huge fan of Kiss, so I’ve never really even considered it. (Trips on hem of dress - mumbles a curse.) Then again, other than Creatures of the Night, and their early stuff, I think that applies to most Kiss albums. It isn’t much musically, mostly bass and mostly lyrics. I don’t like the fact that the group have pretty much disowned it when there are songs that are very good on it. The bassist claims that a movie deal was close to being made, with actors signed up for key roles. Actually sung by Gene and a song the band has been known to play in their acoustic sets. Overall I'd give it a C-. Worse, shortly before the album was released in November 1981, the track sequence was altered, rendering an already garbled storyline incomprehensible. This is the order of the story. I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I still do , not sure about Mr Blackwell though! Bei uns wird hoher Wert auf die faire Festlegung des Testverfahrens gelegt sowie der Artikel in der Endphase mit einer finalen Testbewertung bepunktet. It feels all Broadway and over-the-top and if that was what they were going for then they succeeded. Almost. The Cover – ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’. Fortunately, The Oath comes to the rescue, with Paul on one of those horses from Odyssey, galloping fearlessly into battle, wooden sword in hand... or laser rifle... Where are we again? It did go to #57 on the Billboard charts. It has a wintry magical vibe to me. “They are benevolent, but committed to the balance of opposites. As a matter of fact, this song is so special we also get to hear one of Paul Stanley’s few guitar solos. Kiss – ‘Music From The Elder’ (1981) – Album Review (The Kiss Review Series) Published on October 15, 2020 October 14, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic Kiss came off a very successful Australian Tour thanks to Unmasked and the song “Shandi” being huge hits in that country, but in the States, Kiss had floundered significantly. “We were convinced that we were making our Sgt. The cover of Kiss’ epic folly Music From “The Elder” The story of The Elder, written by Simmons during a stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel, was allegedly a metaphor for good and evil.“The Elder are a life-form without body,” he explains. Maybe you can keep us grounded in reality. Punkte: 8 / 10. Sadly, no Ace on this song as lead guitar is done by Paul. A sci-fi/fantasy concept was as far away from Kiss's comfort zone as it's possible to get. (AllMusic), "What could be less promising at this stage of the game than a concept album by Kiss? There wasn’t much they could do at this point, but they did make a major change. Pretentious? Although I’d heard of this album I’d never listened to It because I was always told, by Kiss fans, it was rubbish. A Kodak moment, kids, if there ever was one. drone on until the first real song, Just a Boy, kicks in. And the back cover was the rest of the door. The reason? 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When they re-worked it for the album, Lou Reed and Gene stepped in and changed up some of the lyrics and helped get it to its final version. Mark Burd: Wow. Music From The Elder has grown on me a lot since I first heard it back in 1986. It ain't that bad, but ain't that faint praise? Sadly, the vision far out-stripped the reality – the likes of Just A Boy and The Oath sounded like a bunch of brickies trying to be Andrew Lloyd Webber. Damit Sie mit Ihrem Kiss the elder hinterher auch wirklich zufriedengestellt sind, hat unser Team an Produkttestern auch die ungeeigneten Produkte im Test rausgeworfen. Songs like Just a Boy, The Oath, Only You, Odyssey, A World Without Heroes, and I are excellent songs. Then we get an Ace rocker. Under The Rose was my favourite track on the album, which was greatly done by Gene - as was A World WIthout Heroes. Ace’s Dark Light is the standout track, with quite possibly the best solo he’s ever pulled off. "It's certainly a shock when you first put it on," producer Bob Ezrin said of the LP back in 1981. “Oh…Fanfare is supposed to be first…”. And here we are today. Brian Carr: Music from The Elder might be the hardest CRAotW yet for me to review (except for Radiohead, of course). I is an anthem on par with many anthems written by them, but I would have preferred a guitar solo to the breakdown - are those handclaps, or what? Here is the real order the album was to be played in…. And then... that's where your heartaches begin. I am not sure why on Odyssey. Time, almost 34 years now, has healed some of the wounds. The song was written by Paul Stanley and his demo was called “Every Little Bit of Your Heart”. Again more like BOC than Kiss. Thanks. I’m Impressed! 3 - The songs are a bit lacklustre. To me, Music from “The Elder” sounds like any other Kiss album, but with less (or no) party in the songs, which may be its biggest pitfall. But in the end, the movie got lost in “development hell”. 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"Simmons and Stanley had high hopes for Music from "The Elder" (such as a movie, an elaborate tour, a follow-up record, etc. Er sollte beim Kiss the elder Test beherrschen. Regardless of it being Kiss. Het is het eerste album zonder Peter Criss, en met Eric Carr.. Er zijn drie singles van uitgebracht: A World Without Heroes, I en The Oath. Even the cover mysteriously references Music From…, as if you missed some “straight to VHS”-movie in the vein of Dark Crystal or Krull that this was the faithful soundtrack companion to. Kiss - Music From "The Elder" (Remastered) Album Lyrics; 1. Hugh Lynch: I am reminded of the concept albums of Alan Parsons and Mike Batt (no, really!) Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Music from the Elder at Amazon.com. Ace Frehley leaving the band after this album just proves how awful it was. The journey we are undertaking here now takes on a more serious note, with the somber A World Without a Heroes. It just reinforced my loss of interest and relegation of the band to irrelevance. Mr. Blackwell Lyrics: Kiss Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. Imagine what The Elder could have been if Ace’s vision had been a bit more accepted! The elder was gedoemd om te mislukken. The only thing was the album sleeve was actually a clear plastic sleeve with the Kiss information on it as seen in my copy below. They didn’t even tour the U.S. with this album. This album is completely different from KISS' older albums. Auf was Sie vor dem Kauf Ihres Kiss the elder achten sollten! Ace shined the little he was on it. Bei uns finden Sie zu Hause absolut ausnahmslos die besten Produkte, die unseren enorm geregelten Maßstäben gerecht werden konnten. Odyssey Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. Carl Lewington: Love, love love this album!! I’m not sure what I can say about this track other than it is sung by Paul, has Allan Schwartzberg on drums and Tony powers on keyboards and is trying to be something it is really not. Unfortunately, I always wait for King Arthur and his Monty Python coconut-brigade, questing for the Holy Grail, when I hear this. The Oath For a band that built its success on simplistic anthems, Kiss's Music From “The Elder” was a huge leap in terms of ambition. When they recorded the video for “A World Without Heroes”, the went ahead and did another one. There is a huge chorus here, with mighty men belting out assertive statements about oaths and sacrifice. Despite their geekiness, some tracks like I and Under the Rose have some really great licks in them. ), but it completely bombed upon release. Some of the songs could have been classics if the pompous and/or hard-to-decipher lyrics were replaced, such as The Oath, Only You, I, and Just a Boy." When he read Simmons’ short story, titled The Elder, Ezrin saw a chance to make another concept album like The Wall – “a big statement”, as he told the bassist. I do however have a lot of friends who are very big Kiss fans and have played me their albums over the years. There were more songs I like then I remembered and I don’t think it is as bad as everyone says or thinks. I'm letting the rest wash over me. Quite frankly, this entire album was too ambitious. But the movie was never made, and the album was an overblown disaster. Think a 20th Century Fox movie opening theme and you have an idea of what this sounds like. By 1981, Kiss were in chaos. The result was a dull mix of mediocre prog-rock that bears little resemblance to the quartet that gave us such iconic albums as Destroyer and Love Gun. Kiss Unmasked, released in the summer of 1980, was recorded with session drummer Anton Fig; Criss' permanent replacement, Eric Carr, joined the band in time for their 1980 world tour. Why???? They are trying to go and do this overblown, look how artistic we can be crap that fails on every level. Under The Rose But some cool songs though. Nice job, My man Matt (gig buddy and featured in many an SFTD post) is obsessed with The Elder and it rubs off. Selbstverständlich ist jeder Kiss the elder jederzeit bei Amazon auf Lager und kann sofort bestellt werden. Then the disco song. On a positive note, A World Without Heroes is a great song but the rest of the album, besides a few cool riffs, is incredibly stupid and Kiss were trying too hard for a style of music they do not understand or suit. So I knew this was going to be an interesting listen. The history of rock, one album at a time. If Andrew Lloyd Webber could make millions, on cats singing show tunes, and The Who could puzzle together two rock operas… why not Kiss? This is the elder era which has a somewhat new sound. They were no where to be found. Kiss – The Elder (). I like how they tried to do something different and outside their comfort zone. They were (to my ears) a poor man’s Mott the Hoople – All flash and no bang - playing second rate glam and hiding their mediocre talents behind grease paint and glitter. “Every year we get requests for an Elder tour,” Simmons laughs. I keep expecting the opening “My, my…” from Waterloo to come at me. Kiss were all about (to quote one of Paul Stanley's old stage raps) what was in your jeans rather than your genes. I recall wondering if there was a movie called The Elder since this was Music From "The Elder". Falsetto is a time-honoured tradition, even in rock, but geez, Paul. Welche Kauffaktoren es vor dem Kauf Ihres Kiss the elder zu beachten gibt! And Ace, well Ace wasn’t happy at all. A fun fact, there was actually a music video recorded for this song but never saw the light of the day. To add insult to injury, it was the first Kiss album that failed to go gold in the US. In comes producer Bob Ezrin. Escape From The Island is a rip-snorting instrumental and I coulda shoulda woulda been a classic Kiss anthem – if it were on a different album. Enter Eric Carr. Somit ordnen wir beim Test eine möglichst hohe Anzahl an Eigenarten in das Endergebniss mit rein. Mike Knoop: I like Kiss a lot. Obviously they were inspired by Bob Ezrin's recent success with The Wall. They get points for stepping out of their comfort zone and some of the songs are pretty good. Since the album did so poorly, the never released it and currently no one knows who has that video. At least Ace and Eric looked great. https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kiss/music-from-the-elder-4 Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Fuck you, but not IRL. But I love it being Ace and Eric having fun playing together. Daniel Jago Edmonds: I love this album. When the album was done and the song order was complete, the record company heard the album and probably shit a brick. Although the album was a little all over the place, it was went out with a bang. Fan reaction to the album was equally harsh, while critical reaction was comparably positive. Then we get the one Ace song, “Dark Light”. For a band like Kiss, image matters a lot. It is succinct enough to follow…The basic plot of “The Elder” involves the recruitment and training of a young hero (The Boy) by the Council of Elders who belong to the Order of the Rose, a mysterious group dedicated to combating evil. Then we come to song #3, wait wrong sequence. A tour for this record would have been interesting. Music from the Elder (German Version) Odyssey: The definitive examination of … Ah, yes, the concept. This was supposed to be the 8th track so completely throws out the storyline by placing it first. Just A Boy Die Redaktion hat im großen Kiss the elder Vergleich uns jene genialsten Artikel verglichen sowie alle nötigen Eigenschaften gegeneinander. Only You starts with a riff and then the bass kicks in. Either way, apparently something happens (maybe due to the acts of Mr. Blackwell, but who knows?) That video, they used to call them promos before MTV. I definitely like it better in the in the correct, storyline sequence and I think they need to do a deluxe edition that includes all the spoken work parts that were meant to tie the story together. I wouldn’t say they’re unlistenable, but they lack the oomph that makes you want to crank up your system and blast them. Every week, Album of the Week Club listens to and discusses the album in question, votes on how good it is, and publishes our findings, with the aim of giving people reliable reviews and the wider rock community the chance to contribute. © Then I remember them meeting the Phantom Of The Park and I guess it isn’t much of a surprise (though my six year old self thought that movie was the greatest thing ever). But…years later after reading a book on the album and living with it for 40 years, it isn’t half bad. It’s not the Kiss fans wanted and they rejected it. https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kiss/music-from-the-elder-2 Musical themes from Just a Boy are revisited to lend some credence to the idea of this album being a cohesive piece of rock operatics. I understand more of their mindset, but still just an average, okay album. So?!? The original cd release matches the original album song order. Nine albums that could have been condensed to 4-5 really awesome records. ᐅ Vergleichstabelle 11/2020 ᐅ Umfangreicher Test ⭐TOP Waren ️ Aktuelle Angebote ᐅ Sämtliche Vergleichssieger ⭐ Direkt vergleichen! Another song that really sounds nothing like a Kiss song. It may have helped slightly. He had no say in the matter of the album as he would always lose the vote 2-1…Gene & Paul vs Ace. And that’s almost the entire album! Now this is more like it. Vocally much superior to my expectations. He delivers the lyrics with such conviction and poise, that you for a moment forget you are beyond confused about the story itself. It will grow on you if you let… We may not mean it literally, as we have been known to spin some Chic or P-Funk on occasion, it's more of a rallying cry for rock fans everywhere. Oh yeah, the story…what is the story of this concept album? It has that type of excitement attached to it. As it turns out, the swan song of this record is a pretty decent collaboration between Gene and Paul trading vocals, and the inevitable Broadway chorus will send the dancers in, all decked out in Kiss make up, and with mini-Space Aces flying on strings across the back drop of an… island? Jim Kanavy: I became a Kiss fan in the 80s and even by mid 80s like 86/87 this was fairly hard to find. As mentioned in several of your posts, the press shredded it, the band shoved it in the corner, along with many, many fans. I did the review of the original format I had when I was a kid so you could understand what the public got back in the day. Fanfare opens up the album with a melodic little welcome intro, setting the stage for what is to come. I Why not indeed? More bands should do the same. Unsere Redaktion wünscht Ihnen zuhause nun viel Vergnügen mit Ihrem Kiss the elder! The closing track, I, sounds right at home beside Kiss at its anthemic best. Scary. Music From “The Elder” was an art-rock concept album based on a fantasy tale written by Simmons and conceived as the soundtrack to a Hollywood blockbuster. Thanks for stepping out of the box Kiss. If it's a soundtrack where's the film? Auf welche Faktoren Sie bei der Wahl Ihres Kiss the elder Acht geben sollten. But even for that subculture, is this the soundtrack they needed? Blackwell”. You might have been made for loving me, but the feeling is not mutual. Kiss the elder - Alle Auswahl unter der Menge an verglichenenKiss the elder . The band’s late manager and its label hated it. A great part of the album's appeal lies in … Unlike some fans I was not turned off by the Dynasty and Unmasked albums. They sound like Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons songs, but they don’t make you want to get up and dance or rock out. I do like this album more than I have in the past because I get it now. Still, and another plus point, depending on your point of view, it did make me go through Spotify and listen to selected cuts from their back catalogue which I can’t deny brought a wry smile to my face, a few old memories and a wee toast to their undeniable business acumen and charm. If that wasn’t crazy, look at the band’s costumes for this album…. If they released the album in 1973, then maybe it would have been better received. There was a movie script supposedly being done for this story concept and if it would’ve been done this would probably have been an action sequence with the boy escaping an island. (Metal Insider). 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