Product Description

Reaching a pop apex not seen since 1980's UNMASKED, Kiss enlisted the production and engineering talents of Ron Nevison(Ozzy Osbourne, Heart) to help the band compete with the light metal faire that existed in 1987. The results are impressive, as the melodic crunch of CRAZY NIGHTS holds up to the band's previous classics.
"Crazy Crazy Nights" is an anthemic single that reached U.K. #4 and was their biggest single there. "Reason To Live" is one of Kiss' more tender ballads featuring standout vocals by Paul Stanley. Using prolific songwriters such as Diane Warren ("Turn On The Night") and Desmond Child ("Bang Bang You", "Reason To Live") to help achieve their goal, Kiss delivers accessible, chart friendly tunes that you can rock to. The record is melodic, with keyboards throughout. CRAZY NIGHTS is proof that Kiss could stay current with the competitive music scene as well as staying true to themselves. There are rockers and ballads that comprise a well crafted album by a legendary band.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18888 in Music
• Released on: 1998-11-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Running time: 43 minutes

Customer Reviews

The best Kiss album
Crazy Nights is a brilliant album. After getting the Greatest hits album I decided they were great but after listening to this I decided they were fantastic.
The introduction of Bruce Kulick into Kiss a few years earlier was an excellent decision as there are many good guitar solos on this album.
Crazy Crazy Nights is the best song on the album with great vocals, lyrics and solo. I'll Fight Hell To Hold You is another great song. My Way uses a lot of synthesizer and sounds very cheesy and 80s but is still great nonetheless. Hell Or High Water has Gene Simmons on vocals and has many powerful, meaningful lyrics. Reason To Live and Turn On The Night are the other songs that stand out but all in all it's a really great album and I highly recommend it.

They're Millions Strong
The Kiss hair metal album. The title track received heavy rotation when released back in 1987 and gave Kiss their first (there was only to be one more) top ten UK hit single. With good reason too: upbeat lyrics; instantly catchy chorus; and an aptly crazy guitar solo. Question is, does the rest of the album live up to it? Crazy Nights is an inconsistent album. First listen will confirm that Crazy Nights is indeed the stand-out track, but that the rest isn't all filler and worth a try. So let's get the negatives out of the way first. There is some cringemaking, immature, posturing here: Bang Bang You and When Your Walls Come Down (yes, those really are the titles) are the worst offenders. Lyrically, this album suffers thus. My Way, you will be relieved to know, is not a cover version of the Sinatra number - but it's nearly as bad as that might have been and really ought to be forgotten very, very quickly. By the end of this Kiss's hardly boundless creative energies have clearly been depleted and the titles of the final two tracks (Turn On The Night and Thief In The Night) betray this in an embarrassing fashion. OK, enough with the cheap shots. Elsewhere there really are some nuggets of top class hair metal here. I'll Fight Hell To Hold You is the Kiss foray into the potentially career-ending genre of hair metal-meets-fantasy metal, but it is a great song and the second best track on here. The second single Reason To Live is a decent (if typically syrupy) ballad with a melt-the-heart solo for the girls. And the guitar work is very good. Bruce Kulick pulls off some very strong solos and the riffs are always on the mark. There's a reason why this was Kiss's only top 5 UK album - `yeah, Crazy Nights (the single)' I hear you retort. Yes, well, probably true, but I'd argue there's enough here in the way of quality musicianship and well crafted, fun, party anthem rock to justify its hit status and make this a worthwhile purchase at what it's retailing for here.

Crazy Nights, Crazy Songs...
"You wanted the best, you got the best. The hottest band in the world...
KISS!

I had never listened to it really before so this was a thrilling experience, especially when I heard the beggining of 'No,No,No'! This is without a doubt the best KISS album of the eighties. For the 70's it has to be 'Alive!' and for the 90's it has to be 'Revenge', but this might just be the best KISS Album ever!!!! (Although it is probably one of the glammest albums ever!)

Track Reviews:

1. Crazy Crazy Nights - One hell of an opening track! What a great Slade chorus.
Rating: 10/10

2. I'll Fight Hell To Hold You - One of the best songs on the album. This has some wicked guitar work! Cheers, Bruce!!!
Rating: 10/10

3. Bang Bang You - Another fantastic track. Although, by no means the best on the album.
Rating: 9.5/10

4. No, No, No - This song is a really up-tempo track that will really get your foot tapping. Good guitar work from Bruce Kulick. He is truly one of the best hair metal guitarists of all time!
Rating: 10/10

5. Hell Or High Water - The best song Bruce Kulick ever wrote (or co-wrote in this case). One of the best solos ever and a classic chorus riff that would make your hair stand on end!
Rating: 10/10

6. My Way - Paul Stanley was really experimenting at the time. I suppose synthesisers and keyboards were the big thing of the period. 'My Way' is still an excellent song. Classic Paul vocals. How high can that guy go?!!?
Rating: 10/10

7. When Your Walls Come Down - Fab lyrics, good chorus and catchy riff. A great song on a great album.
Rating: 9.5/10

8. Reason To Live - The best ballad Paul has ever written. With a fantastic chorus and solo, this surely shall last the test of time!
Rating: 10/10

9. Good Girl Gone Bad - My favourite. A good heavy riff and a great solo. Cheers again, Bruce!
Rating: 10/10

10. Turn On The Night - A good enough song. Don't really listen to this and 'Theif In The Night' as much as the others, but this is still a classic. It has to be good 'cos why was it released as 1 of 3 singles?
Rating: 8.5/10

11. Thief In The Night - Good strong riff and bridge. Great lyrics and great guitar.
Rating: 9/10

Reccomended Songs: I'll Fight Hell To Hold You, Hell Or High Water, Reason To Live and Good Girl Gone Bad.

One thing's sure. This is certainly an album you can 'Rock and Roll All Nite and Party Every Day' too!!!

Rock On!!!