Kiss - Music from "The Elder" (CD)

Music From the Elder

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 23, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Music from "The Elder" review helpful

Pros: Imagination

Cons: none

I was a big Kiss fan back in the seventies. This album is my fav of all Kiss albums. Being a rocker myself I loved the whole Kiss persona in the seventies Music, Show albums. This album shows the guy have even more imagination. It cool to hear someth...ing with a solid message. If you can't get into this album you need to move to the next level of understanding. Read more Less

Was suposed to be a soundtrack.........

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 6, 2001 | 1 out of 1 found this Music from "The Elder" review helpful

This was supposed to be a sountrack to the movie The ELDER. They did it and even wrote the screenplay. That is why it sounds the way it did. They (KISS)couldn't get the actors that they wanted to star so they scrapped it.This is just grapevine stuff ...but I have a friend that is the movie bizz and he says that KISS is giving it a try again.Thay want to be in the movie as Elders along with Sean Connery to name a few.I wish I could get the screenplay to read. My mind goes wild when I think of how it will turn out. It could be bigger than Star Wars..... Read more Less

"A World Without Heroes"...

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 17, 2006

Pros: Very few

Cons: A lot

This was supposed to be a soundtrack to a movie that never happened. Gene's idea from start to finish, that never materialized. New drummer Eric Carr did a great job considering the lackluster material; he is best featured on the instrumental Esc...ape From The Island, which turned up as the song Breakout in Frehley's Comet. Ace is quoted as having thrown his copy of this album against the wall when he heard it. I'm afraid to think of what this movie would have been like had it actually been made. The 2 best songs on this album are...A World Without Heroes and Escape From The Island. Read more Less

KISS' concept album

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 17, 2002

When I first bought this album (this was about 1988 or so), I had heard that it was a very different KISS album. I never got around to picking it up because most of the record stores were not stocking it. But once the abundance of the CD came in, I p...icked it up.I was initially surprised at Eric's drum sounds. They seemed real distant, almost like Paul, Gene, and Ace wanted him to sound like Peter(Eric would allude to this in subsequent interviews about this album).Having already been into bands such as Rush and recently at that time picking up Iron Maiden's concept album in "Seventh Son", I was more sensitive to it than the average KISS fan.This album is not about women and partying at all:) Its an actual story, almost mythical. And for the average KISS fan who was use to the 3 to 4 minute basic rock song, this was like, "What the #%$! is this?"Nevertheless, there are some decent tunes on here. I like 'The Oath', 'Just a Boy', and Gene's 'World without Heroes.' There are lots of quirky tracks like 'Mr Blackwell', and Ace's 'Dark Light.' A good solo outing in this one, but you can tell that Ace is too much into the artificial stimulants by this time. He sounds kind of baked on the track if you ask me.New drummer Eric Carr doesn't really get any lee-way chops wise and sticks to basic 4/4 drumming the whole album, although he's allowed to shred on the double kick on occassion(i.e. The Oath). His calling would appear on the next KISS record.Overall, the Elder is a valiant attempt by KISS to grow and re-invent themselves. Unfortunately, most of their audience just couldn't get into it. Although the band has shown its merits by including Gene's 'A World Without Heroes', on KISS' unplugged album. Read more Less

Underrated!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 27, 2001

I think The Elder has gotten a bad rap over the years. It doesn't sound like a Kiss album in the classic sense. Bob Ezrin pushed the band to experiment and this is what we got out of the deal. The Oath is a cool song with it's driving rhythm and Paul... Stanley falsetto vocals. Dark Light is Ace's contribution and probably the most Kiss-like song here. Cool solo too.The rest of the album varies, from the grandiose Odyssey to the dark Under the Rose to the haunting Just a Boy. It's a hodge-podge of styles for sure but it all seems to work in a weird way. I wouldn't want another album like this from Kiss but for a one time thing, it was cool. I could easily see this as the soundtrack to a movie as Kiss envisioned it.Ace appears to be absent from most of this album. He has said that most of his work was cut from the recordings and one can tell. As unusual as the album is though, you don't notice as much as say Creatures of the Night. Listen to this with an open mind. It's not bad! Read more Less

kiss elder

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 12, 2001

Kiss is not a concept album kind of band and you know that if you ever heard this album.They were running out of ideas and experemented.They also had a diffrent look.Gene crying in world without heros video? come on now!

Musically superb!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 22, 2001

This was a really different direction for Kiss and a brave experiment. Unfortunatley it was not well received by traditional Kiss fans. Musically it is one of the most powerful albums ever. It displays band members at the apex of creativity rather... than the simple barbarian arena rock usually associated with Kiss. Read more Less

Best KISS album

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 19, 2001

Be forewarned - if you're looking for standard KISS headbanging, look elsewhere. On Elder, KISS displays a much wider range of musical and lyrical talent than on any other recording. When I first heard this album in 1987 (when I was a *huge* KISS fan...), I was blown away. Now that my musical interests have widened, I don't listen to much KISS anymore, but Music From The Elder is still high on my own personal playlist. Read more Less

A great effort

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 14, 2001

Right Off The Bat...i give 2 stars to any band who has the balls to make a concept album. Kiss proved that not only are they masters of arena rock, they are also highly skilled musicians.