Limited 180 gram vinyl LP repressing of this 1978 album, released to coincide with the band's 40th Anniversary. Remastered to high definition 192kHz/24-bit audio for maximum fidelity, this album has never sounded so amazing. You'll hear future David Letterman band members Anton Fig and Will Lee on Ace's 1978 LP-which many Kiss fans consider the best of the four solo albums they put out that year. That's because Frehley stuck to the hard-rocking Kiss sound all the way here, and also introduced some simply stellar new songs including his #13 hit 'New York Groove'.
Ace Frehley's 1978 Kiss solo album is often rightfully considered the best of the bunch. Like Paul Stanley's album, it follows in the expected heavy Kiss style, but Frehley had something to prove with his album. Ace was just gaining confidence in his songwriting and singing at the time, so it served as a much-needed showcase to prove that he was as integral to Kiss as the band's main songwriters, Stanley and Gene Simmons. Ace's album was the only one of the four to spawn a true hit single, the funky rocker "New York Groove," while the rest of the album is a consistent set of guitar-fueled heavy rock.
Lyrically, several of the songs deal with alcohol and drug abuse ("Snowblind," "Ozone," and "Wiped Out"), something that both Frehley and drummer Peter Criss had succumbed to (eventually leading to their dismissal from the band). Other standouts include the pretty, multi-tracked instrumental "Fractured Mirror," the vicious album-opener "Rip It Out," the Zeppelin-esque "I'm In Need of Love," as well as a pair of melodic compositions, "Speedin' Back to My Baby" and "What's on Your Mind?" Although Frehley would issue several other solo albums in the '80s, he never topped his inspired '78 Kiss solo album.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
- Limited Edition, black
- Remastered, 180 Gram
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TRACKS
A1 Rip It Out 3:39
A2 Speedin' Back To My Baby 3:35
A3 Snow Blind 3:54
A4 Ozone 4:36
A5 What's On Your Mind? 3:26
B1 New York Groove 3:01
B2 I'm In Need Of Love 4:36
B3 Wiped-Out 4:10
B4 Fractured Mirror 5:25
