KISS’ Music From The Elder was released 37 years ago today (November 10) and was so poorly received that the band didn’t even tour in support of the album. Of course, this is just one of a number of flops the classic rock world has seen. Here’s some of the most notorious.
Hear that loud “MEOW!” sound? No, it’s not the Catman; it’s actually Starchild (aka: Paul Stanley) answering why the recently announced KISS farewell tour is really the band’s goodbye, despite their farewell tour in 2000.
Many bands having dove head first into the realms of merchandising and branding, but leave it to KISS to remind us all that if you want the best in band experiences, you got the best.
Some songs unite us because they’re universally beloved, but sometimes songs unite us because we all can’t stand them. Thirty-three years ago, one of those songs was released, and we’ve all been complaining about it ever since.
KISS finally achieved mainstream success in 1975 with Alive!, but their next studio album had to be big, and just six months later, the band answered back with Destroyer.
