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Longtime Kiss fans have come to expect things done on a grand scale by their masked heroes, and everyone's favorite rock & roll merchandising machine doesn't disappoint with their 2001 anthology, Box Set... each disc chronicles a certain time period of the band. Included are demos of such Kiss classics as "Strutter", "Deuce", "God of Thunder", and "Love Gun", as well as demos of tracks that never made it to any of their albums: "Doncha Hesitate", "Mad Dog", and "Love Is Blind", among others. But it doesn't end there; you'll also find tracks by the pre-Kiss group Wicked Lester (including an almost unrecognizable version of "She", a song Kiss would later re-record themselves) and a live take of the oft-overlooked Ace Frehley gem "Talk to Me", plus an unreleased Kiss version of "It's My Life" (the song was only previously available on an obscure Wendy O. Williams solo album) from their final studio album, 1998's Psycho Circus. The balance between the obscure and the well-known is tempered out with the inclusion of such scream-along arena rockers as "Black Diamond", "Do You Love Me", "Detroit Rock City", "Rock and Roll All Nite", and "I Love it Loud", as well as spotlighting such underrated album tracks as "Strange Ways", "Parasite", "Goin' Blind", "Larger Than Life", "Sure Know Something", and "War Machine". Although the quality of the material begins to dip on the last two discs (both focus primarily on the group's wishy-washy unmasked era, when Simmons and Stanley were the only two original members left), there's a little something for each Kiss fan to sink their teeth into on Box Set'.


Inc HQ Scans

CD 1 (1966-1975)

01. Strutter - (previously unreleased, 1973 demo)
02. Deuce - (previously unreleased, 1973 demo)
03. Keep Me Waiting - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
04. She - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
05. Love Her All I Can - (previously unreleased, with Wicked Lester)
06. Let Me Know - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
07. 100,000 Years - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
08. Stop, Look To Listen - (previously unreleased, Paul Stanley 1968 demo)
09. Leeta - (previously unreleased, Gene Simmons 1969 demo)
10. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
11. Acrobat - (previously unreleased, live at The Daisy 1973)
12. Firehouse - (previously unreleased, Bell Sound Studios 1973 demo)
13. Nothin' To Lose
14. Black Diamond
15. Hotter Than Hell
16. Strange Ways
17. Parasite
18. Goin' Blind
19. Anything For My Baby
20. Ladies In Waiting
21. Rock And Roll All Nite

CD 2 (1975-1977)

01. C'mon And Love Me - (live, Alive! version)
02. Rock Bottom - (live, Alive! version)
03. Cold Gin - (live, Alive! version)
04. Watchin' You - (live, Alive! version)
05. Doncha Hesitate - (previously unreleased, 1975 demo)
06. Mad Dog - (previously unreleased, demo)
07. God Of Thunder - (previously unreleased, demo)
08. Great Expectations
09. Beth
10. Do You Love Me?
11. Bad, Bad Lovin' - (previously unreleased, demo - early version of Calling Dr. Love)
12. Calling Dr. Love
13. Mr. Speed - (previously unreleased, demo version)
14. Christine Sixteen
15. Hard Luck Woman
16. Shock Me
17. I Stole Your Love
18. I Want You - (previously unreleased, soundcheck recording)
19. Love Gun - (previously unreleased, demo version)
20. Love Is Blind - (previously unreleased, Gene Simmons demo)