This may irritate some Kiss fans, but here is one of my pet peeves about this band that happened in adulthood and probably plays a role in the lack of Kiss on my musical palate.

From a music/creative standpoint, this band lacked authenticity. On some of those early Kiss albums, even though Frehley is on the cover and marketed as Kiss, he is NOT playing on the albums. Its Bob Kulick and other session musicians. Gene is not playing bass on several records, including those early 80s albums.

Kiss was an image. A media juggernaut. A way of life for people then. The four people(whichever line up) were not truly the creative unit of the band. If you want Kiss at its purest form, check out their first couple records.

Always thought the story behind Hard Luck Woman was cool. They wrote it for Rod Stewart, who rejected it, then had Peter sing it because he sounds a bit similar to Rod.

The Garth Brooks version also kicks ass.