Asylum by Kiss

Asylum, Kiss's 13th studio album, hit the racks on September 16, 1985 on Mercury, with the band two years into its unmasked era and still riding the glam metal sound of Animalize. Paul Stanley produced it at Electric Lady Studios, and it was the first record with Bruce Kulick as an official member. He'd already covered for Mark St. John on a couple of Animalize tracks and on most of that tour, and the new lineup of Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Carr and Kulick would hold together until Carr's death in November 1991.

It's pure mid-'80s Kiss: glossy, gang-shouted choruses, big drums and flashy guitars, tuned for arena lights and MTV. "Tears Are Falling" is a slick, hooky rocker, "Uh! All Night" is exactly as subtle as its title, and "Love's a Deadly Weapon" leans so hard on the Plasmatics' "Party" that Rod Swenson and Wes Beech get writing credits, though its words date back to a 1981 Stanley demo.

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