Rock and Roll Over by Kiss

Rock and Roll Over, Kiss's fifth studio album, hit the racks on Casablanca on November 11, 1976, and it's the sound of the four painted New Yorkers cranking out tight, stripped-down hard rock. Eddie Kramer produced, and instead of a regular studio the band set up at the Star Theatre in Nanuet, New York, which gives the record a loud, roomy, live-in-the-hall punch.

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons share the lead vocals, Ace Frehley slings the lead guitar and Peter Criss pounds the kit, and nobody bothers with anything fancy. "Calling Dr. Love" and "Hard Luck Woman" both became hit singles in the States. This was Kiss at full tilt in their face-paint-and-fireworks years, when they were on their way to becoming one of America's biggest rock bands, and the record has the swagger to match.

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