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“Jungle” by Kiss
Released 1997
“Jungle” by Kiss appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1997. It was first released in 1997. Its best result is #33 on the KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #22 hard rock song of 1997 and #26 of the '90s.
Kiss put "Jungle" out as the promotional single from Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions in 1997, and it rides a riff that Brett Weiss's Encyclopedia of KISS heard as semi-funky and grunge-lite, a cousin of Collective Soul's "Shine". Paul Stanley wrote it with guitarist Bruce Kulick and Curt Cuomo and sings lead; he and Kulick share the electric guitars, Kulick plays bass too, and Eric Singer drums. Stanley and Gene Simmons co-produced with Toby Wright, who also engineered and mixed.
At nearly seven minutes it's the longest track Kiss ever cut for a studio album. It still reached number 8 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart with barely any promotion, and Metal Edge readers named it Song of the Year. The band never played it live; Kulick and Singer did, later, in the Eric Singer Project.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 33 | 97.1 The Eagle Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997 | 97 |
| 1997 | 64 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
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