“Shout It Out Loud” by Kiss

"Shout It Out Loud" was the first single off Destroyer, Kiss's 1976 album, and it's a pep rally with the amps cranked to ten: Paul Stanley hollering the lead while Peter Criss, Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons bark back behind him like a gang on a street corner. Stanley and Simmons wrote it with producer Bob Ezrin, who keeps the thing blunt, huge and built for a fist in the air.

Even the title had a history. It came from the Hollies' "We Want to Shout It Out Loud", a song Wicked Lester, the band that came before Kiss, had recorded for an album that never saw release. The single followed "Rock and Roll All Nite" into the Top 40 and did one better in Canada, where in May 1976 it became the band's first chart-topper.

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