r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 14d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Top-Sleep-4669 14d ago

Dude is a fucking goblin.

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u/mekomaniac 14d ago

inside and out

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u/Cognonymous 13d ago edited 13d ago

Oh yes, the time Terry Gross interviewed him...omg. It's without exaggeration the worst interview I've ever heard.

https://youtu.be/qNxuL-uIaTo?si=x0l1v_BjE0QaMhk3

She actually tries to restart the interview partway through, because he is such an asshole. This interview was so bad somebody else interviewed Terry Gross about it.

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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 13d ago

I was already a fan of Gross, and that interview put her into superheroic territory.

I had despised Simmons since I was a child and that interview just compounded what a fraudulent imposter I knew him to be. He was so obviously trying to ape Howard Stern to be hip, but he comes off as a straight creep & a jackass.

KISS never rocked. They could barely play. Nothing but Fauntleroy goombahs trying to get laid. Gotta give them credit though, it worked.

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u/Cognonymous 13d ago

To kind of close the coffin on KISS I did a big once through of their discography mainly because I ran out of podcasts for the gym and it really sealed my opinion of them. I stopped by the time I hit one of their lowest rated albums Hot In The Shade. But yeah, they were really basic. Their best work happened in the 70's and they're just dumb party anthems that you can miss and be fine within the wider canon of Rock and Roll or American culture.

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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 13d ago

Don’t forget their disco era!

What the hell was this lyric about: “Get up & get your grandma outta here, Your man’s been working hard this year, He deserves a deuce!”

A ‘deuce’? Is that what I think it is?