Hot in the Shade

Infobox Album | Name = Hot in the Shade
Type = Album
Artist = Kiss

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Released = October 17 1989
Recorded = July-August 1989
Genre = Hard rock | Rock
Length = 58:39
Label = Mercury
Producer = Gene Simmons &
Paul Stanley
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fuxql5ld6e link]
Last album = "Smashes, Thrashes & Hits"
(1988)
This album = "Hot in the Shade"
(1989)
Next album = "Revenge"
(1992) |

Hot in the Shade is a Kiss album released in 1989. It was certified Gold by the RIAA. It is the first Kiss studio album since 1981's "Music From "The Elder"" to feature three members singing lead on the album. It also marked the last Kiss album with drummer Eric Carr before his death in 1991.

Featuring 15 songs, "Hot in the Shade" contains the largest amount of material of any of Kiss's studio albums. Subsequently, the album is also one of the band's longest, with a running time of nearly a full hour (58:39).

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley appeared in Kiss makeup for the first time since their 1983 unmasking in the video for "Rise to It." Although the scene with Gene and Paul in makeup took place in 1975, the costumes they used were historically inaccurate; Gene's was from the "Unmasked" (1980) era while Paul's was from "Love Gun" (1977).

Tommy Thayer, who co-wrote "Betrayed" and "The Street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away," eventually became Kiss's permanent lead guitarist in 2002, replacing Ace Frehley as "The Spaceman."

Paul Stanley performed the song "Hide Your Heart" on his solo tour, which preceded this album. Future Kiss member Eric Singer played drums in Stanley's band on this tour. "Hot in the Shade" was certified Gold on December 20, 1989.

Track listing

ide one

#"Rise to It" (Paul Stanley, Bob Halligan, Jr) – 4:08
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#"Betrayed" (Tommy Thayer, Gene Simmons) – 3:38
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"
#"Hide Your Heart" (Stanley, Desmond Child, Holly Knight) – 4:25
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#"Prisoner of Love" (Bruce Kulick, Simmons) – 3:52
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"
#"Read My Body" (Stanley, Halligan) – 3:48
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#Love's a Slap in the Face (Simmons, Vini Poncia) – 4:04
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons
#"Forever" (Stanley, Michael Bolton) – 3:52
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#"Silver Spoon" (Stanley, Poncia) – 4:38
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"

ide two

#"Cadillac Dreams" (Simmons, Poncia) – 3:44
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"
#"King of Hearts" (Stanley, Poncia) – 4:26
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#"The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away" (Thayer, Simmons) – 3:34
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"
#"You Love Me to Hate You" (Stanley, Child) – 4:00
#*"Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley"
#"Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" (Simmons, Poncia) – 3:52
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"
#"Little Caesar" (Eric Carr, Simmons, Adam Mitchell) – 3:08
#*"Lead Vocals - Eric Carr"
#"Boomerang" (Kulick, Simmons) – 3:30
#*"Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons"

Covers

*"Hide Your Heart" has been covered by Bonnie Tyler, Molly Hatchet, Ace Frehley, and Robin Beck.

Personnel

*Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals
*Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals
*Bruce Kulick – Lead guitar, backing vocals
*Eric Carr – drums, vocals (lead vocals and bass on "Little Caesar")

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.kissfaq.com/discography/hits.html Kiss FAQ - Hot In The Shade] , Accessed on July 14 2005.