KISS "Crazy Nights" Album 35 year anniversary (Eddie Trunk Sept.21st, 2022) 

I say this all the time...80's Paul Stanley is EASILY one of the greatest rock singers of all time

Stanley's performance back then was UNbelievable!!!

Ron Nevison & Bruce Fairbarin both almost caused the Kiss train to jump the tracks!!

I was 14 in 1987. Crazy Nights and Turn on the night were great songs in a great year in rock. WhiteSnake, Def Leppard, Guns-n-Roses, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Faster Pussycat, Dio, Night Ranger , white lion, great white and Dokken all dropped great records in ‘87

The guitars were fairly prominent. Bruce Kullick has some pretty good solo's on CN

I can’t believe they never played turn on the night live. If I was kiss during that tour I would’ve opened with that

It’s a cool party record. Reminds me in some ways of early quiet riot

Great record from start to finish. Love it. Nobody should mess with the mix on any of those records from the 80s. They are documents of the time and should be left alone.

One of my most favorite KISS albums!

Best song turn on the light that should have been the first single

Love Crazy Nights. Great album. Crazy Crazy Nights the song is a fantastic anthem.

Good Album, Good Tour

I still love crazy nights the single that Got me into kiss love that opening riff

Crazy crazy nights is so glam

Loved it

When he’s talking about they played crazy nights at the listening party and they turned it up so loud it freaked everybody out it’s just like when you go onto somebody’s car and you turn the volume all the way up and they don’t know what they come out and start the car and it blows them away

Crazy Nights was a success. It produced their most popular video, Turn on the Night. The album's biggest struggle is it's in the shadows of their 70s legacy.

I remember sending off for the KISS Exposed VHS tape. That got played so much, that it died in the VCR.

I was in high school at this time when Crazy Nights was released, and it was the first time I saw Kiss live. I loved the songs Crazy, Crazy Nights, Turn on the night and Hell or High Water, but that's about it. Whenever I hear Crazy. Crazy Nights it brings back great high school memories for me.

I would like to hear it with out the synthesizer. And push the guitar up. This was my first kiss Album.

Kiss waited a year for Nevison to become available. The idea was to create a glam rock album that would propel them back to the top. Despite the Top 20 spot and platinum status, it sold below expectations.

This was the style of Rock and roll in the mid to late 80s. It's still heavy and fit on the radio and MTV at the time. The Gene songs are cool on Crazy nights. Thief in the night is totally underrated in my opinion and easily would of fit on Creatures. Kulick and Carr smoke on the album. Bang bang you has rediculous lyrics but so does Christine 16 and Uh All nite but still are good tunes. Actually Bonnie Tyler did Hide your Heart too.

I love this album.

Great album!

Love the songwriting on this one. MTV was king and music was fun…and the kids listened to rock music back then.

This album should be remixed and have Bruce use his Revenge sound. Also remove most of the keyboard. That would rock.

I also believe that if the album came out at the time it was planned a year earlier in 1986 “Sword in the stone!” and “Hide your Heart” would have been on it and that album would’ve been a bigger hit.

BEST KISS RECORD OF 80'S PERIOD..

Sword and Stone deserved to be on that album, it was a great song that I feel would have been a huge hit!

May sound like blasphemy but as a lifelong KISS fan Crazy Nights is my favorite album. Was a very different sounding album for them. Was hoping for a anniversary release of some kind.

Im an Asylum guy myself

I have always loved this album. Yes, it was formulaic, keyboards, Arena Rock in the 80's vein of Rock'n'Roll. I always paired this album with Quiet Riot's QR III, and Fastway's Trick or Treat Album. These particular albums were very Glossy 80's. Hate it if you like, I dig them.

It’s one of KISS’ most consistent albums and some of Gene’s best material of the 80’s.

Sword and stone was I believe done by Paul Dean of Loverboy as well…. And Bonnie Tyler did hide your heart…. I hope I’m correct Mr.Trunk?

Funny the hide your heart story is told different by Ace and Paul

Would have been much better without keyboards. Plus they should have included sword and stone.

This is a good album. It’s of its time. There are some great songs. It would have been interesting if Bob Ezrin produced this collection of songs. I think many would have a different opinion of the record.

Turn on the Night is a banger if you like melodic rock (similar to "Hysteria" or "Angel" around the same time). Hell or High Water and Thief in the Night are great darker Gene songs

This is the makeup-less equivalent to Dynasty whereas Hot in the Shade is the makeup-less equivalent to KISS Unmasked

Of course I knew who KISS was but I think "Crazy Nights" was the first time I ever heard them. I lived the album but had I been a Kiss fan before, maybe not.

Bonnie Raite also covered Hide Your Heart

It’s good that there are people who like this album, that’s why there are generations of Kiss fans. If you don’t mind that they’re straight up copying Bon Jovi, only with weaker songs and cliched production cheese with plenty of whoa-oh-oh-ohs, then turn it up. It’s got nothing of value for some of us but you do you.

My ultimate dream...going to a kiss concert with Eddie Trunk and Sebastian Bach!!!! I would be in heaven 🤣

Should of had the song “When Two Hearts Collide” on it.

Hide your heart went to # 22 on Billboard's 100. So not a complete failure.

It´s a very radio friendly album, but I like the previous non makeup albums a lot better. Asylum was a stronger album, albeit the neon colors and body glove apparel.

I liked this album it has some good songs and some not so much. The problem for this record was it came out a year too late. It is a lot like the Bon Jovi type albums which were popular in 85-86. In 87 the hard rock scene had moved on to a grittier sound such as GNR and other bands. Crazy Nights by then was out of place.

I agree Paul's voice was at it's peak amazing vocals and album had some great songs but the production was trying to be pop metal on this album they sound like Bonjovi or Poison on Crazy Nights. Kiss is so much better than any of these 1980's metal bands they just tried to jump on the bandwagon!

I Loved it's release but it was very differant from their stuff before, but I quickly ran to Support George Michael's "Faith" which hit bigger a month or so later-my loyalty to KISS was leaving.

Kiss We're, the kings of being a day late and a dollar short had crazy nights came out in 86. It would have been huge but by 87 that sound was already over. Plus they just did not have the songs. After the first song gets played you're screwed until you flip the tape over

#57 with a bullet? Not sure if that was a bullet... Great album though.

I love it, probably my favorite KISS album but I will say it’s KISS trying to merge the Bon Jovi sound with a smidge of The Cars in terms of the keyboards. Love him or not Desmond Child can write hits and my only regret was that Sword And Stone didn’t make it on the album.

Funny how fans comment too commercial. If they weren't commercial you would see them playing in front of 300 people you pie throwers

Also - lol @ celebrating the anniversary of an album by going on a long, protacted story about how he got Ace Frehley to perform a song that was on a different KISS album 😂😂😂

I think Hide your heart is better more stripped down, raw guitars and production, the way it is on Hot in the shade. It could of been great on CN too but it may have helped Shade be more successful, cause Forever was the only other song that got more traction from that album.

I am not a kiss fan. But I really like a lot of their songs. I am 53. so when they came into my reality the face paint was all going. I just could never relate to that. Just extra cheesy to me. But some of the songs were amazing. Pauls voice is a one of a kind thing. You here a few vocal words and you know its Paul. I just connected more with Black Sabbath, W.A.S.P., Iron Maiden, Megadeth , Metallica, and OZZY. Why....I do not know. Those other bands music just moved me more. The only KISS album I bought was Animalize. Very decadent. That album turned me off more to them. I just never connected with them. Just more cheese. I know W.A.S.P. was much more raw decadent but the tunes were more on my level. There have been alot of KISS cover bands. Almost zero W.A.S.P. cover bands. Why.... Because no one can do Blackie Lawless voice. No one.. Blackie has a voice that is beyond possible to almost everyone. or everyone. I do not think anyone could ever sing like him.

The album is a capsule of the time. Saw them on this tour and they were not good. Anthrax opened the show and blew them away.

Are you kidding??? The only Kiss l.p. produced by a legend ....? Ron Nevison?? So Eddie Kramer (who also worked with Zeppelin & Hendrix) & Bob Ezrin are what....if they're not legends, what are they then. Ed???

I enjoyed the album. “Hell or High Water” is one of my favorite Gene songs. The album had some great songs and some real duds. Compared to other rock bands at the time, they were definitely on par.

It’was totally buried by licenced to I’ll &run d m c

Sword and Stone would have been the second best song on most Kiss albums. How that didn't end up on an album is mind boggling. Great tune, bad title.

I agree with another commenter saying it shouldn't be remixed as it's the record we've all known. That said, when this came out I hated it, I mean I really hated it. I was so turned off by it I started exploring other types of music, older bands like The Doors & Zeppelin so in that way I'm glad for it. I've come to accept it & respect the effort. There's a few songs I like on this but it's still my least favorite KISS cd. I wanted Asylum part 2 & got this instead.

Kiss didn't look that ridiculous, Asylum they did. I thought CN they toned down

A song that is well written and enjoyable to listen to doesn’t make it a “ Hit “ . I don’t think the general masses / public / music fans , felt a strong connection to Hide Your Heart . It’s kind of dark lyrically . . Which is probably why Ron didn’t use it on the pop friendly Crazy Nights album but I’ll ask him .

Leave crazy nights and every other neveson album alone. The production on this albums sounds great! Yes it is a bit shiney, but man listen to turn on the night or crazy crazy nights loud on a good stereo, the guitars is still very high in the mix and PUNCHY. Also all those 80's albums sold way better than revenge-forward. Revenge was really their last gasp of studio album sales.

Definately one of kiss weakest albums. From an era when the band was not at their best. Revenge was an astounding return to form a few years later.

I was out of the fold at this point. I fell out of love with Kiss. I hate to say it. Pretty much i didnt pay much attention to Kiss. They were basically a pop band at this time. I fidnt really dig the glammy, colorfully feminine outfits. Crazy Nights, the title track is pretty good. It wouldnt be until Revenge came along when i came back into the fold, if you will. Dont get me wrong, i am a diehard Kiss fan, i just took a hiatus for a few years.

Eddie loves to tell you who he knows. I appreciate him keeping the 80s hair metal alive but the name dropping has gotten so tiresome

Complete crap album! It floors me to see so many gush all over it... again, complete crap album!... you want to listen to a good KISS album, listen to Revenge!... or anything pre Alive 2...

Crazy Nights is a decent album. The guitars sound awful on this record though, way too thin and nasally. Ultimate Sin however is a PERFECT album and does not need to be touched.

Absolutely the BOTTOM of the barrel for KISS. In fact it's the only album of theirs that I no longer own. Ron Nevison's production is thin as paper, cold, and putrid. Too many synths and waaaaaaay too glossy. Some love it and that's fine with me but I personally can't stand this album. I call it the Paul-On-Helium album because his screechy super high vocals (MY WAY) makes me cringe.

This is my least favorite KISS album. Way to commercial for me

One of the weakest Kiss albums ever.

That producer, Nevisom or whatever his name is, sounds terrible lol.. we all know that sound - that poppy, commercial, high-end, tacky 80s gloss.. 🤮 ruined many a good song and album

Sword would have been the obvious choice! Totally f.... Up! Why it didnt make the album! Turn on the night is a good one! But too high vocals! Hmm!