KISS - VH1 Ultimate Albums: Alive! 

"If you were a kid in 1975" -Why, yes I was! Thank you KISS and Eddie Kramer for making the man I am today musically 👍. I owned the 45 of "Rock and Roll All Night" back then. Blue Casablanca label and all.

Elvis's step brother said in an interview here on RU-vid that Elvis heard him listening to "Let Me Go Rock And Roll" from Alive ! and asked him to play it again.He showed Elvis the album cover.Elvis said "Yeah.I get what their doing". I would love to hear Elvis cover that song.

This band is really great. KISS forever!

My sister bought me that album when I was 7 years old and I wore that vinyl until it was gone!! I was hooked.

This album let you feel what a KISS concert was like. That's the bottom line.

Wore this album out when I was 9,10,11...along with Alive II....simply great stuff...and I still have my vinyl..

Kiss in 1976 was at their height. They blew everyone away. I was there. The team of Bill Aucoin as manager and Eddie Kramer as producer turned them into a monster lasting over 50 years.

I lived this and bought this album in early 1976. It was mystical, we were captivated, IT WAS SPECIAL!!!!!

This album set my entire music exploration on fire, And set my preferences to rock and roll forever.

I don't understand why people make such a big deal over this. Touching up the album only smoothed out some rough edges. I see no reason to complain or change my opinion over it. The album came out incredible and it exploded the rock and roll scene because of it. Anyone complaining needs to get a life. Be grateful for them putting out this record.

KISS FOREVER!🤟🏼🎸🍻

I may be a rarity as I attended shows from every decade that Kiss was a band. Over 20 shows , 24 to be exact. 1 in 79 , every tour in the 80s and 90's which included the reunion tour with my kids (they were 4 and 6), 2000's , 10's and my last show was March 6th 2020 in Oakland, CA at the Colosseum Arena with my son, daughter (now in their 30's) wife and son in law. What a great run . Thanks guys for every year and every rockin moment! I wanted the Best, I got the Best!

Amazing album. Favorite era of Kiss. For those that want a more true experience, Destroyer 45th Anniversary has a live recording of Kiss in Europe before they started their US Destroyer tour. Pretty much Alive songs with the exception of Flaming Youth and Detroit Rock City. Probably my favorite recording of Kiss Live

Sure, there are documentaries.... But anyone that didn't "live it" will never comprehend how Kiss actually took over the world. It was CRAZY!!!

I got my first album, Kiss alive, when I was around 14 years old, then my second was kiss alive 2. Since then I have almost all of thier albums , including thier solo albums.

Sure the crowd noise helped Rock and Roll all Night but it was Ace's guitar solo that was added to the live version that put it over the top.

The candelabra era was the best.... 🚬😎👍

Saw them 3 times in their prime. December 31st, 1975. And then on Rock and Roll Over and the Alive II show.. Wildest thing as a kid I have ever seen.

Well, don't blame me! I was 7 yrs old. BUT I did buy Dressed to Kill and Hotter than Hell the day they released.

Ace and Peter!!

Frampton Comes Alive was also a major change at that time and not completely live either.... Unfortunately for KISS Frampton Come Alive was bigger and got more radio play....BUT KISS Alive came out September 1975 and Frampton Comes Alive was January 1976

If you watch concerts from that era, Kiss Alive wasn't overdubbed that much.

Man I wish I still had my kiss albums!!! 💋

It was hard being a KISS fan back then , me and 4 others in my high-school listened to them. I had to take up for them when I was wearing the t-shirts and belt buckles.

Saw 3 live shows starting with Alive tour on December 31st, 1975 at Nassau Coliseum in New Year's Eve. Was 3rd row at Nassau Coliseum in 1996 for reunion tour. Sebastián Bach from Skid Row was right behind me in 4th row with his son. When the lights went down he grabbed my shoulders from behind and was whipping me in face with his long blonde hair while head banging. He did it for 3 or 4 songs. I got uo to front then. I caught Peter Criss towel after he sang Beth. I was waving it after that n you can see it in video. Best night ever. After the show Sebastián Bach gave me a big hug and said thanks big guy for letting me ride those big shoulders. He was such a kind gentleman and we talked with him before and after the show. And me and my boys who I treated all of them to 3rd row seats were twisted beyond belief.

KISS is 🎸 ROCK & ROLL

ALIVE!

Deep purple had made in japan in 72

18:55 The Who Isle of Wight Festival. MC5 Kick Out the Jams. Johnny Winter Captured Live!.

My first Kiss album!

Durst naively thought Peter was raised by cats.

I saw the original Kiss and Cheap Trick opened for them. Judas Priest Unleashed in the East is my favorite so called live album. That's when you know how good a band is, when you actually saw them live. I watched AC/DC open for Aerosmith and blow them off the stage. Then I saw Kiss on the reunion tour. It was better in the late 70s.

spp good

18:10 the future Ace Frehley

All of Peter's drumming is live, fact!!! Bob Ezrin said that, he didn't have them edit or dub anything!!!!

Now the live shows aren’t live

It was recorded in new jersey and wildwood new jersey. Fixed up in the studio

Humble Pie released a double album before Alive !. "Rockin' The Fillmore".

Fortune favors the bold

Let them explain Alive 2....See where that goes.

Love how paul says kiss is about making your own rules 😅😅😅😂 unless your ace and peter 😮

I want to hear the live concert from cobo coliseum in 75 in its original way that would be great I don't care what you did to make a great live album but the original concert you guys are old enough and rich enough CMon put it out guys

KISS ALIVE! A great album and their pinnacle, too bad they wanted to become popstars. It was good for them, but not for me.

"Purists"

Sorry Paul Aerosmith Bootleg is 100% live no touch ups overdubs as is Allman Brothers at Fillmore East.

Slayer's Decade of Aggression is my favourite live album. No overdubs, and complete with flaws. The energy of the performance, and the sometimes moments of being out of control add to the energy. Having said that, Kiss Alive is awsome too

Does anyone know what year this premiered ?

The saddest thing about this special. They are glorifying a album from 75 but showing clips from 2003 when they went to Sydney Australia to play with a Symphony. Long live Cobo Hall in Detroit.

It's not a Live Album.!!!

The first three studio albums were disappointing simply because they were poorly produced. Producers who did not know what they were doing and had no idea how to make a hard driving band like KSS sound on record. The production on these first three choke out the bands true abilities. To know what I mean, go listen to the Destroyer album from a production sound standpoint then go back and listen to the first three. They should have had Bob Ezrin producing the first three along with Destroyer. Ezrin knew just how to make them sound.

Watch the usual suspects from Rolling Stone Magazine shit all over a better live album than their favorite, Woodstock.

Anyone that's ever seen Kiss live, can tell you the alive albums were not recorded fully live. Because they are so sloppy live it is not even funny. Stage theatrics take first precedence over quality music reproduction.

KISS had a few good albums ( I own Destroyer, Rock & Roll Over, and Love Gun), but the vast majority of them had one catchy song, then the rest of the album was garbage. The band is not as important to rock and roll history as they think they are. They also should have removed the makeup permanently after Ace and Peter left again.

the thing about kiss that always thoroughly annoyed me is their look was so radical and meanwhile ....it might as well be elevator music. i guess if i had female genitalia perhaps i would better understand the phenomenon of all this hoopla being made over some of the world's most mediocre, uninspiring insipid music. they weren't particularly radical, hard, provocative,even by back then standards...(esPECIally by back then standards). i mean i guess through the lens of commercial top 40 radio, they're an anomaly. but that ain't no benchmark..i mean,seriously ..even you die hard kiss fans out there..name five amazing songs.

Kiss sucked. Elton John blows them away.

The ONLY good album they made