Product Description
Rare Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing Still In Great Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. Blue Casablanca Labels Are Clean. You Wanted The Best And You Got It… Produced By Bob Ezrin, This Is A Mighty Mighty Pressing Of The Greatest Kiss Studio Album ~ ‘Destroyer’!
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Shelf wear, edge wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Detroit Rock City
King Of The Night Time World
God Of Thunder
Great Expectations
Side 2:
Flaming Youth
Sweet Pain
Shout It Out Loud
Beth
Do You Love Me
AMG –
Destroyer is one of Kiss’ most experimental studio albums, but also one of their strongest and most interesting! The pressure was on Kiss for their fifth release, and the band knew it. Their breakthrough, Alive! was going to be hard to top, so instead of trying to recreate a concert setting in the studio, they went the opposite route. Destroyer is one of Kiss’ most experimental studio albums, but also one of their strongest and most interesting. Alice Cooper/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin was on hand, and he strongly encouraged the band to experiment — there’s extensive use of sound effects (the album’s untitled closing track), the appearance of a boy’s choir (“Great Expectations”), and an orchestra-laden, heartfelt ballad (“Beth”). But there’s plenty of Kiss’ heavy thunder rock to go around, such as the demonic “God of Thunder” and the sing-along anthems “Flaming Youth,” “Shout It Out Loud,” “King of the Night Time World,” and “Detroit Rock City” (the latter a tale of a doomed concert-goer, complete with violent car-crash sound effects). But it was the aforementioned Peter Criss ballad, “Beth,” that made Destroyer such a success; the song was a surprise Top Ten hit (it was originally released as a B-side to “Detroit Rock City”). Also included is a song that Nirvana would later cover (“Do You Love Me?”), as well as an ode to the pleasures of S&M, “Sweet Pain.” Destroyer also marked the first time that a comic-book illustration of the band appeared on the cover, confirming that the band was transforming from hard rockers to superheroes. 4 ½ Stars