Hot in the Shade

by KISS

Hot in the Shade cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 October 1989
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:39
  • Community rating: 2.06/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Charlotte Crossley, Pat Regan, Valerie Pinkston, Kim Edwards-Brown, Phil Ashley

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Clocking in as the longest studio album of their career at the time, this release finds the unmasked era of KISS firmly entrenched in the late-80s glam metal formula. While suffering from noticeable filler and slick, generic production, the record contains the massive hit 'Forever', a power ballad co-written by Michael Bolton. It stands as a bloated but commercially successful artifact of the band's pop-metal period.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Rise To It (4:08)
  2. Betrayed (3:38)
  3. Hide Your Heart (4:25)
  4. Prisoner Of Love (3:52)
  5. Read My Body (3:48)
  6. Love's A Slap In The Face (4:04)
  7. Forever (3:52)
  8. Silver Spoon (4:38)
  9. Cadillac Dreams (3:44)
  10. King Of Hearts (4:26)
  11. The Street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away (3:34)
  12. You Love Me To Hate You (4:00)
  13. Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell (3:52)
  14. Little Caesar (3:08)
  15. Boomerang (3:30)

Credits

  • KISS - primary artist
  • Bruce Kulick - band [kiss], written-by
  • Eric Carr - band [kiss], written-by
  • Bob Halligan Jr. - written-by
  • Tommy Thayer - written-by
  • Phil Ashley - keyboards
  • Desmond Child - written-by
  • Holly Knight - written-by

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