or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
or
Amazon Prime free trial required. Sign up when you check out. Learn more
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £7.49
  
 
 
 
Alive
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Alive [Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Kiss | Format: Audio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
Price: £7.17 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Only 6 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Want guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, May 29? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
Buy the MP3 album for £7.49 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Shop on Amazon.co.uk, pay with your currency
Amazon.co.uk Currency Converter
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More.

Amazon's Kiss Store

Music

Image of album by Kiss

Photos

Image of Kiss

Videos

Kiss "Modern Day Delilah" music video

Biography

Rock superstars KISS release their new album Sonic Boom on October 5, 2009. Featuring 11 brand new KISS anthems, Sonic Boom is an emphatic statement from one of rock’s most iconic bands. Says guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley: “Sonic Boom is the perfect title for what we’re creating. It’s earth-shaking and deafening!” Adds bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons: “Sonic Boom is our confessional: when you look… Read more in Amazon's Kiss Store

›
Visit Amazon's Kiss Store
for 83 albums, photos, videos, discussions, and more.

Frequently Bought Together

Alive + Alive II + Destroyer
Price For All Three: £17.86

Show availability and delivery details

Buy the selected items together

  • In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Alive II ~ Kiss Audio CD £6.00

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Destroyer ~ Kiss Audio CD £4.69

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

  • Audio CD (22 Sep 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
  • ASIN: B000001EL1
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         


Disc 1:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Deuce 3:56£0.89
Listen  2. Strutter 3:22£0.89
Listen  3. Got To Choose 3:58£0.89
Listen  4. Hotter Than Hell 3:12£0.89
Listen  5. Firehouse 3:59£0.69
Listen  6. Nothin' To Lose 3:38£0.69
Listen  7. C'mon And Love Me 3:05£0.89
Listen  8. Parasite 3:35£0.69
Listen  9. She 6:56£0.89


Disc 2:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Watchin' You 3:41£0.69
Listen  2. 100,000 Years12:00Album Only
Listen  3. Black Diamond 5:50£0.89
Listen  4. Rock Bottom 3:37£0.69
Listen  5. Cold Gin 5:25£0.89
Listen  6. Rock And Roll All Nite 4:07£0.89
Listen  7. Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll 5:45£0.69

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

The fact that Alive! is arguably Kiss's best album highlights the fact that they are performers first, musicians second. There's nothing wrong with that, especially when a live album sounds this good. Stuffed to bursting with classic tracks, Alive!, originally released in 1975, is a classic metal album. "Deuce", "Strutter", "Hotter than Hell", "Black Diamond", "100,000 Years", and especially "Rock and Roll All Nite" (probably the most well-known party song in existence)--they're all here, and wonder of wonders, they still sound fresh after all these years. The success of Kiss's 1996 tour shows that they've still got plenty of fans; Alive! is one album no Kiss fan should be without. --Genevieve Williams

BBC Review

Lazing in bed on a Sunday morn is probably not the ideal time to open oneself to the musical mayhem that made Kiss a household name in the seventies. The ''Rock and Roll All Nite” mantra bandied about by the bad boys of glam rock doesn’t quite seem to fit, although my cat does do a pretty good impression of Peter 'Cat Man' Criss - the drummer with the feline face paint. It doesn’t take too long to get your ’'Strut'’ on though and closing your eyes its easy to envisage the pyrotechnics and platform shoes that became an essential part of the Kiss experience.

Kiss won over their fans through a sheer exuberance of personality and after flogging 80 million plus albums they’ve definitely found a few. There are even stories of top billing acts getting more than a little peeved when their audiences began to leave after watching Kiss perform the support slot thinking the show was already over. Keen to capture the explosive fervour of these live performances after three fairly dismal studio albums, Kiss enlisted Eddie Kramer to record them in their primal element and the double album Alive! proved to be the breakthrough they’d dreamt of.

It’s all here, Gene Simmons the 'Demon' on bass pounding away in preposterous pose, 'Space Ace' Freely and the 'Star Child', Paul Stanley’s wicked guitar antics and of course the 'Cat Man' laying down the beat from his throne on high. You wouldn’t be too quick to call this a musically diverse offering as, to be honest, it all sounds like one song - but who cares! It’s air guitar-humpin’, fist-pumpin’ party fun, and whilst it might not do a hell of a lot to further musical prowess it definitely doesn’t leave any doubt that, on their day, Kiss were the daddy. --Tim Cunningham

Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(3)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
Agree with these tags?

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

3 star
0
2 star
0
1 star
0
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
KISS have never claimed to be artists or intellectuals. They have remained modest about writing some of the all time great rock 'n' roll albums. But one thing on which they have always maintained an arrogant, defiant and proud stance is their live shows. If you want to know why they charge the Earth for a ticket and rather presumptuously introduce their live onslaught with the mantra: 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world, KISS!!!' then this double live album may help you to understand it. They may not be modest, they may not have dignity or integrity but they always knew how to throw a party.

For anyone who has never seen KISS live what you must understand is that the band built themselves up on their image and bombast and are unwilling to give it up. Want proof? Well how about the fact that most of those bands of the 70s that critics rave about even today couldn't sell a ticket if they begged you now whereas KISS still sell out football stadia.

But onto the album. From the moment the noise begins you're treated to what it's like to be there. True, some of the vocals were cleaned up in the studio afterwards (as Gene Simmons admits in his autobiography) but the album retains the rawness and thrashing metal of Detroit 1975. From the heart-pound Deuce through and a rip-roaring Strutter the groovy quartet of Got To Choose, Hotter Than Hell, Firehouse and Nothing To Lose the hard rock Parasite, She, Watchin' You, 100,000 Years, the epic Black Diamond the raucous Cold Gin and then the Earth-shattering Rock and Roll All Nite before lifting the roof for Let Me Go Rock and Roll the party never ends or stops for a break. This album is not about finesse, not about songs coming straight from the heart and touching you deeply, this was about listening to music that will make your ears pop and your heart beat a hole in your chest. When you buy this album and love it (as I know you will) you might want to continue with ALIVE II which is all new songs and just as much fun. But for ALIVE!, forget every other Live album you ever heard, forget everything about what you think a concert should be like, it’s already been done before, and this is the proof.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
KISS is one the most influential bands ever manily due to the fact their concerts have spawned every smoke-bomb, firework and bright light every seen on stage. Their concerts of 20 years ago have still not been matched and perhaps never will be. This is the album that broke KISS wide open and exposed every inch of the destructive stage set and adrenaline burning rock n' roll. From the power-house rocker Deuce to the moment the curtains fall on a riveting Let Me Go Rock N' Roll over and hour later, the listener is treated to nearly all of KISS's incredible classics. Showcasing guitar solos that would make Eddie Van Halen blush, Ace Frehley cements his plave among the five greatest guitarists ever as partners Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley pack life and wonderment into the music making this the greatest live album of all time. It was their moment, the moment when even their harshest critics had to admit that KISS was the greatest live band ever to pace the boards of a stadium. It sold over 4,000,000 copies in the US in the 70s and was later entered into the US National Libabry Of Congress as one of the finest examples of American music. It rules, it rocks, if you wanted the best, then you got the best, the hottest album of all time - ALIVE!
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Mr Blackwell TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
wow!! every song warp factor 10,making a mockery of the sound of the ist 3 albums,this smokes your stereo,listen to duece with the cans on - feel your head rattle as the flashbombs explode,nuthin could top this,could it? well that would be alive 2,but thats another story.this band were previously timid on record are striding like a colossus on this one,hard to believe the rot and in fighting had already started.one mystery will always be why did room service not make the final cut?
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It's a double album ...so should have 10 stars
Still the best live album ever recorded, even 35 years on.
It's a total transformation from their powder puff rock studio releases. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Metalstar
definitive live statement
Kiss were struggling after 3 studio albums and needed to pull something out of the bag. Alive is the definitive statement of the bands song writing, performance energy and stadium... Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by Alister King
kiss alive!
i bought this vinyl lp back in 1989. it completely blew me away then as it does now.
this is the version you have to own not the big box version. Read more
Published on 1 May 2010 by Martin B. Phillips
never too dumb to rock
Kiss Alive - indeed, Kiss as a band - is something I'd managed to ignore for 30-odd years until making this an impulse buy and it certainly proves that one should trust one's... Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Ewing Grahame
KISSTORY
THIS WAS THE ALBUM THAT STARTED THE BALL ROLLING AND ENSURED KISS WERE HEADING FOR THE BIG TIME. THIS REALLY IS THE BEST WAY TO HEAR KSS, LIVE. EVEN BETTER WATCHING THEM. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Steven Baker
One of the greatest live sensations of the 70's
This was the album that rocketed KISS to stardom - and its not hard to see why. After the only modest commercial success of the first three albums, the band decided to record a... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2004 by "jamesfranklin22"
Good fun
This is NOT great art, but it is good fun for sure.

Kiss' three ALIVE albums are better by far than any greatest hits-compilation, since they contain virtually all of the band's... Read more

Published on 26 Jun 2003 by Docendo Discimus
Well What can I say.....Excellent
I had always thought of Kiss as a Glam Rock Band. How much was I mistaken. 2 Years ago I did not own a Kiss album nor even think about getting one.. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2001 by R. Clive
This is when you're glad you live alone!
Only KISS fans can understand what it's like to have this album playing at full pelt. This brings me back to the days of looking at NME for the odd KISS article amid all the the... Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2000 by ggham66@hotmail.com
God Bless America!
To see them united again over 22 years after this was recorded was inevitable! To say that they ever matched the dizzy heights of mid seventies "double live gonzo"... Read more
Published on 25 April 2000 by N. Faust
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

› Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject





i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges