Peter Criss [Original recording remastered]

some of the stand out songs are "Tossin n Turning", "Easy Thing", "Kinda suga pa pa likes", "hooked on Rock n Roll", and "You matter to me".

well done Peter, this album rocks.

Peter Criss never belonged in KISS to begin with because he is total mediocrity.
I admit that when i was 8 years old and i heard the live "100,000 years" drum solo i thought, wow what a great drummer.
Then i grew up and heard John Bonham and realized that Peter Criss was a joke.
The only time Peter Criss was TRULY CREATIVE as a drummer was when he had the great producer Bob Ezrin on his tail during the "Destroyer" sessions.
Kiss would have been a much better band if they had Eric Singer to begin with.
Thankfully the rest of the band (especially Ace Frehley) had the talent to make Kiss some memorable rock n' roll.
Anyway, Peter Criss decides to tackle some pop and rhythm+blues on this solo effort and it turns out to be a fatal mistake.
In the first place the material such as "that's the kind of sugar papa likes" is just plain stupid and Peter Criss sounds like a moron singing this kind of tripe.
He can hardly handle rock n' roll vocally so when you add the task of interpreting a idiotic song like this there's no other outcome than that of disaster.
Maybe if the material had been better than maybe this gamble would have turned out to be a winner but highly unlikely because Peter CRISS IS A second rate singer and drummer.
I will give him a big round of applause for having the guts to tackle this second rate material and then i will throw this cd in the garbage disposal where it deserves to be.
Take my advice and pick up Ace's blistering tour de force 1979 solo album and pass this one up unless you're a masochist....

Here we go:

Yes, I know...Peter should have done the standard rock drummer thing and just re-made a bunch of "Black Diamond/Strange Ways/Baby Driver"-style songs and stayed within the limits of what the KISS "fans" expected of him. Who the hell is he anyway thinking he can record something other than the basic KISS song everyone knows and loves? Yes, it IS his solo album...but he shouldn't try to do something (God forbid) different!

I never heard such narrow-minded blithering idiots sound so inanely simplistic in their "reviews." I don't care if you like what Peter did or not. I give him credit for having the guts to stretch out and follow his passion for R&B, dance, pop, jazz...whatever...and do something he wanted to do. I guess he should have consulted all the KISS fans out there and see if it was ok to do something original.

If you just plain don't like the songs, fine...but give the guy credit for doing what HE wanted. He stretched farther than Ace, Gene, or Paul did. That was their choice and this was his. Nobody said to the band prior to the project "each of you make an album...but ONLY make it sound like KISS or at least 'hard rock.' Or else you'll have morons from all over the world giving you crap about it for the next 30 years!"

And, I hate to break it to the incredibly creative-with-their-words "reviewers" who trash this album...but these songs are pretty well done from a guy who everyone loves claiming is so one-dimensional. No, he doesn't have the voice Paul Stanley does, but that even gives him MORE credability because he has to work harder to get results. It's not a natural strength so he has to work harder. Yeah, he doesn't deserve credit for THAT does he!

I've had problems with Peter and some of his troubles involving his tenure in KISS over the years. But, I can't fault him for being original enough to follow his heart and soul and do whatever the hell he wanted on HIS solo album!