Kiss started the ’80s in free fall and spent the first two years of the decade alienating a staggeringly large portion of the impressive rock music fan base they had built in the ’70s by unabashedly chasing even greater mainstream fame.
After weathering the departure of their two fellow founding bandmates, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons demonstrated impressive levels of determination and adaptability while re-building the band into a record and ticket-selling powerhouse. To do so they had to remove their famous greasepaint, endure several more lineup changes and change up their musical approach multiple times.
Here are the Top 20 ’80s Kiss Songs:
20. “Little Caesar”
From: Hot in the Shade, 1989
Nine years and seven studio albums into his career with Kiss, drummer Eric Carr finally got the chance to handle lead vocals on this rousing Hot in the Shade track. Sadly it would be the last album he recorded with Kiss, as he died in November 1991 after a battle with heart cancer.