You want the best, you got the best! The hottest band in the world...KISS!!! With those 15 words, their lives and mine would be forever changed. Normally I wouldn't include live albums as part of a "Best Album Of All Time" poll. But in this case, it is absolutely warranted.

Alive! saved the band from extinction as they were going nowhere and fast based on their first 3 albums. This is a double live concert album recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit. A lot was made about how this was the best "Live" concert ever released on Vinyl. But for **** fans, we later learned that the album was in fact doctored with overdubs and sweetened to make the end product better. So technically not really a Live Concert as it was purported to be. Not cool.

I give it a 5 Star rating in spite of being swindled by the band due to the significance of what it did for them. It's still a great listen and I hold a soft spot for it. This was the start of what unfortunately becomes a trend with the band constantly pulling a fast one on it's fans...i.e...me. And for that they get...

The interior gate-fold cover had 4 handwritten notes from each bandmember to the fans, signed in their own names. This is were I learned to forge their names with their signatures. I was so good that kids at school would constantly ask me to sign their books, etc...with their names. And yes, I can still forge their names without even trying.