Album of the weekend

Kiss-Music from the Elder

Does it live up to it's reputation? Is it as terrible as said? Is it true that people turn to homicide rather than listen to it in full? 

As someone who has listened to it throughout several times, I've only turned to minor crimes afterwards. Usually involving drugs. Which is what the band was surely on when they created this album. 

It's really bad but worse? It's uninspired. I admit that Kiss was never the most artistic band out there. But they really sank to the bottom with Music from the Elder. Apparently it's about a boy who was the "chosen one". Yes. There's talk about prophecy and some group that apparently gives the "chosen one" (God, just writing that makes me cringe) his powers. I can't really tell. With great concept albums like Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson and The Wall by Pink Floyd it tells a story that you can easily figure out. With The Elder you can sort of stumble though it, but you aren't sure what the hell is going on. 

The "tragedy" is that a few good songs are on the album. Dark Light sung by Frehley is pretty good. "The Oath" would be if it didn't have weird synthesizer sounds three minutes in. So it's not all bad. 

It's still bad though. Urban legend was that no one who worked for the band could mention this album in Stanley/Simmons presence. That's pretty diva of them, but then again I'd be ashamed of it as well if I created it.