Love Gun

It’s sometimes forgotten but Love Gun, Kiss’s sixth studio album, was also its highest-charting for two decades; while it lacks the sheer sense of scale and theatricality that Bob Ezrin brought them for Destroyer, it sums up the whole Kiss universe at that point almost to a T. Certainly not in a truly wonderful way, as the (even at the time) grotesque “Christine Sixteen” shows, but Paul Stanley’s two highlights “I Stole Your Love” and the none-more-obvious title track stomp well, while Ace Frehley steals the show with his own best song for his time with them, “Shock Me.”