Frehley’s Comet (Frehley’s Comet, 1987): It took almost ten years to make this album, which feels about right: The opener (“Rock Soldiers”) is the rare example of a man writing a song about the defining moment of his own life while somehow managing to misremember almost all of the factual details.101 “Love Me Right” is direct and “Dolls” is obtuse, yet both are closer to Old KISS than whatever New KISS was doing in 1987. The best cut is “Calling to You,” which was (not exactly surprisingly) written by the bass player in 1982. Is this the KISS corollary to All Things Must Pass? Yes, if we are
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