Debating KISS, Opinions on Amber Mark & RIP Sam Lay

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot discuss the age-old question: is KISS good? While neither of the hosts are too fond, they debate the merits of the almost 50-year-old band and their imprint on the history of rock and roll music.

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Featured Songs:

KISS, "Rock and Roll All Nite [Live]," Alive!, Casablanca, 1975

Amber Mark, "Most Men," Three Dimensions Deep, PMR, 2022

Amber Mark, "What It Is," Three Dimensions Deep, PMR, 2022

Amber Mark, "Darkside," Three Dimensions Deep, PMR, 2022

KISS, "Detroit Rock City," Destroyer, Casablanca, 1976

Wicked Lester, "She," The Box Set, Mercury, 2001

KISS, "Beth," Destroyer, Casablanca, 1976

KISS, "I Was Made for Lovin' You," Dynasty, Casablanca, 1979

KISS, "Strutter," Kiss, Casablanca, 1974

KISS, "Creatures of the Night," Creatures of the Night, Casablanca, 1982

KISS, "Forever," Hot in the Shade, Mercury, 1989

KISS, "Black Diamond," Kiss, Casablanca, 1974

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, "I Got My Mojo Working," The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elektra, 1965

Muddy Waters, "Long Distance Call (feat. Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald Duck Dunn & Sam Lay) [Live At Super Cosmic Jamboree, 1969]," Fathers and Sons, Chess, 1969

Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone [Live at Newport 1965]," N/A, N/A, 1965

J Dilla, "So Far to Go (feat. Common & D'Angelo)," The Shining, BBE, 2006

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the
0:05.2	Patreon page and free. He took the bomb. You are listening to sound opinions and this week we're debating the merits of a band
0:37.0	we rarely ever talk about. Kiss. I'm Greg Kye.
0:40.3	And I'm Jim Deregadis. Plus we'll pay tribute to the late great drummer Sam Lay, but first a review of the debut studio album by Amber Mark. It is very rare but baby it does exist and when you find a love you realize it comes
0:59.3	with in that's what gives a love that she deserves.
1:10.0	G-g-g-g-gah, you better cut that say you out. That is a little bit of the track.
1:23.0	Most men from Amber Mark's first full studio album,
1:27.0	Three Dimensions Deep.
1:30.0	Fascinating artist, Greg, born in Tennessee to a Jamaican dad and a German mother,
1:37.8	wound up another one of those. It seems like we've been talking about this a lot with
1:41.6	songwriters. World Travel travelers as a kid, right?
1:46.2	Spends time in Germany, spends time in Miami and New York, and then India, where her mom goes to study at a monastery.
1:56.0	Amber Mark winds up based in New York and begins by releasing several singles and floating tracks on the net and an EP inspired by the death of her mother.
2:09.5	We've been waiting three years for an actual album from Ms Mark and now here it is a sort of
2:17.6	cosmic contemplation on love three dimensions deep let's play a track and then will on Love, Three Dimensions Deep.
2:23.2	Let's play a track and then we'll give our opinions
2:26.6	on this album.
2:27.8	This is a song called What It Is by Amber Mark
2:31.5	on Sound Pinnions It is. It is.
2:44.0	It is.
2:45.0	It is.
2:46.0	Oh my kind of plays at least three times a day.
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