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5 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1976_destroyer.png]] |
6 | [[caption-width-right:350:The original cover.]] |
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8 | ''Destroyer'' is the fourth studio album by Music/{{KISS}}. That and their following album ''Music/RockAndRollOver'' were both released in 1976. It's best remembered for their hit song "Detroit Rock City". |
9 | |
10 | Tracklist: |
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12 | [[AC:Side One]] |
13 | # "Detroit Rock City" (5:20) |
14 | # "King of the Night Time World" (3:13) |
15 | # "God of Thunder" (4:13) |
16 | # "Great Expectations" (4:21) |
17 | |
18 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
19 | # "Flaming Youth" (2:55) |
20 | # "Sweet Pain" (3:20) |
21 | # "Shout It Out Loud" (2:50) |
22 | # "Beth" (2:45) |
23 | # "Do You Love Me" (3:33) |
24 | # "Rock and Roll Party"[[note]]This song was previously unlisted on all versions of the album prior to ''Destroyer: Resurrected''.[[/note]] (1:25) |
25 | |
26 | [[AC: Resurrected Extra Tracks]] |
27 | |
28 | # "Sweet Pain" (with Ace Frehley's solo) (3:20) |
29 | |
30 | !!Principal Members: |
31 | |
32 | * Peter Criss - drums, percussion, backing and lead vocals |
33 | * Ace Frehley - guitar, vocals |
34 | * Gene Simmons - lead vocals, bass |
35 | * Paul Stanley - lead vocals, guitar |
36 | |
37 | ---- |
38 | !!Trope it out loud: |
39 | |
40 | * {{Album Cover Designer|s}}: Ken Kelly, who also did the cover of ''Love Gun''. |
41 | * BrokenRecord: "Rock And Roll Party", which is a loop of Paul Stanley shouting something at a concert combined with the choir sample from "Great Expectations". |
42 | * CallBack: To ''Alive!'', as the live version of "Rock And Roll All Nite" plays in the intro to "Detroit Rock City". |
43 | ** The original intended cover design, which was used for ''Destroyer: Resurrected'', has the band members in their ''Alive''-period costumes. |
44 | * DancinInTheRuins: The cover design is basically the band members doing this during a nuclear explosion. |
45 | * DownerEnding: The character in "Detroit Rock City" dies in a car crash. |
46 | ** RealitySubtext: The song is a tribute to a KISS fan who died in the manner as in the song while driving to a concert. |
47 | * EchoingAcoustics: "Detroit Rock City." Khazad-dûm, meet Creator/{{Motown}}. |
48 | * GoldDigger: The subject of "Do You Love Me", with Paul Stanley asking the person if she's interested in him only for the fame and celebrity of being a rock star. |
49 | * GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: In "Great Expectations". |
50 | * HeavyMeta: "Detroit Rock City". |
51 | --> ''I feel so good, I'm so alive'' |
52 | --> ''I hear my song playin' on the radio'' |
53 | * HeavyMithril: "God Of Thunder". |
54 | --> ''Daughter of Aphrodite'' |
55 | --> ''Hear my words and take heed'' |
56 | --> ''I was born on Olympus'' |
57 | --> ''To my father a son'' |
58 | * IntercourseWithYou: "King Of The Night Time World" and "Sweet Pain". |
59 | --> ''My leathers fit tight around me'' |
60 | --> ''My whip is always beside me'' |
61 | --> ''You want the same thing every day'' |
62 | --> ''I'll teach you love a different way'' |
63 | --> ''You'll learn to love me and my sweet pain'' |
64 | --> ''My love will drive you insane'' |
65 | --> ''Sweet pain, my love will drive you insane'' |
66 | * KneelBeforeZod: "God of Thunder" |
67 | --> ''I am the lord of the wastelands'' |
68 | --> ''A modern-day man of steel'' |
69 | --> ''I gather darkness to please me'' |
70 | --> ''And I command you to kneel before the...'' |
71 | --> ''God of Thunder, and rock n' roll!'' |
72 | * LastNoteNightmare: The album version of "Detroit Rock City" ends with a car skidding, crashing and exploding. Then the record segues into "King of the Night Time World". |
73 | * ListSong: "Do You Love Me", with Paul listing off the things that the person he's singing about likes of him, while asking the title question. |
74 | * MoodWhiplash: The [[SurprisinglyGentleSong surprisingly gentle ballad]] "Beth" pops up between two hard-rocking songs. |
75 | * ObligatoryBondageSong: "Sweet Pain". |
76 | --> ''My leathers fit tight around me'' |
77 | --> ''My whip is always beside me'' |
78 | --> ''You want the same thing every day'' |
79 | * OneWomanSong: "Beth". |
80 | * OneWordTitle: "Destroyer" and the track "Beth". |
81 | * PowerBallad: "Beth". |
82 | * RebelliousSpirit: "Flaming Youth". |
83 | --> ''How flaming youth will set the world on fire'' |
84 | --> ''Flaming youth, our flag is flying higher and higher and higher'' |
85 | * RecordProducer: Bob Ezrin. |
86 | * SpokenWordInMusic: "Detroit Rock City" starts with a radio anchor reporting the car crash that occurs at the end of the song. |
87 | * StudioChatter: "God Of Thunder" has Bob Ezrin's children talking to each other over walkie-talkies mixed into the music. |
88 | * UpdatedRerelease: ''Destroyer: Resurrected'', which was released in 2012, remixes all the album's songs and features a version of "Sweet Pain" with Ace's guitar solo in it instead of Dick Wagner's. |
89 | * VocalTagTeam: Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons on "Shout It Out Loud". |
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