Line #86 Music/DestroyerAlbum


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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".
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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)
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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)
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26	[[AC: Resurrected Extra Tracks]]
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28	# "Sweet Pain" (with Ace Frehley's solo) (3:20)
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30	!!Principal Members:
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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
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37	----
38	!!Trope it out loud:
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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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