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3''Lick It Up'' is the 11th studio album from the American hard rock band Music/{{KISS}}, released in 1983. It is the first to feature the band without makeup, though it would also be the last to feature Vinnie Vincent as the lead guitarist.
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5!!Tracklist:
6[[AC:Side One]]
7# "Exciter"
8# "Not For The Innocent"
9# "Lick It Up"
10# "Young And Wasted"
11# "Gimme More"
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13[[AC:Side Two]]
14# "All Hell's Breakin' Loose"
15# "A Million To One"
16# "Fits Like A Glove"
17# "Dance All Over Your Face"
18# "And On The 8th Day"
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20!!Principal Members
21* Paul Stanley - rhythm guitar, lead vocals
22* Gene Simmons - bass guitar, lead vocals
23* Eric Carr - drums, percussion, backing vocals
24* Vinnie Vincent - lead guitar, backing vocals additional vocals on "Lick It Up" and "And on the 8th Day"
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26!!''Trope it up! Trope it up! Oh oh oh!''
27* AlbumTitleDrop: "Lick It Up" on the TitleTrack.
28* FaceOnTheCover: All four members of KISS in a group photo.
29* HairMetal: This is their first foray into the genre. They kept this sound up until ''Revenge''.
30* IntercourseWithYou: "Exciter".
31* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "And On The 8th Day", which is a play on the phraseology of God's creation story in [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis chapters 1 and 2]].
32* OneWordTitle: "Exciter".
33* OutOfGenreExperience: In the middle of a hair metal album, we have "All Hell's Breakin' Loose," a rap song[[note]]with a sung chorus[[/note]] (and possibly the first-ever "white rap" song at that).
34* RecordProducer: Michael James Jackson, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley.

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