Line #57 Music/Unmasked


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3	''Unmasked'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{KISS}}, released in 1980. Despite appearing on the cover, Peter Criss is completely absent on the album, as he was in the process of leaving the band at the time (not unlike Ace Frehley and ''Music/CreaturesOfTheNight''). Anton Fig would very briefly fill the drumming spot (he did the same on ''Music/{{Dynasty\|Album}}'' on every song except "Dirty Livin'"), before Eric Carr became a permanent replacement.
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6	!! Tracklist:
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8	[[AC: Side One]]
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10	# "Is That You?" (3:59)
11	# "Shandi" (3:36)
12	# "Talk To Me" (4:00)
13	# "Naked City" (3:49)
14	# "What Makes The World Go 'Round" (4:14)
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16	[[AC: Side Two]]
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18	# "Tomorrow" (3:18)
19	# "Two Sides Of The Coin" (3:16)
20	# "She's So European" (3:30)
21	# "Easy As It Seems" (3:24)
22	# "Torpedo Girl" (3:31)
23	# "You're All That I Want" (3:04)
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26	!!Principal Members:
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28	* Anton Fig - drums
29	* Ace Frehley - guitar, backing and lead vocals, bass
30	* Gene Simmons - lead vocals, bass
31	* Paul Stanley - lead vocals, guitar, bass
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34	!! Torpedo Tropes:
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36	* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Peter Criss is credited despite not actually working on the album.
37	* DesignStudentsOrgasm[=/=]DetailHoggingCover[=/=]PackagedAsOtherMedium: The album cover is done in the style of a comic strip.
38	* EuropeansAreKinky: "She's So European" is about a young woman who pretty much embodies this trope, at least in the singer's POV.
39	* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Implied in "She's So European".
40	-->''She still speaks with the accent from the week in Saint-Tropez.''
41	* FemmeFatale: In "Is That You?"
42	-->''You always get the boys you like,''
43	-->''Play nice then stick them with your knife;''
44	-->''Take off your insecure disguise.''
45	* HeadsOrTails: "Two Sides of the Coin," about Ace trying to choose which lady he wants to settle down with.
46	* NewSoundAlbum: Very disco oriented, even more so than ''Dynasty.''
47	* OneWomanSong: "Shandi."
48	* OneWordTitle: The tracks:
49	** "Shandi"
50	** "Tomorrow"
51	* {{Paparazzi}}: The band members in the cover comic, get harassed by a single photographer, who wants to see them without their masks on -- which, at the time, was part of the band's mystique. His efforts get foiled time and again, until he forces them to do so in concert. Of course, TheReveal turned out to be rather comical!
52	* PerformanceVideo: Their promo for "Is That You?" featuring Eric Carr on drums.
53	* PowerBallad: "Shandi."
54	* ThePowerOfLove: "What Makes the World Go Round."
55	* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision B-Strike]]: On "Is That You?"
56	-->''Went too far, been a bitch you are.''
57	* QuestioningTitle: "Is That You?"
58	* RecordProducer: Vini Poncia, who also produced ''Music/{{Dynasty\|Album}}'' and the [[Music/KISSSoloAlbums Peter Criss solo album]].
59	* TheUnReveal: The cover comic has the band members unmask themselves, before the general public... And their actual faces are the same as their masks! (The actual reveal would not take place until ''Music/LickItUp'', and that only after Ace and Peter left the band, and were replaced by Vinnie Vincent and Eric Carr.)
60	* StockSoundEffects: "Torpedo Girl" begins with the sounds of a submarine.
61	* SubStory: "Torpedo Girl" is about Ace being visited by a submarine, in the place where he was swimming, and meeting, of course, the titular girl.
62	* VerbedTitle

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