Alive II (live album) by Kiss

Alive II by Kiss
(Live album)
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 23,261st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 88 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1977 (266th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,805th)
Award Best albums of all time (23,261st)
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Kiss bestography

Alive II is ranked 16th best out of 33 albums by Kiss on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Kiss is Destroyer which is ranked number 1540 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,123.

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Alive II track list

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 88 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 70.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.0.

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From 09/20/2020 00:26
I don't mind this. The studio songs are a nice addition as well
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From 09/20/2017 15:15
A let down after the first live record and for one reason. Eddie Kramer speeded up the recordings so they could get one extra song on each of the 3 live sides. I know he claims it was to create the sense of "immediacy"...whatever that means. But it lost the dark powerful sound that propelled KISS Alive! and that was natural to KISS. This is why when you here this it doesn't sound quite right. To some people that won't matter. Some will even say it improves the sound...it is slight but it is there.
However side 4's new studio (or recorded in the arenas without an audience) recordings are among the best KISS songs ever made. Ahhh...To have had an entire album of that rip roaring production...Still it was probably the best packaged record in history. 1977 was a great year to be a KISS fan.
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From 03/07/2016 19:58
Did we really need "another" live Kiss record?
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From 03/15/2015 02:45
Not quite as good as the original but still a worthy follow up
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