Kiss
by Kiss

Kiss by Kiss
Year: 1974
Release date: 1974-02-18
Overall rank: 3,224th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 218 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1974 (52nd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (568th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,224th)

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Kiss bestography

Kiss is ranked 3rd best out of 34 albums by Kiss on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Kiss is Destroyer which is ranked number 1743 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 968.

Kiss album bestography « Higher ranked (3,152nd)
Alive!
This album (3,224th)
Kiss
Lower ranked (4,073rd) »
Dynasty

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Kiss rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,224th | 1970s rank: 568th | 1974 rank: 52nd

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Kiss ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 218 votes)
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90/100
 
03/31/2026 11:22 Strixen  Ratings distribution  4689/100
 
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03/25/2026 16:37 Menelao  Ratings distribution  18371/100
 
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03/13/2026 18:44 tmurf  Ratings distribution  5277/100
 
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02/27/2026 18:21 classicjoe  Ratings distribution  23279/100
 
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12/30/2025 00:58 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,31870/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.0.

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80/100
From 11/20/2024 15:15 | #306140
Really good first effort from KISS. This had some of their best songs including, Strutter, Deuce, Black Diamond, 100,000 years, Cold Gin and Nothin' to Lose. Firehouse and Let Me Know are fun tracks. Unfortunately, they made the poor decision of putting on Kissin' Time and Love Theme from KISS which are both atrocious.
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75/100
From 06/05/2023 16:52 | #297406
Better than I thought!
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90/100
From 06/16/2022 18:39 | #286436
I love this album except for one song: Kissin' Time. This album has six of their most iconic songs! Early KISS before the disco era was awesome! "Ace Frehley on guitar!"
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75/100
From 09/20/2020 01:07 | #258447
Great debut. Top heavy with classic tracks. Dips a bit in the middle but epic finish with '100,000 Years' & 'Black Diamond'
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90/100
From 07/23/2020 01:11 | #256044
Great debut with nearly the whole album appearing later on Alive the band knew exactly how they wanted to sound.
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95/100
From 06/22/2020 17:56 | #254180
Average Track Rating = 91.50
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From 05/09/2020 21:08 | #251137
Second only to Destroyer. Killer Debut!
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80/100
From 12/30/2019 00:53 | #246067
Solid debut. Several of the album's songs became concert staples. I never found that this early sound really suited the band's image at this time. Some of the songs are hard rocking, but songs like Strutter have a very simple, mainstream pop rock sort of sound.

Key tracks: Deuce, Cold Gin, Strutter and Black Diamond.
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60/100
From 07/13/2019 14:54 | #239437
Solid debut by Kiss, good from start to finish.
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From 09/21/2018 13:13 | #221389
I love how the second and fourth guy look bored as fuck.
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