Love Gun (studio album) by Kiss

Love Gun by Kiss
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 8,607th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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71/100 (from 146 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1977 (123rd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,315th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,607th)
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Love Gun is ranked 7th best out of 33 albums by Kiss on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Kiss is Destroyer which is ranked number 1532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,132.

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 146 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.1/100, a mean average of 69.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.

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From 07/23/2020 01:38
The last of a run of 7 albums from 1974 - 1977 before the band experimented with their sound. This album like the ones preceding is straight forward hard rock and gets the job done.
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From 07/07/2020 16:24
A solid classic Kiss album, with some great tunes like Love Gun and Plaster Caster, but has weak songs too, like Hooligans and Tomorrow and Tonight. Enjoyable record, but IMO isn't among their best.
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From 09/20/2017 00:11
Hard to believe how fast KISS was putting out records back in the seventies. This was the third studio recording released in a 15 month span. It totally fulfilled the expectations of this 14 year old boy in 1977. Perhaps Gene's finest collection of songs. All of his are great...particularly "Almost Human" and the brilliant single "Christine Sixteen." "I Stole Your Love" may be the best opening track ever...it soon became the opening song in their live set...and what a title track. Too much is made about Ace Frehley getting his first lead vocal on "Shock Me" and not enough credit is given for his main job. Outstanding solos abound. Eddie Kramer sets a production somewhere squarely between Destroyer's and Rock and Roll Over's. There is truly nothing not to love about this record...1977 was the best year to be a KISS fan.
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From 06/26/2016 18:09
Oh what a shock, coconut's here again slagging of another Kiss album like he does with all their records, and this guy love's Poison too, strange. Love gun, is another silly and enjoyable album with the title track being one of Kiss' great anthems. Party music.
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From 01/24/2016 17:25
Well, it's a Kiss album. But comparing it to other Kiss albums, it's a definite stand out. I Stole Your Love is a phenomenal opening track, Shock Me, Tomorrow and Tonight, and of course Love Gun are all great Kiss songs.

Possibly my favorite Kiss studio album.
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From 03/12/2015 03:25
A solid Kiss record just a notch below their best work
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90/100
From 07/15/2012 17:35
I Stole Your Love, Christine Sixteen, Love Gun, Almost Human and Plaster Caster are KISS classics. Kiss is sexy and hardrockin'. Gene and Paul wanted to f**k every groupie out there. Love this album.
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From 08/05/2011 02:03
Kiss was fun...that's it...no politics or social conscious... get laid and maybe you'll get the clap or get whipped ! and possibly both...I love the sleazy nerve of the "Christine Sixteen" narrative....other favs. "I Stole Your Love", "Shock Me" and the title track...had to include something by them cause they remind me not to take everything too serious all the time...
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2. Animals by Pink Floyd
3. Marquee Moon by Television
4. Low by David Bowie
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