Great Expectations (track)
by Kiss
Great Expectations appears on the following album(s) by Kiss:
- Destroyer (track #4) (this album) (1976)
- Kiss Symphony: Alive IV (track #14) (2003)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/27/2026 02:17 | stareaterogni0n | 6,284 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 04:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,647 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/01/2025 15:56 | markl73 | 7,175 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2025 10:40 | timosbuecherei | 3,525 | 60/100 |
| ! | 03/08/2025 09:58 |  MetalMan67 | 1,756 | 83/100 |
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AAL2014 05/07/2022 23:02 | #285096
This is one of the worst Kiss songs ever.
Gene’s vocals are terrible, the lyrics are bottom of the barrel, and the production and musical surroundings, albeit ambitious, fail miserably as Goliath so accurately states below. For my ears, Beth is the much better left-of-center song on this record and I don’t even really care much for it.
Perhaps equally as problematic though is that Great Expectations absolutely SINKS the pretty awesome momentum Destroyer built up to this point in the record.
A travesty of a song as far as I’m concerned.
Goliath 05/07/2022 10:07 | #285076
Tried hard, failed miserably. Mess of a song.
They used the fucking theme of Beethoven's 2nd mov of C minor piano sonata No.8
And even that way they couldn't make a good song.
The deaf was surely revolting in his tomb. (Edited)
Pretty good lyrics, and a strange twist from KISS. You'd never expect this. Anyway, the track is underrated as aformentioned in the below comment. The instruments are well done and the production is great.
Jason, you gave the track five stars and said "The track's not THAT great." lol. (Edited)
Jasonconfused 12/11/2012 07:20 | #57434
A very underrated track in my opinion. Not that the music is THAT great (as is the case with most KISS music) but the lyrics really speak to me. The ideas are so simple but so great. This is one of my favorite Simmons vocal tracks. He actually sounds really really good. It almost makes me think that I could sing in a band :P (Edited)
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