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guestpass127 t1_j3wdh79 wrote

Ah, Kiss’s “Love Gun.” The album I begged my parents to buy me for my eighth Christmas, 1982.. featuring such delightfully age-appropriate songs as “Christine Sixteen,” in which Gene Simmons tells an underage high school girl that he’s having a hard time not raping her

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OrangeLoco OP t1_j3wg83w wrote

With lyrics like this, " She's been around
But she's young and clean."

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guestpass127 t1_j3wj5ri wrote

I mean, if they could have gotten away with calling the album “Penis” they wouldn’t have even bothered with the “Love Gun” euphemism

I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet but Kiss was…kinda sleazy

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redlion496 t1_j3wl3vd wrote

So are most rock musicians!

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guestpass127 t1_j3wmp8m wrote

Well, most rock musicians of the past

Most rock musicians today are hobbyists and have jobs that support them because there’s no market for rock music anymore

That doesn’t mean they can’t also be sleazy, only that it’s a lot harder to be a sleazy rock pig on the level of a Gene Simmons circa 1977 when you’re broke, no women want to hear your music, and you can only play gigs locally, on nights when you don’t have to work the next day

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DAE_le_Cure t1_j40dao7 wrote

I felt this in my soul

Source: sleazy rock pig currently facing most of these obstacles

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gbethea1117 t1_j3wl2oo wrote

Wasn't that the destroyer album

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OrangeLoco OP t1_j3wlr16 wrote

Love Gun album, but Destroyer was pretty similar.

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[deleted] t1_j3wvvm4 wrote

Destroyer was my first ever LP, circa 1981.

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guestpass127 t1_j3wm6yg wrote

Most Kiss albums were interchangeable but Christine Sixteen was definitely on Love Gun. Like I said I got that album for Christmas when I was 8, I vividly remember trying to understand all the weird dumb sex lyrics on this album at that age

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