In the 1970s, Kiss celebrated great success with her disco song “I was Made for Lovin ‘You”, but there were also epic flops, such as her television film “Kiss meets the phantom of the Park” and the four solo albums that they Published on the same day in 1978.
Bob Ezrin, the producer of her most popular albums, had just helped Pink Floyd to develop “The Wall”, and decided to bring him back to create something as ambitious. The result was “Music from the Elder”, an incoherent, confused concept album that added a choir and an orchestra to the Kiss sound-with predictably terrible consequences.
Kiss sought the love of the critics – and failed
The story of the plate revolves around a figure that is only known as The Boy and together with a wise guru called Morphheus to combat a shadowy group of bad guys at an indefinite point in the future. (That may sound like “The Matrix”, but believe us when we say that that would make the matter too much honor).
It is so amazingly bad that the group did not even go on tour and rejected all the plans to take another page out of the Pink Floyd script and make a film related to it.
“It was the only time that I would say that Kiss gave in to critics,” said Simmons many years later. “We wanted a critic success. And we lost our minds. “
This text comes from our ranking “The 50 worst decisions in music history”