Kiss Music:

		List Price: $9.98		Label: Revelation Salesrank: 269527 Released: November 2, 1999
		Our Price: $8.45
		Used Price: $8.30
		Media: Audio CD

Choke Track Listing:
1. Choke
2. Cement
3. Watching Hellraiser
4. Preacher
5. Target Practice

Editorial Review:
Revelation: 81

Kiss It Goodbye have proven to be greater than the sum of their parts. The elements that make up their music include: hardcore, punk, metal, guitar noise and experimentation in their most intense forms. The lyrics and vocxals produce an unnerving effect as well. Combining frayed emotions with a jagged sense of cynicism for the refined words and a vocal output that is both disturbing and compelling. Their debut album "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" was released on Revelation in March of 1997. Touted by critics and cherished by fans, "She Loves Me..." remains catchy enough for those who were once afraid, and still should be. With members including Tim Singer (Deadguy, No Escape), Tom Rusnack (Ambush, Rorschach), Andrew Gormley (Die 116, Rorschach), and Keith Huckins (Rorschach, Deadguy), it's understandable that Kiss It Goodbye .

After successful tours on their own as well as with bands like Unsane and Obituary, Kiss It Goodbye disbanded in September of 1998. Shortly before the breakup, they recorded a 7" for Sub Pop Records with new guitarist Demian Johnston. The record was never released by Sub Pop and subsequently the band decided to release it posthumously on Revelation. Those long sought after three songs have been coupled with the "Target Practice" 7" (originally released on Revelation in October of 1997) for the CD version of "Choke". This five song cd (two song 7") will offer some solace to fans still mourning the loss of KIG and nightmares to others who never witnessed the horror. Kiss them goodbye...

Choke Reviews:
I'd rather be on fire
2006-06-06 - I don't know what the previous reviewer was listening to. She Loves Me... She Loves Me Not was a great album but song for song Choke easily wins out. This 5 song EP is absolutely unforgiving. The last song (Target Practice) is in my opinion the best song Kiss It Goodbye ever produced. It was first issued on their demo (find it if you can, there's a song on there that isn't available anywhere else). Tim Singer's lyrics are reminiscent of Henry Rollins. He delivers them in a passionate scream, but you can still understand them. They're personal and angry but not corny and are easy to relate to. The music is heavy and brutal. Kiss It Goodbye and Deadguy (Tim Singer and guitarist Kieth Huckins' previous band) have influenced a lot of the better hardcore/metal/punk bands that are around today (some the best of those are Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Nora). Deadguy/Kiss It Goodbye is the band that most of today's pseudo tough guy false metal bands are trying to be. They don't come anywhere close.

Scott

not as good as she loves me, she loves me not
2000-07-09 - i love these guy but this ep sounds like a filler or just rev. cashing in on k.i.g.b's demmise. choke is a good song the rest is ok nothing as godd as she loves me.. though. k.i.g.b. fan? you'll be disapointed, but it's good to get those hard to fing songs.