Kiss Music:

Double Platinum Track Listing:
1. Strutter '78
2. Do You Love Me
3. Hard Luck Woman
4. Calling Dr. Love
5. Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll
6. Love Gun
7. God Of Thunder
8. Firehouse
9. Hotter Than Hell
10. I Want You
11. Deuce
12. 100,000 Years
13. Detroit Rock City
14. Rock Bottom/She
15. Rock And Roll All Nite
16. Beth
17. Makin' Love
18. C'Mon And Love Me
19. Cold Gin
20. Black Diamond

Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of their first hitscollection in a miniaturized gatefold LP sleeve limited tothe initial pressing only. This top five 1978 compilationfeatures all 20 of the original album's tracks on one disc.Includes 'Strutter '78', 'Do You Love Me', 'Hard Luck Woman'and 'Beth'. 1998 Mercury release.

Double Platinum Reviews:
Twenty KISS Klassics
2009-10-21 - Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, and Paul Stanley, collectively known as KISS, found themselves at a crossroads in the late 1970's. The band had achieved amazing success, but they were beginning to lose focus as a group. In order to keep all parties involved happy, it was decided that KISS would take a break after releasing "Double Platinum" in April of 1978 and then four solo albums in September of that same year.

"Double Platinum" features a new recording of "Strutter" that is entitled "Strutter '78" and a collection of tracks (some remixed) from all of KISS' studio albums recorded between 1974 and 1977. Many KISS fans argue over whether or not "Strutter" and the remixed tunes should have been messed with for this greatest hits package. To be quite honest, the new recording of "Strutter" is actually pretty good and only loyal KISS fans will be able to pick out the changes in the remixed songs.

Personal favorites included on this album are "Love Gun," "Beth," and the remix of "Black Diamond." Also of note is "Makin' Love."

I like to tote "Double Platinum" with me on the road because it's one of the best collections of KISS music found on one disc. I really do not mind listening to the remixes since most of them include only minor changes. I also feel that if current fans have friends or youngsters who are showing interest in KISS, then they should buy them a copy of "Double Platinum." It gives new listeners a glimpse at KISS at the top of their game and reminds loyal fans just how great the original group sounded.

Highly recommended to new listeners. Older KISS fans probably already have this album. As I've already stated, though, older fans like myself will probably enjoy it for the simple fact that it has twenty of KISS' best tunes on one disc.

REMIXED classics and new version of Strutter!
2009-10-08 - One thing most people fail to mention is these tracks were REMIXED by KISS in 1978, you can hear differences in the songs than to the originals, some minor, some major.
Strutter'78 was a brand new recording for the album, infact, the original idea was to re-record all the songs, not sure why, but the band wasnt getting along too good and they took a long break after just recording Strutter and went off to do their Solo albums....it remains as the only song KiSS recorded in 1978.
Great song selection covering songs from their first album up to Love Gun.

KISS' first compilation album is still a great overview to KISS
2009-10-08 - By 1978, KISS became one of the world's biggest rock and roll bands. That April, their record label Casablanca Records issued a 2-LP best of to commemorate KISS' fifth anniversary as a recording and touring act entitled Double Platinum.
Double Platinum happened because tensions within KISS were at an all time high with rumors of the band breaking up. Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart wanted to put out something to commemorate KISS' five years as a band so they went and recorded a new version of "Strutter" for this double greatest hits package. It's not a bad re-make. I always like it.
As for the rest of the collection, you get the original versions of "Do You Love Me?", "Let Me Go Rock and Roll", "God of Thunder", "Hotter Than Hell", "I Want You", "Deuce", "Rock and Roll All Nite", "Beth", "Makin' Love", "C'mon and Love Me" and "Cold Gin".
Then some of the tracks are either remixes or sped up versions. The excellent re-mixes are "Hard Luck Woman" (Peter's singing at the end differed than original) "Calling Dr Love" (different outro and intro), "Firehouse" (which is a semi-tone faster and sans the sirens at the end), "Detroit Rock City", "She" (interspersed with Rock Bottom intro and ending with repeat of first section) and "Black Diamond" which IMHO is better than version on first KISS album IMHO.
After its completion, lead guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss toyed with leaving the band for solo careers as the band was filming the made for TV movie KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park that spring (it debuted in October, 1978 on NBC). Ace no-showed some scenes during filming and Peter refused to show up to re-record his voice for the movie. Then manager Bill Aucoin, Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart and rhythm guitarist/singer Paul Stanley and bass Player Gene Simmons got together and told Ace and Peter not to resign but all four members of KISS make solo albums. Criss and Frehley liked the idea and stayed in the band.
Double Platinum was released in April 1978. It quickly went Platinum, reached the US Top 20 and also helped squelch rumors that the band was breaking up.
Want the best of KISS, buy either this or KISS Gold 1974-82. Recommended!

This is all you really need
2009-08-09 - Nothing beats the original lineup of Kiss - Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. Sure, their future lineups were good and produced a lot of good songs all the while improving their sound, but nothing beats an original. This collection contains 20 songs that are the Kiss that I remember. The set begins with one of my favorite Kiss songs, Strutter '78. I like Frehley's guitar playing on this song. Do You Love Me? has heavy guitar and great lyrics. I think Calling Dr. Love was a very influential song for other bands to emulate, not so much musically, but concept-wise. God Of Thunder and Deuce have Gene Simmons singing and are two of their more popular tunes. Detroit Rock City just plain rocks, as does Rock And Roll All Nite. The ballad Beth was the band's only #1 hit, sung by Peter Criss. That seems to happen so often with hard rock bands - they make a ballad and it turns into a #1 hit, or a big hit generally speaking. Good examples are More Than Words by Extreme, Open Arms by Journey, Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison, and Home Sweet Home By Motley Crue. I can go on and on, but I'll spare you. Cold Gin is another song sung by Gene Simmons and is one of their more popular songs. It was written by Ace Frehley. Track 20, Black Diamond, rocks.

One of the things I like about Kiss is they are one of those rare groups that has all band members singing songs as the lead singer, rather than just having one singer singing all the songs. Another group that does this is Blue Oyster Cult.

If you want to get into Kiss and their original lineup, then this is really all you need. A good collection of songs. Highly recommended.

KISS- Double Platinum, terrific album
2009-03-20 - This is, to me, one of KISS's finest releases. As I've grown up I've heard too many people bad mouth KISS and I call these people "musical snobs". They tend to listen only to things like progressive rock. I like KISS because they played from the heart. Yes, the music is not be technically superb in most ways but they did have some very original ideas on this CD like the guitar playing of Ace Frehely and the little boy voice- very cute. One of the finer songs on the CD is "Hard Luck Woman" written by Peter Criss. Peter is a terrific drummer. He's no Carl Parlmer but then Carl Palmer was no Peter Criss. If you like hard rock and want to add to your audial history from that repertoire then you may just want to get a hold of this CD.