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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Island / Mercury
Salesrank: 36178
Released: July 15, 1997 |
| Our Price: $4.09 |
| Used Price: $2.92 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dressed to Kill Track Listing:
1. Room Service
2. Two Timer
3. Ladies in Waiting
4. Getaway
5. Rock Bottom
6. C'mon and Love Me
7. Anything for My Baby
8. She
9. Love Her All I Can
10. Rock and Roll All Nite
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of the band's 1975& top 40 album in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to theinitial pressing only. 10 tracks, including 'Rock And RollAll Nite', 'Rock Bottom' and 'She'. 1998 Mercury release.
Description of Dressed to Kill:
After the misstep of Hotter Than Hell, Kiss recaptures the energy of their first album and go one better with Dressed to Kill. Obviously the most well-known song off this album is "Rock and Roll All Nite," but there's a lot of other good material here as well, including the upbeat "Room Service," the groove-heavy "C'mon and Love Me," and the sensual "She." Though Kiss would not become superstars until their next album (that would be Destroyer), Dressed to Kill shows them headed in the right direction, having hit on the elusive formula of heavy chords, strong rhythms, and a determination not to take themselves too seriously. --Genevieve Williams
Dressed to Kill Reviews:
A Mega Rock and Roll Masterpiece! 
2009-11-05 - Way back in 1975, if memory serves me correctly, KISS Dressed To Kill was the very first record album that I had ever bought. I was just getting into music at the time and maybe owned a few 45s, but after hearing Rock and Roll All Nite, I just had to have this album. Needless to say, it was worth every penny that I scraped up doing odd jobs like grass cutting and a paper route to get. In fact, I ended up playing this album so many times, the grooves in the vinyl were so worn out as to be pretty much useless after a couple of years or so. So, admittedly, this album has a very special place in my heart. Years later, sometime in the late 1990's, as I was revisiting some of the old music that I had enjoyed as a teenager, I bought this album on CD, and fell in love with it all over again. It once again started my KISS craze. Listening to it today, it sounds just as great as it ever did. This album, to me, is THE definitive KISS album. It features 10 great songs with all the original band members working together harmoniously at a time when, in my opinion, they were at their very best. Every song on here is an awesome work of art. It's also an air guitarist's dream come true. Especially on tracks like She, with it's amazing guitar licks, and it's heavy bass grooves, to Rock Bottom, with it's beautiful two minute acoustical opening, which leads into some blistering guitars accompanied by Paul Stanley's great vocals! Or, C'Mon and Love Me, featuring one of Spaceman Frehley's best solos, and again, on Love Her All I Can, which also has excellent drumming by Peter Criss, cowbells and all. Then there's Room Service which features more blistering Ace Frehley guitars, and Two Timer, with the great Gene Simmons doing some very cool vocals. The song Getaway features Peter Criss singing his heart out along with more amazing guitar riffs backing him up throughout. And, Anything For My Baby features some outstanding drum playing by Peter, while Paul Stanley sings once again proving that he is without a doubt the Starchild Rock God. Gene Simmons does the main vocals on Ladies in Waiting, another great rocker. lastly, there is the album's closer which has got to be the best end song on any album that I have ever heard, the mighty and well-known KISS signature anthem song, Rock and Roll All Nite. Man, Oh Man, albums just do not get any better than this!
Dressed To Kill 
2009-11-02 - Of the classic Kiss output in the 1970's, Dressed To Kill belongs to the weaker side of the releases. But this isn't becuase of the music really. The only real complaint about the music is the complete and total lack of energy, esecially among Peter Criss' drumming. There just isn't in life in there, I mean listen to 'Two Timer.' But the real problem lays in the production. It's just flat as most original Kiss records are, but this one however seems to be worse than the rest. Just plain dull.
Tracks like 'Room Service' 'Ladies In Waiting' and the killer Ace Frehley cut 'Getaway' are all classic kiss. The same can be said for 'She' and the groups first hit, and signature track 'Rock And Roll All Nite' which closes out the album.
Overall it's not a bad album at all, it just feels very juvinile, which is to be expected from cock rockers like Kiss. It's a very enjoyable album, to just let rock, though it's ages behind the self-titled debut, and Rock N' Roll Over.
KISS' third album still a charm almost 35 years later
2009-10-07 - New York rockers KISS released their third album in less than a year's time entitled Dressed to Kill in March of 1975.
After the failure of their first two albums, KISS were still wowing concert crowds but album sales were soft. Then KISS (rhythm guitarist/singer/songwriter Paul Stanley, bass player/singer/songwriter Gene Simmons, drummer Peter Criss and lead guitarist Ace Frehley) went back in the recording studio with their Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart to produce its third album. It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York. The album predated by one year what The Ramones would do , record an album with a short running time. Dressed To Kill is the shortest KISS album at close to 30 minutes but not short on classics. I first got the cassette in July of 1988. Then got the CD in June of 1993 but some of the endings of the tracks faded earlier than the tape. The 1997 remaster has all of the songs at their proper length and sounding killer.
We open with Paul's rocker "Room Service" which is a great rocker which sounds superb on the remaster (on original CD, the ending was short than original LP, on this 1997 remastered CD the songs are restored to original LP length). Next is Gene's rocking "Two Timer" which is a great song. Next is another Simmons rocker out of "Ladies in Waiting". Next is Ace's superb rocker "Getaway" with a killer vocal from Peter. We end side one with "Rock Bottom" (which was Ace's collaboration with Paul) that starts acoustic before kicking into a killer rocker.
Paul starts side two with first the rocker "C'mon and Love Me" then the melodic number "Anything For My Baby". Then we have two pre-KISS songs that Paul and Gene had from Wicked Lester re-recorded in KISS style with "She" and "Love Her All I Can" Both are transformed into rockers which replaced flutes from Wicked Lester with Ace's killer guitar work. The album ends with the un-official "rock national anthem" of course KISS' first hit "Rock and Roll All Nite" which is a KISS song that is their signature song.
Dressed to Kill is a classic and is the predecessor to the live album that would change everything. Dressed to Kill was also KISS' first US Top 30 album hitting #27 on word of mouth (eventually going Gold).
Dressed to Kill still sounds relevant and great nearly 35 years on!
Recommended!
Satisfaction (is never guaranteed)
2009-10-06 - I thought 'I can't get no satisfaction' was a boys' song, teeniebopper DNA, chewing gum, but after hitting middleage, middleage HIT ME, married kids wiped out every night, vertigotohell, I discovered my difficulties getting some satisfaction had ONLY BEGUN! Voice to skull, idiot! That's why "I wanna rock and roll all nite" means even MORE to adults.
Detox. Bills. Migraines. Pills. Flab. We're WAY MORE frustrated!
Back in '74 or '75, I didn't see the charm of this AT ALL. What, looks like Alice Cooper and sounds like Foghat. I just gotta Grand Funk vibe from it. Kiddies! I was busy, at age 15, trying to act 20, so I listened to all the tasteful boring propaganda Rolling Stone told me to like. HA HA on me! Wise up dummy! I'm back from the CRYPT, only someone in DIAPERS wants to be older.
I'm MUCH more FRUSTRATED now! And I'm LOVING it! Life is a SLOT MACHINE!
It's O.K.
2009-09-29 - This is another one of those albums I found at a local Wal Mart for 5 bucks. This had the first hit single from the band KISS in Rock N Roll All Nite, and the last album before they got really big with Alive. This was the third album released by KISS in a 13 month period, and this I would say is the worst of them, as it isn't as memorable tunes as the self titled debut, nor the kitsch appeal of Hotter than Hell. Nevertheless, it is still a strong album in its own right, and a near bankrupt KISS had enough material for Alive- either the live album would succeed or KISS would call it a day. Then after another trio of solid studio material (Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over and Love Gun) they recorded Alive II for the holiday season. A good look at the band KISS before they became icons and popular worldwide. I don't know if this could be considered a sell out, even though Rock n Roll All Nite was their first charting single. It's a good, not great, album.
