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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Island / Mercury
Salesrank: 3592
Released: September 1, 1998 |
| Our Price: $4.96 |
| Used Price: $6.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Lick It Up Track Listing:
1. Exciter
2. Not for the Innocent
3. Lick It Up
4. Young and Wasted
5. Gimme More
6. All Hell's Breakin' Loose
7. Million to One
8. Fits Like a Glove
9. Dance All Over Your Face
10. And on the 8th Day
Editorial Review:
2005 Japanese pressing of 1983 original release, comes packaged in a standard jewel case. Mercury.
Lick It Up Reviews:
KISS delivers another winner. 
2009-11-16 - No more makeup. No more outlandish costumes (Well, that's debatable. Just look at some of the freaky getups they wore in the videos for this album. Yikes!). But the hard rockin' stayed, and welcomely so. This album is another superb KISS album, in my book. It includes everything that makes a KISS album great, awesome vocals, great guitar riffs, and amazing beats. The addition of Eric Carr as drummer, and the talents of lead guitarist Vinnie Vincent, really gave KISS a powerful 80's era feel to it's music.
Standout tracks are Exciter, Not For The Innocent, Lick It Up, Young and Wasted, All Hell's Breakin' Loose, Fits Like a Glove, and And on the 8th Day.
The MTV Kiss
2009-11-05 - Don't wanna wait 'til you know me better. I think of you late at night. In my red underwear. Life's such a treat and it's time you taste it. What's WRONG with me? YOU! There ain't a reason on earth to waste it. I know know know you've had that thought, too. I got eyes. So do you. It ain't a crime to be good to yourself. The confession(s) I could give, girl girl girl. Don't need to wait for an invitation. You gotta live like you're on vacation. I can't think when you're wearing pink ... but do you ever wear RED? Yeah yeah yeah that was me noticing YOU. There's something sweet you can't buy with money. It's all you need, so believe me honey. Looking for a pinball machine? I'm your best SHOT. It ain't a crime to be good to yourself. Would it be a capital offense to be nice to me? Double dare.
The Metal Years 
2009-09-02 - In the midst of the MTV driven hoopla of KISS shedding the makeup the fact this is a seminal disk was lost on most. It is a shame because fresh of the "Failure" of "Creatures of the Night", Kiss realized a change was sorely needed and boy did they nail it and The Metal years were born.
Fresh of the commercial disaster that was the disco influenced early 80's, KISS aspired to not relive past glories, but to jump ahead of it's classic rock goodness by hopping on the Metal express. "Creatures of the Night', 'Lick it up" and "Animalize" embarked on a new era for one of rocks greatest outfits.
"Creatures of the Night" was brilliant in it's own right. Heavy and Moody it was a much needed diversion from the dance influenced 80's. Overall it still feels like a classic KISS album though. It could best be described as moody Led Zepplin. "Lick it Up" changed that in a big way.
Out was the makeup, Ace and almost all of the blues influences that defined a generation of rock. In was the wailing of new guitarist Vinnie Vincent, a newfound sense of aggression and list songs tailor made for rocks foremost power drummer; Eric Carr (R.I.P.), who joined the band for the Creatures disk.
Standouts tracks include the almost embarrassingly simplistic title track (they had to think; "Could it really be that easy?") The wickedly aggressive Gene Simmons track "Young and Wasted" and the brilliant rap/narrative styling of "All Hells Breakin' Loose"
The Metal years were short lived unfortunately. A substandard follow up disk ("Animalize") propelled the band to rediscovered glory with the commercial success that was the 80's anthem "Heavens on Fire". The newfound success led KISS right down MTV lane into the Glam years.
How quickly we forget life's lessons.
no make up - just music
2009-06-16 - with vinnie vincent replacing frehley and helping write 8 of the 10 songs, kiss took off the make up and hit the ground running.
Exciting, indeed..
2008-08-05 - I really tend to compare this album in many ways with the first Alive. I'll explain myself.
It seems that Kiss is a band that works incredibly fine under pressure. It's kinda logical since Kiss have always been hard working and ultra competitive. Considering that fact, we can understand why their most energic, fun and exciting albums are Alive and Lick It Up, since fort both, they really had something to PROVE, to themselves and to the world.
For Alive 1, they had to do an album that would sell enough to save Casablanca Records from closing, and they suceeded. For this one, they had to prove that they could reinvent themselves. The band had lost two of the founding members and were running through a creative down. They were being redundant and quiet soft, and they knew that they could no longer continue that way. It was time to move on, and they would rebirth by putting out make-up.
It was a risky decision, since these were the core of their myth, so they had to hit the spot to keep respect. It's clear that everyone is decided to give all they have. The compositions are strong, catchy and in-your-face. THey have never been more credible and strong than on songs like "Exciter" "Not For the Innocent" or "Young And Wasted". Though Paul Stanley and guitarist Vinnie Vincent bring the best hook of the album, the anthem "Lick It Up", the most noticable is Gene. At the time, he was writing bad songs over bad songs, and sometimes seemed to care more about side-project. But on this particular album, he seems as thrilled if no more than the other band-members and comes in with a new, heavier voice more powerful than ever and pulls out some hard rock gems. A special note should be given to Paul Stanley however for his intencity in "A Million To One"
If you watch Kissology Vol. 2, it confirms my theory on the 1983's first show without make-up. Beside Paul's horrible vocal performance, the band never seemed as excited and in shape. The two songs featured on the dvd were songs sung by paul, I wished I could hear how gene was that night.
