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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Polygram Records
Salesrank: 111096
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $9.98 |
| Used Price: $0.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Rock and Roll Over Track Listing:
1. I Want You
2. Take Me
3. Calling Dr. Love
4. Ladies Room
5. Baby Driver
6. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
7. Mr. Speed
8. See You in Your Dreams
9. Hard Luck Woman
10. Makin' Love
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing of this 1976 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Kiss have been one of the best-selling Rock bands in history. Since the Japanese min-LP sleeves were introduced into the marketplace, it was no surprise to find that Kiss have sold more CDs in this limited edition format than any other artist. 10 tracks including 'Calling Dr. Love', 'Mr. Speed' and 'I Want You'. Distriibuted for a limited time in Europe with new UPC number. Universal.
Description of Rock and Roll Over:
As the follow-up to their unusually experimental Destroyer (nonetheless one of Kiss's best albums ever), Rock and Roll Over, released the same year, contains more conventional three-chord material. That's not a bad thing, since Kiss at their peak arguably did three-chord arena-rock better than anyone else. "Calling Dr. Love" was a hit single, as was the surprisingly bittersweet (for Kiss) "Hard Luck Woman." "I Want You" is an unnerving mix of tenderness and tension, while "Take Me" is understandably urgent. Although this was material that would become conventional over the years--thanks to legions of copycat bands--it still sounds good today, probably because whether they're being sleazy or sweet, Kiss sound like they mean it. -- Genevieve Williams
Rock and Roll Over Reviews:
For the love of nostalgia 
2009-12-15 - This 30 minutes of extra tasty bubblegum rock blows bigger bubbles than any of their other studio albums. Each song seems to have a formula: 2 minutes of rocking out, a 30-second guitar solo, and 30 seconds of the chorus being repeated forever. One thing I never noticed before, was how much the shuffle guitar work in Take Me sounds similar to Love Em Leave Em. What can I say though, I Want You is an awesome opener, and each song is rockin. I still don't understand why my favorite track live off of this one is Makin' Love. I even like Baby Driver, and the hidden gem Mr. Speed. Eddie Kramer (minus KISS) produced the most fun material for these guys: Alive!, this one, Ace Frehley's solo album. I think if you can find a decent copy for a lincoln, it's worth every penny. Casual fans will want I Want You, Calling Dr. Love, and Hard Luck Woman. Sample Mr. Speed to see if it's up your alley.
A Rockin' and Rollin' Rollercoaster! 
2009-11-10 - Yes! KISS returns to it's roots with this amazing album doing what they do best, straight-forward, hard rockin' Rock N' Roll! The best thing about this album is it's two love songs. No, not Hard Luck Woman, or See You in Your Dreams, which are great songs in their own right. I'm talking about Calling Dr Love, and Makin' Love! But, let's not get ahead of ourselves here just yet. The rest of the album is just as good. It starts out fast and furious with the song titled I Want you, which is everything that you'd expect from a KISS Rock song, awesome guitar riffs, great singing, drumming...the works. Next is the hard Rocker, Take Me, which again features some great guitar playing by all, accompanied by Paul Stanley's masterful vocals. And then we come to the above mentioned and totally amazing, Calling Dr. Love, which opens with it's fantastic power chords, and very cool cowbells, while Gene Simmons sings, "You need my love, Baby, Oh so bad...!" Everything about this song is total awesome Rock perfection, down to it's drums, and the background vocals, and especially when we get to the stunning Ace Frehley guitar solo towards the end of the song. Following this scorcher comes, Ladies Room, which is another song Gene Simmons sings, and it features more great guitar riffs, and bangin' drumwork by Peter Criss (With even more cool cowbells, Baby!). Next up is Baby Driver which is sung by Peter Criss, and he does an excellent job on this Rocker, which also features a standout bass line by Gene, and of course great guitar work by Paul and Ace. Which then brings us to Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, which is a nice little ditty sung by Gene Simmons, but the best part is the sensational super sonic Ace Frehley guitar solo! Even more smoking guitars come flying at you in the next song, Mr. Speed, which will definitely have you air guitarists out there strumming away madly. Then comes See You in Your Dreams Tonight, another nice Rocker. After that, Peter Criss sings his heart out again in the acoustical Hard Luck Woman, which is not a bad little song at all. The last song on the album is titled Makin' Love, and it is another heavy guitar-driven hard Rocker featuring the great Paul Stanley on vocals, and the legendary Space Ace Frehley doing what we love most and what he does best. The song also features a nice little drum solo at the very end by Criss. When all is said and done, this album flat-out Rocks your socks off. Rock and Roll Over is absolutely at the very top of my all-time favorite KISS albums. Tied at the number 1 spot in a threeway with their debut album, KISS, and KISS Dressed To Kill. All I can say is, if you're considering buying this album, don't wait. Buy it now. You will be glad you did.
Rock And Roll Over
2009-11-02 - The cartoonish antics were at an all time high here on Rock and Roll Over. The band had just relesed the majorly sucessful Destroyer which in my opinion is one of the groups weakest and most over produced albums to date. This even feels like a cartoon title, but it doesn't matter when the group is releasing such killer rock n' roll as they are here on Rock and Roll Over.
Even the weak Criss track 'Hard Luck Woman' is decent here. Though it was originally written for Rod Stewart I think it stayed in the right hands. 'I Want You' starts things off proper, and keeps things rolling with 'Take Me' and the killer Kiss Klassic 'Calling Dr. Love' which is among their greatest rockers. 'Baby Driver' and 'Mr. Speed' round out the album nicely.
Musically Ace Frehley shines the most. His guitar riffs are most impressive. They are crisp and crunchy and among his best. 'Calling Dr. Love' is just fantastic. Hell, even Ace's solos have a little something extra here.
Over all this might be Kiss' second best album behind their awesome debut.
When work is oulawed only outlaws will work
2009-10-12 - Lunchboxes, bubblegum cards, TV cartoon show, toy guitars, wigs ~ blame the Beatles, not Kiss. Kiss is yeah yeah yeah with fuzzboxes. The makeup gimmick. Now they can hire better musicians to replace the deadbeats and, visually, no difference. But better yet, with the makeup, 60-year-olds still look like 20-year-olds. Show business is something to show. "Calling Doctor Love" 8 days a week. Punch the clock. Not many people know this, the LP cover is anamorphic but the record company didn't provide a conical mirror. Too phallic. When Paul McCartney died, Beatles put the same makeup on a different dude, too, so what.
The Doctor Is Still In After All These Years
2009-10-08 - KISS fans could argue forever as to which of the band's many albums is the best. "Destroyer" is obviously a prime candidate, but not too long after its release, KISS gave us "Rock And Roll Over." While I do enjoy "Destoyer" and agree with many others that it is possibly KISS' best album, my heart always leans heavier to "Rock And Roll Over" as my personal favorite KISS offering.
Why? There are multiple reasons. Firstly, this album gave birth to one of the greatest rock tunes with a blatantly cheesy title in "Calling Dr. Love." No matter where I am or what I'm doing, when that song hits the airwaves I have to sing along. It also gave the world KISS' second most popular ballad (and a personal favorite), "Hard Luck Woman." On top of that, songs like "Take Me," "Ladies Room," "I Want You," "Love'em And Leave'em," and "Makin' Love" leave absolutely nothing to the imagination when it comes to what each song is about. The album cover was quite a bit different from previous KISS releases as well. This is pure, straightforward, rock and roll. It's one of the best party albums you can get your hands on.
If you do not own any of KISS' albums, I highly recommend that you purchase this album along with "Destroyer." Rarely does a band put out two legendary albums. KISS did it twice in the same year with "Destroyer" and "Rock And Roll Over."
Add this album to your "essentials" collection today.
