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1 Rise to It Halligan/Stanley 4:08
2 Betrayed Thayer/Simmons 3:38
3 Hide Your Heart Knight/Child/Stanle 4:25
4 Prisoner of Love Kulick/Simmons 3:52
5 Read My Body Halligan/Stanley 3:48
6 Love's a Slap in the Face Simmons/Poncia 4:04
7 Forever Stanley/Bolton 3:52
8 Silver Spoon Poncia/Stanley 4:38
9 Cadillac Dreams Poncia/Simmons 3:44
10 King of Hearts Stanley/Poncia 4:26
11 The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away Thayer/Simmons 3:34
12 You Love Me to Hate You Child/Stanley 4:00
13 Somewhere Between Heaven & Hell Simmons/Poncia 3:52
14 Little Caesar Mitchell/Simmons/Ca 3:08
15 Boomerang Kulick/Simmons 3:30
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Hot in the Shade

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Mercury

Style: Hard Rock

Hot in the Shade

UPC: 042283891326

Release Date: 10/03/1989

Original Release Date: 10/03/1989

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Rise to It, Betrayed, Hide Your Heart, Prisoner of Love, Read My Body, Love's a Slap in the Face, Forever, Silver Spoon, Cadillac Dreams, King of Hearts, The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away, You Love Me to Hate You, Somewhere Between Heaven & Hell, Little Caesar, Boomerang]
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Greg Prato

Realizing that their last albums weren't even close to being in league with their output from the '70s, Kiss made a conscious effort to get back on track with 1989's Hot in the Shade. The group began trying out new material, and was soon forced to issue a record in conjunction with an upcoming tour. Hence, Hot in the Shade is a slight improvement over its flat predecessors (Asylum, Crazy Nights) -- but not by much. The songwriting is still unfocused, but at least the keyboards that plagued Crazy Nights had thankfully been put away, and the production isn't as pop-oriented as most of their other '80s albums. The album did spawn Kiss' first Top Ten single in ten years with the syrupy ballad "Forever," but again, the group missed the mark by padding the album with lots of filler ("You Love Me to Hate You," "Love's a Slap in the Face," "Cadillac Dreams," etc.). Also included were a couple of obvious attempts at hit singles ("Rise to It" and the dreadful "Hide Your Heart"), and a track that sounds like a total ripoff of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me," titled "Read My Body." Drummer Eric Carr's only lead vocal on a Kiss record, "Little Caesar," is one of the album's few bright spots, but Hot in the Shade unfortunately proved to be Carr's last album with Kiss; he died from cancer in 1991. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi