Artist: KISS
Album: HOT IN THE SHADE (CD)

Release date: 1989
Media type: CD

Hot in the Shade is a Kiss album released in 1989. It was certified Gold on December 20, 1989 by the RIAA. It is the first Kiss studio album since 1981's Music From "The Elder" to feature three members singing lead on the album. It also marked the last Kiss album with drummer Eric Carr before his death in 1991.

Featuring 15 songs, Hot in the Shade contains the largest amount of material of any of Kiss's studio albums. Subsequently, the album is also one of the band's longest, with a running time of nearly a full hour (58:39).

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley appeared in Kiss makeup for the first time since their 1983 unmasking in the video for "Rise to It." Although the scene with Gene and Paul in makeup took place in 1975, the costumes they used were historically inaccurate; Gene's was from the Unmasked (1980) era while Paul's was from Love Gun (1977).

Tommy Thayer, who co-wrote "Betrayed" and "The Street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away," eventually became Kiss's permanent lead guitarist in 2002, replacing Ace Frehley as "The Spaceman."


TRACKLIST:

01 "Rise to It" (Paul Stanley, Bob Halligan, Jr) – 4:08
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

02 "Betrayed" (Tommy Thayer, Gene Simmons) – 3:38
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

03 "Hide Your Heart" (Stanley, Desmond Child, Holly Knight) – 4:25
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

04 "Prisoner of Love" (Bruce Kulick, Simmons) – 3:52
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

05 "Read My Body" (Stanley, Halligan) – 3:48
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

06 Love's a Slap in the Face (Simmons, Vini Poncia) – 4:04
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

07 "Forever" (Stanley, Michael Bolton) – 3:52
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

08 "Silver Spoon" (Stanley, Poncia) – 4:38
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

09 "Cadillac Dreams" (Simmons, Poncia) – 3:44
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

10 "King of Hearts" (Stanley, Poncia) – 4:26
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

11 "The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away" (Thayer, Simmons) – 3:34
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

12 "You Love Me to Hate You" (Stanley, Child) – 4:00
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley

13 "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" (Simmons, Poncia) – 3:52
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons

14 "Little Caesar" (Eric Carr, Simmons, Adam Mitchell) – 3:08
Lead Vocals - Eric Carr

15 "Boomerang" (Kulick, Simmons) – 3:30
Lead Vocals - Gene Simmons


LINE-UP:

Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals
Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals
Bruce Kulick – Lead guitar, backing vocals
Eric Carr – drums, percussion, vocals (lead vocals and bass on "Little Caesar")