Crazy Nights
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| Studio album by Kiss | ||||||||||
| Released | September 18, 1987 | |||||||||
| Recorded | March–June 1987 | |||||||||
| Studio | Can-AM Recorders, Tarzana, CA One on One Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, CA |
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| Genre | Hard rock, glam metal | |||||||||
| Length | 42:53 | |||||||||
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Mercury Vertigo (Europe) |
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| Producer | Ron Nevison | |||||||||
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Crazy Nights is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Kiss, recorded from March to June 1987 and released on September 18, 1987 by Mercury and Vertigo in Europe. This was the second album to feature the new line-up of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Carr. It featured keyboards, which was another departure in their music style, changing from their Creatures of the Night/Lick It Up/Animalize/Asylum heavy metal sound into a light metal sound. It was re-released in 1998 as part of the Kiss Remasters series, it is the last Kiss album to have been remastered.
A relatively high number of songs from Crazy Nights were performed live during its supporting tour, but during and especially immediately following the tour, most of those songs were dropped and were never performed again. Only the song "Crazy Crazy Nights" was retained in their setlist for the Hot in the Shade Tour which followed a couple years later; it was dropped after that tour and would not return for nearly 20 years until the Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour. This makes the album one of the least represented in the bands' entire catalog over the course of their career in their setlists, behind only their 1981 album commercial flop Music from "The Elder".
Kiss took a different approach in creating their album Crazy Nights, in efforts to turn around their image after they had a downfall in their music career due to experimentation of the band's music genre and the loss of two prime members. The band had a lot to prove after their decrease of success.
After the Asylum Tour had ended, Kiss went on a couple of months hiatus due to Gene Simmons's career as an actor and a producer, which made the band seem like his side job instead of primary job. For Kisstory, Paul Stanley stated that he got tired of Simmons's lack of commitment and one day told him:
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