| Hot in the Shade | ||||
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| Studio album by Kiss | ||||
| Released | October 17, 1989 | |||
| Recorded | July-August 1989 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 58:39 | |||
| Label | Mercury Vertigo (Europe) |
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| Producer | Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley |
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Hot in the Shade is a Kiss album released in 1989. It was certified Gold on December 20, 1989 by the RIAA.[1] 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. Consequently, 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."
Kiss performed the song "Hide Your Heart" on their 1990 Hot in the Shade tour, which followed this album. Stanley would once again perform the song during his 2006-2007 Live to Win solo tour.
Aside from Kiss's performance of "Hide Your Heart" and the band's performance of "Forever" on Kiss Symphony: Alive IV, the album has been largely ignored on live shows following the reunion of the original lineup in the mid-1990s.
Contents |
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length | |||||
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| 1. | "Rise to It" | Paul Stanley, Bob Halligan, Jr | Paul Stanley | 4:08 | |||||
| 2. | "Betrayed" | Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer | Gene Simmons | 3:38 | |||||
| 3. | "Hide Your Heart" | Stanley, Desmond Child, Holly Knight | Stanley | 4:25 | |||||
| 4. | "Prisoner of Love" | Simmons, Bruce Kulick | Simmons | 3:52 | |||||
| 5. | "Read My Body" | Stanley, Halligan | Stanley | 3:48 | |||||
| 6. | "Love's a Slap in the Face" | Simmons, Vini Poncia | Simmons | 4:04 | |||||
| 7. | "Forever" | Stanley, Michael Bolton | Stanley | 3:52 | |||||
| 8. | "Silver Spoon" | Stanley, Poncia | Stanley | 4:38 | |||||
| 9. | "Cadillac Dreams" | Simmons, Poncia | Simmons | 3:44 | |||||
| 10. | "King of Hearts" | Stanley, Poncia | Stanley | 4:26 | |||||
| 11. | "The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away" | Simmons, Thayer | Simmons | 3:34 | |||||
| 12. | "You Love Me to Hate You" | Stanley, Child | Stanley | 4:00 | |||||
| 13. | "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" | Simmons, Poncia | Simmons | 3:52 | |||||
| 14. | "Little Caesar" | Eric Carr, Simmons, Adam Mitchell | Eric Carr | 3:08 | |||||
| 15. | "Boomerang" | Simmons, Kulick | Simmons | 3:30 | |||||
| 58:39 | |||||||||
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | The Billboard 200 | 29[2] |
Album - ARIA (Australia)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | Australian ARIA Album Chart | 30[3] |
Album - UK Albums Chart (United Kingdom)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | UK Albums Chart | 35[4] |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | "Hide Your Heart" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 22[5] |
| The Billboard Hot 100 | 66[5] | ||
| 1990 | "Forever" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 17[5] |
| The Billboard Hot 100 | 8[5] | ||
| "Rise To It" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 40[5] | |
| The Billboard Hot 100 | 81[5] |
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RIAA certification[1] (United States)
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CRIA certification[6] (Canada)
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Hot in the Shade is a studio album by the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss. It was released on October 17, 1989.
   | KISS FAQ - Hot In The Shade - The KISSFAQ - DISCOGRAPHY - Hot In The Shade (1989) |
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