I reviewed the song “Calling Dr. Love” on the review of the Kiss Klassics disc of Sonic Boom, so, for the sake of consistency, I’ll adapt that review for use here. Kiss really showed the kind of album building concept that always worked well for them here. Truly, a lot of the music in the middle part of the disc is rather weak, at least by comparison to the stuff around it. Of course, weak Kiss is usually still pretty good. They use the best two numbers to start and end the disc, making it for a really positive listening experience in retrospective.

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This starts with a pretty acoustic driven approach. When it fires out to the hard rocking section, the change is abrupt, but quite cool. I’ve always thought this was one of Kiss’ most effective numbers.