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[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]The full tracklisting of Sonic Boom is:
- Modern Day Delilah
- Russian Roulette
- Never Enough
- Yes I Know (Nobody?s Perfect)
- Stand
- Hot & Cold
- All The Glory
- Danger Us
- I?m An Animal
- When Lightning Strikes
- Say Yah
Here?s our quickfire reaction to the six songs we heard:
Modern Day Delilah
Based around a lumbering, War Machine-style rhythm, Paul Stanley?s vocals sound top-notch and timeless, almost like they?ve been sampled from Kiss Alive! Meanwhile, Tommy Thayer?s guitar work is straight out of the Ace Frehley riff book. At a concise 3:35 in length, this is a perfect slam-bang beginning to the new album.
Russian Roulette
Gene Simmons takes the vocals on this one; it?s an archetypal lumbering, grumbling, pummelling offering, made all the better by the addition of a signature ?ah-ah-ah-ah? chant-line. The lyrics are simplistic but effective: ?This is Russian Roulette? one pull of the trigger is all you?re gonna get? you feel the hunger and it?s much too much? go on take a bite.? To a fan of classic Kiss, that?s sheer poetry.
Never Enough
You?re know you?re on to a winner immediately as this one begins with a time-honoured Stanley shout of? wait for it? ?Woah yeah!? This is a much jauntier offering than the preceding two tracks, recalling the more commercial, 1980s side of Kiss. The song has a real reach-for-the-sky spirit, full of uplifting phrases such as ?rules just for breaking?, ?life for the taking? and (you guessed it) ?love ?til I?m shaking?.
Yes I Know (Nobody?s Perfect)
Another three minutes of perfection. A light-hearted, hyper-commercial tune with Simmons at the mic-stand again, offering a gruff ?YEAH? (capital letters, natch) followed by the inevitable invitation: ?C?mon baby, take off your clothes.? There?s no word on whether Simmons kept his T-shirt on, however.
Stand
Our favourite so far; a proper anthem recalling the crowd-rousing grandeur of God Gave Rock?N?Roll To You. Stanley delivers the words ?Stand by my side, I?ll be next to you/Stand by my side, we?ll make it through/Stand by my side, we?ll get by, you and I? with consummate Starchild passion. This one just grows and grows? and then offers a neat false ending with some soft, CSN&Y-style harmonies (yes, really) before picking up the pace once more.
I?m An Animal
Full of giant, stalking menace, this is based around a dense, Zeppelinesque riff. Thayer plays a marvellous slick-but-stumbling Frehley solo, and you can rest assured the lyrics ? ?I?m an animal and I?m free? I?m an animal in the street? ? don?t refer to an old lady with her poodle off the leash. Late in the song, the band issue the urge: ?Stand up, raise your fists.? Little do they know, we?ve been doing that since track one?[/COLOR]