Album Review: Kiss, "Alive III"

Kiss set standards. Alive III catches them at another peak in their careers in the wake of the hard-assed, leather embossed quality of Revenge, which formed this album's inception.

Alive III chronicles a set culled from what kiss consider to be their hottest rockers. Creatures Of The Night, Heaven's On Fire, Rock N' Roll All Nite, Lick It Up, I Love It Loud, and Detroit Rock City are the party faithful, whilst the likes of Unholy, Domino and the anthemic God Gave Rock N' Roll To You are welcome gatecrashers to a soiree already in full swing. Alive III is one helluva celebration and provides enough of the hard stuff to have you reeling for days. No poopers here!

Grade A

Mark Crampton
Riff Raff
July 1993

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!