Crazy Nights

For other uses, see Crazy Nights (disambiguation).
Crazy Nights
Studio album by
Kiss
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1987 (1987-09-21)
RecordedMarch–June 1987
Studio
  • Can-AM Recorders (Tarzana)
  • One on One (Hollywood)
  • Rumbo Recorders (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length42:58
LabelMercury
ProducerRon Nevison
Kiss chronology
Asylum
(1985) 		Crazy Nights
(1987) 		Chikara
(1988)
Singles from Crazy Nights
  1. "Crazy Crazy Nights"
    Released: August 31, 1987
  2. "Reason to Live"
    Released: November 1, 1987
  3. "Turn On the Night"
    Released: February 27, 1988

Crazy Nights is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Kiss, recorded from March to June 1987 and released on September 21, 1987,[5] by Mercury worldwide and Vertigo in the UK. This was the second album to feature the line-up of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Carr.[6] The album is notable for its pop-metal sound as well as for its use of keyboards and synthesizers,[7] a reflection of popular trends in the commercial rock genre of this time. It was re-released in 1998 as part of the Kiss Remasters series and 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 of 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 throughout their career in their setlists, behind only Music From "The Elder" and Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions. Despite its lack of representation in live sets since, the album remains a fan favorite and is considered a classic album from their non-makeup years and their 80s era.

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  6. ^ Simmons, Gene (December 11, 2001). Kiss and Make-up (1 ed.). New York City, New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-060-9-60855-5.
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