Love Gun

For the eponymous song, see Love Gun (song).

Love Gun
Cover art by Ken Kelly
Studio album by
Kiss
ReleasedJune 30, 1977 (1977-06-30)
RecordedMay 1977
StudioRecord Plant, New York City
Genre
Length32:53
LabelCasablanca
Producer
Kiss chronology
Rock and Roll Over
(1976) 		Love Gun
(1977) 		Alive II
(1977)
Singles from Love Gun
  1. "Christine Sixteen"
    Released: June 1, 1977
  2. "Love Gun"
    Released: July 31, 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Pitchfork9.2/10[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide5/10[8]
Uncut[9]

Love Gun is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on June 30, 1977. Casablanca Records and FilmWorks shipped one million copies of the album on this date. It was certified platinum and became the band's first top 5 album on the Billboard 200. The album was remastered in 1997 and again in 2014.

  1. ^ Thomas, Fred. "Monster Review". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2023. Monster is a tremendous throwback to the superhuman partying and heavy metal Ragnarök of Kiss albums like Destroyer and Love Gun.
  2. ^ Prato, Greg (February 5, 2022). "Kiss - Love Gun". AllMusic.
  3. ^ [1][dead link]
  4. ^ Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-1894959025.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4 (4 ed.). Muze. p. 875. ISBN 0195313739.
  6. ^ Josephs, Jason (June 26, 2003). "Kiss - Love Gun". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on September 7, 2005. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  7. ^ "Kiss: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on June 27, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  8. ^ Cohen, Jason (1995). "Kiss". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. p. 212. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  9. ^ Kulkarni, Neil (December 1997). "Made up for it". Uncut. No. 7. p. 100.