I remember someone once back on facebook telling me all muslims were communists :cat-confused:
Never been into that band, why are they particularly terrible anyways? Boomers like them so that's a big red flag.
Just shitty shitty music. Aside from that they've merchandised everything to death, it was treated as a business first from the start. You can buy Kiss coffins. Gene Simmons is also a massive massive prick.
I dated someone who's dad had been a roadie forever so we could get into any big show for free, so because I didn't have to pay I actually saw them live and it was embarrassing. They had a ten minute break for a "guitar solo" that was just buddy running his hand up and down the neck like a child would do. It sucked
Simmons is also immensely pro-Israel and supported it during during its war against Lebanon (though, he was against the most recent campaign in 2021, for what its worth).
Early era of modern arena rock, they were one of the first in the door with a few huge hits ("Rock and Roll All Night" being the big one), absolutely lit the touring scene on fire with big, highly produced live shows, had a striking look (for the time) that made them very, very marketable on top of their music being easy-to-digest and very popular. As far as musicality or innovation on the genre they performed within, there's not much to speak of, they just managed to land some huge radio hits, lean in on the moral panic stuff just enough to make them "marketable" taboo for younger kids and adults, went full-press on the merch and branding, and there you have it.
I'm not saying you have to like Kiss, but the snobbery that comes out whenever they enter the conversation is gross. They're pop-rock, which is fine.
They suck because of stuff like this: making the crowd do the pledge of allegiance before an encore
You sure it's Arabic? I can't recognize the second word. It could be an other language with Arabic script. Urdu? Persian?
Does anyone know the source of the picture? Just wondering because the script looks a bit more Farsi than Arabic
I did a little googling and found a Russian blog calling it a mujahedeen anti-communism poster https://propagandahistory.ru/1311/Antisovetskie-plakaty-modzhakhedov-vremyen-voyny-v-Afganistane-1979-1989-g-/
I was wondering the same. I mean they both use Arabic script but I can't read it so not Arabic.
Ditto. I can make out sheitan but I'm still curious what that word after it is.
The other Afghani jihadist posters were still surprisingly readable though. I was surprised how much i could understand with just Arabic.
I like the one where someone's throwing a boot at Khrushchev.
I like the one where they claim communists as closeted atheists. God dam how dare you accuse me so accurately?
Everyone in my chapter is also atheist. It's the whole stereotype.
