#Rock This Town

[rolandrockover]

Blitzdream

I had actually devised a sweet hit and run strategy for Cadillac Dreams, just because it seemed most convenient to me to say as few words as possible about this song I never cared about too much from Hot in the Shade (1989), the Kiss album that I never really counted among my very favorites.

Actually.

But actually actually, my least favorite songs have always turned out to be the best templates for the more interesting spontaneous trains of thought, and here we are once again.

Despite the stylistic diversity on Hot in the Shade, but also the mediocrity spread over long stretches, Cadillac Dreams always formed a foreign body in my eyes, not only on this album, but within the entire Kiss katalog. In much the same way that Rock This Town (1980) by the Stray Cats would be totally out of place on a Kiss klassik like Love Gun (1977), or any other Kiss album. It's that Rockabilly thing that turns it off, right from the first note.

And I don't even necessarily think it's a bad song, just some kind of anomaly, even more than a song like Odyssey (1981) could ever be regarded to be, because Kiss have certainly been no strangers to pompous musicals since Destroyer (1976) (1).

Yet, just imagine if the original line-up had never split up in the early 80s, but had still taken off the make-up, and probably due to the fact that Peter Criss was still in the band as the drummer, would never have switched to contemporary Metal, but would in all probability have simply continued to move around in other areas of rock like a couple of gypsies, one of which, rockabilly rock, could have turned out to be quite conceivable. If an entire album, or an album with several songs in this subgenre, had been created from this idea, then, under this circumstance, and only under this circumstance, yes, then Cadillac Dreams would have been an even a more than acceptable Kiss song.

So much for that.

And well, what more could someone like me do with this song, except perhaps briefly point out a small mannerism that it shares with the quantum leaps better known and almost bursting with energy piece of glam rock by The Sweet that goes by the name of Ballroom Blitz (1973).

So, if you were to simply run both of those choruses through your head, what would be the first thing you might notice? Exactly, that small but crucial repetition at the end of the last lines. While this is the tremendously memorable refrain standard for The Sweet, it only occurs once for Kiss. But hey, once is better than never, and after all, I take all that I can get.

Rhythmically, however, Cadillac Dreams doesn't quite move in the same realms as the light-footed urge of Ballroom Blitz (of which one could assume the drummer was on an exclusive coffee diet), but still keeps you on your toes enough to not lose touch and at least stay close to it; somewhere very close to the battle cry and intro of Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio (1980) (2) by everyone's good old friends the Ramones.

Even if these are all aspects that should not be considered irrevocably repulsive, I would nonetheless like to leave my usual snippy final phrase more or less to Bruce Kulick.

Didn't even he categorically reject his guitar services at the time and suggest that Gene should take them into his own hands?

Side Note:

(1) And we will also be getting to the bottom of this issue in the near future.

(2) Yes, Kiss covered that one later, even much later, for a Ramones tribute sampler. Kover it Up will cover it, just a little later.

Of course, one could also argue that Cadillac Dream's horn section could suggest the production of a Phil Spector.

The links are highlighted and not highlighted. Just klick on them and get happy:

Cadillac Dreams (1989)

Ballroom Blitz (1973)

Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (1980)

[myimaginaryradio]

Rock This Town - Stray Cats

[interestingmysteriousgirl]

the prettiest lip syncer who ever lived !!!!! 😮‍💨

no but real talk i hate these shows back in the day that forced them to lip sync likee bri’s live voice has always been HEAVENLYY and i always love the extra little licks and instrument parts they play during their live performances !/!/$/$ i feel robbed lols

[chaunceyandchumleysdad]

I'm going to kick off the Memorial Day weekend and the official start of summer in Chicago by rockin' this town with the Stray Cats.

[eroticlamb]

Courtney Love for Hysteric Glamour, 25th anniversary edition, September 17, 2009 ♡

[lizzybeeee]

"So, how was your time in the south?"

"...eventful."

[southernsadie]

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“You sound high, but thanks for the morning grope!”

[mother-lee]

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[elbdot]

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[rasoyas]

oh mary-sue… i wonder if your memory remembers me like i remember you 🕊️

[suntails]

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[myimaginaryradio]

Rock This Town - Stray Cat - 1982

[interestingmysteriousgirl]

HAD A WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS AND CHANGE OF A DOLLAR FOR THE JUKEBOX !!17/&/$$/

[economicalhell]

It’s me

[dailyhomestarfacts]

Fact 8:

Excluding holidays and easter eggs, only four toons and three sbemails have had all twelve main characters appear

Toons:

Where's The Cheat?

Weclome Back

One Two, One Two

Meeple Grove

(Theme Song Video could technically count, but only in the DVD version)

Sbemails:

different town

rock opera

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