Kiss - eXposed

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Ah, the '80s! A time of hair bands and their ludicrous MTV videos filled with spandex-clad band members and skimpily clad bimbos. Kiss: Exposed returns us to that forgettable era, as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons show how to desperately try to remain cock rock's elder statesmen. This 1987 compilation serves up several now-hilarious video clips from Kiss's '80s "unmasked" period, including "Tears Are Falling," "Heaven's on Fire," "Lick It Up," and "I Love It Loud." (Count the fires burning in these classic video relics of days gone by!) Also on hand are Stanley and Simmons themselves, looking properly embarrassed as they act out rock's biggest fantasy: lounging by the pool with a bevy of (mostly) bare beauties. The saving grace is the generous selection of vintage live performances: hearing the band do "Strutter," "Detroit Rock City," "Ladies Room," and "Deuce" in its late-'70s prime is worth wading through the outdated '80s-style power pop... if you're a real Kiss fan, of course. --Kevin Filipski

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Eager --- To be disappointed.......2007-09-13

Kiss is a great rock band. It is very difficult to find anything negative to say. Unfortunatly this dvd is an exeption. I saw the music video on t.v. for the live R n R allnight. Exposed was the dvd this version was on. So I bought the dvd -Gene and Paul Reality show-. Every important scene in the dvd was in the music video.
I guess I was expecting a live concert of some type. Thank you

Retire this title and release a true and comprehensive compilation of Kiss videos, please.......2007-08-17

This release was an excellent overview of KISS's 80's videos when it came out in 1987, but even then it was incomplete. Videos for "Shandi", "Sure Know Something", "A World Without Heroes", and "Thrills In The Night" are conspicuously absent, and of course the band released many more videos after this compilation like "Crazy Crazy Nights", "Reason To Live" (featuring plenty of TOTALLY gratuitous near-nudity), "Let's Put The X In Sex", "Hide Your Heart", "Unholy", etc. Some of these are available on other old VHS titles lazily re-released on DVD without extras, but KISS really needs to go back and put out a definitive compilation of all of their videos, going back to the primitive 70's promotional clips for "C'mon An' Love Me" and "Rock And Roll All Night" and continuing right on through to "Psycho Circus".

And while the in-between stuff here featuring KISS being interviewed in their faux communal home by former "Fridays" star Mark Blankfield was pretty much the equivalent of a "DVD bonus material" in its day, it's just distracting and passe now. Again, a comprehensive collection of videos without any in-between crap is what this band is now most sorely missing from its catalog (and this is a band that really isn't missing anything from its catalog). The "Kissology" DVD's are excellent historical documents of the group, but those only have a few token music videos on them as well.

What I find particularly hilarious is how it retailed for the ridiculous price of $29.99 on VHS 20 years ago (and thus I refused to purchase it), and now you can get it for 18 bucks on DVD. Even so, I'm still not going to cave in and buy it now, I'm going to wait a bit and see if Kiss ever gets around to re-packaging all of their videos on DVD for us.

Fun.......2007-07-03

This is a good re-issue of the original VHS version. I always liked this Video. It features many many songs and/or clips. Some dating back very early and rare (well, before the Kissology dvd was released). Most tracks are from the post-makeup days. Featuring the clips that were shown on MTV during the Asylum era.
The cheesiness comes in the form of a reporter going into the 'Kiss Mansion' and getting interviews with Gene and Paul. Women are running amuck through the video and some footage from the pool area actually has brief(very) nudity. A bunch of paid models i am sure. Its is corny, but actually is fun. Its different and makes it more enjoyable than just watching videos in order. Genes sexual puns are good as well.
I actually like this disc. And you will too if you enjoyed the non-makeup years(which i do very much). It is a good showing of Past and Present(1987) kiss.. a good watch. Also good to have a couple (though minimal) scenes with Eric Carr in them. RIP..

KISS at their best!.......2005-05-25

By the time it was 1987, the hair metal era had been big for about four or five years, and even though Ace Frehley and Peter Criss were gone from KISS and they(KISS)had taken their makeup off, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley had managed to keep the band together,even though it meant having lineup changes and taking their makeup off.It was sad to see Ace Frehley and Peter Criss leave the band-but this made up for it.

This DVD starts off with Mark Blankfield(the interviewer in this DVD) talking to people watching the DVD with a little "warning" and then he goes over to Paul Stanley's mansion in Beverly Hills, California. When Blankfield gets there, he rings the doorbell, and Paul answers the door- except he is irritated because he claims that Mark has interrupted his "beauty sleep"(there are a few females who accompany Stanley to the door in this scene)but when Paul finds out that a Barry Manilow concert coming up VERY soon could get in the way of KISS, Blankfield is let inside. Throughout the rest of this DVD, you get interviews with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons,Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr(even though Kulick and Carr have very small parts in this)and you do get to see the "beauties"during most of this DVD. There is video footage of KISS concerts from both the 70's and 80's to be found here, as well as six KISS videos from the 80's: "Lick It Up", "All Hell's Breakin' Loose", "Heaven's On Fire", "Tears Are Falling", "Uh! All Night", as well as the uncensored video for "Who Wants To Be Lonely", which MTV did NOT show on TV.

Highlights(the best scenes from this DVD)include:"The Paul Stanley Exercise Session", the monkey that is dressed up like Sonny Crocket(Don Johnson's character on "Miami Vice"), Paul's(Stanley)beauties telling him that their favorite KISS song is "Uh!All Night"because it reminds him of them with Paul's response being "I've Got Them Well Trained", as well as all of the hot women that are to be found on this DVD.

My only complaints are that Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr were not given a big enough part in this DVD and also because they didn't say anything about the Barry Manilow concert at the end of the DVD that Paul Stanley and Mark Blankfield seemed so worried about at the beginning of this DVD, but other than that, this is KISS at their raunchiest, best, and funniest.Everybody who was in this had very cheesy acting-but that is part of what makes this behind the scenes look at KISS so hillarious.

A great treat for ALL KISS fans-especially(especially)male KISS fans.

All for the Classic Material.......2005-03-15

At least this release has a semblance of production to it.
The greatest moments are the Classic KISS footage, and not the throw away non-makeup material. It has taken KISS 20 years to realise that the best and most lucrative material is the out and out concert footage, with all of the blasting phantasmagoria that is the original KISS.
This video comes close to that original fantasy in some of the scripted material, but falls flat on oh too many ways, however, just before it goes through the floor, it gets rescued by another classic clip.
There definitely should have been more of Eric Carr in the Video, but not of Bruce Kulick. However, the original is still the best, and that footage is why I give this disc 5 stars. Unfortunately it would still be better in the bootleg version, but its nice to have the Authorised version. Pity they cannot do more releases of the Classic and Re-united KISS ( However short lived that fabulous fanatasy was).

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Release Date: 2006-12-12

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