KISS - THE COMPLETE LICK IT UP SESSIONS CD [ZODIAC 874]

(77:25)
1. Engineer Notes
2. Lick It Up (warm up)
3. Lick It Up (Demo)
4. We Won't Take It Anymore (1983 Version)
5. Take It Like A Man (1983 Version)
6. My Babe
7. Lonely Is The Hunter (1983 Version)
8. Fits Like A Glove (Instrumental with Gene guiding vocals)
9. So Many Girls, So Little Time
10. A Million To One (Instrumental)
11. A Million To One (Take 9)
12. A Million To One (Take 11)
13. A Million To One (Take 12)
14. A Million To One (Take 17)
15. A Million To One (Vinnie guiding vocals 1)
16. A Million To One (Vinnie guiding vocals 2)
17. Gimme More Take 1
18. Gimme More Take 9
19. Young And Wasted
20. Gimme More (Insert 2)
21. Gimme More (Take 13)
22. Untitled Instrumental
23. You, It Was You Who Left Me
24. Exciter (instrumental)
25. Exciter (Bridge Rehearsal)
26. Exciter (Solo outtake)
27. Exciter (Rehearsal with botched ending)
28. Exciter (Ending)

INFORMATION FOR OVERSEAS' COLLECTORS

The first complete KISS album featuring Vinnie Vincent was recorded in the summer of 1983. This collection offers a rare and unique look into those recording sessions, including very early versions of songs that later appeared on the album.

It also features several songs that did not make the final release, including Take It Like a Man, Lonely Is the Hunter in a different version from the one later released on Animalize, and It Was You Who Left Me. Following I Still Love You, this song can be seen as a second emotional tribute by Paul Stanley to his great but lost love, Donna Dixon.

Part of these sessions has circulated among collectors since the mid-1980s from a poor-quality cassette copy. However, the recordings presented here are on a completely different level in both sound quality and content.

1. Engineer Notes
2. Lick It Up (warm up)
3. Lick It Up (Demo)
* two takes on the lead single and title track of the album
4. We Won't Take It Anymore (1983 Version)
* a potential album track but didn’t make the album. Gene later recycled it for Asylum but did not make it to that album either. Maybe a third try?
5. Take It Like A Man (1983 Version)
* another typical Gene songs that was also again recorded for Asylum. The versions are quite different though.
6. My Babe
* A unique Gene song unlike anything else. He’s truely the man of a 1000 faces!
7. Lonely Is The Hunter (1983 Version)
* This is a very different version to the one released on Animalize.
8. Fits Like A Glove (Instrumental with Gene guiding vocals)
9. So Many Girls, So Little Time
* So Many Girls was the original title for Fits Like A Glove. Here is the original aswell as a instrumental take where Gene made up lyrics on the spot.
10. A Million To One (Instrumental)
11. A Million To One (Take 9)
12. A Million To One (Take 11)
13. A Million To One (Take 12)
14. A Million To One (Take 17)
15. A Million To One (Vinnie guiding vocals 1)
16. A Million To One (Vinnie guiding vocals 2)
*7 significantly different takes on this great ballad
17. Gimme More Take 1
18. Gimme More Take 9
* four different takes of this album track and 1983/84 concert staple.
19. Young And Wasted
* early demo of this great song.
20. Gimme More (Insert 2)
21. Gimme More (Take 13)
22. Untitled Instrumental
* a continuation of a song that was first brought to the table during the Elder sessions.
23. You, It Was You Who Left Me
* this was supposed to be the big ballad on Lick It Up. Paul still heartbroken after Donna Dixon left him bears his inner feelings.
24. Exciter (instrumental)
25. Exciter (Bridge Rehearsal)
26. Exciter (Solo outtake)
27. Exciter (Rehearsal with botched ending)　
28. Exciter (Ending)
* 5 rough and very have takes of Exciter together making up the full song.