Kiss – I Love It Loud

About The Song

“I Love It Loud” is a song by American rock band Kiss. It was released on their 1982 album Creatures of the Night. It has proven to be a staple of the band’s live show, being performed on almost every tour the band has done aside from the Reunion and Psycho Circus tours.

The track was written by bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons and guitarist Vinnie Vincent, although some versions of the album mistakenly credit Paul Stanley and Vincent. The latter had been working with songwriter Adam Mitchell when he discovered that Mitchell had connections to Kiss, and Vincent made it a point to meet Simmons through Mitchell. After meeting and exchanging phone numbers with Simmons, the two got together and wrote “I Love It Loud” in addition to another song called “Killer”, which appeared on the Creatures album during the same writing session.

The song fades out, only to come back even louder, and then fades out a second time. This idea was taken from the Beatles’ songs “Helter Skelter” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”.

Released as a single in 1982, it was only the second Kiss single to feature a picture sleeve and marked the final Kiss single released on the Casablanca label. As a single, the song did not fare particularly well, failing to crack the Billboard Hot 100, although it did “bubble under” at No. 102. The song hit #45 on the RPM Singles Chart in Canada in March 1983. Musician and musicologist Julian Cope, calling it the “sole classic” from Creatures of the Night, described its “J. Bonham-as-Thor drum fundament” as “one of thee most colossal pounded in many a year.” He continued: “Even the video was damned fine for its time, but those drum stops still sound like Ragnarök to me every time.”

Cash Box said that “Eric Carr’s primitive drum throbs, the group’s tribal cries and co-writer Gene Simmons’ fierce lead vocal set a scene where ‘the Jungle is the only rule.'”

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Lyrics

Stand up, you don’t have to be afraid
Get down, love is like a hurricane
Street boy, no I never could be tamed
Better believe it

Guilty ’til I’m proven innocent
Whiplash, heavy metal accident
Rock on, I wanna be the president

‘Cause I love it loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise

Turn it up, hungry for the medicine
Two-fisted to the very end
No more treated like aliens
We’re not gonna take it

No lies, no more alibis
Turn it up got me hypnotized
Rock on, won’t be tranquilized

‘Cause I love it loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise

I love it loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise

Headlines jungle is the only rule
Front page roar of the nation cool
Turn it up, this is my attitude
Take it or leave it

Loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
(I love it)
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise
(I love it)

Loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
(I love it)
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise
(I love it)

Loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
(I love it)
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise
(I love it)

Loud, I wanna hear it loud, right between the eyes
(I love it)
Loud, I wanna hear it loud, don’t want no compromise
(I love it)