CD 1
“Nothin to Lose”
“Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll”
“C’mon and Love Me”
“Rock and Roll All Nite” (Live)
“God of Thunder” (Demo)
“Beth”
“Hard Luck Woman”
*”Reputation” (Demo)
“Christine Sixteen”
“Shout It Out Loud” (Live)
“Strutter ’78″
“You Matter to Me” (Peter Criss)
“Radioactive” (Gene Simmons)
“New York Groove” (Ace Frehley)
“I Was Made for Lovin’ You” (Single Edit)
“Shandi”
“A World Without Heroes”
“I Love It Loud”
“Down on Your Knees”
“Lick It Up”
“Heaven’s on Fire”

CD 2
“Tears Are Falling”
“Reason to Live”
“Let’s Put the X in Sex”
“Forever” (Remix)
“God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll To You II”
“Unholy” (Live)
“Do You Love Me?” (MTV Unplugged)
“Room Service (Live)”
“Jungle (Radio Edit)”
“Psycho Circus”
“Nothing Can Keep Me from You”
“Detroit Rock City” (Live)
**”Deuce” (Live 2004)
“Firehouse” (Live 1999/2000)
“Modern Day Delilah”
**”Cold Gin” (Live 2009)
**”Crazy Crazy Nights” (Live 2010)
“Hell or Hallelujah”

* = Previously Unreleased
** = Unreleased Commercially.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J2PQXQY/?tag=imwan-20

From USAToday.com:

How does a band celebrate the 40th anniversary of its recording career? With more recordings.

Kiss, which released its self-titled debut and Hotter Than Hell in 1974, will kick off a year of anniversary festivities with the April 1 arrival of 10 remastered Kiss albums on vinyl. Another 18 titles will be unleashed by mid-2014.

In May, the band delivers the two-CD Kiss 40 compilation containing one track from every major album, plus live cuts and an unreleased demo from 1977. The set includes such Kiss classics as Detroit Rock City, Love Gun, Beth, Rock And Roll All Nite, Psycho Circus, I Was Made For Lovin' You and Lick It Up.

And today, the foursome serves up Kissteria — The Ultimate Vinyl Road Case, a vinyl box set holding 34 Kiss LPs including titles never previously issued on vinyl. The limited-edition mother lode of Kiss music boasts 19 studio albums, all five Alive releases, the four original Kiss solo albums and six exclusive vinyl discs that will not be sold individually. Among the extras are 11 posters (including the band's first promo poster), a Kiss vinyl cleaning cloth, a Kiss turntable mat, Kiss dominos and four band lithographs. The box can be pre-ordered here. Visit KissOnline.com for details on all things Kiss.

The band will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 10. The group is announcing a tour with Def Leppard today.

Anybody want to take a guess at the price tag on the vinyl set?

$1600?

Pricing for that set hasn't been announced yet, but Chris made a separate thread for it in Collector's Corner:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=87432

Meanwhile, we have a specific release date for the Kiss 40 2-CD set -- May 27th -- and I've put the URL for Amazon's listing page into the opening post. The compilation is not yet pre-orderable, but should be soon.

Watch it - it might be $1600 for this comp!

Kiss 40 is pre-orderable now:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J2PQXQY/?tag=imwan-20

When I see what these supposed bonus demo and live tracks are, I'll decide if I'm buying it.

They finally figured out the way to rope someone like me in is to add an unreleased track or two.

CD 1
“Nothin to Lose”
“Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll”
“C’mon and Love Me”
“Rock and Roll All Nite” (Live)
“God of Thunder” (Demo)
“Beth”
“Hard Luck Woman”
*”Reputation” (Demo)
“Christine Sixteen”
“Shout It Out Loud” (Live)
“Strutter ’78″
“You Matter to Me” (Peter Criss)
“Radioactive” (Gene Simmons)
“New York Groove” (Ace Frehley)
“I Was Made for Lovin’ You” (Single Edit)
“Shandi”
“A World Without Heroes”
“I Love It Loud”
“Down on Your Knees”
“Lick It Up”
“Heaven’s on Fire”

CD 2
“Tears Are Falling”
“Reason to Live”
“Let’s Put the X in Sex”
“Forever” (Remix)
“God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll To You II”
“Unholy” (Live)
“Do You Love Me?” (MTV Unplugged)
“Room Service (Live)”
“Jungle (Radio Edit)”
“Psycho Circus”
“Nothing Can Keep Me from You”
“Detroit Rock City” (Live)
**”Deuce” (Live 2004)
“Firehouse” (Live 1999/2000)
“Modern Day Delilah”
**”Cold Gin” (Live 2009)
**”Crazy Crazy Nights” (Live 2010)
“Hell or Hallelujah”

* = Previously Unreleased
** = Unreleased Commercially.

Picking one song from each studio or live album and throwing in a few things, this is a very good and career-spanning comp.

I have every KISS album I want and own no comps, and there's enough here for me to give Gene a few buck$.

A waste of a release...at least to me...

I'll buy it but no Love Gun or Calling Dr Love?

They finally figured a way to get me to buy a comp for the first time in well over a decade by putting in some rarities. Still, I may wait to see if I can get this cheap.

Some fairly rare stuff here like "Nothing Can Keep Me From You", "Down On Your Knees", "Reputation" and the live tracks, so I'm getting this.

I am confused-3 solo tunes but none from Paul?

As for some big tunes missing-clearly they tried to go with one song only from each studio, comp and live record and then added some others live.

I love that "Shandi" and "A World Without Heroes" are both here.

Will this have new mastering?

The track listing on the Kiss website has "Hold Me, Touch Me" as being included on the compilation. So if that is correct then Paul's solo album will be represented.

let's see:

40 tracks, 4 new songs = $20

kiss is getting dangerously close to "led zeppelin" territory

and yet buckingham/nicks is still not available on cd

i weep for our nation's youth.

p.s.: who, or what, is an "r.e.m."?

Okay...since when did Renny start posting as "Brainiac McGee"?

It's a Southern rap group... kinda like N.W.A., but from Athens instead of Compton.

The worst song on his album. UGH!

There were some comments in a few stories recently (from both Peter Criss and Eric Singer, interestingly) that it's Paul who really runs KISS. Based on anecdotal evidence like this compilation...would have to agree. Of the 40 songs, only 11 sung solely by Gene ("Reputation" is a so-so Gene solo album demo), 3 by Peter (well, 3 1/2 if you count "Nothin' To Lose," so I guess that cuts Gene down to 10 1/2) and just 1 by Ace, leaving Paul with sole lead vocals on a whopping 23 (nearly 60%) of the 40 tracks. 2 tracks ("Shout It Out Loud" and "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II" have Paul and Gene pretty much equally sharing lead vocals).

Also... the theme was one track from every album including the compilations (that's why we're subjected to "Let's Put The X In Sex") but "Nothing Can Keep Me From You"--a lame re-hash by the same writer of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"--is a really poor choice. Not that there was much chance of it being included, but there's an interesting studio re-recording of "Detroit Rock City" originally intended for the Detroit Rock City film soundtrack that was one of the last tracks the original four members ever played on together.

What an awful comp. Glad that it's not the same ol' same ol', but what they've chosen is pretty bad. It's a very strange tracklist.

I think IKONS is gonna go down as my fav KISS collection. They did a great job of highlighting the best from all four.

Can we get an ALIVE! album from the 80s/90s at some point PLEASE?! ALIVE III completely skipped a decade. I'd love to see stuff from the Creatures through Hot In The Shade tours make it onto disc at some point.

Gene loves money. Why no career-spanning live box with one disc per tour? Quit re-hashing the f-ing greatest hits and go into the vaults for stuff people really want!