Gene Simmons: ***Hole [Dual Disc]

Gene Simmons | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Dual Disc
• Label: Silverline
• ASIN: B0006SSP6W
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet & Dirty Love

2. Firestarter

3. Weapons of Mass Destruction

4. Waiting for the Morning Light

5. Beautiful

6. ***hole

7. Now That You're Gone

8. Whatever Turns You On

9. Dog

10. Black Tongue

11. Carnival of Souls

12. If I Had a Gun

13. 1,000 Dreams

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic...Interesting...Fun, October 12, 2005

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Guitar Micheal "Mike" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gene Simmons: ***Hole (Audio CD)

If you are entertained by music (and a KISS fan would help), this is a good listen. Nothing memerable, just a good listen. It would be a must have clearance disk but its probably not for most people. I Loved It.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage In, Garbage Out, September 29, 2009

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Into The Void (Boynton Beach, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gene Simmons: ***Hole (Audio CD)

Probably the lamest of his solo works to date. The Demon needs to go back to his early KISS roots and find himself!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to dual disc, March 12, 2005

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C. A. Poustie (Pakret, Nonthaburi Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gene Simmons: ***Hole (Audio CD)

First of all, you may be wondering what a dual disc is. It is a 2-sided disc, one side is CD and the other side is DVD audio. Basically this disc will play in your conventional CD player or alternatively you can play it, in Dolby Digital on your DVD player. If you have a set of 5.1 surround speakers you get to hear this album in surround sound. (Note: You do not need to have a DVD-audio player to enjoy the surround sound - this plays on DVD-video players in surround).

If you already have this on CD and do not have a surround sound speaker set up it is really not worth buying again on Dual Disc, unless that is you want to watch the promo video of Firestarter which is also included.

I already owned this on CD, and I think this is a very good album, not an all time classic, but a collection of, for the most part, enjoyable Simmons songs with a great variety of styles, from hard rock to ballads, drum'n'bass, metal, rock'n'roll - all done with a pretty modern production, albeit a weakish production on certain songs.

I bought the dual disc version so that I could listen to it in surround sound - and it does sound great coming out of my DVD 5.1 speaker setup. The Firestarter video is pretty ridiculous, Gene acting like a loony pimp surrounded by dozens of LA bimbo's in bikini's - but well shot. Shame that the title track wasn't the single from the album, because it is far more commercial than the dreadful Firestarter song.

All in all I'm glad I purchased this again on dual disc and think the format is a great idea. I get to play the disc in surround sound at home, and still get to be able to play it in the car stereo !

Highly recommended if you enjoy 5.1 dolby digital surround.

Not highly recommended if you do not. But you may find it worth while if you want to watch the Firestarter video.