Tracklist
The Oath | 4:32 | ||
Fanfare | 1:22 | ||
Just A Boy | 2:30 | ||
Dark Light | 4:12 | ||
Only You | 4:19 | ||
Under The Rose | 4:49 | ||
A World Without Heroes | 2:40 | ||
Mr. Blackwell | 4:58 | ||
Escape From The Island | 2:50 | ||
Odyssey | 5:36 | ||
I | 3:52 |
Credits (13)
- Bob EzrinBass Guitar
- Gene SimmonsBass Guitar
- St. Robert's ChoirChorus
- Allan SchwartzbergDrums
- Eric CarrDrums
- Ace FrehleyElectric Guitar
Notes
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![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Germany | 1981 | Germany — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo | Casablanca – NBLP 7261 | Canada | 1981 | Canada — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Netherlands | 1981 | Netherlands — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Norway | 1981 | Norway — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – NBLP 7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – 63 02 163 | Spain | 1981 | Spain — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Italy | 1981 | Italy — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Test Pressing, PRC version | Casablanca – NBLP-7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Test Pressing, HRM version | Casablanca – NBLP-7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | New Zealand | 1981 | New Zealand — 1981 | New Submission | |||
(Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Austria | 1981 | Austria — 1981 | New Submission | ||||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Greece | 1981 | Greece — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album | Casablanca – NBL5 7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo, Gatefold, 1st Press | Casablanca – 28S-23 | Japan | 1981 | Japan — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Club Edition | Casablanca – NBLP 7261 | Canada | 1981 | Canada — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | UK | 1981 | UK — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Music From "The Elder" LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – 120.052 | Venezuela | 1981 | Venezuela — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Sorel | Casablanca – 6302 163 | France | 1981 | France — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder = Los Mayores LP, Album, Stereo | Casablanca – 6302 163, Casablanca – 6302163 | Argentina | 1981 | Argentina — 1981 | ||||
![]() | The Elder LP, Album, Misprint | Dallas – LP. 9002, Dallas – 9002 | Turkey | 1981 | Turkey — 1981 | ||||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album, Dolby, White shell | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Netherlands | 1981 | Netherlands — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Italy | 1981 | Italy — 1981 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album | Casablanca – NBL5-7261 | Canada | 1981 | Canada — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Music From "The Elder" Cassette, Album, Stereo | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Germany | 1981 | Germany — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Portugal | 1981 | Portugal — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – STAR 6001 | South Africa | 1981 | South Africa — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Music From "The Elder" LP, Album | Casablanca – LPR 43057, PolyGram – 6302 163 | Mexico | 1981 | Mexico — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Brazil | 1981 | Brazil — 1981 | ||||
![]() | Music From "The Elder" 8-Track Cartridge, Album, 12 | PolyGram – NBL8 7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Netherlands | 1981 | Netherlands — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Australia | 1981 | Australia — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – NBLP 7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – NBLP 7261 | US | 1981 | US — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | Austria | 1981 | Austria — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Stereo, 2nd Press | Casablanca – 28S-23 | Japan | 1981 | Japan — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder LP, Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Gatefold | Casablanca – 28S-23 | Japan | 1981 | Japan — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Music From "The Elder" LP, Album | Casablanca – LP-28537 | Ecuador | 1981 | Ecuador — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Norway | 1981 | Norway — 1981 | New Submission | |||
![]() | (Music From) The Elder Cassette, Album, Stereo | Casablanca – 7144 163 | Brazil | 1981 | Brazil — 1981 | New Submission | |||
(Music From) The Elder LP, Album, White Label, Gatefold | Casablanca – 6302 163 | UK | 1981 | UK — 1981 | New Submission |
Recommendations
Reviews
- This album is a bust!! Of course, true Kiss fans are going to say it isn't that bad. It was an attempt to duplicate the Who and Queen. My opinion is that the Who and Queen is just more talented. The soundtrack for a movie that didn't get made. I purchased this CD for under $5.00, and that is the right price. Do not be duped to purchase this album for anything over $5.00. It sounds nothing like previous albums.Lastly, I at least I am giving an opinion on this album 👎
- I have a totally different tracklisting on my Dutch pressing, on Side 2 .
1 - Dark Light, 2 - A World Without Heroes, 3 - The Oath, 4 - Mr. Blackwell, 5 - I ..
Plus, slightly different runouts from THIS release, looking like variant 1 .
A puzzle, or did someone else know about this ?? - The Matrix do not correspon to the Maatrix on picture.
The Matrix should be: 824 153-2 02@ with Clear Inner Ring with no Mastering or Mould SID Codes.
This is not the Matrix on the uploaded picture: MADE BT DISCTRONICS (H) W.O. 12066-1 854153-2
Check it. - A strange, but wonderful intriguing record. Not your average Kiss record. I always wonder what a tour to support this would be like? I think of Spinal Tap and Stonehenge 😂
- I remember hearing this album like way later in the 1990's and Lou Reed's name is all over it .... And the music has that The Who Tommy feeling at times and Berlin and The Wall all by Bob Erzin ..... It's more like a Paul and Gene Simmons work ... There is some great work on here that I'm sure in 1981 people just didn't get Kiss fans especially... And I hated most of the albums after this one ...
- This disc is great! The pack, the inner and inserts, the mastering and the press in clear vinyl 180g (need a clean like allways do!) Press in Germany and enginnered. The only thing i dont see in who master the vinyl in Germany.
- There’s definitely more than 500 of these. My two were damaged and I complained but they told me it was sold out and refunded me. Then miraculously 6 months later two brand new copies show up in the mail. They repressed this. Also almost 100 copies have been sold on eBay and discogs alone. Plus Darkside records lists it as being limited to 700 on their site.
- Edited 16 days agoWell worth the money. You will hear sounds you hadn't before. Gene's bass work is truly beautiful and the record sounds as if the band is right in front of you, not a record. THERE IS A TRAIN HORN at the very beginning of the record!!!
- An underrated album. You have to keep in mind that it is not a Rock & Roll album, because it is intended as an epic story. It is a theatrical album, for scenes, not for stages. I don't imagine it in a concert, I imagine it on Broadway... And in that context it is an excellent album.
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