Crazy Nights - Unreleased Songs

Unreleased Songs

A few other songs were recorded for the album, but not included. Bruce Kulick, Desmond Child and Paul Stanley wrote a power ballad "Sword And Stone" that did not manage to get on the album because Ron was not thrilled with the song. Bruce later stated, "I just felt really bad that Ron Nevison didn't like the song 'cause then it would have been on "Crazy Nights". But I couldn't control that. And the demo that is out there in bootleg form is pretty good. We did it at Electric Lady with Eric Carr and it's a full-blown KISS track practically. I actually came up with that riff backstage on tour early on, "Asylum" I think. That's what happens. Paul didn't mind as much, I felt pretty bad about that."

The song was offered to Canadian rock band Loverboy, and was re-recorded by their lead-guitarist Paul Dean on his 1988 album Hard Core. The song was also recorded by German heavy metal band Bonfire for a Wes Craven movie Shocker. Eric Carr, Gene Simmons and Adam Mitchell wrote "Dial 'L' For Love". Carr was the primary writer of the song, and he later passed it to Gene and Adam who completed it. As Carr stated, "the song wasn't good at the time so it didn't get on the album." A demo was made, but it didn't include completed vocals. It was sung by Carr. An instrumental recording of "Dial 'L' For Love" would be released on Unfinished Business in 2011.

"Are You Always This Hot" is a song written by Simmons and Mitchell and is unique because it has not yet been found in collector's circles nor re-recorded by another artist. In the 1980s, Simmons had the ritual of making new songs that are based on some older songs, or simply spoken, he recycled them. And "Are You Always This Hot" is one of them. It was first written by Adam Mitchell in 1981. The song "Time Traveler" was recorded during these sessions and later released on the 2001 KISS Box Set. Some other songs that were written for the album, but never made it are "Boomerang", "‘X’ Marks the Spot", "Scratch and Sniff", "What Goes Up", "Hunger For Love", "Dirty Blonde" and "No Mercy", although "Boomerang" would be later featured on Hot in the Shade.