Every Time I Look at You

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"Every Time I Look at You"
Single by Kiss
from the album Revenge
B-side
  • "Partners in Crime"
  • "I Just Wanna" (CD maxi single)
Released1992
Genre Glam metal [1]
Length4:38
Label Mercury (USA)
Songwriter(s) Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin
Producer(s) Bob Ezrin
Kiss singles chronology
"I Just Wanna"
(1992)
"Every Time I Look at You"
(1992)
"I Love It Loud (Live)"
(1992)
Music video
"Every Time I Look at You" on YouTube

"Every Time I Look at You" is a song by the American rock band Kiss from their 1992 studio album Revenge . [2] It became the album's final single.

Contents

Background and writing

It was the ninth track on the band's 1992 studio album Revenge . [2]

The song was written by Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin,

Composition

Brett Weiss' Encyclopedia of KISS notes that the song "Every Time I Look at You" "is further proof" to the fact that "with songs like 'Beth' and 'Forever' KISS can do powerballads with the best of them." [2]

According to the same Encyclopedia of KISS, Dick Wagner, a "prolific musician", "who worked with such legendary acts as Lou Reed and Billy Joel, plays guitar on the song. It wasn't the first and only time he played on a Kiss recording, among other Kiss songs he played guitar on were "Beth", "Flaming Youth" and "Sweet Pain" [3] (from the 1976 album Destroyer ).

Personnel

with

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [4] 31

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References

  1. McPadden 8/7/2015, Mike. "5 Hair Metal Ballads Inspired By/Ripped Off From Extreme's "More Than Words"". VH1 News. Archived from the original on May 22, 2022. Retrieved 2021-03-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN   978-1-4766-2540-9.
  3. Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 202–. ISBN   978-1-4766-2540-9.
  4. "Kiss – Every Time I Look at You". Singles Top 100.