Kiss bassist and singer Gene Simmons revealed in an interview with The Quietus back in 2015 his 13 favorite albums of all time and explained the reason why. Simmons listed Jimi Hendrix, Guns N' Roses and more. Kiss' Gene Simmons and his 13 favorite albums of all time: Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ntfb2m3Gw Guns N' Roses "Appetite For Destruction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg Foo Fighters "The Colour And The Shape" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rCNiiNPxA Beck "Mellow Gold" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE&list=FLqwTvA2RZs5FF3sjpwm9Xgg&index=44 The Beatles "The Beatles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BThu95d8 Leslie West "Mountain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsnLN6h5q-s Montrose "Montrose" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk52nGxF-jc Jeff Beck "Truth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VNqSozhfw Def Leppard "Hysteria" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMzyleT2FqY AC/DC "For Those About To Rock We Salute You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsaTFcXVCNU Chubby Checker "Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw Paul McCartney "McCartney" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdDPR8GzXy8 In an interview with Gulf News in 2021 he gave his opinion about the Pop divas and currently rock music, saying: “Rock is dead. And that’s because new bands haven’t taken the time to create glamour, excitement and epic stuff. I mean, Foo Fighters is a terrific band, but that’s a 20-year-old band. So you can go back to 1958 until 1988. That’s 30 years. During that time, we had Elvis, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, on and on.” “In disco, you had Madonna, and then you had your hard rock, you had AC/DC, maybe us, a few others. Motown, all that great music. From 1988, until today, that’s more than 30 years. Tell me who the new Beatles is. You can’t. There are popular bands. BTS is very popular. All kinds of bands are very popular. That doesn’t mean iconic and legacy and for all time. It’s different.”