You watch Gene Simmons' Family Jewels each week and the one aspect of this great man's legacy that you don't see - or rather hear - is the music. The man isn't just a living legend because he wears big boots and crazy make-up, sticks out his tongue, breathes fire and spits blood, though that's most of it. He's also recorded a few tunes along the way -- both with his mega-successful hard rock n' roll combo KISS and as an incredible solo artist with two albums to his name. KISS released their first album in 1973--that's 34 years ago. There have been many major moments in their career that are treasured by their loving fans. Whether it's performing "Rock and Roll All Nite" or performing, uh, "Rock and Roll All Nite," KISS delivers! 

But Gene has had a deep and profound career and that should be celebrated. Here are five unforgettable moments in Gene's recorded legacy!

"Charisma": From the Dynasty album when Kiss "went disco" with "I Was Made For Loving You," "Charisma" is a one of a kind

Since the demand is high, I will continue to pore over the great hits of yesteryear and expand on their themes in a way that makes it very obvious to everyone what the writer in question was trying to say but didn't necessarily have the editorial space within the confines of their song. Chances are, an evil producer stopped them from getting to the truth. And instead they had to settle for trite rhymes that meant little. Sure, you can hum them easier when everything is so quick and cute. But are you really enriching your soul? Ask yourself! If only the singers had the audacity to sing these lines instead. We would feel our souls becoming ONE with the universe and with each other. We would live forever for the truth would have set us free. But no, they didn't reach for the truth and we will confront the dark alone. Bummer, dude.

Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side": Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A., plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then

People LOVE anniversaries. Paper, Aluminum, Silver, Gold, Platinum, nothing joys the human heart like celebrating the years that have passed and admitting that we are all getting horribly, horribly old. As soon as I heard Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction was turning 20, I thought to myself, "I'll bet a lot of albums are turning 20 this year."

Then the Gods decided to play a mean trick and sent me a copy of the new expanded edition of Prefab Sprout's ultra-groovy Steve McQueen album to commemorate the album's 22nd anniversary! Is no math sacred? Music is all about timing. Shouldn't marketing follow? 22? Huh?

In any event, aside from realizing that Henry Rollins formed the aptly-titled Rollins Band in 1987, I began compiling a voluminous list of albums that should have received the same fanfare for reaching their 20th birthdays with their legacy intact. I know there are those of you who will argue strenuously for the inclusion of the Pixies' Come On Pilgrim or U2's The Joshua

Talking Heads named their album ' 77. Television, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Jam, all kinds of new bands with new music proved to the world that with enough antipathy from radio it, too, could NOT SELL in large amounts. Sure, Never Mind the Bollocks It's the Sex Pistols turns 30 this year. But so do the following albums that became just as important in their own way.

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Before these guys became the RUSH that brought together generations of music fans with their laborious concept albums, overwrought lyrical concerns, tricky, uselessly complicated time signatures and Daffy Duck on helium lead vocals, they were this little band from Canada (only three of them) that most people felt sorry for and bought their albums solely to boost up the band's self-esteem. In 1977, it wasn't uncommon to walk into a record store and overhear an earnest young girl say, "Oh, but their Canadian. I'd feel bad if I didn't help them out in some small way." In Canada, you had to