GIRL: 'Do You Love Me'
(1980.
Jet Records - JET 169)
'Girl' featured Simon and Gery Laffy, Dave Gaynor, and Phil Lewis (later of LA Guns) and Phil Collen (later of Def Leppard). Though their debut album ('Sheer Greed' JET LP 224) famously featured 'Do You Love Me' as the opener to its b-side, it's less well known that the song was released as the first single prior to the release of the 'Sheer Greed' lp under the tag 'Girl - The Single'. This makes this single one of the earliest, if not the earliest covers of a KISS song. It's also unusual in that it's used as the a-side to a debut single!. The b-side to the single was the Lewis-penned 'Strawberries'.
ANTHRAX: 'Parasite'
(1989.
Megaforce/Island Records - IS 409
Anthrax by now has a long history of covering KISS tunes (from 'Love Her All I Can' to 'She' to 'Watchin' You'), this, however, was their first. Featured as the b-side to their 'Anti-Social' single in 1989, it also appeared on the 12" version, and later appeared on the Anthrax album 'Attack of the Killer B's'.
SKID ROW: 'C'Mon And Love Me'
(1991. Atlantic - A 7603)
As the first single from the 'Slave To The Grind' album, Skid Row opted to place a rather brutal version of 'C'mon And Love Me' on it's b-side - and declared as much on it's sleeve as well ('features a version of the Kiss klassic C'mon and Love Me'). As the Anthrax version of a KISS song ended up on an album full of B-sides, so did Skid Row's 'C'mon And Love Me' cover on the 'B-Sides Ourselves' album.
