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After a disastrous three-year stretch that birthed several of the songs on this list, and found them falling from sold-out arena shows to canceled tours, Kiss miraculously pulled out of a tailspin with 1982's 'Creatures of the Night,' which returned them to (and sometimes even improved on) their original hard-rock sound. Songs like the album's big hit 'I Love It Loud' also featured just about the most massive drum sound this side of 'When the Levee Breaks.' But when it came time to include 'Loud' on their 1988 career-spanning retrospective, that huge sound had been neutered -- as you can hear below. Somebody smart just suggested to us that this was done to make the song fit sonically alongside the more thin-sounding '70s tracks on the album. That makes sense, but taken on its own, it's still very odd to hear part of what made this song so special removed so dramatically.