KISS - I Still Love You
Pretty underrated song, in my opinion. The first, I don't know, 20 odd times I heard this album, I always thought of this song as the 'obligatory long, drawn-out ballad'. Back in October my ex at the time bought me this on CD and it stayed in my truck's CD player for a few weeks. Ever since I re-listened to this album in full this song has really stuck with me. There's a few hurdles to jump through when trying to fully enjoying this song (it's cheesy, it's a KISS ballad, it is six fucking minutes, etc.) but I think at the core it is a good damn KISS song.
Paul Stanley, very surprising, puts a lot into his vocal performance. The underlying synths during the verses add an atmospheric feel to the ballad and I love how the synths fade out to silence when the harder edged riffs of the pre-chorus and chorus come in. Great production and sound design on the track and it is not a shabbily written ballad either, the songwriting is engaging and there isn't any uninspired performances.