The Homesteaders (2) – Convoy 20 Of Today's Hits

There are some decent covers on here. The Kiss tune, Rock & Roll All Night (Track C1) is actually not half bad but lacks the bombast of the original.

As a kid in Canada, Skid Row in 1987, was a fan of Marvel Comics before he got into KISS, and didn’t even know what the band looked like when he bought a 1975 compilation album called Convoy: 20 of Today’s Hits that featured “Rock & Roll All Night” [sic], a song that he immediately fell for. “But this was one of those fake K-tel-style records that didn’t even list the names of the bands,” he says, unaware that the song was actually a cover by something called the C.B. Radio Music Ensemble. When a friend showed him pictures of KISS, with Simmons vomiting blood, Bach was thoroughly disgusted. “I said to my friend, ‘How could you listen to that?’ Then one day after school my buddy dropped the needle and it was ‘Rock and Roll All Nite.’ I was like, ‘You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! These are the guys?’” Bach would soon be buying KISS records sound unheard. “I don’t judge them: Oh, they’ve got to top that last record. I look at it, like, This person is going to be dead one day, and I want as much art from them as they can possibly give me.”

- "They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll"
By Doug Brod · 2020