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((Infobox album
| name       = Kiss Me Deadly
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Generation X (band)|Gen X]]
| cover      = Generationx-kissmedeadly-cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 23 January 1981
| recorded   =
| studio     = [[Associated Independent Recording|AIR]], London
| genre      = 
* [[New wave music|New wave]]<ref name= "Breihan 2021">((cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony|website= [[Stereogum]] |date= March 26, 2021|url= https://www.stereogum.com/2122043/the-number-ones-billy-idols-mony-mony/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= In 1981, the band tried to go in more of a new-wave direction, enlisting Donna Summer collaborator Keith Forsey to produce their album ''Kiss Me Deadly''...|accessdate= November 8, 2023))</ref>
* [[post-punk]]
| length     = 37:44
| label      = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]]
| producer   = [[Keith Forsey]]
| prev_title = [[Valley of the Dolls (album)|Valley of the Dolls]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [[The Best of Generation X]]
| next_year  = 1985
| misc       = ((Singles
 | name        = Kiss Me Deadly
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Dancing with Myself]]
 | single1date = October 1980
))
))
((Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = ((Rating|3|5))<ref>((AllMusic|class=album|id=r782625|first=William|last=Ruhlmann))</ref>
))

'''''Kiss Me Deadly''''' is the third studio album by the English [[punk rock]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] band [[Generation X (band)|Gen X]].<ref name="google1">((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WM6Cb1z-PwC&q=%22Kiss+Me+Deadly%22&pg=PA313 |title=Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982 |author=George Gimarc |page=313 |year=2005 |isbn=9780879308483 |accessdate=2016-03-27))</ref> Produced by [[Keith Forsey]] it was issued in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1981.<ref>''Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982'' by George Gimarc, page 122</ref> It was the final album to be released before their disbandment, though they would briefly reunite in 1993.

''Kiss Me Deadly'' failed on release to enter the [[UK Albums Chart]],<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/dancing%20with%20myself/ |title=Official Chart History |website=Officialcharts.com |date= |accessdate=2016-03-27))</ref> and Gen X broke up after the record's commercial failure.

==Theme==
''Kiss Me Deadly'' displayed a developing complexity in the songwriting partnership of lead singer [[Billy Idol]] and bassist [[Tony James (musician)|Tony James]], as they transitioned from their origins as musicians in the London [[punk rock]] scene of the late 1970s into a more sophisticatedly nuanced sound, and mature lyrical and thematic content, at the initiation of the British New Wave movement in 1980. The album's theme is the troubled complexities of life in the [[metropolis|metropolitan]] [[Western World]] at the end of the 20th century, with reflections on city life, social isolation, narcotic abuse and drug dependency, and the ambition and exhilaration of youth.<ref>'Dancing with Myself' by Billy Idol (Pub. Simon & Schuster, 2014).</ref>

The lyrics for "Dancing with Myself" were inspired by a 1979 visit to a [[Tokyo]] nightclub while the predecessor band [[Generation X (band)|Generation X]] were on tour in Japan, when Idol and James encountered the strange sight of young Japanese nightclubbers disco dancing with their own reflections in a mirror-walled venue rather than with one another. The song's lyrics reflect social isolation in a crowd and the youthful search for companionship with the opposite sex.<ref>'Billy Idol Unplugged' (2001), 1.11 mins, Idol explains the origin of 'Dancing with Myself' song.</ref>

"Happy People" was inspired by a newspaper article about escalating use of the anti-depressant prescription drug [[Valium]] in contemporary British society.<ref>'Dancing with Myself', by Billy Idol (2014).</ref>

Idol's lyrics for "Untouchables" reflected on his daydreaming at school about pop music stardom, being fascinated by its distant glamour; of the driving impulse to avoid the 9-to-5 employment existence of adulthood that lay beyond school years, and reflecting his fears of the potential for failure of his attempt at a professional career in pop music with a return to that world.<ref>'Dancing with Myself', by Billy Idol (2014).</ref>

"Poison" was about Idol's increasing dalliance with [[heroin]], and the psychological dangers that he sensed were present in the lifestyle that he had embarked upon in pursuance of pop music stardom.<ref>'Dancing with Myself', by Billy Idol (Simon & Schuster, 2014).</ref>

"Heavens Inside" was written about [[Steve New]], whom Idol and James had wanted to be Gen X's guitarist until they abandoned the idea due to New's [[narcotic]] addiction that rendered him a professional liability.<ref>'Bright Stars Burn Fastest', interview with Steve New, 'Mudkiss Fanzine', 10 October 2009. http://www.mudkiss.com/beastellabeast.htm</ref>

==Production==
''Kiss Me Deadly'' was recorded at [[AIR Studios]] in London in 1980, produced by [[Keith Forsey]] and engineered by Nigel Walker.

Several of its songs were salvaged from Generation X's 1979 recording sessions at [[Olympic Studios]] for that band's abortive third album, during which they had acrimoniously broken up (the original recording sessions were retrospectively released in 1998 under the title ''[[Sweet Revenge (Generation X album)|Sweet Revenge]])''. Idol and James, Generation X's singer/frontman and bassist, had afterwards rebranded the act with a new drummer ([[Terry Chimes]]), a modified name and a conversion into the nascent [[New Romantic]] movement's look and sound.<ref>'Dancing With Myself', Billy Idol (Simon & Schuster, 2014).</ref>

The album title was taken from an earlier Generation X song, one of the signature tunes of the band's early repertoire, and was intended to signal a return to the lyrical content of that period (i.e. "singing about things we knew about personally"), after what was perceived to be the artistic false step of the band's second album, ''[[Valley of the Dolls (album)|Valley of the Dolls]]'' (1979).<ref>'Ballad of Billy & Tony', New Musical Express, 21 February 1981.</ref>

Gen X were without a lead guitarist during the recording of ''Kiss Me Deadly'', and utilized prominent guest guitarists [[John McGeoch]], [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]], [[Steve New]] and [[Danny Kustow]], the latter two not being formally credited on the sleeve.<ref>Entry for 'Kiss Me Deadly', Punky Gibbon website. http://www.punkygibbon.co.uk/bands/g/generationx.html</ref> Guitarist [[James Stevenson (musician)|James Stevenson]] was credited on the sleeve as being in the band, but joined after the album had been recorded and did not play on the record.<ref>Interview with James Stevenson with Mariola Fiedorczuk, 'Ola's Cool Kitchen', Los Angeles radio, May 2014.</ref> On several of the songs, different guitarists worked in combination, alternating between [[lead guitar|lead]] and [[rhythm guitar|rhythm]], creating a dynamic fusion of differing playing styles.<ref>'Dancing With Myself', by Billy Idol (Pub. Simon & Schuster, 2014).</ref>

<blockquote>"McGeoch said, 'Oh I'll come down and help out'. He rehearsed for three weeks and did the majority of the record with us. Jonesy came back from Thailand and supplied [[Never Mind the Bollocks|"Bollocks"]] on some tracks - patented Jonesy "Bollocks" - and he was really good on the raunchy stuff. Danny Kustow did a bit on the ("Dancing With Myself") single".<ref>Interview with Tony James, 'ZigZag Magazine', March 1981.</ref> "It's Steve New playing lead guitar on the single ''[[Dancing with Myself]]'', playing the lick and the solo, and he plays it brilliantly".<ref>Interview with Tony James in April 2002 for the 'Generation X Anthology'.</ref> – Tony James</blockquote>

<blockquote>"John McGeoch was an incredible guitarist, he really helped to bring the album to life".<ref>Interview with Billy Idol, 'Guitar Player' magazine, 20 January 2015. https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/idol-chatter-billy-idol-on-songwriting-gen-x-and-why-vinyl-rules</ref> – Billy Idol</blockquote>

==Singles releases==
The album's sole single "[[Dancing with Myself]]" reached number 62 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] on pre-release ahead of the album in October 1980.<ref>''Alternative Rock'' by Dave Thompson, page 389</ref>

==Cover art==
The record's cover was photographed by [[Brian Aris]].

==Track listing==
===Original LP (1981)===
((Track listing
| all_writing = Billy Idol and Tony James, except where noted
| headline = Side 1
| title1 = [[Dancing with Myself]]
| length1 = 3:45
| title2 = Untouchables
| writer2 = Idol
| length2 = 3:37
| title3 = Happy People
| length3 = 4:28
| title4 = Heavens Inside
| writer4 = Idol 
| length4 = 2:56
| title5 = Triumph
| writer5 = Idol
| length5 = 3:24
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((Track listing
| headline = Side 2
| title1 = Revenge
| length1 = 4:19
| title2 = Stars Look Down
| length2 = 4:39
| title3 = What Do You Want
| length3 = 4:04
| title4 = Poison
| length4 = 2:59
| title5 = Oh Mother
| writer5 = Idol, James, [[Terry Chimes]] 
| length5 = 3:33
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((Track listing
|headline = 2005 bonus CD tracks
|title11 = Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Dubble
|note11 = B-side to 1981 "Dancing with Myself" 12"
|length11 = 8:28
|title12 = Loopy Dub
|note12 = B-side to 1980 "Dancing with Myself" 12"
|length12 = 5:04
|title13 = Ugly Dub
|note13 = B-side to 1980 "Dancing with Myself" 12"
|length13 = 3:07
|title14 = From the Heart 
|note14 = From ''Live at the Paris Theatre '78 & '81''
|length14 = 2:19
|title15 = [[Andy Warhol (song)|Andy Warhol]] 
|note15 = From ''Live at the Paris Theatre '78 & '81''
|length15 = 3:28
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==Personnel==
'''Gen X'''
* [[Billy Idol]] − vocals, guitar
* [[Tony James (musician)|Tony James]] − bass guitar
* [[Terry Chimes]] − drums
* [[James Stevenson (musician)|James Stevenson]] − guitar (credited on sleeve but didn't participate in the recording)
with:
* [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] − additional guitars (tracks 1, 2)
* [[Danny Kustow]] − additional guitars (track 1)
* [[John McGeoch]] − additional guitars (tracks 3-10)
* [[Steve New]] − additional guitars (tracks 1, 2)
;Technical
*Nigel Walker − engineer "at the controls"
*Rick Isbell − engineer "button man and key grip"
*[[Brian Aris]] − photography

== References ==
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