Let’s Put the X in Sex

Let's Put the X in Sex is a 1988 EP from KISS, issued in the US on Mercury Records the same year. It arrived between two studio albums, Crazy Nights in 1987 and Hot in the Shade in 1989, so it belongs to the late-eighties stretch of the band's story, well after the makeup-era records of the 1970s and the unmasked reinvention that began with Lick It Up in 1983.

As a short release, it is best treated as a snapshot of where KISS stood at the close of the decade, not a full statement like their albums. For fans who followed the group through the Crazy Nights period and into Hot in the Shade, it fills in a small but telling piece of the picture.