Bad Attitude

Peter Criss, Mark Montague, Ray Carrion

Written by Peter Criss, Mark Montague, and Ray Carrion, this song provided the only single ever released from Peter's "Criss" project. It is also one of three tracks Ace Frehley guests on. He recorded his parts during March 1994. The first song off the album, "Bad Attitude" dated from the very day that Mark Montague joined the band without an audition. He recalled that when he and Peter just started jamming that the song was already part of an idea he had at the time.

According to Mark, "Actually at that time it was called 'Bad Reputation' and I started playing the chorus of it and Peter is like 'Man, that's great. I got this thing about the Star Magazine and they wrote all these bad things about me in the paper,' and he went on and wrote the rest of the song. The lyrics for the verses, the pre-choruses, stuff like that. And that was it. From that point on we started playing every day" (Angela Monger).

However, the lyrics "3 O'clock in the morning / I'm getting ready for bed / It came without a warning" were previously part of Paul McCartney and Wings' "Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me) which was released on their 1973 "Band On The Run" album. It's not the only Beatles related lyrical borrowing on the album since the "I think I'm gonna be sad" ending of "Blue Moon Over Brooklyn" comes from "Ticket To Ride."