
The Killers version is the shortest with the duration of 2:35 as a result of the fade-out of the song starting during the first repetition of the "Shout it, shout it, shout it out loud" lyric following Gene Simmons' "Oh yeah". The Alive II single, which was described by Billboard magazine as a "raucous rocker" that "catches the excitement and energy of the live show," is 23 seconds shorter than the album song due to the removal of audience chant "We want Kiss". The single version of the song is 12 seconds shorter than the studio due to the last "Shout it, shout it, shout it out loud" line being excluded. The song was edited several times for singles and compilation albums. The title of the song was taken from The Hollies' song "We Want to Shout It Out Loud", which Wicked Lester (pre-Kiss) recorded for the unreleased album. The version found on Smashes, Thrashes & Hits is 16 seconds longer, as the chorus repeats and the song ends with "Shout it!". The song was performed on almost every tour, and is one of the most played songs in the Kiss catalog, having been played over one thousand and two hundred times as of August 2012.The title of the song was taken from The Hollies' song "We Want to Shout It Out Loud", which Wicked Lester (pre-Kiss) recorded for the unreleased album.

Also, it is the band's first single to top the charts, as it was number 1 hit in Canada on May 22, 1976. It was released as the lead single off the album, and it proved to be successful, breaking the Top-40, the second Kiss single to achieve that.

SHOUT IT OUT LOUD LYRICS FULL
Cashflow production Me have (white liver) Me baby mother dem say me a tour Shorty say she a go lef' me fi sure Sofia pack up and go through the door (ah-ah) Me no care, gyal still a get bore Amanda say me body soon full a sore Sherica say she love me some more You cyaan say me nein tell you before Me tell the whole a dem say me have (white liver) Awoh Shout it loud Me hearty and me proud Some bwoy nature dead Me liver whiter than the cloud Nuff youth me get, me a life giver Gyal like sand, come fi the right sivva Nuff youth me get, me a life giver Gyal like sand, Addi have (white liver) Gyal, from you tell me your sister a come Through the door me a wheel and tun Five new gyal fi da five year deh Me a link up back when your sister done Alisa if you prefer me (oh!) No lef' me alone with Stephanie (oh!) Cah da good body deh a go pressure me (oh!) And me nature a go get the best of me Me love you But me cyaan help it One gyal cyaan do, me need more than twenty Need you fi know, baby But a nuff gyal waan me c**ky And if you cyaan live with it Gyal, do weh you waan fi do (white liver) Awoh Shout it loud Me horny and me proud Some bwoy nature dead Me liver whiter than the cloud Nuff youth me get, me a life giver Gyal like sand, come fi the right sivva Nuff youth me get, me a life giver Gyal like sand, Addi have (white liver) Come 'tand up inna the dance with Jennifer And a think 'bout Nikesha and Rebecca Said to myself, "The gyal very fatty, eeh" Another tongue ring deh, me a pree Peggy fah Me sidung inna church, but me nah pree religion Me a pree Kim with the gorgeous image, and From inna school me love when me Ms." Shout It Out Loud" is a song by the American hard rock group KISS originally released on their 1976 album, Destroyer.
