Blow My Fuse

Artist: Kix
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 075678187742
EAN: 0075678187742
ASIN: B000002IMP

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

Red Lite, Green Lite, TNT
Get It While It's Hot
No Ring Around the Rosie
Don't Close Your Eyes
She Dropped Me the Bomb
Cold Blood
Piece of the Pie
Boomerang
Blow My Fuse
Dirty Boys

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Customer Reviews:

Underrated band, Good songs but bad production .......2006-07-31

Blow My Fuse is a good album but not great. Listening to it recently I think it really could have been a great one. Kix had a lot of talent with great songs and great guitar work. Lead singer Steve Whiteman sounds like a cross in-between Axl Rose and Brian Johnson which fits the band very well. Kix was one of the more underrated bands of the hair metal scene of the 80's early 90's. If they had better management and production this could have been superstars. I remember seeing the band live around 1991 or 1992 and the album doesn't capture the band at all.

The album does have some great hooks on it. Epically on the tracks "Blow My Fuse", "Cold Blood" & Get It While It's Hot". The bad areas are Jimmy Chalfant's weak drumming (similar to Fred Coury of Cinderella) and the horrible production. I don't think he was a bad drummer personally, I just think it goes back to the production of the album.

I wish they would have re-recorded this album to make it more up to date like Bulletboys did with the Burning Cats...CD. The production of this album is very 80's and sounds very dated. There's too much unnecessary echo on Steve Whiteman's vocals on every song. If the vocals would have been left alone it would have sounded raw, like Axl on Appetite.

I also think there's too much synthesizer on the album. There biggest hit was "Don't Close Your Eyes" which is a great song but I always find myself skipping into the "meat" of the song due to the lame synthesizer intro.

I never quite understood then album cover either. I know it's an electrical transformer but it's kind of cartoonist and looks stupid. It's bad enough the band had the same name as a kids cereal but the horrible album cover I think had a lot to do with there downfall.

For all the problems you still should still pick it up.

UNDERRATED.......2006-07-28

Let me just say this: If you put Steve Whiteman up against any other vocalist from the '80's metal genre you'd be able to seperate the men from the boys!!!!

Guitar-driven sleaze rock.......2006-06-28

In listening to the history of Kix, from the Shooz to the Generators, this album is a bit of a musical departure for the band. Missing are the tongue-in-cheek euphemisms and naughty wordplay that is Kix's mantra. The band really cuts their teeth on edgy, gritty songs such as "Get it While it's Hot" and "Don't Close Your Eyes" (a HAVE TO HAVE ballad). You can't go wrong with this disc!

Wow........2006-03-01

Okay, this really is not my favorite musical genre, but I must admit that this album did bring me some very genuine auditory pleasure.

This band ROCKS and so does this cd!.......2006-02-25

While stationed in Japan a friend gave me a copied cassette version of this album/cd. Althought the release date is 1989, I had it in 1987?? Not sure how, he said he had a friend in the band. From the first time I listened to it I was hooked. After returning to the states in NC, I had the chance to see them live at The Attic in Greenville in 1988. What a show!! This album still ranks as a must have kick @ss disc for those of us that grew up in the era of hair metal and R&R. BUY IT!

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