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Blow My Fuse | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kix
Label: East/West Records
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 6806
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 81877
UPC: 756781877286
EAN: 0075678187728
ASIN: B000002IMO
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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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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Probably the best album from sadly defunct hard-rockers Kix. Never overwhelmingly popular, their only major hit (the anti-suicide ballad "Don't Close Your Eyes") is on this album. It's a radical departure from most of their material, which consisted mainly of good-time, party-on pop metal infused with genuine smarts and affection for the music. Hailing from Maryland, they incorporated the L.A. glam style into their music while maintaining a grittier edge that owed a good deal to AC/DC. This mix serves them very well on songs like "Get It While It's Hot," "Cold Blood," "Boomerang," "Dirty Boys," and the title track. With considerably more substance than most 1980s pop metal, this album holds up much better than its contemporaries. --Genevieve Williams
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 KIX-BLOW MY FUSE CD March 11, 2008
If you like fun, catchy hard rock in the style of AC/DC and Let Zeppelin, this is the band and cd for you. Great songs. Great Riffs. Great rock vocalist.
 the hair metal genre August 13, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I'm no longer a fan of the big hair and the heavy metal style of the late 80's (which sounds more like pop music these days than "heavy metal") I really do like about half of this Kix album.
"Red Lite, Green Lite, TNT" sounds a little bit like Alice Cooper with the vocal melody in the beginning. Probably the best song on the album. "Get It While It's Hot" can EASILY be confused with hundreds of other hair metal bands that were around at the same time. It's got a decent chorus, but nothing else about it catches my attention.
"Don't Close Your Eyes" was the big hit (well, the title song was too). I've always been a big fan of the vocal melody in the beginning of the song. It's so moody and unlike anything other ordinary hair metal bands would create. The band deserves credit for going out of their way to really be creative on this song.
Other songs such as "Piece of the Pie" will probably remind you of Warrant's "Cherry Pie" or anything Poison did. Of course, the title song was a big hit that radio stations still play to this day. I like "Dirty Boys" too. So yeah, I like about half of the album. It's pretty decent, though someone who appreciate hair metal more than me would understandably enjoy Blow My Fuse more than I do.
I have to agree with the reviewers who say the album sounds bad. While I wouldn't go so far as to say it sounds "bad" it's definitely a quiet album compared to what Motley Crue and Twisted Sister were doing at the time.
Underrated band, Good songs but bad production August 1, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 July 28, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 June 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
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