Show Business 1995 Album

Kix

As the 90's beckoned, some hair metal rockers adjusted their sound to the new standard. But Kix? Most of their 1995 release sounds like they time-warped back to their 1985 selves to make another album. I call it the most ideal Kix-sounding album to date - every up-tempo track has a catchy hook and has the word "fire" or "ball" or some other crass reference in the title. But there are a couple of strange ballads here, along with an odd funk-rock thing ("I'm Bombed" with its' thuggish "napalm" retort), which ends the album and leaves one with a gritter taste in the mouth than most Kix records.