Hot Wire (Kix album)

Hot Wire
Studio album by Kix
Released	July 9, 1991
Studio	Music Grinder and Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre	Hard rock glam metal
Length	46:08
Label	East West
Producer	Kix, Taylor Rhodes
Kix chronology
Blow My Fuse (1988) Hot Wire (1991) Live (1993)
Singles from Hot Wire
"Hot Wire" Released: 1991 "Girl Money" Released: 1991 "Tear Down the Walls" Released: 1991 "Same Jane" Released: 1991

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10 [3]
Entertainment Weekly	(B-) [4]

Hot Wire is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Kix. It was released on July 9, 1991 by East West Records.

Overview

Hot Wire peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200 in October 1991. ^[5] It failed to match the sales of Kix's previous album, Blow My Fuse , selling slightly over 200,000 copies. ^[6] Producer Taylor Rhodes co-wrote five of the albums' ten songs with Donnie Purnell (the only Kix member credited as a songwriter). At the same time, Crack the Sky member John Palumbo and songwriter Bob Halligan Jr. (Judas Priest, Kiss, Icon, Blue Öyster Cult) got two co-writing credits each.

Track listing

1. "Hot Wire" (Donnie Purnell, Taylor Rhodes) – 5:22
2. "Girl Money" (Purnell, Rhodes) – 3:58
3. "Luv-a-Holic" (Purnell) – 4:39
4. "Tear Down the Walls" (Purnell, Rhodes) – 4:35
5. "Bump the La La" (Purnell, Rhodes) – 3:28
6. "Rock & Roll Overdose" (Purnell, Rhodes) – 4:29
7. "Cold Chills" (Purnell, Bob Halligan Jr.) – 5:19
8. "Same Jane" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:33
9. "Pants on Fire (Liar, Liar)" (Purnell, John Palumbo) – 4:12
10. "Hee Bee Jee Bee Crush" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 5:33

Personnel

Kix

• Steve Whiteman – lead vocals, harmonica, saxophone, acoustic guitar on "Tear Down the Walls"
• Ronnie "10/10" Younkins – rhythm guitar
• Brian "Damage" Forsythe – lead guitar
• Donnie Purnell – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing on tracks 1-4, 6-9
• Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Production

• Taylor Rhodes – producer on tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, co-producer on tracks 1, 2, 4, mixing on tracks 1-4, 6-9
• Eddie DeLena – engineer, mixing on tracks 5, 10
• Lawrence Ethan, Neal Avron – additional engineering
• George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
• Hugh Syme – art direction, design
• John Scarpati, Mike Hashimoto – photography

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [7]	37
US Billboard 200 [8]	64

External links

• Kix Official Website
• Guitar.com 2014 interview with Kix guitarist Brian Forsythe Archived 2014-12-23 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. Franck, John. "Kix - Hot Wire review". AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved August 26, 2022.
2. Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide: Kix" . Retrieved November 22, 2014.
3. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 231. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
4. Garza, Janiss (July 12, 1991). "Hot Wire (1991)". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
5. "Kix Chart history". Billboard . Retrieved August 25, 2022.
6. "Kix Biography". VH1. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
7. "KIXのランキング情報", Oricon , retrieved July 12, 2024
8. "Kix Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 30, 2024.