Hot Wire (Kix album)

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Hot Wire
Kix-HotWire.jpg
Studio album by
Kix
ReleasedJuly 9, 1991
StudioMusic Grinder and Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre Glam metal, hard rock
Length46:08
Label East West
Producer Kix, Taylor Rhodes
Kix chronology
Blow My Fuse
(1988)		Hot Wire
(1991)		 Live
(1993)
Singles from Hot Wire
  1. "Hot Wire"
    Released: 1991
  2. "Girl Money"
    Released: 1991
  3. "Tear Down the Walls"
    Released: 1991
  4. "Same Jane"
    Released: 1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau Scissors icon black.svg [2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [3]
Entertainment Weekly (B-) [4]

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

Contents

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
Production

Charts

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

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References

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  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide: Kix" . Retrieved 22 November 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 (12 July 1991). "Hot Wire (1991)". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Kix Chart history". Billboard . Retrieved 2022-08-25.
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