Show Business (album)

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Show Business
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Studio album by
Kix
ReleasedApril 4, 1995
StudioGuido's Studio, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Genre
Length47:35
Label CMC International
Producer Donnie Purnell
Kix chronology
Live
(1993)		Show Business
(1995)		 Rock Your Face Off
(2014)

Show Business (stylized as $how Bu$ine$$) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Kix. [1] [2] It was released in 1995 through CMC International, following their departure from Atlantic Records. [3] [4] Kix supported the album with a North American tour. [5]

Contents

The album was a commercial flop. Show Business was the band's last album before their long-term breakup. [6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]

Rolling Stone wrote that "there remains something oddly lovable about this goofy group of hard-rock power popsters who seem to have been going at it forever with only limited commercial success." [9] The Deseret News deemed the album "light-hearted rock with lots of innuendo but not much substance." [10]

Track listing

  1. "Ball Baby" (Purnell, Bob Halligan Jr., Martin Briley) – 4:46
  2. "9-1-1" (Purnell, John Palumbo) – 4:38
  3. "Fireballs" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:08
  4. "Baby Time Bomb" (Purnell, Taylor Rhodes) – 4:22
  5. "Book to Hypnotize" (Purnell) – 4:07
  6. "Put My Money Where Your Mouth Is" (Purnell, Steve Whiteman) – 5:21
  7. "She Loves Me Not" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 7:23
  8. "Fire Boy" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 3:23
  9. "I'm Bombed" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 5:07
  10. "If You Run Around" (Purnell) – 4:23

Credits

Kix
Additional musicians
Production

References

  1. ↑ "Kix Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Weatherford, Mike (May 26, 1995). "KIX, BUT NO RESPECT". Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 2E.
  3. ↑ Phillips, William; Cogan, Brian (March 20, 2009). Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music. ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-0-313-34801-3 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Stout, Alan K. (September 22, 1995). "KIX IS BACK FOR KICKS". Times Leader.
  5. ↑ "CONCERT NEWS TO HUM OVER". Deseret News . May 19, 1995. p. W8.
  6. ↑ Prince, Patrick (June 25, 2018). "KIX to celebrate 'Blow My Fuse' with anniversary edition". Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia.
  7. ↑ Guarisco, Donald A. (April 4, 1995). "AllMusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. 1 2 "KIX: Show Business". News & Record. Rolling Stone. March 24, 1995. p. W9.
  10. ↑ Curtis, Larry D. (May 26, 1995). "Bass And Drums A Bit Heavy For Kix's Lightweight Efforts". Deseret News . p. W8.
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