Album of the Weekend

Kix-Blow My Fuse

Aside from their ballad "Don't Close Your Eyes" there is a good chance you've never heard of Kix unless you are really into hair bands. Shamefully, I had only heard a few of their songs until recently. 

Their ballad, "Don't Close Your Eyes" is cheesy and over the top, even for an 80's ballad. In order to properly sing a good ballad song, you need to somehow convey cheesy lyrics without knowing they are cheesy. It would be like preforming Saved by the Bell scripts with classically trained Shakespeare actors who aren't laughing or cringing. True, I'm not a ballad guy but even if I was, this wouldn't be a favorite. 

Okay, that's out of the way. The rest of the album is good, maybe even very good. The title track is classic hair band-arrogant, posturing, and the lyrics are full of double entendres. In fact, you can easily see Paul Stanley singing it and Gene Simmons making goofy faces while playing bass. "Get it While it's Hot" and "Boomerang" are also great hair band songs. 

One of the best hair bands out there is Firehouse. Kix isn't up there-I wouldn't put them in my top ten hair bands-but they are still underrated.