★★★★★
"No doubt the beer sales at the Ram's Head Live, where this was recorded, were off the charts that night -- and it shows in a raucous (if somewhat thin-sounding) crowd that quite happily sings along to favorites like 'Cold Blood' and 'Blow My Fuse.'" Eighties glamsters Kix bring their patented party-rock to a hometown crowd on "Live In Baltimore...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-12-24
★★★★★
For the record, I saw Kix live about 30 years ago (yeah, I'm that old) in a shithole of a nightclub called The Village (it may still be a shithole) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Besides surviving the heat, sweat, and overpriced beer (yeah, it's always been that way) of that night, I recall Kix putting on an energetic show. Kix: at the end of show. You'll get a taste of that energy with Live in Baltimore, a recording made at one their favorite hangouts, Rams Head Live...
- www.dangerdog.com
2012-09-17
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Look, people, we really weren't kidding about how much we (Andee and Allan to be precise) love Kix! The response to our listing of their Midnite Dynamite on the last AQ-list was less-than-overwhelming (although Brian at WFMU did email to let us know that his covers band does a Kix song--way to go Brian!), so we're trying again...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Kicks ass is more like it! Super catchy high energy hard pop. This is their third record, from 1985 and is the perfect blend of Cheap Trick's pop hooks and AC/DC's heavy groove. Allan and Andee both love this band. In fact, if you buy this record and love it, we will have no problem ordering you their other three records, all amazing. Oh yeah, Allan wants me to make sure you realize we aren't joking. Because we aren't.
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Look, people, we really weren't kidding about how much we (Andee and Allan to be precise) love Kix! The response to our listing of their Midnite Dynamite on the last AQ-list was less-than-overwhelming (although Brian at WFMU did email to let us know that his covers band does a Kix song--way to go Brian!), so we're trying again...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-03-20
★★★★★
This 1981 album introduced the world to the tongue-in-cheek rock & roll style of Kix. Of all the bands to get lumped in under the "hair metal" tag, Kix was the one of the most unique and adventurous. In fact, the "hair metal" tag was unfair to the band since its pop-metal stylings drew as much inspiration from bubblegum pop and new wave as it did from hard rock...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
This 1983 album pushes Kix in a more new wave direction than their hard-rocking debut outing. On this surface, Cool Kids might seem like a commercialized cash grab: it contains a handful of tracks penned by hired guns like Nick Gilder and Holly Knight and also adds a layer of new wave-styled synthesizer shadings to Kix's pop-metal sound...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Although Kix began life as a hard-rocking band, by the late '80s the group had managed to smooth out the rough edges just enough to crossover into the then-thriving pop-metal world, scoring a major hit with 1988's Midnite Dynamite. But Kix always took a year or two off between albums, and blew their window of opportunity by issuing their follow-up, 1991's Hot Wire, smack dab in the middle of the grunge takeover...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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