Re: Kix
Kix didn't have a great deal of top-tier songs, however their albums were always pretty good from start to finish.
My favorite from them, honestly, was their final studio album from 1995 which was called Show Business.
When they split, two or three guys from the band (including the lead singer) formed a new band in the mid-1990's called Funny Money and proceeded to release a few studio albums. The band sounded pretty much like Kix, at least a direct-to-video/made for tv version if you know what I mean.
Most people don't know this but singer Steve Whiteman apparently had a pretty gnarly lisp when he was younger and he took speech/vocal classes in an effort to better hide it, which had something to with him forming Kix in the first place. At least that is the so-called story.
Kix also inspired one of my cooler phone calls when I was still on the radio. During a broadcast one night, I played some song from one of their middle-years studio albums called Midnite Dynamite. I don't even remember what the song was. However, exactly one week later I was on the air again and took a phone call from a gentleman who actually called in to say (verbatim), "Thank you for playing Kix last week man because it made me remember how much I liked them." He went on to say that right after I played them the week before, he got in his car and drove to the music store in town to see if that album or any of their other ones were in the cd racks. He found Midnite Dynamite and proceeded to buy it because I had just played it. Kind of cool.
