Kix is possibly the most underrated band ever. Steve Whiteman was an amazing showman with a voice that was perfect for rock music. If you never saw this band live, you missed out on an experience that truly was the embodiment of 80s hair metal. 53 years old and still listen every day! 🤟🏻
They still rock today! I saw them late 2019 for my 1st time. I've loved this band since their 1st album came out (I think 1981.) Amazing concert!!! They rock! I'm going to see them again( late 2021) in Harrisburg PA. at ClubXL. Go see them if you can🤘 👍
I agree 100% with that statement!! I used to see them all the time at the Bayou in DC and Hammer Jacks in Baltimore. I am 53 also, went to high skool in Maryland and they were the shit back in the day! Awesome live band, gritty, raw and all rock and roll!!! Great times at those shows!!!!
Im 35 years old and i just discovered theses guys. man was i born in the wrong era. the music was so much better back then. i cant stand new music of today.
Дружище, мне тоже 35, я такую музыку слушаю с 15 лет, я обожаю слушать RATT, Mötley Crüe, Dokken, Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns, Autograph, Def Lepard, Skid Row, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Pantera, Slaughter, Scorpions, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, XYZ, Love/Hate, Cinderella, Tigertailz, Killer Dwarfs, Badlands, Dangerous Toys, ну и конечно KIX😊
It's true you missed a great time brother. So many awesome bands and different types of music. These guys were very underrated and they still Rock. Say much better live, I've seen them a bunch of times , they're local.
Kix is living proof that the record label decides who gets big and who falls into obscurity. They had the perfect sound, look, and great songs at the right time but got almost no radio play outside of Don't Close Your Eyes.
Which was maybe the worst song on that album! Record labels don't know squat about anything. The fact Kix is still around and selling tickets 34 years after this came out is all that needs to be said.
You're 100% right. Everything was perfect with Kix that _should_ have made them a household name. They had the sound. They had the hooks. They had the talent. They just didn't suck the correct record company dick to be really big.
@@robpaxson4455 Okay, to tell you the truth I can only recognize the lead singer anyway. I haven't seen TOO much of them, enough to say who all the guys are.
Look at that...without even knowing each other we have something in common! Yeah, 'Rosie' is a top notch tune. One of those I just never got tired of hearing. Good on you, Annah!
One of the best LIVE bands ever. Just ask anyone who toured w/them. Also the singer STEVE WHITEMAN,was the vocal teacher for Lzzy Hale from HALESTORM.🤟
I have been doing a lot of thinking about this and I think Cold Blood has to be in the top 5 best songs of this era. Awesome guitar, production, vocals, song writing, video - everything!
It's kind of a haze, but I think I was there? Those brain cells haven't been used in a while! Hammer Jacks was great! They also had a bar with a stage in DC, I think it was called the Cellar Door? Like I said, IT'S ALL A HAZE!
I have no idea why this band didn't blow up to the same level of the best of the 80's. They were a much better live band than most with a better singer. There label vastly underrated them
Because the lead singer was an uggo in the era of the pretty boys. They strayed too close to being genuine in a genre that required a lot of pomp in how you presented yourself. Look around at the uggos who made it. They played to the crowds and "prettied up"
You could say the same thing about bands like Tesla too. There was a lot of competition back then. The 80's were basically one huge hit every week every year of the decade. The "huge" bands like Guns and Roses and Def Leppard and Bon Jovi definitely took a lot of the air out of the room for good groups like this.
@@bobross1829 I agree 100% with everything you said bro. You must be from the hair metal era too. The greatest era ever as far as I'm concerned. Although I am heavily biased lol
I heard this on SiriusXM’s “Hair Nation” tonight, while trucking across America. This song will definitely be on my heavy rotation for the next few weeks...and that brunette...OMG!!! 🚛🎸🤘😁
Who else is still jamming to Kix in 2023??? 💥 Thanks for the memories Kix!! I had the best times at your concerts, and you would tear the house down!!! 💥❤️💥
Saw many shows at Louisville Gardens back in the early 80s. Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Krokus, Great White, etc... Great memories!
Actually it was the industry and oversaturation that did it. I introduce young ones to Kix constantly and they agree it blows today's prefab stuff out of the water
@Dark expat Those "cheesy hair metal bands" are seriously capable musicians with much better and more coherent sounding music than that sideshow speed/thrash metal shit that only basement dwelling nerds listen to
We used to go to George Town in Washington DC in the early 80's. Kix is kick ass in a cramped bar. Lol. Crazy horse, Wax museum and the Bayou club, seen KIX and many others in those bars Best thing was you only had to be 18 to drink in DC, 21 in Virginia where I lived in Dale City nowhere.
I wouldn't actually consider KIX to be hair or glam metal. Didn't then and didn't now. Not that there's anything wrong with hair or glam metal. Some really good music came from those types of bands.
I was too class of 85 !!! Different Times Now! I'm So Glad I Grew Up in That Era!!! We were taught to Respect our elders and each other! Parties all the time bon fires and Sex Drugs and ROCK N ROLL WAS OUR MOTTO!! BUT VERY INNOCENT KIND OF PARTIES AND DRUGS COMPARED TO NOW A DAYS!!!! KIDS TODAY DIDN'T GET TO HAVE THE KIND OF FUN WE DID!!!!!! THE YOUNG KIDS TODAY HAVE NOTHING TO BELIEVE IN AND ARE SO DEPRESSED! IT'S REALLY SAD!!!! SEEN "JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE" BACK IN FEBRUARY OFF THIS YEAR 2022 HE STILL HAS IT!!!! AND A LIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WERE THERE AND JACK SAID.ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO LOVE OUR MUSIC WELL F U WE LIVED IT!!!!! IN A VERY RESPECTFUL WAY!! I LOVED IT!!!!! GLAD THAT ALL THOSE AWESOME BANDS ARE STILL PERFORMING!!!! IT'S AWESOME!!!! KEEP ON ROCKIN!!! MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS INTO MUSIC LIKE ME SHE IS ALMOST 4 YEARS OLD AND HAS GOT THE MAGIC OF MUSIC FROM ME!!!!! AWESOME!!!!! I'M THE CRAZY ROCKIN GRANDMA I TELL HER!LOL!!!!!! ROCK N ROLL FOREVER!! 😎😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘🤘❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎🤘🤘😎😎
WHAT a fucking riff.. The riff most grits (that's code for heavy metal freaks) wanted to nail down back in the day. Man, these guys could've been bigger than Bon Jovi or G'n'R... Blessed to have grown up in the Balt/DC region and had these guys pumping on my FM radio growing up!
I was 10 years old in late 1988 when MTV had been playing this video every morning around the time my grandma was babysitting me (Christmas break I believe) while my parents were working. Every time it came on, I cranked volume up a little higher - not listening to my grandma telling me to turn it down. I was instantly a Kix fan. I soon ended up owning a few tapes and then literally ALL their CDs over the coming years 🤘🤘
kix, warrant, poison.motley crue. i loved them all. i was about 12 when this came out and instantly loved it thanks to MTV. seen poison multiple times, about to see motley crue. Very sad i never got to see warrant or kix.
Dec ‘22 1130pm at fire hall waitin for tones to drop and in the mean time getting my KIX! This music NEVER ages.Last and this generation don’t have a clue that they missed the best music.
I'm 58 & still rock it. I had the honor of seeing this live as we opened up for them in 88 in New Haven Ct. This still Fuckn Rocks. Great times, better days.
How come I never knew about this band until this year. So many underrated bands but Kix has to be one of the best on my list. So glad I came across them on my feed.
I'm 55, and was SO LUCKY to have been born when I was!! STILL listening to Kix, and a lot of the bands from the 70s-early 90s! I got to see and experience this era of rock-n-roll 1st hand and I wouldn't trade ANYTHING to be younger now and have missed out on what was the most fun, bad ass time in rock-n-roll history!! 🤘
KIX was another one of those bands lumped in with the no name la scene, KIX was an amazing hard rock band and very talented, they are simply under rated, great sound and they started in the early 80's!
@@arkangel7j Lol as long as you don't get mad as people always fight about lists! No matter how a list shapes out, somebody will say "Oh that ranking sucks, that band sucks and that song is overrated. And the song by my favorite band should be way higher." Our list was based on sales, billboard, how iconic it was, how it holds up today, critical acclaim, how influential it was, etc. 15 - Your Gone Wild - Skid Row 14 - Sweet Child - GnR 13 - Dr. Feelgood - Motley 12 - Cherry Pie - Warrant 11 - Smooth Up In Ya - BulletBoys 10 - Shout at the Devil - Motley 9. Still of the Night - Whitesnake 8. 18 and Life - Skid Row 7. Pour Some Sugar - Def Leppard 6. Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi 5. Hurricane - Scorpions 4. Round and Round - Ratt 3. Cum on Feel the Noise - Quiet Riot 2. Photograph - Def Leppard 1. Welcome to the Jungle - GnR Now if it was our personal "favorite" songs, the list would look much MUCH different lol. We put out a hair metal book that has a ranking of the top 1,000 hair metal songs and top 350 hair metal albums. Those lists have way more great songs that aren't just the songs you've already heard a billion times. Deeper cuts, less popular bands like Junkyard, Dangerous Toys, Tora Tora, Femme Fatale, Cinderella and so on. Have a fantastic day.
@@ZKAttack that's a pretty decent list 🤘🤘IMO. I love cherry pie, but uncle Tom's cabin is so much better 😉 but yet it didn't get as high as cherry pie. I'm suprised no Cinderella song made it honestly. I know my favorite of them wouldn't have made it, Bad seamstress/fallin apart, But love the list. Love that photograph is #2 too. My Favorite leppard song. But they're all awesome song's. Thanks for sharing that 🤘🤘
JD M awesome!! I wish I had the energy of Steve. Every concert I have went to, to see Kix, he never stopped jumping around and dancing! I don’t live in Maryland anymore but I have friends that have gone to see them and they said he still has all that energy!!
I'm 17, I bet that when I'm 50, I'll still be blasting this music all the way up. And when I have kids, they are gonna listen to this kind of music whether they like it or not!
*Thumbs up this comment so that RHINO can see this* RHINO, please re-upload this video in 1080p (or better yet, 2160p). But keep the aspect ratio the same (4:3). Also no upscaling, just an original digitalization from the original reel tape.
These guys had talent. Real talent. I saw them live a couple of times and they were amazing. They get lumped in with the hair metal fad but they were around long before that schlock hit the airwaves.
The whole "hair metal" narrative was nothing more than a lemming type of pile-on that was started by a goofy "fad" mentality that made it popular to dislike "hair metal". Most all those bands back then were VERY good musicians, regardless of any look or marketing they were doing. The hair metal tag or glam metal or whatever was a stupid pissing match sparked by the stupidest people on earth,....teens. It never had anything to do with music, ..be it good or bad. But the butt of the jokes just happened to be ironically great musicians. The same posturing over image came right behind it (squashed it actually) with the grunge...They were "great" because they weren't hair metal....Well obviously, once again, it had nothing to do with music because unlike the "hair metal" mostly being made up of great musicians,..Nirvana and the like, were mostly horrible musicians that sounded like they were still in their first year of picking up their instruments. It was unbelievable.
Real talent indeed... To me they are a “big rock band” like DLR referred to Van Halen. Kix music makes me wanna get up and party just like VH music. It’s just really good hard rock!
@@stricknine8623 Hard to say it much better than that, other than the bashing of grunge of course. The best "grunge" bands (horrible media term once again) were fantastic musicians: Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, etc. Sure, Kurt wasn't a technical guitarist, but if he played in an 80s style band, he would likely have a 2nd guitarist for leads. There were crap 80s bands too (Warrant had a guitar teacher showing them what to play for solos on the first album, Poison wasn't very technically talented, etc).
Not a lot of bands with more energy back in the day than these Maryland rockers. And Whiteman was one of the greatest frontmen of the 80's. Stone cold lock. Tell me I'm wrong.
Started following these guy when they were the shoes. A buddy of mine bought a guitar from Brian. Used to go see them at The Mountain View in, Hammer Jacks, the Old Mill Inn and at Shirley Acres. Used to hang at the same bars as Steve. Man those were the days!
They don't know what they're missing man. I'm 33 and I grew up at the tail end of when rock and metal was still mainstream. Now seems like most kids today only like rap. I like early 90s rap but the crap they pass for music today...my God. 🤮 We used to make fun of guys like Limp Bizkit. But now he sounds pretty good compared to modern rap. I'm starting to sound...old. 😔😅
I remember the exact location I was at when I first heard that intro. I was like wtf was that. I ordered this cassette that night from Columbia House. The most underrated band of the 80’s/90’s/&Today.......
Kix is possibly the most underrated band ever. Steve Whiteman was an amazing showman with a voice that was perfect for rock music. If you never saw this band live, you missed out on an experience that truly was the embodiment of 80s hair metal. 53 years old and still listen every day! 🤟🏻
They still put on a hell of a show. Saw them in Louisville a few years back opening for Vince Neil. They blew Vince out of the water, no surprise.
They still rock today!
I saw them late 2019 for my 1st time. I've loved this band since their 1st album came out (I think 1981.)
Amazing concert!!! They rock!
I'm going to see them again( late 2021)
in Harrisburg PA. at ClubXL.
Go see them if you can🤘 👍
Kix is still out playin shows they also headline the friday nights of the m3 fest every year in maryland.
And they still sound AMAZING today!!!
I agree 100% with that statement!! I used to see them all the time at the Bayou in DC and Hammer Jacks in Baltimore. I am 53 also, went to high skool in Maryland and they were the shit back in the day! Awesome live band, gritty, raw and all rock and roll!!! Great times at those shows!!!!
December 2024 still listening to this song ❤
Im 35 years old and i just discovered theses guys. man was i born in the wrong era. the music was so much better back then. i cant stand new music of today.
Дружище, мне тоже 35, я такую музыку слушаю с 15 лет, я обожаю слушать RATT, Mötley Crüe, Dokken, Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns, Autograph, Def Lepard, Skid Row, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Pantera, Slaughter, Scorpions, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, XYZ, Love/Hate, Cinderella, Tigertailz, Killer Dwarfs, Badlands, Dangerous Toys, ну и конечно KIX😊
It's true you missed a great time brother. So many awesome bands and different types of music. These guys were very underrated and they still Rock. Say much better live, I've seen them a bunch of times , they're local.
So were the Women!! 😝😛🤘
I. Believe. It. 🛠️🇺🇸
I'm 60 and just discovered them, lol. That was my era but hadn't heard of them.
Kix is 2024🇺🇸
Me!!!!! 60 years old
Kix is living proof that the record label decides who gets big and who falls into obscurity. They had the perfect sound, look, and great songs at the right time but got almost no radio play outside of Don't Close Your Eyes.
Which was maybe the worst song on that album!
Record labels don't know squat about anything. The fact Kix is still around and selling tickets 34 years after this came out is all that needs to be said.
I'm goin to see them tonight.. September 2022
You're 100% right. Everything was perfect with Kix that _should_ have made them a household name. They had the sound. They had the hooks. They had the talent. They just didn't suck the correct record company dick to be really big.
Kinda funny but when I describe them I say not the serial the band.....they were better than poison imo and still have that sound for me
@@jonathanvogt4341 Poison stole their stage antics from Kix
KIX killer band, who never got the fame they deserved.
My friend who lives in Maryland where the band is from said they were performing back in 2018. I wonder if it is still the same lineup.
@@ratter531 Wow, really? That's good.
@@juliegogola4647 new bass player, well 15 yrs new
@@robpaxson4455 Okay, to tell you the truth I can only recognize the lead singer anyway. I haven't seen TOO much of them, enough to say who all the guys are.
Exactly
These guys suffered from East Coast metal bias. Metal was from EVERYWHERE, not just the West Coast.
LA put out some of the worst metal while hogging all of the attention. 😡
Forsythe has the coolest rocker look ever
80,s rock never goes out of style. Was there in my late terns early 20,s and lived every 2nd of it.
When I was 12 that song hit the radios! Good times!
The 80s and early 90s had the best music. Such fun times. Today’s society and music sucks.
True that!
From another Ohio RN
ohiorn34 yes I agree oldies way better then music now days
True !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Facts
YES EXACTLY !!
This was sucha killer album...so many cool tunes. My favorite was "Ring around the Rosie". These guys never got their due, that's for sure!
Killer album indeed! I had this back on cassette back then. Oh and Ring around Rosie is my fave too!
Look at that...without even knowing each other we have something in common! Yeah, 'Rosie' is a top notch tune. One of those I just never got tired of hearing.
Good on you, Annah!
I think you forgot piece of the pie😊
*"No Ring Around Rosie"
One of the best LIVE bands ever. Just ask anyone who toured w/them. Also the singer STEVE WHITEMAN,was the vocal teacher for Lzzy Hale from HALESTORM.🤟
I have been doing a lot of thinking about this and I think Cold Blood has to be in the top 5 best songs of this era.
Awesome guitar, production, vocals, song writing, video - everything!
I would agree with you on that 💯
Can't argue...it's a killer song in every way🤘
You most definitely can argue that this is one kickass song.
Heard them play this live when they opened for Ratt here in Denver. Kix absolutely ROCKED! Live mix was good, too.
I wouldn't say that, but this is a very good song.
Good natured stuff, this! Yeah! I like it!
KIX at HammerJack’s in Baltimore and cranked up on 98 Rock. Who remembers those days?
Hell yeah
It's kind of a haze, but I think I was there? Those brain cells haven't been used in a while! Hammer Jacks was great! They also had a bar with a stage in DC, I think it was called the Cellar Door? Like I said, IT'S ALL A HAZE!
@@tyeedwrds Yes . I happened to see KIX at Warner Theater, great show.
@@tyeedwrdsThe Bayou in Georgetown
Oh yeah. Good times.
Who's still listening to Kix in 2020 🤘
I am
Seen them at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go three times in the last three years. They are one of the best live acts out there and Steve still has the pipes!
@@gregorykrantz6396 YOU ARE GAY
John Shreve What??!! Motley,Ratt,Skid Row,Cinderella..etc...best music Ever..
@@debbieszwed7721 WHAT?
Kix still kicks more ass than most music today!
First herd this on hair nation back when I was about 20 now I’m 24 hooked on kix’s music
Still listening to it in 2024. 🤘🤘🤘
❣️🔥❣️🔥❣️ I love you 🔥🔥
like a Mix of Motley and Ratt,.. mixed with Cindarella...........................loved all of them..grew up to this rocking,, Pop,, hair band love
Saw them open for white snake in Little Rock Ar
Meee!!! Hell yeah!!!!
80's fuckn ruled
I have no idea why this band didn't blow up to the same level of the best of the 80's. They were a much better live band than most with a better singer. There label vastly underrated them
Because the lead singer was an uggo in the era of the pretty boys. They strayed too close to being genuine in a genre that required a lot of pomp in how you presented yourself. Look around at the uggos who made it. They played to the crowds and "prettied up"
You could say the same thing about bands like Tesla too. There was a lot of competition back then. The 80's were basically one huge hit every week every year of the decade. The "huge" bands like Guns and Roses and Def Leppard and Bon Jovi definitely took a lot of the air out of the room for good groups like this.
@@bobross1829 I agree 100% with everything you said bro. You must be from the hair metal era too. The greatest era ever as far as I'm concerned. Although I am heavily biased lol
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The frontman is singing as glorious as ever....amazing
I saw these guys like a year ago and the have the same energy as they do in all of their videos. Its crazy how cool they are in person haha
I saw them where I live at alot Lancaster pa mostly at a club on water st which sadly to say are closed for good
@@nefariouscj9791 Probably the Comelian!!! Same place as l, think they were at the village also. Sad if they are shut down.
I heard this on SiriusXM’s “Hair Nation” tonight, while trucking across America. This song will definitely be on my heavy rotation for the next few weeks...and that brunette...OMG!!! 🚛🎸🤘😁
Rock On With Hair Nation!!
Stay safe out there on the road! And rock on!!!
Same here hair nation 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Same Go Hair Nation!🤘
Those shorts on that - ss!!
One of the best rock songs ever written!!!
One of greatest rock songs ever. 2024 still and still loving it
this song is an absolute masterpiece
Check out Re-Blown. What an improvement the dynamics, all around. Drums, yes, the drumming now is actually, beautifully there!
@@PurgatoryPriest yeah dude I agree. The reblown version is amazing. The guitars sound awesome!!🤟
02 baby tuned in
Such an underrated band, should have been much bigger
No doubt about it.
Ran out of time. Grunge infection
Who else is still jamming to Kix in 2023??? 💥 Thanks for the memories Kix!! I had the best times at your concerts, and you would tear the house down!!! 💥❤️💥
They will be missed !
@@AJ-go7yz you know it!!
Great White, Cinderella, Trixter, Kix, extreme. Rock on my friend
Will never get enough!
Had totally forgotten about Kix until I started collecting vinyl. Christ these guys rocked.
I saw Kix with Brittany Fox and Ratt at Louisville Gardens back in March of 1989. Great show!!
Saw many shows at Louisville Gardens back in the early 80s. Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Krokus, Great White, etc... Great memories!
Louisville Gardens! My first metal show was there Megadeth and STP in 93. Wish i could have seen the big 80s bands there, just a bit before my time.
2021 and still listening to KIX. Remembering these great under rated bands makes them IMMORTAL. They will live forever.
Seeing them in T-minus 3 hrs 45 minutes, Las Vegas!
2022 still seeing them play live!
Goin to watch them in about 10 hours
immortal is a great band
I am. 60 years old. Great band from Baltimore, MD.
Still listening in 2024.. 🤘👍
I do I'm 56 yr old love the music
Same age. Never letting go
I'm listening to it in November kix never gets old
Who's listening to Kix in September 2024?
Me 😊
Listening in October 2024
Me! Trying to learn to play it on the drums. It’s such a great song!!! 👊👊🥁🥁🥁
Hellz yeah
and all the rest of 2024 and the rest of my life!
If you dont like this song we can't be friends
How could anyone not like this
We Gen Xers are way too cool for most people.
Well good news amigo!!!
@@bobbizzle77 😉👍
'90s grunge crap tried to pull the plug on our '80s party...Well, here we are today---still f...kin goin'!
Actually it was the industry and oversaturation that did it. I introduce young ones to Kix constantly and they agree it blows today's prefab stuff out of the water
Underrated
@KAV SOLO Only if you like that sideshow thrash/death metal shit
Underrated... To The 10th POWER... they had it all!
@Dark expat Those "cheesy hair metal bands" are seriously capable musicians with much better and more coherent sounding music than that sideshow speed/thrash metal shit that only basement dwelling nerds listen to
Mitch Colburn hope you not talking about accept there good thrash metal
Amen!!!
STAGE PRESENCE defined
We used to go to George Town in Washington DC in the early 80's. Kix is kick ass in a cramped bar. Lol. Crazy horse, Wax museum and the Bayou club, seen KIX and many others in those bars
Best thing was you only had to be 18 to drink in DC, 21 in Virginia where I lived in Dale City nowhere.
80's hair metal is the best!!!!!
I wouldn't actually consider KIX to be hair or glam metal. Didn't then and didn't now. Not that there's anything wrong with hair or glam metal. Some really good music came from those types of bands.
I respect your opinion....Rock on...
@@eclecticx They considered themselves as a glam band. I still am thinking as hair. Howevwer each has their own opinion.
I think they fall more comfortably in the "Sleeze Metal" category
Right on brother!!!!
KIX's last show Sunday, September 17, 2023 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Wished they could have played the bike fest here in Leesburg, Fl
I love metal! I love the 80's period. 🤘 Still head banging in 2020.
2022 over here
July 2022🔥🔥🔥🔥
2023🤘
the entire "blow my fuse" album got taken off of spotify!! put it back!
this jam just makes me feel good!!!
One of the more underrated rock tunes of the 80s (IMO). Great energy/vibe to it.
LOVE the chorus to this song ;) and the chick in the video ❤🔥
I miss the 80's. I was a teenager, time moves so fast!
If I could turn back the time
@@thomsonnainggolan7193 I hear ya!!! The 80's were awesome!!!
Makes me so depressed, I loved the 80's
Yep 50 years old here. What a time to have your teens. This stuff was everywhere, sadly gone now.
I was too class of 85 !!! Different Times Now! I'm So Glad I Grew Up in That Era!!! We were taught to Respect our elders and each other! Parties all the time bon fires and Sex Drugs and ROCK N ROLL WAS OUR MOTTO!! BUT VERY INNOCENT KIND OF PARTIES AND DRUGS COMPARED TO NOW A DAYS!!!! KIDS TODAY DIDN'T GET TO HAVE THE KIND OF FUN WE DID!!!!!! THE YOUNG KIDS TODAY HAVE NOTHING TO BELIEVE IN AND ARE SO DEPRESSED! IT'S REALLY SAD!!!! SEEN "JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE" BACK IN FEBRUARY OFF THIS YEAR 2022 HE STILL HAS IT!!!! AND A LIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WERE THERE AND JACK SAID.ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO LOVE OUR MUSIC WELL F U WE LIVED IT!!!!! IN A VERY RESPECTFUL WAY!! I LOVED IT!!!!! GLAD THAT ALL THOSE AWESOME BANDS ARE STILL PERFORMING!!!! IT'S AWESOME!!!! KEEP ON ROCKIN!!! MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS INTO MUSIC LIKE ME SHE IS ALMOST 4 YEARS OLD AND HAS GOT THE MAGIC OF MUSIC FROM ME!!!!! AWESOME!!!!! I'M THE CRAZY ROCKIN GRANDMA I TELL HER!LOL!!!!!! ROCK N ROLL FOREVER!! 😎😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘🤘❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎🤘🤘😎😎
WHAT a fucking riff.. The riff most grits (that's code for heavy metal freaks) wanted to nail down back in the day.
Man, these guys could've been bigger than Bon Jovi or G'n'R... Blessed to have grown up in the Balt/DC region and had these guys pumping on my FM radio growing up!
I had forgotten how cool this song was. The crunching power chords at 1:32-1:36 with the arpeggiated cleaner chord play on top is such a great hook!
I was 10 years old in late 1988 when MTV had been playing this video every morning around the time my grandma was babysitting me (Christmas break I believe) while my parents were working. Every time it came on, I cranked volume up a little higher - not listening to my grandma telling me to turn it down. I was instantly a Kix fan. I soon ended up owning a few tapes and then literally ALL their CDs over the coming years 🤘🤘
kix, warrant, poison.motley crue. i loved them all. i was about 12 when this came out and instantly loved it thanks to MTV. seen poison multiple times, about to see motley crue. Very sad i never got to see warrant or kix.
Cold beer is all you need.
🤣🤣👍
🤣🤣👍
Then after that Cold Chills and a Cold Shower.
😄
And some beer, and hookers!
Dec ‘22 1130pm at fire hall waitin for tones to drop and in the mean time getting my KIX! This music NEVER ages.Last and this generation don’t have a clue that they missed the best music.
I'm 58 & still rock it. I had the honor of seeing this live as we opened up for them in 88 in New Haven Ct. This still Fuckn Rocks. Great times, better days.
How come I never knew about this band until this year. So many underrated bands but Kix has to be one of the best on my list. So glad I came across them on my feed.
Kix was actually a great and Badass band and still is and I'm still listening to all their music still today!!!! It is still Rocking today!!!
One of the best songs of the 80's!!! This song KIX Arsss!
Blow My Fuse is a friggin masterpiece. IMO - better than Appetite For Destruction.
Damn, that music is music🤘💥. Sounds more than enough for me🤘
When they all dropped down during that section before the solo, it's always one of the coolest moments of a Kix show.
I'm 55, and was SO LUCKY to have been born when I was!! STILL listening to Kix, and a lot of the bands from the 70s-early 90s! I got to see and experience this era of rock-n-roll 1st hand and I wouldn't trade ANYTHING to be younger now and have missed out on what was the most fun, bad ass time in rock-n-roll history!! 🤘
KIX was another one of those bands lumped in with the no name la scene, KIX was an amazing hard rock band and very talented, they are simply under rated, great sound and they started in the early 80's!
Man, I'm gonna miss seeing these guys
This is one the best songs ever. We have it listed as being the 16th best hair metal song in history.
show us your list :) ..... whats #1 ?
curious to know and see how we all compare ;)
@@arkangel7j Lol as long as you don't get mad as people always fight about lists! No matter how a list shapes out, somebody will say "Oh that ranking sucks, that band sucks and that song is overrated. And the song by my favorite band should be way higher."
Our list was based on sales, billboard, how iconic it was, how it holds up today, critical acclaim, how influential it was, etc.
15 - Your Gone Wild - Skid Row
14 - Sweet Child - GnR
13 - Dr. Feelgood - Motley
12 - Cherry Pie - Warrant
11 - Smooth Up In Ya - BulletBoys
10 - Shout at the Devil - Motley
9. Still of the Night - Whitesnake
8. 18 and Life - Skid Row
7. Pour Some Sugar - Def Leppard
6. Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
5. Hurricane - Scorpions
4. Round and Round - Ratt
3. Cum on Feel the Noise - Quiet Riot
2. Photograph - Def Leppard
1. Welcome to the Jungle - GnR
Now if it was our personal "favorite" songs, the list would look much MUCH different lol.
We put out a hair metal book that has a ranking of the top 1,000 hair metal songs and top 350 hair metal albums. Those lists have way more great songs that aren't just the songs you've already heard a billion times. Deeper cuts, less popular bands like Junkyard, Dangerous Toys, Tora Tora, Femme Fatale, Cinderella and so on.
Have a fantastic day.
@@ZKAttack that's a pretty decent list 🤘🤘IMO. I love cherry pie, but uncle Tom's cabin is so much better 😉 but yet it didn't get as high as cherry pie. I'm suprised no Cinderella song made it honestly. I know my favorite of them wouldn't have made it, Bad seamstress/fallin apart, But love the list. Love that photograph is #2 too. My Favorite leppard song. But they're all awesome song's. Thanks for sharing that 🤘🤘
Steve Whiteman is absolutely awesome!!!!!!
AHHHHGREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
JD M awesome!! I wish I had the energy of Steve. Every concert I have went to, to see Kix, he never stopped jumping around and dancing! I don’t live in Maryland anymore but I have friends that have gone to see them and they said he still has all that energy!!
@@sassykaren7587 just a great song
JD M most definitely!! 🤘🤘🤘
Best frontman ever not named Freddie Mercury
They definately don't make music like they used to. Love my hair metal bands. 🤘
It's classified as glam metal/hard rock.
Also a lot of hair metal bands were around at the same time as Kix, if you actually look it up.
My go to music I love Kix
55 and still rock'n the 80's bands on any ride to anywhere! AWESOME time in my life! Never to be forgotten!
Same here
60 year old here, and I'm right with ya!!! Damn these guys are good, then and today!
@@jlid1 Damn Skippy!
It was truly the best time of my life
I'm 17, I bet that when I'm 50, I'll still be blasting this music all the way up. And when I have kids, they are gonna listen to this kind of music whether they like it or not!
EVERY song on "Blow My Fuse" is Great!!!!
Agreed! And hotwire was a worthy follow-up album ;-)
2022 near 2023 and I still listen to 80s rock....I m near 40 years old but I feel I m still 18 ...rock n roll will never die
Been Kix all day. Happy 23
Same! Listen to 80's rock and metal. I turn 50 in July but feel like I'm still in high school.
@@inrockwetrust73 rockers never get old
I turned 58 yesterday (Feb 24th) and still listening to this awesome rock and roll!
Just turned 60 and crank it up in the truck going job to job. People look over laughing at the old man listening to Hair metal which is pretty funny.
Haven't heard from them in a long time I still like kix
The best video ever
Such a underrated 80s hair metal band! I'm 22 years old and still kicking ass to this badass song!
This old of a song, and still better than any of the new shit of today 🍻
Definately. Wish we could go back to the 80's lol.
FEB 2022 and still listening and loving KIX and this is my favorite song of theirs.
Would love to see KIX live.
they were GOOD live , opened for whitesnake , played AND sounded BETTER than whitesnake :O
Saw them twice live, in small clubs. This band would pack a tent full in the Sahara Desert with no advertising, incredible band live.
I seen them only 4 times. But, incredible every time!!
Killer opening riff.
One of the best Rock songs ever made, ranks up with the best: Back in Black, Welcome to the Jungle, Kashmir. Truly.
*Thumbs up this comment so that RHINO can see this*
RHINO, please re-upload this video in 1080p (or better yet, 2160p).
But keep the aspect ratio the same (4:3). Also no upscaling, just an original digitalization from the original reel tape.
I discovered Kix recently and I already love it! Blow Your Fuse is such a great album!
welcome to the family 😊
How can anyone get sick of this music??!!!! Still rockin' in 2020!!!!
I’ll be listening to this music until the day of my funeral
@@creeg84I’ll be listening to this after I die
Best concert I've ever seen Miami Florida
Wish I could see them live I love Brian and Ronnie they're awesome guitar 🎸 players and Steve is so fun to watch so much energy
I will always. Listen too kixx
What a great catchy chorus man. Just sticks in your head like a cold chisel
Cranking this up in 2021! 🎉🎉🎉💙💙💙💙
This whole album is awesome!!! I've heard it through probably 100 times
Hellll...ya
If you lived in the Hagerstown , Md. area in the 80s, they weren't underrated
Most underrated band in the 🌎
These guys had talent. Real talent. I saw them live a couple of times and they were amazing. They get lumped in with the hair metal fad but they were around long before that schlock hit the airwaves.
Saw them open for RATT / Brittany Fox in Cols. OH, they put on a helluva show, blew Fox away and have RATT a run for their money... GOOD SHOW!
The whole "hair metal" narrative was nothing more than a lemming type of pile-on that was started by a goofy "fad" mentality that made it popular to dislike "hair metal".
Most all those bands back then were VERY good musicians, regardless of any look or marketing they were doing.
The hair metal tag or glam metal or whatever was a stupid pissing match sparked by the stupidest people on earth,....teens.
It never had anything to do with music, ..be it good or bad.
But the butt of the jokes just happened to be ironically great musicians.
The same posturing over image came right behind it (squashed it actually) with the grunge...They were "great" because they weren't hair metal....Well obviously, once again, it had nothing to do with music because unlike the "hair metal" mostly being made up of great musicians,..Nirvana and the like, were mostly horrible musicians that sounded like they were still in their first year of picking up their instruments.
It was unbelievable.
Real talent indeed... To me they are a “big rock band” like DLR referred to Van Halen. Kix music makes me wanna get up and party just like VH music. It’s just really good hard rock!
@@stricknine8623 Hard to say it much better than that, other than the bashing of grunge of course. The best "grunge" bands (horrible media term once again) were fantastic musicians: Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, etc. Sure, Kurt wasn't a technical guitarist, but if he played in an 80s style band, he would likely have a 2nd guitarist for leads. There were crap 80s bands too (Warrant had a guitar teacher showing them what to play for solos on the first album, Poison wasn't very technically talented, etc).
@@kitoyobeni1 Poison and Warrant were both talented bands. Dog Eat Dog is a damn heavy album and proved Warrant had real chops.
Not a lot of bands with more energy back in the day than these Maryland rockers. And Whiteman was one of the greatest frontmen of the 80's. Stone cold lock. Tell me I'm wrong.
Just saw them last night live at the Whisky, the whole band is amazing, true pros with great stage presence, Steve was amazing and super funny too
Man it’s a bummer that Spotify remove this
The most underrated rock band of all time, IMO
As good as anything else from this era shocked it wasn’t a hit
I'm still listening to Kix in 2024, and will be in 2025, 2026 and more years to come 🤘🤘🤘
These boys reppin’ Maryland, baby!!!!
unc had73 oh I forgot 😂
Hoping they have a great retirement; they put on one helluva final show to go out on.
Started following these guy when they were the shoes. A buddy of mine bought a guitar from Brian. Used to go see them at The Mountain View in, Hammer Jacks, the Old Mill Inn and at Shirley Acres. Used to hang at the same bars as Steve. Man those were the days!
We probably staggered into each other 😁 Was at The Mountain View, Hammerjacks & Shiley Acres
80s was the bomb . Kids these days don't know chit.....
Something my dad would say, but here I am listening to the same stuff as you old guys but no one my age has ever heard this shit and it sucks.
Im a kid🤘🏻🤘🏻
They don't know what they're missing man. I'm 33 and I grew up at the tail end of when rock and metal was still mainstream. Now seems like most kids today only like rap. I like early 90s rap but the crap they pass for music today...my God. 🤮 We used to make fun of guys like Limp Bizkit. But now he sounds pretty good compared to modern rap. I'm starting to sound...old. 😔😅
Wow! Those harmonies are pretty dang amazing! 😳
I remember the exact location I was at when I first heard that intro. I was like wtf was that. I ordered this cassette that night from Columbia House. The most underrated band of the 80’s/90’s/&Today.......
Good grief the ol Columbia House days! Miss em!🤘
Exactly