Kix - Hot Wire (1991)

Kix were a reliable band, deserving of the recent album box set release I guess, although I could've thought of loadsa cooler, even thrashier bands who deserve their own box set. Even so, this cheeky mover does it's best, once again, at combining AC/DC ('Girl Money'), sleazy glam ('Luv A Holic') and '80s hair metal pout ('Tearin Down The Walls'). Okay, so vocally it begins to grate after half the songs have settled in - at times it borders on Cinderella for tonsillitis rasps, but it makes the perfect soundtrack to any teen metalhead's bedroom, with enough rebel yell for Hell, albeit slightly out of time by 1991.

6.5/10