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Blow My Fuse by Kix
Blow My Fuse is an album by Kix, released in 1988. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Don't Close Your Eyes”, on 3 lists with a best position of #160.
Blow My Fuse, Kix's fourth studio album, came out on Atlantic on September 6, 1988, seven years after the label first signed the band, with Tom Werman behind the board. It's glam-era hard rock with the hooks filed to a point: gang-shout choruses, two guitars from Ronnie Younkins and Brian Forsythe chewing on the riffs, and Steve Whiteman yelping over the songs of bassist and chief writer Donnie Purnell.
The surprise was the slow one. "Don't Close Your Eyes", a power ballad the band wrote with regular collaborators Bob Halligan Jr. and Crack the Sky frontman John Palumbo, became the only real hit Kix ever had, climbing to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album kept selling long after the band's late-'80s peak and was finally certified platinum in 2000.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Blow My Fuse on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Close Your Eyes | 3 | #160 | – | 1990–2016 | |
| 2 | Cold Blood | 1 | #271 | – | 1990 | |
| 3 | She Dropped Me the Bomb | 1 | #387 | – | 1990 | |
| 4 | Blow My Fuse | 1 | #685 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.