Show Business (album)

Show Business (stylized as $how Bu$ine$$) is the sixth album by the American rock band Kix. It was released in 1995 through CMC International, following their departure from Atlantic Records. Kix supported the album with a North American tour.

The album was a commercial flop. Show Business was the band's last album before their long-term breakup.

Critical reception
Rolling Stone wrote that "there remains something oddly lovable about this goofy group of hard-rock power popsters who seem to have been going at it forever with only limited commercial success." The Deseret News deemed the album "light-hearted rock with lots of innuendo but not much substance."

Track listing

 * 1) "Ball Baby" (Purnell, Bob Halligan Jr., Martin Briley) – 4:46
 * 2) "9-1-1" (Purnell, John Palumbo) – 4:38
 * 3) "Fireballs" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:08
 * 4) "Baby Time Bomb" (Purnell, Taylor Rhodes) – 4:22
 * 5) "Book to Hypnotize" (Purnell) – 4:07
 * 6) "Put My Money Where Your Mouth Is" (Purnell, Steve Whiteman) – 5:21
 * 7) "She Loves Me Not" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 7:23
 * 8) "Fire Boy" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 3:23
 * 9) "I'm Bombed" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 5:07
 * 10) "If You Run Around" (Purnell) – 4:23

Credits

 * Kix
 * Steve Whiteman – lead vocals, harmonica, saxophone
 * Ronnie "10/10" Younkins – guitars
 * Brian "Damage" Forsythe – guitars
 * Donnie Purnell – bass, keyboards, backing vocals, producer, mixing
 * Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant – drums, percussion, backing vocals, engineer


 * Additional musicians
 * Paul Chalfant – viola on "If You Run Around"


 * Production
 * Zac Mabie – engineer
 * George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
 * Sean Simmers – photography