title: Show Business (album)
text: # Show Business (album)
  
  Show Business (stylized as $how Bu$ine$$) is the sixth album by the American hard 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
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10 |
  | Rolling Stone | |
  
  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
  
  * "Ball Baby" (Purnell, Bob Halligan Jr., Martin Briley) – 4:46
  * "9-1-1" (Purnell, John Palumbo) – 4:38
  * "Fireballs" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:08
  * "Baby Time Bomb" (Purnell, Taylor Rhodes) – 4:22
  * "Book to Hypnotize" (Purnell) – 4:07
  * "Put My Money Where Your Mouth Is" (Purnell, Steve Whiteman) – 5:21
  * "She Loves Me Not" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 7:23
  * "Fire Boy" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 3:23
  * "I'm Bombed" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 5:07
  * "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
  
  Photography: Sean Simmers
  
  