Midnite Dynamite

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox album | name = Midnite Dynamite | type = Album | artist = Kix | cover = Kix-Midnite.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1985|08|08}}<ref>{{cite magazine|date=August 2, 1985|title=New Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/FMQB-Album/1985/FMQB-1985-08-02.pdf|magazine=FMQB|page=32|access-date=March 20, 2023}}</ref> | recorded = | studio = Atlantic Studios, New York City | genre = *Hard rock *glam metal | length = 41:04 | label = Atlantic | producer = Beau Hill, Bill Dooley, Keith Lentin | prev_title = Cool Kids | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = Blow My Fuse | next_year = 1988 }} {{Album reviews | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/midnite-dynamite-r42444/review| title = Kix Midnite Dynamite review | accessdate = 2011-08-27 | last = Guarisco | first = Donald A. | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal'' | rev2Score = 6/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book|last1=Popoff|first1=Martin|author-link1=Martin Popoff|title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties|publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing|date=November 1, 2005|location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada|isbn=978-1-89-495931-5|page=189}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Kerrang!'' | rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Suter|first1=Paul|magazine=Kerrang!|title=Kix - ''Midnite Dynamite''|issue=104|publisher=Morgan Grampian|date=October 3, 1985|location=London, UK|page=17}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Music Week'' | rev4score = {{Rating|3|3}}<ref name="mw rev">{{cite magazine|date=September 28, 1985|title=Kix: ''Midnite Dynamite''. Atlantic. 781 267|magazine=Music Week|department=LP Reviews|page=19|publisher=Pensord Press Ltd.|location=Gwent|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1985/Music-Week-1985-09-28-I.pdf#page=29|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231035355/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1985/Music-Week-1985-09-28-I.pdf|archive-date=December 31, 2021|access-date=May 31, 2023|via=WorldRadioHistory.com}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''Midnite Dynamite''''' is the third studio album by American hard rock band Kix, released in 1985 by Atlantic Records. It features 7 out of 10 songs co-written by bassist Donnie Purnell with hit songwriter Bob Halligan Jr. (Kiss, Judas Priest, Icon, Blue Öyster Cult). Kip Winger was credited on one song and Crack the Sky frontman John Palumbo on three. Only one other Kix member contributed to the songwriting, Steve Whiteman on "Sex".

In 2018, Collin Brennan of ''Consequence'' included the album in his list of "10 Hair Metal Albums That Don’t Suck".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brennan |first=Collin |date=2018-02-05 |title=10 Hair Metal Albums That Don't Suck |url=https://consequence.net/2018/02/10-hair-metal-albums-that-dont-suck/ |access-date=2025-12-21 |website=Consequence |language=en}}</ref>

== Track listing == ;Side one # "Midnite Dynamite" (Donnie Purnell, Bob Halligan Jr.) – 3:51 # "Red Hot (Black & Blue)" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 3:23 # "Bang Bang (Balls of Fire)" (Kip Winger, Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:00 # "Layin' Rubber" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 3:52 # "Walkin' Away" (Purnell, Halligan Jr., John Palumbo) – 4:56

;Side two # "Scarlet Fever" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:20 # "Cry Baby" (Purnell, Halligan Jr.) – 4:17 # "Cold Shower" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 5:02 # "Lie Like a Rug" (Purnell, Palumbo) – 3:41 # "Sex" (Purnell, Steve Whiteman) – 3:56

== Personnel == ;Kix * Steve Whiteman – lead vocals, harmonica ("Cold Shower" and "Sex"), saxophone * Ronnie "10/10" Younkins – guitars * Brian "Damage" Forsythe – guitars * Donnie Purnell – bass, keyboards (additional keyboards on "Walkin' Away"), backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Cold Shower" * Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant – drums, percussion, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Cold Shower"

;Additional musicians * Anton Fig – drums, percussion on "Lie Like a Rug" and "Sex" * Mike Slamer – guitars on "Walkin' Away" and "Scarlet Fever" * Beau Hill – additional keyboards and guitars (courtesy of Chrysalis Records), producer, engineer

;Production *Stephen Benben, Jim Faraci – engineers *Keith Lentin – producer on "Lie Like a Rug" and "Sex" *Bill Dooley – producer and engineer on "Lie Like a Rug" and "Sex" *Ed Garcia – engineer on "Lie Like a Rug" and "Sex" *Ira McLaughlin – assistant engineer on "Lie Like a Rug" and "Sex" *George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York *Bob Defrin – art direction *David Michael Kennedy – photography

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://kixband.com/ Kix Official Website] *[http://guitar.com/articles/kix-interview-brian-%E2%80%9Cdamage%E2%80%9D-forsythe-celebrates-return-kix Guitar.com 2014 interview with Kix guitarist Brian Forsythe]

Category:1985 albums Category:Kix (band) albums Category:Albums produced by Beau Hill Category:Atlantic Records albums