Greg Kihn
Rekihndled
Riot Records
2017
Gregory Stanley “Greg” Kihn is an American rock musician, radio personality, and as of late novelist. He’s most likely known to a lot of younger people because of Weird Al Yancovich, having covered one of his biggest hits “Jeopardy” (as “I lost on Jeopardy”)… but he’s been going on since the mid-seventies releasing more than a dozen albums. It should be noted that Joe Satriani was in the man’s band in 86 before departing to pursue a solo career the very next year.
In the mid-90s Greg got into broadcasting and that did suck out most of his time, with nothing coming up for the next fifteen years or so, other than a Christmas album in the early 00s. This is the first “proper” album since 96’s “Horror Show”. It’s a little difficult to describe the style that really falls under the larger umbrella of “Rock”… ala Eddie Money, The Romantics and why not the poppier moments of 70s Alice Cooper and what not… ya’ know, not a perfect vocalist, but a ton of attitude in the singing.
Other than a small discrepancy in recording quality that might indicate that this was recorded in more than one sessions/studios… there are a ton of fun simple tracks on here, like “The Life I Got”, “Pink Flamingos”, “I Wrote the Book”… even numbers that seem a bit like social commentary ie the bleak “The Brain Police” or the punkier “Trained Monkey”.
If someone likes “singer songwriters” in the vein of Tom Petty and Neil Young, but a little more contemporary, but still based on The Beatles and the like, Kihn, despite his terrible “pun-titles”, will not disappoint…
In the mid-90s Greg got into broadcasting and that did suck out most of his time, with nothing coming up for the next fifteen years or so, other than a Christmas album in the early 00s. This is the first “proper” album since 96’s “Horror Show”. It’s a little difficult to describe the style that really falls under the larger umbrella of “Rock”… ala Eddie Money, The Romantics and why not the poppier moments of 70s Alice Cooper and what not… ya’ know, not a perfect vocalist, but a ton of attitude in the singing.
Other than a small discrepancy in recording quality that might indicate that this was recorded in more than one sessions/studios… there are a ton of fun simple tracks on here, like “The Life I Got”, “Pink Flamingos”, “I Wrote the Book”… even numbers that seem a bit like social commentary ie the bleak “The Brain Police” or the punkier “Trained Monkey”.
If someone likes “singer songwriters” in the vein of Tom Petty and Neil Young, but a little more contemporary, but still based on The Beatles and the like, Kihn, despite his terrible “pun-titles”, will not disappoint…