Citizen Kihn Explained

Citizen Kihn
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Greg Kihn
Cover:	GregKihn_Citizen.jpg
Released:	March 29, 1985
Recorded:	1985
Studio:	Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
Genre:	Pop rock
Length:	37:36
Label:	EMI America
Producer:	Matthew King Kaufman
Prev Title:	Kihntagious
Prev Year:	1984
Next Title:	Love & Rock & Roll
Next Year:	1986

Citizen Kihn is a studio album by the American musician Greg Kihn, released in 1985 through EMI America.^{[1] [2]} It was his first album since 1978's Next of Kihn not to be released under the Greg Kihn Band name. The album reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 200.^[3] The first single was "Lucky".^[4]

Critical reception

The Dallas Morning News deemed the album "a lackluster, unfocused pastiche of pop tunes."^[5]

Personnel

• Greg Kihn – guitar, percussion, bellophone, lead vocals
• Greg Douglass – guitar
• Tyler Eng – drums
• Steve Wright – bass, keyboards, lead guitar on "Lucky" and "Good Life", backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Pat Mosca – keyboards on "They Rock By Night"
• John Talbott – backing vocals, cabasa, talking drum
• Steve Douglas – saxophone
• Andy Narell – steel drums
• Pete Escovedo – timbales, percussion

Production

• Producer: Matthew King Kaufman
• Engineers: Richard "Dr. Schnoz" Corsello, Tom Size
• Mastering: George Horn
• Alberto Dell'Orto – cover photography

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/Greg-Kihn-Citizen-Kihn/release/1805095

Notes and References

1. News: Griffin . John . Short Spins . The Gazette . 21 Mar 1985 . Montreal . F3.
2. News: Defendorf . Richard . Greg Kihn . Orlando Sentinel . 14 Apr 1985 . Calendar . 12.
3. Greg Kihn. Billboard.
4. News: Rubin . Sylvia . The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Fish . San Francisco Chronicle . February 12, 1985 . People . 17.
5. News: Samuels . Lennox . Greg Kihn, Citizen Kihn . The Dallas Morning News . June 2, 1985 . 3C.