Glass House Rock

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Glass House Rock
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Studio album by
Released1980
Recorded1980
Genre Rock
Length35:22
Label Beserkley
Producer Matthew King Kaufman, The Greg Kihn Band
The Greg Kihn Band chronology
With the Naked Eye
(1979)
Glass House Rock
(1980)
RocKihnRoll
(1981)
Singles from Glass House Rock
  1. "Small Change"
    Released: 1980

Glass House Rock is the fifth studio album by Greg Kihn and the second album to be released as The Greg Kihn Band in 1980.

Contents

Glass House Rock broke new ground for The Greg Kihn Band and is notable for its hard rock sound. The song "Castaway" uses fast-paced finger-play in the vein of Love's "7 and 7 Is" [1] with underlapping guitar tracks.

The album has noticeably more collaborative compositions and sharing of vocal duties, featuring lead vocals by both Larry Lynch and Steve Wright on the songs "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "Night After Night" respectively. Lynch and Wright also provided lead vocals alongside Kihn for "The Only Dance There Is" as well as a cover version of The Yardbirds' "For Your Love".

"For Your Love" was recorded in front of a live audience at a sound check at the Keystone Berkeley, California. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Castaway"Greg Kihn, Rose Bimler 2:47
2."Desire Me"Kihn, Victor Roccki4:06
3."Anna Belle Lee"Kihn3:43
4."Things to Come"Kihn, Steve Wright3:11
5."Small Change"Kihn3:05
6."The Only Dance There Is"Kihn, Wright3:50
7."The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Burt Bacharach, Hal David 3:05
8."Serenade Her"Kihn3:14
9."Night After Night"Wright, Alexander, Kihn3:53
10."For Your Love" Graham Gouldman 4:28

Personnel

The Greg Kihn Band
Additional personnel

Production

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