Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer

When I first glanced at the tracklist for this disk, I saw the title 'Love Gun' waving and smiling and begging me to skip directly to it. Why would I be so excited about this track? Simple. Its a song by my guilty pleasure, favorite band ever (although I recodnize their cheezyness and embrace it), KISS. There it was, a love gun cover by cee-lo, what a cool idea. Should I do my normal full listen track one till the end, or skip to it? Tradition won over impulse and started at track one.
The first song is an intro that transitions into the smooth groove, 'Bright Lights, Big City'. Upon discovering this gem of a song, I pictured myself in the studio while they were writing the song. The bass player asks 'what should I play here?'
The producer, after looking up and placing his hand on his chin, pondering the query, responds with; 'You know Billie Jean by Michael Jackson?'
'Yeah'
'Play that bassline'
'The same one?'
'Well, sort of. Just change it so no one can notice. '

I noticed.

But I still love it.

Then comes the most catchy song of 2010 (the album came out last year), 'Forget You '. That is an alternate title for an explative that is the actual title. Its interesting that this song is the first song ever nominated for a grammy with a curse word in the title.
The song is like pure sugar. Audio candy that gets stuck in your head like taffy in your teeth. 'Forget You' rocks and rolls like a late fifties, early sixties doo wop smash.
After a few more highs and lows, I finally reached 'Love Gun'. Here it goes. Cee lo's love gun cover. The song begins with a gunshot. Nice. Then a woman singing 'baby baby'.
Weird. Not part of the original. The song continues and the woman (not cee lo) begins singing some more lyrics that were not part of Kiss' Original.
Still going, CeeLo comes in, also not singing Kiss lyrics. Now that I think of it, the music is way off too.
Then it hits me.

Its not a Kiss cover. Its just another ceelo song named 'Love Gun'

Oh well. After finishing the album I was fairly pleased. Some huge catchy hits, and like most major label releases these days, filler tracks sprinkled between them.

I would reccomend this for a few of their party hits. Just skip around and you will be pleased. Just don't expect any Kiss covers.

B+

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