Shaun Cassidy - Wasp
September 1 1980
Shaun Cassidy
Wasp
Genre: What the Actual Fuck?
2.25 outs of 5
Highlights:
So Sad About Us
Shaun Cassidy.
Teamed up with Todd Rundgren.
Opened this record with a psycho New Wave version of “Rebel Rebel” and…it’s so novelty weird. It sounds like…The Strokes. Or…The Strokes sound like…Shaun Cassidy?
These are all covers. Save one track, “Cool Fire”, that he is credited as co-writing. And that song sounds like it fell off a latter day Rundgren record. Cassidy even sings like Todd. Could anyone pick Shaun’s voice out at gun point? Not even Shirley Jones could do that, I bet.
But…it’s so…weird. Your audience is bubblegum pop…what are you doing?
This sludge version of The Animals’ “It’s My Life” is…so strange. That’s the only word I can come up with. This album gets points for experimentation but points off for execution.
This is Shaun’s final foray into music. He would go on to be a prolific TV writer and producer. I’m glad he found his niche. This wasn’t it.
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