Greg Kihn

Long before "Jeopardy" just missed becoming the No. 1 song in the nation, Greg Kihn began honing his distinctively lean and bubbly pop sound. Influenced by the Kinks' clean melodies and irreverent sense of humor, Kihn's recordings from the '70s possess a charming simplicity that eventually wore as thin as the atrociously punned titles his albums bore during the '80s.