Intoxifornication

Intoxifornication
Studio album by
Gregg Alexander
ReleasedMay 5, 1992
RecordedLos Angeles, California at Sunset Sound, Westlake Audio, American Recorders, The Music Grinder, Gregg's bedroom, and the Suicide Room
GenreRock, funk, pop
Length45:15
LabelEpic
ProducerGregg Alexander, Rick Nowels
Gregg Alexander chronology
Michigan Rain
(1989) 		Intoxifornication
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Intoxifornication is the second album by Gregg Alexander, released on May 5, 1992.

It includes three tracks ("Loving You Sets Me Free", "Cruel with Me" and "The World We Love So Much") that had already been released on Alexander's 1989 debut album Michigan Rain. It also includes rerecordings of "Michigan Rain" and "Save Me from Myself" from that album.

Both "Smokin' in Bed" and "The Truth" were released as one-track promotional singles, and had videos filmed.[2][3]

"The Truth" includes the line "Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes/Are you ready?/Here comes the lawsuit, baby", followed by Alexander covering the refrain of "Slow Ride" by Foghat. There is also a reference to the "Tutti Frutti" line "A wop-bom a loo-mop".

In the leadup to the album's release in May 1992, personal ads were placed in the LA Weekly that simply read "INTOXIFORNICATION".[4][5]

Critical reception

In a contemporaneous review, David Barton of The Sacramento Bee compared the sound of Intoxifornication to a hybrid of Prince and Bryan Adams, calling it "sexy, funny, catchy and musically challenging without being obscure... Intoxifornication not only announces a talent to watch, but one to get into right now".[6] Brenda Herrmann of the Chicago Tribune also compared Alexander to Prince "with a twist of Beverly Hills 90210", praising Alexander's "musky, moany voice... gorgeous face, guitar and songs filled with sexual by-plays... made for radio and pretty kind on the ear, if not revolutionary".[7] A later negative take came from William Ruhlmann of AllMusic, who called the album "overwrought hard guitar rock of no distinction".[8]

Track listing

All songs written by Gregg Alexander.

  1. "Smokin' in Bed" – 3:11
  2. "Michigan Rain" – 2:50
  3. "Loving You Sets Me Free" – 4:23
  4. "Intoxifornication" – 4:02
  5. "The Truth" – 5:13
  6. "Save Me from Myself" – 6:22
  7. "I Wanna Seduce You" – 3:13
  8. "Electric Girlfriend" – 2:25
  9. "Cruel with Me" – 4:02
  10. "The World We Love So Much" – 4:38
  11. "Wear Your Love Beside You" (hidden track, title listed on Japanese release[9]) – 4:31

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ ""Gregg Alexander - Smokin' In Bed"". Discogs. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
  3. ^ ""Gregg Alexander - The Truth"". Discogs. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
  4. ^ "Personal ads". LA Weekly. 23 April 1992. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Personal ads". LA Weekly. 7 May 1992. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  6. ^ Barton, David (14 June 1992). "Los Lobos rocks out of a deep sleep". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  7. ^ Herrmann, Brenda (23 July 1992). "Intoxifornication review". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Intoxifornication". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  9. ^ ""Yahoo!ミュージック - グレッグ・アレグザンダー - イントクシフォーニケイション(廃盤)"". Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2008.