09012016 - Red Rider "As Far as Siam"

I know next to nothing about this band or their history, save for the fact that they were (and apparently still are) fronted by Tom Cochrane, whom I remember for that one song. This album, released in 1981, opens with "Lunatic Fringe", which is a pretty great tune. But the rest is pretty generic, and although the songs are decent enough - I mean, they're catchy'n'shit - they all sound like a poor man's something or the other. Mostly the other.