Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So cynical you can taste it! This is one of my favorite albums!
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Another classic gem from the most underated, mis-managed, greatest group of all time! Although garning some much deserved respect from the younger generation of rock music in recent years. Especially in England.
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This album is great!! I like how the Introduction and Got To Be Free have a similar melody (only noticed that thanks to having the album on tape!) Every song has a different flavor, making this a fun listen. Highly recommended.
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Great concept album about someone who left home to become a writer, only to find out the life is sh*t and eventually decides to live a simpler existence. Excellent commentary for the modern times. The one song that doesn't really fit with the rest is "Top of the Pops" but that song's awesome-tast i c - n e s s really makes up for it.
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(con't) be.
Then there's Ray Davies. From leaving home with high hopes, he rides the roller coaster and, in the end, has not yet begun to fight. It's superb, and one of the Kinks' 3 best albums--whic h makes it one of the very best by ANYBODY. |
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A concept album that plays like one---or, like individual songs.
The flaw in "rock operas" or "concept albums", like stage musicals, is that there is something somewhere in the music that has to maintain the story--somet i m e s clumsily. But NOT HERE. Each song stands on its own. Each song adds to and embellishes the story. Dave Davies "grows up" in one album: From the idealistic "Strangers" to the every-man-fo r - h i m s e l f realization of the world in "Rats", a boy becomes a man--not one he wants to |
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the ultimate kinks lp ,and in my opinion their best work,with the loss of the bassist peter quaif,i believe was to their benefit to recruit bassist john dalton and john gosling on keys made the best 5 piece lineup and this important lp was the kinks in their prime,and this record plays in its entirty the way a great record should. myspace/kent c r a w f o r d 2
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