Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their new album, One for the Road, a loopy, hard-driving souvenir of a 1979-80 concert tour, has settled down comfortably in the higher altitudes of the Top 40, and these hardy perennials of British rock's golden age have just embarked on a two-month concert tour of the States. All this is ample testament to the surprising staying power of their antic stagecraft, disheveled musicianship and-particularly -to the cheeky satire and sideways poignancy of Ray Davies' music...
...Hillbilly and Victoria, which voiced such self-mocking nostalgia as "Long ago life was clean/ Sex was bad and obscene/ And the rich were so mean/ ... Victoria was my queen." But the subject was ultimately too vast, too tough to focus and hard to contain. A three-record concept album called Preservation, released in 1973 and 1974, showed Davies burrowing into already familiar territory with a concentration that smacked of desperation...
...experimenting with new songs and ideas and shows on the road," Davies says now. "We found ourselves virtually going out with a theater show called Preservation. It was a hit show, but the album wasn't. I was really writing original cast albums, not rock albums." When the Kinks switched record labels four years ago, they decided, in Davies' words, "to become a rock band again and let the music tell the story." His more recent tunes, like (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, Low Budget and Catch Me Now I'm Falling, have the same spiky...
...Kennedy family photo album...
...Kennedy family photo album...