Muswell Hillbillies was the start of a new era for The Kinks, as they left longtime label Pye and signed with RCA. Emboldened by the commercial success of their previous album Lola v. Powerman…, they would release six albums with RCA that would go on to be commercially disappointing and critically quizzical, to say the least.…
Being an IT Professional of inimitable self-aggrandizement, you’d think I’d have mastered the art of incremental backups. That needs to be said because my last blog entry — all about music, bands, artistry, concerts, tidal shifts of music consumption and appreciation over the past 15 years and why I think The Backstreet Boys’ I Want It…
Band On The Run — the album that saved Paul McCartney. There isn’t a weak song on the album, a landmark 70s record by any reckoning.
“For me, Village Green Preservation Society is Ray’s masterwork. It’s his Sgt Pepper, it’s what makes him the definitive pop poet laureate.” — Pete Townshend, 2004 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (referred to as VGPS from here on) is the musical equivalent of the perfect trip to Disneyland. Warm and sunny weather with…
That’s a rather somber, slightly chilly album cover, isn’t it? You can’t blame the band though… the album came out at the tail end of 1964, THE hallmark year of Beatlemania. They broke huge in America after their legendary Ed Sullivan appearances, toured the world, filmed a classic motion picture along with a host of…