Perennial favorites of mine ever since I first heard Lola one Friday night in my buddy Vince's basement on a cassette belonging to his older sister (and where his parents would let us drink when we were teenagers; they were very cool in our eyes for that), the Kinks may have cemented their deserved reputation as musical deities by being among the original Big 4 (Beatles, Stones, Who & Kinks, of course), but it's the era of their creative re-birth and second wind as a US stadium act (roughly '77 through '83) that I find myself going back to most for kicks.More so than their 60's peers, they managed to seamlessly update their sound without compromising their identity and thus were able to have something valid to say to their original fans, classic rock fans, new wave fans and music fans in general, more than a decade after they made their first impact.
Give The People What They Want is a band energized, still vital and firing on all cylinders even after almost 20 years of endless slogging in the industry. All killer and no filler, the album features the band delivering the goods in fine Kinksian style (standard review blather, yada, yada)...
I'm not usually a lyrics guy, but that Ray Davies sure has an able way with words that's obvious even to me.
Go, Kinks!
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