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Release date: 11-12-2020 (Originally from 1970)

2020 EU 50th anni. re-issue ( 180g vinyl LP )

An album full of the Kinks trademark classic pop including the legendary Lola and Apeman presented in a gatefold picture sleeve stickered & sealed.

Tracks:
A1    The Contenders
A2    Strangers
A3    Denmark Street
A4    Get Back In Line
A5    Lola
A6    Top Of The Pops
A7    The Moneygoround

B1    This Time Tomorrow
B2    A Long Way From Home
B3    Rats
B4    Apeman
B5    Powerman
B6    Got To Be Free

Release on 1970 Lola brought the Kinks back to the top of the charts with some of their most memorable material to date Here the Davies genius is running at fullthrottle combining sublime satire and scathing criticism of the music industry with irresistioble p9op hooks

Lola gave the Kinks an unexpected hit and its crisp muscular sound pitched halfway between acoustic folk and hard rock provided a new style for the band However the song only hinted at what its accompanying album Lola vs the Powerman & the MoneyGoRound Pt 1 was all about It didnt matter that Ray Davies just had his first hit in years he had suffered greatly at the hands of the music industry and he wanted to tell the story in song Hence Lola a loose concept album about Ray Davies own psychosis and bitter feelings toward the music industry Davies never really delivers a cohesive story but the record holds together because its one of his strongest set of songs

Dave Davies contributes the lovely Strangers and the appropriately paranoid Rats but this is truly Ray show as he lashes out at exmanagers the boisterous vaudevillian The Moneygoround publishers Denmark Street TV and music journalists the hardhitting Top of the Pops label executives Powerman and hell just society in general Apeman Got to Be Free If his wit wasnt sharp the entire project would be insufferable but the album is as funny as it is angry Furthermore he balances his bile with three of his best melancholy ballads This Time Tomorrow A Long Way From Home and the antiwelfare and union Get Back in Line which captures workingclass angst better than any other rock song These songs provide the spine for a wildly unfocused but nonetheless dazzling tour de force that reveals Rays artistic strengths and endearing character flaws in equal measure Stephen Thomas Erlewine -All Music Guide-