Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[2] [3] As the song progresses and she goes on with life she continues to dream of Oklahoma and Hollywood ("She walks to work but she's still in a daze/ She's Rita Hayworth or Doris Day/ And Errol Flynn's gonna take her away/ To Oklahoma U.S.A."). The song opens and closes with the lyrics "All life we work, but work is a bore./
"Juke Box Music" has been positively reviewed by many critics. Robert Christgau recommended the track in his review of the Sleepwalker album, [4] and Rolling Stone claimed that it "is the best song [on Sleepwalker]." [3] AllMusic called the track "exceptional", [5] and said it was "yet another impressionistic portrait by the Kinks' Ray Davies". [6]
The song includes a saxophone solo that Billboard described as "hot," as well as a guitar solo by Dave Davies. [2] [4] Cash Box said the song was "topical" with "a hypnotic blues-rock beat," summarizing the song as "good natured pop with a message." [5] Record World called it "a vintage Kinks rocker complete with raging guitar lines and a ...
The tour ban lasted until 1969, by which time a sea change had occurred in rock ‘n’ roll; while the Woodstock hippie generation was taking over America, the Kinks’ music just became more ...
The most misanthropic song he ever wrote: “20th Century Man” (1971) Davies came up with “Muswell Hillbillies’” stomping opener — “I’m a 20th century man but I don’t wanna die ...
The song was first released as the B-side to their single "Sunny Afternoon" but soon became a favourite and was often part of the Kinks live act. Ray Davies continues to play the song regularly and used the song as an opening number in his 2006-2008 solo live appearances. Cash Box said that it is a "rhythmic ode about a highly individual type ...
The road to reunion for the Kinks has been fraught with in-fighting and bitter sibling rivalry, but despite it all the band has made its way back in the recording studio. Dave Davies confirmed to ...
Record World said it has "cool, cocky, British vocals observing an American crisis with plenty of wit and rocking rhythm." [4] The track was praised by AllMusic [5] as well as Rolling Stone, who said that "A Gallon of Gas" is "no great poetic achievement, but its slow, bluesy arrangement—meant, no doubt, to re-create the effect of a snail's pace gas line — heightens the good-natured irony ...