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This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
The Kinks were still riding high on a resurgence of popularity that started in the late seventies when this 1983 release hit the streets (and was followed by GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, making for two albums in a row with covers featuring the album title spray painted on a wall). The album opens with several big-fisted guitar chord numbers, which translated perfectly to the arenas they were then playing regularly. It's also important to note that these riff-driven songs are from the band who practically wrote the book on riff-heavy songs when "You Really Got Me" came blasting out of radios seventeen years before.
The album includes a couple of hit singles--"Come Dancing" and "Don't Forget To Dance"--both of which employ moderate volume and propulsion (in contrast with some of their other singles from the era). The album's title is apt, as these are some of Ray Davies bleakest looks at the world around him-and the songs are consequently full of lost love, disappearing circumstances, and dreams put on hold. "Property," for example, details the dissolution of a marriage in stark, sad simplicity.
The Kinks: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer); Dave Davies (vocals, guitar); Ian Gibbons (keyboards); Jim Rodford (bass guitar); Mick Avory (drums).
Liner Note Author: Matt Resnicoff. **Super Audio CD (SACD) Hybrid**
This CD will play in standard CD players.
A Super Audio CD player is required to take advantage of the SACD sound technology. State Of Confusion Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $2.59) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Hard Rock, Enhanced CD, Super Audio | | Label | Velvel Records, LLC | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10455  | | CD Universe Part number | 6762457 | | Catalog number | 79806 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 21, 2004 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Ray Davies | | Engineer | John Rollo; Damien Korner | | Recording Time | 60 minutes | | Personnel | Ray Davies - vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer
Dave Davies - vocals, guitar
Mick Avory - drums
Ian Gibbons - keyboards
Jim Rodford - bass guitar
| | Additional Info | SACD Hybrid; Digipak |
State Of Confusion Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Last great Kinks album sounds about right
While I prefer other stages of the Kinks' career (particularly the '66 to '70 era), I wouldn't disagree with the reviewer who said this was the last great Kinks album.
It's certainly the last of the Kinks' late-'70s/early-'80s run of great "arena-rock" albums, which started with Low Budget or, maybe, Misfits.
The writeup at the top of this entry is wrong on one point. "Give the People Want They Want" came out before this album, not after.
Submitted by mike (Chicago)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 2 found this helpful. great....
Im starting my kinks cd collection (I just have 3-4 records) and this is one of the best, as the reviewer noticed, there are some guitar oriented tunes to begin the album, but then you come across a row of really great tracks: come dancing, property, dont forget to dance, young conservatives, heart of gold....and the bonus tracks are a good addition.
There is no filler in here, really. Diifficult times for the band and ray davies (check out the briliant simplicity of tracks like "property"), he was going through a difficult time on his marriage, and the rest of the band was in the middle of personal differences, which lead to the departure of founding member Mick avory months later. Listen, this album had to be recorded in two parts: first ray, mick and the bass, and later in other session dave and the keyboard player, cos dave and mick couldn't see each other in the same room.
In spite of that, this is a great record and a good reminder of how good and influential this band was.
Buy this one.
Submitted by polo gallagher (america) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No last great kinks release
just an opinion but i've always considered this as the last great kinks lp.not a bad song on the disk.
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