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The Kinks - 1972 - Everybody's in show biz


Everybody's in Show-Biz is a double album with one record devoted to stories from the road and another devoted to songs from the road. It could be labeled "the drunkest album ever made," without a trace of hyperbole, since this is a charmingly loose, rowdy, silly record. It comes through strongest on the live record, of course, as it's filled with Ray Davies' notoriously campy vaudevellian routine (dig the impromptu "Banana Boat Song" that leads into "Skin & Bone," or the rollicking "Baby Face"). Still, the live record is just a bonus, no matter how fun it is, since the travelogue of the first record is where the heart of Everybody's in Show-Biz lies. Davies views the road as monotony -- an endless stream of identical hotels, drunken sleep, anonymous towns, and really, really bad meals (at least three songs are about food, or have food metaphors). There's no sex on the album, at all, not even on Dave Davies' contribution, "You Don't Know My Name." Some of this is quite funny -- not just Ray's trademark wit, but musical jokes like the woozy beginning of "Unreal Reality" or the unbearably tongue-in-cheek "Look a Little on the Sunnyside" -- but there's a real sense of melancholy running throughout the record, most notably on the album's one unqualified masterpiece, "Celluloid Heroes." By the time it gets there, anyone that's not a hardcore fan may have turned it off. Why? Because this album is where Ray begins indulging his eccentricities, a move that only solidified the Kinks' status as a cult act. There are enough quirks to alienate even fans of their late-'60s masterpieces, but those very things make Everybody's in Show-Biz an easy album for those cultists to hold dear to their hearts.




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   1. (00:03:30) The Kinks - Here Comes Yet Another Day
   2. (00:04:07) The Kinks - Maximum Consumption
   3. (00:03:34) The Kinks - Unreal Reality
   4. (00:03:29) The Kinks - Hot Potatoes
   5. (00:03:24) The Kinks - Sitting In My Hotel
   6. (00:03:31) The Kinks - Motorway
   7. (00:02:37) The Kinks - You Don't Know My Name
   8. (00:03:32) The Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship
   9. (00:02:51) The Kinks - Look A Little On The Sunnyside
  10. (00:06:21) The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
  11. (00:04:08) The Kinks - Top Of The Pops
  12. (00:02:31) The Kinks - Brainwashed
  13. (00:00:44) The Kinks - Mr. Wonderful
  14. (00:04:01) The Kinks - Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
  15. (00:03:36) The Kinks - Holiday
  16. (00:03:04) The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly
  17. (00:05:12) The Kinks - Alcohol
  18. (00:01:42) The Kinks - Banana Boat Song (trad.)
  19. (00:03:53) The Kinks - Skin & Bone
  20. (00:01:56) The Kinks - Baby Face
  21. (00:01:42) The Kinks - Lola



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