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Kinks, The   ‎– Soap Opera  
Label: 
Velvel ‎– VEL-LP-79833 
Format: 
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold 180 Gram 

Country:  US  
Released:  2008  
Genre: Rock 
Style: Classic Rock 



Tracklist .


A1 Everybody's A Star (Starmaker)    
A2 Ordinary People    
A3 Rush Hour Blues    
A4 Nine To Five    
A5 When Work Is Over    
A6 Have Another Drink    
B1 Underneath The Neon Sign    
B2 Holiday Romance    
B3 You Make It All Worthwhile    
B4 Ducks On The Wall    
B5 (A) Face In The Crowd    
B6 You Can't Stop The Music    


Companies etc 

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Konk 
Copyright (c) – Konk 
Licensed To – Velvel 
Manufactured By – Koch Records 
Distributed By – Koch Records 


Credits 

Art Direction – Pat Doyle (2) 
Illustration – Joe Petagno 
Written-By, Arranged By, Producer – Raymond Douglas Davies* 
 

Barcode and Other Identifiers 

Barcode: 6 34677 98331 3


Release Date
 May, 1975 

Genre: Pop/Rock, 

Styles:
Contemporary Pop/Rock
Rock & Roll
Album Rock
Hard Rock
Prog-Rock


Recording Date

August, 1974 - October, 1974

Allmusic.com

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine  [-]


If there ever were a testament to Ray Davies' stubbornness and ornery perversity, it's Soap Opera. Released after the draining, two-part, hopelessly muddled rock opera Preservation, Soap Opera is the grandest concept album the Kinks ever made. Davies' tackled a topic that seemed manageable compared to Preservation -- how "Ordinary People" escape the doldrums with dreams of stardoms -- but conceived the production as a bit of a radio play, with prominent guest vocalists and narration. Improbably, it feels larger, campier, more excessive than Preservation, even if it's considerably more focused and consistent. The main problem is, its presentation is so damn silly that it's hard to hear individual songs. Nothing here works as well as the best of Preservation, Act 1, but it holds together better as a record. Even so, Soap Opera winds up rather unsettling. Not only is it hard to get the gist of Davies' narrative, but there's not enough, musically or lyrically, to make it compelling. Then, there's the nagging feeling that this isn't really a Kinks album, but rather a Ray Davies solo project in disguise; the songs are certainly Ray's, but there's little that sounds like the Kinks, largely due to that ludicrous production. This isn't just an outsider's suspicion, either -- Dave Davies and Mick Avory both mention this unease in Peter Doggett's liner notes to the 1999 reissue of the album, but the true indication of the extent of Davies' Soap Opera indulgence is that he never was allowed to go this far over the top again