Just for the record the only tracks I can find from The Road are the title track, Cliches Of The World Think Visual and It.... Which is somewhat of a shame, but we'll get by.
On a wild hair last week I started looking at future songs/albums and started here on The Road. I assumed they would all be there on You Tube but as you just discovered most are not. I've been in my (The) Video Shop over the weekend ripping from CD and creating the missing songs so I'll have the individual song videos from the album plus the B-side on whatever day we need them. I've already completed everything. You just decide if you want me to send them to you the day before via PM or however. I get up early but not quite as early as you do even though I'm an hour ahead .
Lol Unless anyone's perturbed about it. I don't have an awful lot to say about the live versions... I reckon I'll drop the opening post, and you can post the tracks when you get a chance... To me the main tracks on the Road are the title track, the excellent version of Destroyer, and Cliches... "It" being new is good as well, but that title track is a corker.... an instant favourite for me. . Reason enough to own the album
Whatever works best. If you don't want to mess with PMs, then just let me know what days will be for which songs. I won't be writing anything about the old songs either other than commenting on anything unusual I did for any specific video to do these. The CD indexing created some issues on some tracks where two had to be combined and then edited together, but otherwise straight rips with nothing added or taken out by me, unlike some YouTubers who think they are "remixing" or "remastering".
Think Visual Here we have a different sounding song from the Kinks. And in this case it works pretty well. And for once the song ends earlier than I expected or was ready for it too! Another poster said this and How Are You make a good one/two punch. I would agree with that After a so so start, this album is getting better.
Will do. I’ll send all the missing ones in album order over the weekend sometime late Sat/early Sun so you have everything ahead of time.
Again guys, thank you all. This thread has been a team sport, and that's why it's going along so well
I was really enjoying the Road anyway, but I went through it this morning. It sits up with Celluloid Heroes, 20th Century Man and the like... it is certainly top tier Klassic Kinks to me
Lol I haven't deep dived "It" yet... on peripheral hearings I don't dislike it at all... when I go through it properly, it may end up just as loved, but The Road will remain brilliant either way.
I need to deep dive both honestly My main issue with The Road for the time being is it sounds as if I had been in charge of the recording and mixing (and that's not a good thing)
Think Visual starts off so well with that nice acoustic intro, but then it goes off in a completely unexpected direction and it loses me. I guess I need a lot more time with it!
How Are You Dave playing the Where Have All The Good Times chords on the distorted rumbly guitar neath the keyboard sheen and then at the very end you get the Tired of Waiting riff of course. This one is about Chrissie I reckon. Why? It sounds like Message of Love complete with the repeated word: Over, and Over, and Over on MOL and Friend, Friend, Friend here. I'm not saying Honeyman-Scott is playing the Where Have All The Good Times riff instead he seperated the main parts of it with that suspended chord that breaks up the MOL opening riff. Very creative move by an innovative guitarist. How Are You is like 3 songs in one: the keyboard filigrees and soft Angelic chorus on How Are You floating over the top, Dave's buried grungey guitar churning out the WHATGTG/TOWFY riff beneath it all and in the middle that more jamgly slighty REMIsh guitar conplimenting Ray's verses of regret. There is a lot going on in this song. It is layered in a way Kinks songs rarely are. Dave's spindly solo is splendid. How Are You is both the closed the Kinks ever sounded like the 1979-1983 circa Pretenders and Ray like Chrissie. It's a remarkable song that keeps revealing bits of itself all these years later. Some really great guitar work by Dave here and Ray. It's a guitar-driven song yet heavily keyboard as well (the keyboards however are playing guitar-like melodic riffs. That Ray could still write a song like this in 1986 is remarkable and gives a glimmer of where a certain demo of songs wanted to go. Ray would never write a somg like this for the Kinks again. In some ways its the culmination of the power pop side of the Kinks. I never picked up on the Prentenders vibe of the song till listening to it a couple time just now. I'm surprised by it but I hear it at least though I may be lone man in this boat.
Natural Gift and Think Visual are the same somgs I've alway thought. They've always sounded remarkably similar to me.
I prefer this live version to the studio take. I like faster pace that almost gets Henrit to swing (almost). This is less campy and theatrey. Less is more here.
You're not the only who thought that. I agree with you about it or the sister song that follows it making great commercial singles.
