Track Listing 1. Working at the Factory 2. Lost and Found 3. Repetition 4. Welcome to Sleazy Town 5. Video Shop, The 6. Rock 'N' Roll Cities 7. How Are You 8. Think Visual 9. Natural Gift 10. Killing Time 11. When You Were a Child
| Details | | Producer: | Dave Davies, Ray Davies | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Kinks: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Dave Davies (vocals, guitar); Ian Gibbons (keyboards, background vocals); Jim Rodford (bass, background vocals); Bob Henrit (drums, percussion); Mick Avory (drums); Kim Goody (background vocals) Engineers include: Ben Fenner, Dave Powell, David Baker. Recorded At Konk Studios, London, England. After the relative commercial disappointment of their 1983 album WORD OF MOUTH, the Kinks apparently decided that it was time to "give the people what they want." Unfortunately for the Kinks, the resulting album, THINK VISUAL, was not at all what the people wanted. That's not to say that THINK VISUAL is not a good album, but rather that it doesn't quite sound like the Kinks. Believing that hard rock was what their sizable America audience desired, Ray and Dave Davies wrote a set of songs that forsook the poignant melodies and lyrics that distinguished their previous work in favor of topical songs like "Rock and Roll Cities" and "Working In A Factory" that seemed to be written to showcase Dave Davies' metallic power chords. Of course, no Kinks album would be complete without at least one brilliant surprise, and on THINK VISUAL, it's "How Are You," a heartbreaking track that sets a tale of a chance meeting with a former love against a yearning, bittersweet melody that is vintage Ray Davies.
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