Your reviews are quite insightful. I find it hard to believe you are so young.. you've definitely done your homework.
I share your love of the Kinks. They were the true survivors of the first wave British Invasion. Ray Davies never rested on his laurels as a songwriter and many of his current songs reflect a man who is still in touch with the world and his own sense of rebellion. The fact that Ray Davies, at age 62, can write a song like Things Are Going to Change (the Morning After) ... a ruthless reassessment of his own personal failures, is evidence of his fierce committment to confronting his own artistic demons.
I think a lot of Americans missed the humor and the double edged social commentary of Ray Davies' songs, which were uniquely British observations about the rigid and oppressive system of class relations in England.
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