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The Kinks - The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace Audio CD

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The Kinks Band: The Kinks
Title: The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
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Release Date: 2004-08-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Schooldays 2: Jack The Idiot Dunce 3: Education 4: The First Time We Fall In Love 5: I'm in Disgrace 6: Headmaster 7: The Hardway 8: The Last Assembly 9: No More Looking Back 10: Finale

Kinks Classic
If you owned in on vinyl, you owe it to yourself to update and keep it in your collection. What can you say about Schoolboys in Discrace? A timeless classic for a timeless band.


Great Concept Album For Crappy Students in The 70's Like Me
Though "The Hardway" is worth $14. I agree completely with the three reviews so far and McCulley's Editorial above says it all. 99 all by itself, the record contains eight other songs that are so representative of Ray Davies' and the band's brilliance that, if you absolutely had to, this could be the only Kinks album you would need to buy. It has the Genre designation of "Desert Island" on my iPod.

(I was a terrible student due to what was later diagnosed as "a learning disability" but had to attend school daily. I dreaded it, absolutely hated it. When I looked at some old Report Cards recently I was startled by the repeated descriptions of me by my teachers - bright, creative, and humorous but at the same time a slow reader, unable to concentrate and a daydreamer ("lazy" one teacher wrote). Well thanks to AOR FM radio, I was able to hear, purchase with allowance money, then ROCK to this record).

Education: "Teacher, teach me how to read and write,
You can teach me about biology,
But you can't tell me what I am living for
'Cos that's still a mystery.
Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics
And teach me about the structure of man,
But all your endless calculations
Can't tell me why I am".

Thank you Ray, you saved me from giving up completely.


The Kinks' best rock theatre album
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Ray's material is tight, and the band sounds rejuvenated as they rip through one great song after another, effortlessly moving from hard rock to '50s homages to prog-influenced epics. After three muddled messes of questionable ideas and unrealized ambition, the Kinks finally delivered a solid rock theatre piece with "Schoolboys in Disgrace. Dave Davies steals the show with awesome guitar work on "Headmaster" and "No More Looking Back. "

Instead of telling a linear story, Ray focuses on individual feelings and situations that are thematically linked but also stand on their own. The result is more like the classic "Arthur" album, and a huge improvement over "Preservation" and "Soap Opera," where the songs were so stuffed with plot they had no room to breathe.

"Schoolboys" is one of the Kinks' best albums and a beacon of creativity and excellence among their spotty '70s work. If you're curious about the Kinks' fascinating but often frustrating rock theatre period, start here!.


One of the Kinks Best Ever!!! Brilliant !!
All songs have some special apeal. This cd is simply one of the best works THE KINKS ever did, not in production terms but in songs and concept. Some rock very hard and others simply capture a special feeling or situation. "NO MORE LOOKING BACK" is one of the band s' best song ever; is very sad this song never got the radio airplay or even the band attention it deserved. I still wait for a good rock band to cover it (maybe OASIS?).
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It rocks, it's brilliant, it's fun and you can dance to it..
This was their final concept album and it has their best hooks since "You've Really Got Me". Ray's wit was dripping out of the CD case when I cracked this open. This album is so underrated. . . any song here could have been a hit but sadly not one was. I would call this album `the lighter side of Pink Floyd's The Wall'. It rocks, it's brilliant, it's fun and you can dance to it.


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