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Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One
 
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Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One

The KinksAudio CD
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The heart of the Kinks beats hardest in brothers Ray Davies and Dave Davies, founder members and creative drivers. They formed the band in 1963 with Peter Quaife and Mick Avory and it took only three single releases until they released the seminal “You Really Got Me”: a noisy, rousing anthem for a generation. Their fourth single “All Day and All of the Night”, proved that this band were a keeper.… Read more in Amazon's The Kinks Store

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  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Reprise / Wea
  • ASIN: B000002KOW
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
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1. The Contenders
2. Strangers
3. Denmark Street
4. Get Back in Line
5. Lola
6. Top of the Pops
7. The Moneygoround
8. This Time Tomorrow
9. A Long Way from Home
10. Rats
11. Apeman
12. Powerman
13. Got to Be Free
14. Got to Be Free

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The Kinks' 1970 effort was the penultimate creation in a five-year, six-album burst that ranks just a notch below the great sustained rock & roll eruptions of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, and Elvis Costello. Of course, the linchpin to this collection is "Lola," Ray Davies's irresistibly vivid account of the charms of a seductive transvestite. Its daring (for the time) subject matter aside, "Lola" stands as one of the great singles of all time. Add to the list the almost as infectious "Apeman," a slew of funny, shrewd, alienated-rock-star screeds ("Top of the Tops," "The Moneyground," "Powerman"), and a couple of memorable contributions from Ray's brother, Dave ("Strangers," "Rats"), and you have the Kinks at their raucous, righteous, quirky quintessence. --Steven Stolder

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Media Type: CD
Artist: KINKS
Title: LOLA VS. POWERMAN & THE MONEYG
Street Release Date: 09/20/1988
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Genre: ROCK/POP

 

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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock 'N Roll Monument, August 6, 2004
This review is from: Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One (Audio CD)
Customer reviews are certainly no place for bickering and personalized debate, but I really must dispute the astounding assertions of a few reviews below. There can be no question that this album serves as both a fantastic starting place for novices as well as one of the top 20 rock albums of all time. Never mind the defining single, "Lola." This album also features the fullest sound The Kinks yet achieved with blistering rockers like Dave's "Rats" or Ray's "Top of the Pops" and "Powerman." It is also the band's most varied album; one of the rare moments at which both Dave and Ray were at the top of their games as songwriters and musicians. Equally as engaging as the rockers are Dave's enchantingly fragile "Strangers" -- the best song he ever wrote -- and Ray's striking and forgotten piano ballad, "A Long Way From Home" or the slightly more aggressive "Get Back Into The Line." "Lola Versus Powerman and the Money-go-Round" is the one Kinks album that comprises every aspect of the band's well-deserved reputation: both the rough edges and the gentle heart, the ability of Dave to write with just as much poignancy as his prolific older brother, and Ray's knack for writing an album whose music is not compromised by its focus on a linear narrative. "Schoolboys in Disgrace" and the Preservation Act albums would demonstrate just how delicate a line Ray toted when he gave in to his artistic craving for plot rock: the albums betrayed musicianship in favor of the characters and stories it adorned. But "Lola . . ." and the equally intense "Muswell Hillbillies" extended the unique accomplishments of prior concept albums, "Village Green" and "Arthur." This 1970 landmark is every bit the rock 'n roll destination that so many critics and mature listeners claim it is, and suggestions to the contrary derive only from those who weren't there or fail to connect with the distinctly literary rock Ray and Dave cranked out over the decades.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Yes, it's number 1, it's Top of the Pops", March 6, 2000
This review is from: Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One (Audio CD)
When Ray Davies decided to write albums (starting with Face to Face), the Kinks began a run of amazing albums that ended with this album (Muswell Hillbillies was good, but didn't hold a candle to this). As a "concept" album, there's none better, but, forget the concept and just appreciate some of the finest songwriting you're ever likely to hear. Great melodies, great themes, humor, pathos, love...Davies proves his mastery of the art of songwriting. It's useless to compare these guys to anyone else - they are so totally unique. Sure, its got Lola, simply one of the coolest songs ever written, but that's only a teaser. A Long Way From Home, Strangers, This Time Tomorrow, etc., are poignant, wonderful songs. If you want love songs, you'll need to look elsewhere. These songs concern themselves with the hypocracy of the music business and the travel, pressure and lonliness that goes with it. Never has been a more poignant commentary, and probably more true today than then.

It's also worth noting that this Ray Davies produced album is sonically very fine, and the band is never tighter.

I don't know how anyone could really expect more from a pop album than this one delivers.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great record and winner of the All Time Worst Album Title, June 18, 1998
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After the kinks invented power rock with "You Really Got Me" and "All of the Day and All of the Night"; and after they established Ray Davies lyrical abilities with social satires like "A Well Respected Man","Sunny Afternnon" & "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"; and after they had fallen out of fashion while creating some of the best and earliest thematic song cycle albums in rock "The Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur", and after they created one of the great unknown records in pop history "Waterloo Sunset"; the Davies's brothers, Ray and Dave, made one of the finest records I've ever heard, featuring an unforgetable smash hit single (their first in years) "Lola", one of the best gender bender ditties of all times and a song so good it sounds inevitable. The rest of the record features great songs about work, money, power, the music business and running around the jungle eating bananas. Every cut is pure pop brilliance and the lyrics would do Cole Porter proud. "It's Top of the Pops."
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