Schoolboys in Disgrace [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

The Kinks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Velvel Records
• ASIN: B00000FDJS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,907 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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 Hard Way

8. The Last Assembly

9. No More Looking Back

10. Finale

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the 1998 remastered Velvel release. Catalog 63467-79724-2. There is a hole punch through the UPC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Most Overlooked Kinks Album, April 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Schoolboys in Disgrace (Audio CD)

Unlike Soap Opera and the Preservation Acts, this album is entertaining from start to finish. There isn't one dud. The lyrics might be a little weak, but the music is consistent and strong. Dave Davies guitar work is particularly notable, as the riffs are clean and well placed. I am familiar with the majority of Kinks recordings, and this one is most underrated. Schoolboys In Disgrace deserves to be heard.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schoolboys In Disgrace-ULTIMATE KINKS!, April 20, 2001

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Alex (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schoolboys in Disgrace (Audio CD)

Well, probably their first truly great albumm since Muswell Hillbillies, this one keeps your attention. That may due to the fact that it's only 10 tracks! Oh well! All 10 are quite satisfying and proved that the lads were ready to rock after putting out the rather disappointing Soap Opera, in which the music makes one wonder if these are the same guys that put out You Really Got Me and others.Anyway, this is a lot like Lola Vs. Powerman and the Money-Go-Round(which is like Sgt. Pepper to Kinks fans-an absolute necessity!) The similarity is that there are a variety of songs: Schooldays is an electric country ballad;Jack the Idiot Dunce is a fine surf sound-alike; Education,though it runs 7:07,does not have one disappointing second on it; The First Time We Fall In Love at first sounds like Elvis, then it seems like Brian Wilson took lead vocals, then it finally becomes a Kinks song;I'm In Disgrace, the quasi-title track, rocks as hard as anything else up to that time; Headmaster sounds like a cross of Badfinger with a touch of Led Zeppelin;The Hard Way is a classic, which is a cross between I Can't Explain(same chords too!) and their early singles;The Last Assembly doffs its cap to Gospel;and No More Looking Back is pretty much it's own genre! By the way, the back of the album informs the reader that the little boy that this is based around grows up to become Flash, the villian from the Preservation saga (which yours truly hopes to review soon,)Well I find no fault in this album, and the finale,a brief reprise of Education,is also a brief reprise of the whole album, almost seeming like it was about to blow your stereo into oblivion.After this album the Kinks left RCA and signed with Arista and began their most successful era.But if you ask me, the RCA years,(71-76),are undoubtedly the best.Well anyway hopefully you will at least partially enjoy the album as much as I did.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the lucky ones, November 27, 1999

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Philip S. Wolf (San Francisco,Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schoolboys in Disgrace (Audio CD)

I was one of the lucky ones (about 150 of us) who was entertained by the Kinks on the Schoolboys in Disgrace tour of 1975 in a small venue in San Diego, Ca. At that time if you mentioned the band to a friend the would react with: Didn't they break up years ago? Every time I listen to this disc I remember that little room and how great the Kinks were that night. Schooldays starts things up and it sets the tone, Education is the centerpiece of the whole thing but it's a tad overblown. I'm in Disgrace, is the single that never was with The Hard Way a very close 2nd. This is a very good ol' Kinks record and the remaster makes it even more fun to listen to. In just a few years after the release of this disc the Kinks were again back on top of the game and selling major arenas worldwide. But back in 1975 a few of us were very, very lucky, indeed.