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Everybody's in Showbiz

Reissued, Live, Remastered

The Kinks Format: Audio CD
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
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Audio CD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, July 14, 1998
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  • ac
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE KINKS are one GREAT BAND!!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2013
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    THE KINKS are fiereless when it comes to recording pop songs. They seem to go on their own terms shtick and rules. "EVERYBODY'S IN SHOWBIZ" just makes it all worthwhile to LOVE this band even more!! considersd to be TOO uncommercail..well maybe creativity isnt soo blunt. Ray Davies just takes it a step up and includes a brass section and some loosely tied songs to weave in and out of vaudville like dittys and gives us"CELLULOID HEROES" A M A Z ING!! This song alone is by far the greatest non hits ever!!! I could write a whole page on this song alone but i'll save the rest for..?! Supersonic Rocketship was another gem here..and also "here comes yet another day"mick avory just AWESOME!!! THE KINKS also were LIVE on the second album side..That IS REAL live working class at best!!!
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  • Allen Rosenberg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for pressing these CDs
    Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013
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    I hate to think that stuff is lost now that LPs have disappeared. "Arthur" is not even available on Rhapsody so I had to buy these to insure I have them. The Kinks are a central group to the British rock scene and contributed so much music. Davies is a musical genius as far as I am concerned. Listening again I hear the riffs that marked that age of music and Davies was the originator of so much of it. I guess the group is gone now but at least The Who and Dylan are still touring. what a musical age that was.
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  • Johnnie Neptune
    4.0 out of 5 stars Golden sound for one of the great, if uneven Kinks Klassics
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2010
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    This release by Mobile Fidelity on gold SACD offers the ultimate in digital sound for this 1972 Kinks disc, the second of the band's RCA releases once they changed record labels. Originally a double vinyl, this has all been captured on one disc with two bonus tracks already available on previous reissues. To my ears, this M.F. mastering is slightly superior to the previous Koch/Velvel SACD reissue but not dramatically. The excellent Peter Doggett essay from that reissue has been replaced by an equally excellent one from Fred Schruers with Kinks sage Doug Hinman getting special thanks as well. The same two bonus tracks, "Till the End of the Day" and "She Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina" are included from the aforementioned reissue and are welcome additions.

    Performance wise? This double l.p. was one of the most ironic of all Kinks albums because of its musical schizophrenia. Ray Davies' sardonic view of life on the road over the studio tracks followed by the 'real thing' on the concert side. I remember being disappointed by the concert selections when this album first came out. "Baby Face" and "Banana Boat Song"? A 1:40 version of "Lola"?? The self-indulgence of these selections keeps it from being 5 stars for me. Not the best of the Live Kinks but certainly the most revealing. Around this time, Ray actually quit the band, in the midst of turning the Kinks into a Music Hall showband with horns after the "Muswell Hillbillies" studio album. Acute Schizophrenia Blues indeed! Ray's downward slide is mentioned in the essays included with each release. That is one of the reasons that in hindsight, "Showbiz" is such a fascinating document historically. That helps me to view it in a different light than when it was first released. Not the coolest of records back in the day but now it reveals something very authentic and vulnerable about life in a Rock band during these times that remains a rare perspective.

    The beautiful "Celluloid Heroes" is not only the best song on the disc, it is its thematic heart. In "My Generation", Pete Townshend wrote "Hope I die before I get old." That became true for Keith Moon (R.I.P.). In "Celluloid Heroes", Davies writes:

    "You can see all the stars as you walk along Hollywood Boulevard
    Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of
    People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame
    Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain."

    Nearly 40 years on, "Showbiz" is in many ways as relevant as ever. How many Rock musicians could relate to the sentiment from this quote above in their own lives? Heroes back in the day but where are they now? "Success walks hand in hand with failure" - all too true. The consolation may be that "Celluloid Heroes never really die". The same is true for musicians. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Elvis, Janis Joplin, the list goes on of early casualties in Rock. Their music has endured. The Kinks lost one of their own in 2010 when their founding bassist Peter Quaife passed on. However, his work will "never really die" because of Kinks' classics like "You Really Got Me" and "Waterloo Sunset". "Showbiz" as a whole deals with much of the suffering and struggling of a rock band as experienced by the Kinks. Maybe it could have been called "Vinyl Heroes"? No, Ray prefers a bit more distance than this - but only a bit :-)

    Other studio highlights include the sad but lovely "Sitting In My Hotel" and brother Dave's "You Don't Even Know My Name". The latter is a wonderfully succinct expression of life in the shadow of a famous, composing brother. Liam Gallagher, can you relate to this?

    On the concert side, "Top of the Pops" rocks hard to open with promise for the show but then gives way to the Music Hall flavors of the "Muswell Hillbillies" selections of which there are 5. Of these, the best is this live version of "Alcohol". It is so effective that it is scary, in part because of its namesake being the juice of Ray's performance! Interspersed along the way are tid bits of songs like "Mr. Wonderful". Revealing but also kind of annoying. This is where the aforementioned historical viewpoint of this record can be forgiving.

    "Everybody's in Showbiz" is the most authentic of the many Kinks concept albums and is special for this reason. Instead of the fictional metaphors in "Preservation Acts 1 and 2", "Showbiz" is a warts and all documentation of the non-fiction that Ray Davies was living at this time. In fact, it has held up very well over the years because of this - you can't get a Time Capsule like this of any other British Invasion era band. Where "Lola vs. Powerman" focused on the band's songwriting struggles and disillusion of the music business in general, "Showbiz" shows the 'unreal reality' that was about to take the band down, and almost out altogether. Worthy to be placed near, and just behind the "Village Green Preservation Society" and "Lola vs. Powerman" in the Kinks Canon, "Showbiz" is the real deal.

    Now, it is fittingly immortalized by Mobile Fidelity. Very good deal indeed! As Mobile Fidelity discs aren't produced forever, I grabbed mine from Amazon immediately. Highly recommended.
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  • DENNIS LOPEZ
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE KINKS-EVERYBODY'S IN SHOWBIZ
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2012
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    Certainly, a classic album from the Klassic Kinks! 21 songs, all Live. And two previously unreleased. I wish there were more bass on this recording, but that's coming from a bassist. Anyway, two great hits on this one! "LOLA" and "CELLULOID HEROES". I like "SKIN AND BONE". A definite for your collection, or to replace the worn out one. Enjoy!
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  • kinks guy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great 70's Kinks
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020
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    The Kinks are cool live.
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  • BK1K2321
    3.0 out of 5 stars Motorway food is the worst in the world.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2013
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    This CD is quickly becoming my new found favorite Kinks record. It starts out with Here Comes Yet Another Day with lyrics such as Here comes a new dawn, Here comes a new day, Tune up start to play, Just like any other day. Classic Ray. Of course Ray has a few more food songs such as Maximum Consumption, Hot Potatoes, and Motorway. Then you have your classics like Supersonic Rocket ship and Celluloid Heroes. The live songs on the other half are a hoot with rave-ups of Alcohol and Dave's crunchy guitar on Top of the Pops. Then they throw in Mr. Wonderful, Banana Boat Song, and Baby Face for added measure. A good time is had by all.
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  • Alanna McKenzie
    5.0 out of 5 stars My son is happy!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2012
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    This CD was a Christmas gift for my 14 year old son. I only looked briefly in stores, then went straight to Amazon. Delivery was fast, and my son was thrilled with the quality and sound of the CD.
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  • A. Boers
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another must have from The Kinks (if you're a fan)
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2011
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    After buying the first 8 Kinks album after having seen Ray Davies with the Kast of Kinks (that's all official Kinks members minus Dave), I saw the Kast of Kinks again recently. The played some songs (amongst 40 others during a 3-hour plus show)I did not know. I found some of them on this CD and because I also wanted to hear my favourite song Celluloid Heroes in the best possible quality (SACD 2-ch), I bought this.
    It is just what I wanted.
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  • gallager
    5.0 out of 5 stars Boite entièrement cassé
    Reviewed in France on November 23, 2019
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  • spigomars
    5.0 out of 5 stars what a concept...EVERYONE'S IN SHOW BUSINESS: quite true when you think in it, proven by the music of The Kinks
    Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2015
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    This is a stellar piece by The Kinks..I tend to say that a lot when it comes to THE KINKS, however they stretch in every release. The Davies Brothers especially Ray are simply Brilliant and is so many ways. They are not afraid to take on any taboo ( Lola ) and sing on it no matter if it might appal the average listener. This is a mixture of newly written work to make up the concept for the title however there are a number of reprise items such as LOLA that are added in because they happen to add to the idea of the CD. Some tracks are quite short, average is 3.50 minutes long, as was the norm back in 1972. I would go ahead and say that this is a must have for any serious collector, just as having a section of KINKS music is also a must have, this has to be in it.....Spigomars
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  • Amazon Kunde
    5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE KINKS
    Reviewed in Spain on January 29, 2016
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    Kinks are the best,great music,must buy,buy,buy,buy and enjoy,enjoy,enjoy and feel good,feel good,feel good,everybody need somebody in show business,love Kinks music
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  • Jens Friedrichsen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ray Davies präsentiert Perlen der Popmusik
    Reviewed in Germany on February 2, 2015
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    Bei der Erforschung des Lebenswerks der Kinks, die immerhin 30 Jahre lang (60er Jahre bis in die 90er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts) Alben produziert haben, stößt man unweigerlich auf "Everybody's in Show-Biz" aus dem Jahre 1972.
    Alle großen Hits hatten die Kinks zu dieser Zeit schon hinter sich und weltweit machte der Glam Rock auf sich aufmerksam (T-Rex, Sweet, Slade pp.). Gemessen am gewohnten Kinks-Niveau hört man auf dieser CD viele interessante Songs, die aber insgesamt unter einem Singlestandard bleiben.
    Bei dem „Supersonic Rocket Ship“ wird man aufmerksam und stellt fest, dass diese CD mehr zu bieten hat, als man es zu dieser Zeit von den Kinks erwarten mochte.
    Aufhorchen muss man bei den Balladen: "Sitting in my hotel" ist Spitze" und wird nur noch vom dem Juwel dieser CD nämlich "Celluloid Heroes" übertroffen. Ray singt dieses Lied mit einer Zärtlichkeit in der Stimme und mit einer so glaubwürdigen Hingabe, dass es zu den Top 5 aller Davies-Kompositionen gerechnet werden muss.
    Schade, dass die Kinks in der rückwärtigen Betrachtung meist nur auf "Lola" reduziert werden.
    Es wird höchste Zeit, dass die Musikwelt diese Gruppe noch einmal neu betrachtet und dabei so manches Juwel entdeckt.
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  • michele
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody's in Showbiz - sacd
    Reviewed in Italy on November 10, 2013
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    Una sacd ad un prezzo favoloso. buona la qualità audio soprattutto nella parte live. Solo stereo.

    1. Here Comes Yet Another Day
    2. Maximum Consumption
    3. Unreal Reality
    4. Hot Potatoes
    5. Sitting In My Hotel
    6. Motorway
    7. You Don't Know My Name
    8. Supersonic Rocket Ship
    9. Loko A Little On The Sunnyside
    10. Celluloid Heroes
    11. Top Of The Pops
    12. Brainwashed
    13. Mr. Wonderful
    14. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
    15. Holiday
    16. Muswell Hillbilly
    17. Alcohol
    18. Banana Boat Song (Trad.)
    19. Skin & Bone
    20. Baby Face
    21. Lola
    22. Till The End Of The Day
    23. She's Bought A Hat like Princess Marina
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