Something Else By The Kinks

Release info: Produced by: Shel Talmy/Ray Davies Release date: Jan 1968 Record label & catalog #: Reprise R 6279 Country: USA Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM Release type: Regular release Description/Notes: mono mix

Tracks:

Side 1
1. David Watts		mono mix (2:29), recorded probably May-Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Death Of A Clown		mono mix (3:01), recorded Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Two Sisters		mono mix (2:01), recorded 24, 25 Nov, 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
4. No Return		mono mix (2:00), recorded Jan-Feb 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. Harry Rag		mono mix (2:17), recorded Feb 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
6. Tin Soldier Man		mono mix (first two notes missing, no backing vocals) (2:47), recorded early-to-mid 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
7. Situation Vacant		mono mix (3:11), recorded early-to-mid 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
Side 2
1. Love Me Till The Sun Shines		mono mix (3:15), recorded Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Lazy Old Sun		mono mix (2:46), recorded Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Afternoon Tea		mono mix (3:26), recorded May-Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
4. Funny Face		mono mix (2:17), recorded May-Jun 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. End Of The Season		mono mix (3:00), recorded 13-15 Apr, 1966, possible rerecorded early 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
6. Waterloo Sunset		mono mix (3:14), recorded Apr 1967 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London

Liner Notes:

Welcome to Daviesland, Where all the little kinklings in the magic Kinkdom wear tiny black bowlers, rugby boots, soldier suits, drink half pints of bitter, carry cricket bats and ride in little Tube trains. Here all the little lady kinklings wear curlers in their hair, own fridges and washing machines, fry bacon and eggs, and take afternoon tea.

Gulliver-like Ray Davies stoops to pluck a small mortal from his musical World -- turns him upside down to see where he was made -- and replaces him gently but firmly in that great class society where all men are equal but some are more equal than others.

Many of the songs on this album are the tails of those mini-people who keep rolling across his yesterday-mind and so we find Terry and Julie in "Waterloo Sunset" and "David Watts," who has not known that abominable golden school-boy? For his musical conjuring tricks Ray reaches into his stream of life and extracts a rusty Irish jig -- there were a few spokes missing and the saddle torn -- but with a few dabs of "Kinko," the wonder song ingredient, the handlebars are reversed and you have 'moonshine music' as good as himself could have asked. Further down the waters, and a soggy bossa nova, well-worn but still serviceable, is dragged from the river-bed but re-upholstered and tempered with a Ray of gentleness it becomes the beautiful "No Return."

Somewhere in the deeper waters down-stream he finds a water-logged show-tune, sung during the battle of 'Desert Song,' but renovated and re-equipped it becomes the jaunty little sloop "Tin Soldier Man." And finally another worn-out hulk rotting from the Vaudeville era is re-manned pushed, afloat to become the saddest comedy song of all -- "End Of The Season."

This album is important for another reason -- it showcases the song writing development of younger brother Dave whose "Death Of A Clown" proved so successful, and includes two other compositions here -- "Love Me Till The Sun Shines" and "Funny Face" on which he sounds like a wicked choir-boy. Neither should we forget the stalwart contributions of bass-Kink Pete Quaife or drum-Kink Mick Avory who combine to produce the solid root sounds which hall-mark the group.

One further word of advice on listening to these tracks -- never, never take a Davies composition at face value for so much goes on behind the words in the Wondrous World of the Brothers 'D' where a corner of the Kinkdom is forever England!

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Design and Art Direction: Pye Records Studios/Photography: Mike Leale/Clareville Studios

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