One for the Road
One for the Road is the twentieth music album by the British rock group " The Kinks " from 1980 and was recorded live.
The album contains the following titles:
- Hard way
- Catch Me Now I'm Falling
- Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
- Lola
- Pressure
- All day and all of the night
- 20th Century Man
- Misfits
- Prince of the Punks
- Stop your sobbing
- Low budget
- Attitude
- Superman
- National Health
- Till the end of the day
- Celluloid Heroes
- You Really Got Me
- Victoria
- David Watts
The entire record is produced by Ray Davies .
It contains a compilation of the best Kinks songs from the 1970s, especially from the previous albums Misfits and especially Low Budget . With the songs " You Really Got Me ", " All Day and All of the Night " and " Lola ", the album also contains rock pieces that have made music history and that could be heard at almost every Kinks concert. All of the songs were composed by Ray Davies .
" Lola " was released as a single .
The album was recorded at several concerts in the USA and the concert on November 11, 1979 in the Volkshaus in Zurich. After completing their concept album phase, the Kinks had far more success there than in their home country England , but Davies also played a bit of history, because he had the new Kinks keyboardist Ian Gibbons record the parts on some tracks that the disgraced Gordon did Edwards had played on stage.
The album was praised by critics as one of the best live records of 1980, although it was always pointed out that the recording quality does not match the quality of the recorded pieces, because Ray Davies mixed too much in the studio.
Web links
- One for the Road at Allmusic (English)
Studio albums: Kinks (1964) | Kinda Kinks (1965) | The Kink Controversy (1965) | Well Respected Kinks (1966) | Face to Face (1966) | Something Else by The Kinks (1967) | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) | Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) | Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) | Percy - Original Soundtrack (1971) | Muswell Hillbillies (1971) | Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) | Preservation Act 1 (1973) | Preservation Act 2 (1974) | Soap Opera (1975) | Schoolboys in Disgrace (1976) | Sleepwalker (1977) | Misfits (1978) | Low Budget (1979) | Give the People What They Want (1981) | State of Confusion (1983) | Word of Mouth (1984) | Think Visual (1987) | UK Jive (1989) | Phobia (1993) |
Live albums: Live at Kelvin Hall (1967) | One for the Road (1980) | The Road (1988) To the Bone (British version, 1994) | To the Bone (US version) (1996) | BBC Sessions: 1964–1977 (2001)