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Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Kinks-One For The Road (1980)

The Kinks is recognized as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, originally framed in the "British Invasion", its music has influences from a wide range of styles and genres, ranging from folk, country to R&B or the British music hall.
Formed around brothers Ray Davies and Dave Davies, they built a great reputation in the 60s with some of the most important rock records and especially one of the generational hymns that even today is a classic rock as it is "You Really Got Me".
However, despite their great potential, they were always in the shadow of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, making this fact one of the greatest injustices in rock history.
With nearly thirty published albums, some of which are considered masterpieces of rock, The Kinks remained active until 1993 when they published their latest work titled "Phobia"
In 1980 the band released "One For The Road", a double live album that did justice to the enormous power of this magnificent band, and where you can hear the duo between the Davies brothers with the guitars demonstrating an extraordinary rapport.
With a repertoire of great creations composed the vast majority by Ray, including "Lola", "Where Have all The Good Times Gone", "All Day And All of the Night", the aforementioned "You Really Got Me" or "Stop Your Sobbing", songs all of them that marked several generations and that live acquire another dimension with a plus of energy and vitality that makes them irresistible.
Without a doubt this is one of the live albums par excellence where the greatness of one of the best bands in history is perfectly demonstrated.

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