Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One LP 1970 Canada VG

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The Kinks

Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One

Label:Pye Records NSPL 18359  Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold  Country:Canada  Released:1970  Genre:Rock  Style:Power Pop 

"Lola" gave the Kinks an unexpected hit and its crisp, muscular sound, pitched halfway between acoustic folk and hard rock, provided a new style for the band. However, the song only hinted at what its accompanying album Lola Versus the Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One was all about. It didn't matter that Ray Davies just had his first hit in years -- he had suffered greatly at the hands of the music industry and he wanted to tell the story in song. Hence, Lola -- a loose concept album about Ray Davies' own psychosis and bitter feelings toward the music industry. Davies never really delivers a cohesive story, but the record holds together because it's one of his strongest set of songs. Dave Davies contributes the lovely "Strangers" and the appropriately paranoid "Rats," but this is truly Ray's show, as he lashes out at ex-managers (the boisterous vaudevillian "The Moneygoround"), publishers ("Denmark Street"), TV and music journalists (the hard-hitting "Top of the Pops"), label executives ("Powerman"), and, hell, just society in general ("Apeman," "Got to Be Free"). If his wit wasn't sharp, the entire project would be insufferable, but the album is as funny as it is angry. Furthermore, he balances his bile with three of his best melancholy ballads: "This Time Tomorrow," "A Long Way from Home," and the anti-welfare and union "Get Back in Line," which captures working-class angst better than any other rock song. These songs provide the spine for a wildly unfocused but nonetheless dazzling tour de force that reveals Ray's artistic strengths and endearing character flaws in equal measure.

Tracklist

A1 The Contenders 2:43

A2 Strangers 3:17

A3 Denmark Street 2:00

A4 Get Back In Line 3:01

A5 Lola 3:56

A6 Top Of The Pops

Voice [Spoken Introduction] – David Symms

3:38

A7 The Moneygoround 1:43

B1 This Time Tomorrow 3:20

B2 A Long Way From Home 2:25

B3 Rats 2:36

B4 Apeman 3:51

B5 Powerman 4:15

B6 Got To Be Free 2:57

Manufactured By – Phonodisc Limited

Distributed By – Phonodisc Limited

Licensed From – Pye Limited

Printed By – Modern Graphics

Engineer – Mike Bobak

Producer – Raymond Douglas Davies

Written-By – D. R. G. Davies (tracks: A2, B3), Raymond Douglas Davies (tracks: A1, A3 to B2, B4 to B6)

Matrix / Runout (Side A label): NSPL 18359 A

Matrix / Runout (Side B label): NSPL 18359 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): NSPL-18359-S1 ?

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): NSPL-18359-S2 AMD

Other (Printer ID, rear sleeve): MG Litho in Canada

CONDITION:  Vinyl is VG+ (no surface marks, few spindle marks) in a paper inner sleeve in a gatefold hard card picture sleeve (GOOD, age wear, delete hole punch)