RAY DAVIES Face To Face With The Lost Decade

An objective review of recent Kinks history provides us with such episodes as Return To Waterloo, Ray Davies’s tedious video movie; “Come Dancing,” his best song and only hit of the ’80s; the reasonably appealing LP, Word Of Mouth, dating from ’84; a new deal with MCA records; a less than satisfying (some would claim boring) new LP, Think Visually; and his portrayal of the father (the sort of man Ray has often written about) in Julien Temple’s film, Absolute Beginners.