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.
RAY DAVIES Face To Face With The Lost Decade
Iman Lababedi
Bob Nevin
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.
Now, at the age of 41, with the release If the Kinks’ 25th LP (including five compilations), Ray Davies insists that—at least insofar as the promotion of Think Visual is concerned—it’s not going to be “business as usual ”
He’s asked: Are you touring soon?
“No”
No tour to support the album?
“I don’t know; I really don’t know. I want to play, but I’m not going to fall into your format.”