The Kinks

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9 years ago

NYCsouth1

fantastic song. great use of Dave's voice

9 years ago

Camille Retaa

The first time I fell in love was when I was four years old...and I fell in love with Austin Powers. :/

9 years ago

Lawrence Goodrow

is it me or does the chorus sound like the people behind :The Love Boat ripped this off. Sing the theme and see if this is right.

10 years ago

Whofan1000

I always appreciate how Ray uses so many different musical styles. I love his use in this song of classic 50s chord patterns and harmonies to cover a classic 50s topic - young love. The first half reminds me of some of the teen love hits of that era and of the feel of musicals about the 50s like "Grease," but starting at 1:48, he mixes things up with his usual sophistication (I don't remember any Brill Building tunes about love in which the singer admitted that he "wasn't equipped for the emotional pressures and stresses of it"!), Thanks for posting something from the often-maligned concept era of the Kinks career. I do love the earlier ("middle period") albums even more, but these 70s concept albums were great, too, and really fun to see the Kinks perform in concert, such as with Ray dressing up for "Schoolboys" as a schoolmaster, wearing, if I remember right, a black professorial robe, a scraggly white-haired wig and a mask that made him look old and mean.

10 years ago

Seer11665

Good Rock and Roll

11 years ago

Plumeen

sounds a bit like lonely this christmas

12 years ago

Lou Oswald

What I would like to know is why a boarding school is compared to a love affair in this album? I had a lover play this album to me in '76, There's a message here!

12 years ago

nikaloz1

GREAT song GREAT group & all GREAT from The kinks

12 years ago

huttnerd

fantastic track

12 years ago

ChristopherLargen

When I was ten years old, I attended a private academic school known for administering canings to children who dared to question the authority of the supreme headmaster. My friends and I listened to this album constantly, and even wrote a stage play for it. Our play was never performed, but I heard there may be a film in the works.

12 years ago