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  • Release Date: 08/24/2004
  • Original Release: 1975
  • Sales Rank: 63,934
  • Label: VELVEL RECORDS
  • UPC: 634677980565

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The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace

1LISTENSchooldays 3:31
2LISTENJack the Idiot Dunce 3:19
3LISTENEducation 7:07
4LISTENThe First Time We Fall in Love 4:01
5LISTENI'm in Disgrace 3:21
6LISTENHeadmaster 4:03
7LISTENThe Hard Way 2:35
8LISTENThe Last Assembly 2:45
9LISTENNo More Looking Back 4:27
10LISTENFinale 1:02

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Ray Davies had indulged himself one time too often with Soap Opera, and his bandmates, namely brother Dave and founding member Mick Avory, revolted, insisting that their sixth RCA album sound more like a Kinks album (certainly, that's something RCA wanted too). So, Davies designed their next album as a return to a simpler, band-oriented sound. Of course, he didn't jettison his love for conceptual works, so Schoolboys in Disgrace was born. Working under the presumption that a return to simple rock demanded a simple theme, Davies constructed the album as a nostalgic trip through childhood, reviving '50s rock & roll (including the occasional doo wop harmony) for the album's foundation, then turning the amps up high. There's no actual story per se -- it's a series of vignettes, like a coming-of-age film. As such, it's intermittently successful, on both the hard rock ("Jack the Idiot Dunce") and ballads ("The First Time We Fall in Love"). [A Japanese edition was issued in 2009.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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March 24, 2006: The mystified suits at RCA must have been sharpening their knives for open season on all things Kinks when they got the word on what Davies was planning. After the bloated Preservation Act II, and the just plain weird Soap Opera notice that the next project was to be yet another concept album focused around an English Schoolboys expulsion likely seemed as if it had the commercial potential of watching laundry dry.However as it turned out it was argueably the best of the bands records with RCA.Davies vision of an English heaven would have been incomplete without a trot back through school. Of course it allows his sentimental tendencies to go right off the chart, but in a good way.Titles like Schooldays, The First Time We Fall In Love, and No More Looking Back pretty much sum up the universal (Western) habit of looking at High School through a rose coloured prism twenty years later.RCA must have nearly had cardiac arrest when they realized that the Kinks seemed to have gotten back to the business of rock and roll after virtually commiting commercial suicide through the early seventies.I'm In Disgrace, and especially The Hardway would actually make good singles.Of couse it was way too late for RCA and next year the Kinks would be on Arista and under orders not to mention the term concept album ever again. This album is quite shameless in its nostalgia but also kind of inevitable. Its not really the truth just what we like to think of as the truth when looking back.