27th January, 2022: The Kinks - Something Else (baroque pop rock, 1967)
This… didn’t really grow on me. At all.
I can appreciate The Kinks a lot for what they were at the time, this daring, ahead-of-the-curve
pop act with an excellent sense of humour and an ear for a great melody, and on first listen I
thought this was more of that, but the more I’ve sat with it, the more it’s begun to kind of annoy
me. And also, the more “Waterloo Sunset” has stood out - at first I wasn’t really convinced by
that song’s reputation above the rest here, but it’s definitely the only thing I’d ever come back
to in a hurry. The rest is competent, and occasionally quite catchy, but a few too many of these
are catchy in the wrong sort of way. I found “Love Me Till the Sun Shines” and “Harry Rag” in my
head a few times, neither of which are particularly good things to have sitting in there. There
aren’t quite enough hooks here to justify just how irritating some of this, although yes, there
are some excellent bits and pieces in here.
5.8 (4th listen)
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