Everybody's in Show-Biz

Everybody's in Show-Biz

Infobox Album | Name = Everybody's in Show-Biz
Type = Album
Artist = The Kinks


Released = 25 August 1972
Recorded = March - June 1972 at Morgan Studios, London and Carnegie Hall
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 69:26 | Original Release
= 74:29 | Remastered Release
Label = RCA
Producer = Ray Davies
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1wtqoa9arij9 link]
*Blender Rating|3|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=3846 link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1464&name=The+Kinks link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favourable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thekinks/albums/album/102519/review/5944526/everybodys_in_showbiz link]
Last album = "The Kink Kronikles"
(1972)
This album = "Everybody's in Showbiz"
(1972)
Next album = "The Great Lost Kinks Album"
(1973)

"Everybody's in Show-Biz" is a 1972 double album released by the English rock group, The Kinks. The album's first disc features studio recordings, while the second disc documents a two-night Carnegie Hall stand.

Everybody's in Show-Biz is often seen as a transition album for The Kinks, marking the change in Ray Davies' songwriting style toward more theatrical, campy and vaudevillian work, as evidenced by the rock-opera concept albums that followed it. It is also considered by most critics as the end of The Kinks' "golden age."

This album marks Davies' first explorations of the trials of rock-star life and the monotony of touring (these themes would reappear in future releases like "The Kinks Present A Soap Opera", "Think Visual" and the 1987 live album ""). Davies brings his standard wit and lyrical sharpness to his observations about the excesses of rock stardom, but there is also a cloud of (alcohol soaked) tedium and sorrow over many of these songs, most obvious in the touchingly retrospective "Sitting in my Hotel" and "Celluloid Heroes".

Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies except as noted

Disc 1

#"Here Comes Yet Another Day" – 3:53
#"Maximum Consumption" – 4:04
#"Unreal Reality" – 3:32
#"Hot Potatoes" – 3:25
#"Sitting in my Hotel" – 3:20
#"Motorway" – 3:28
#"You Don't Know My Name" (Dave Davies) – 2:34
#"Supersonic Rocket Ship" – 3:29
#"Look a Little on the Sunnyside" – 2:47
#"Celluloid Heroes" – 6:19

Disc 2

#"Top of the Pops" – 4:33
#"Brainwashed" – 2:59
#"Mr. Wonderful" (L. Holofcener, G.D. Weiss, J.L. Bock) – 0:42
#"Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues" – 4:00
#"Holiday" – 3:53
#"Muswell Hillbilly" – 3:10
#"Alcohol" – 5:19
#"The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" (W.A. Attaway, I. Burgie) – 1:42
#"Skin and Bone" – 3:54
#"Baby Face" (Benny Davis, H. Akst) – 1:54
#"Lola" – 1:40

Bonus Live Tracks

Available on 1998 CD reissue

#"Till the End of the Day" – 2:00
#"She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina" – 3:04

Hits

Besides "Celluloid Heroes", probably the album's best-known track, it contains the UK hit single "Supersonic Rocket Ship".


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