The Kinks – The Kinks Present: Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975) [Remastered 2004]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 1,49 GB
SACD-ISO PS3 Rip to FLAC 2.0 | 24 bit / 88,2 kHz | 36:18 min | Scans included | 730 MB
Genre: Rock
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”), but it’s way too campy for anyone outside of the dedicated. And that campiness is all the stranger when married to thundering arena rock; at least with Preservation, the vaudeville made sense in context, but here, the Kinks are pulling in two separate ways, and Schoolboys winds up as one of their least satisfying albums as a result. [Koch released an SACD edition in 2004.] ~~ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist:
01. Schooldays
02. Jack the Idiot Dunce
03. Education
04. The First Time We Fall in Love
05. I’m in Disgrace
06. Headmaster
07. The Hard Way
08. The Last Assembly
09. No More Looking Back
10. Finale
SACD ISO
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mqs.link_TheKinks1975SchlbysInDisgraceSACDIS2004Remaster.part2.rar
FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz
mqs.link_TheKinks1975SchlbysInDisgraceFLAC2488.22004Remaster.rar