Kinks Greatest

Low Budget doesn't have a narrative like Preservation or Soap Opera, but Ray Davies cleverly designed the album as a sly satire of the recession and oil crisis that gripped America in the late '70s - thereby satisfying his need to be a wry social commentator while giving American audiences a hook to identify with. It was a clever move that worked; not only did Low Budget become their highest-charting American album (not counting the 1966 Greatest Hits compilation), but it was also a fine set of arena rock, one of the better mainstream hard rock albums of its time. And it certainly was of its time - so much so that many of the concerns and production techniques have dated quite a bit in the decades since its initial release. Nevertheless, that gives the album a certain charm, since it now plays like a time capsule, a snapshot of what hard rock sounded like at the close of the '70s…

Virgin UK compilation includes 42 #1 hits from the last 40 years in popular music. Tracks include, Queen-'Bohemian Rhapsody, Procol Harum-'A Whiter Shade Of Pale', Ben E. King-'Stand By Me', Marvin Gaye-'I Heard It Through The Grapevine', David Bowie-'Space Oddity', The Animals-'House Of The RisingSun', Abba-'Dancing Queen', Blondie-'Heart Of Glass', The Kinks-'You Really Got Me', Sinead O'Connor-'Nothing Compares2 U', The Verve-'The Drugs Don't Work', Robbie Williams-'Millenium', Oasis-'Don't Look Back In Anger', Manic Street Preachers-'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next', Fatboy Slim-'Praise You', The Clash-'Should I Stay Or Should IGo' and many more.

Delivering raucous hard rock in the tradition of contemporaries like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, the Angels are among the longest-lasting and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Australian pub circuit. Their roots date back to 1973, when singer Doc Neeson and guitarist Rick Brewster first teamed up at university in an eccentric acoustic covers group dubbed the Moonshine Jug and String Band; by the following year they had begun adopting a more straightforward and electric approach, rechristening themselves the Keystone Angels in the process…

Delivering raucous hard rock in the tradition of contemporaries like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, the Angels are among the longest-lasting and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Australian pub circuit. Their roots date back to 1973, when singer Doc Neeson and guitarist Rick Brewster first teamed up at university in an eccentric acoustic covers group dubbed the Moonshine Jug and String Band; by the following year they had begun adopting a more straightforward and electric approach, rechristening themselves the Keystone Angels in the process…

Nic Armstrong - The Greatest White Liar
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 275 MB | Full Artwork: 56 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: One Little Indian # TPLP347CD | Country/Year: UK 2004
Genre: Rock | Style: Rock, Folk Rock, Garage Rock

Nic Armstrong & the Thieves are old-school British rockers, digging up classic white boy blues like the early Stones and Fleetwood Mac on "I Can't Stand It," sophisticated pop finery like the Kinks on "I'll Come to You" and "The Finishing Touch," and the four-squared songcraft of the early Beatles on "Too Long for Her" and "You Made It True." They aren't just imitators or slaves to the past, though, injecting their songs with blasts of energy, tons of passion, and if not originality then an exciting approach to garage rock revivalism. (…) his debut record is good enough that it is sure to be totally ignored – unless you just finished reading this, in which case you should be entering your credit card numbers at your favorite online record emporium right about now…