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title: "Give the People What They Want"
brand: "the kinks"
price: "€ 101.82"
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# Give the People What They Want

**Brand:** the kinks
**Price:** € 101.82
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- **What is this?** Give the People What They Want by the kinks
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Try Out This Energetic Non-Stop Rock Masterwork!
  

*by R***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2016*

Don’t you wish we had a rock composer who had the band-led empathy, first  rate excellence, full fledge zeitgeist, charismatic style, wit, melodic virtuosity and  flawless talent that Ray Davies had? Well the answer may lie within the timeless  merit and sheer excellence of this high pitched classic from 1981, even decades  after it’s release, the question becomes an even brighter direct response some-  where well in the future to how great The Kinks were and how Ray’s songwriting  talent still maintains it’s lyrical influence.  Fresh off the multidimensional success  of their world tour that was also well-captured on the live album One More From  The Road—Live a year earlier, Give The People What They Want presents us a  high voltage rock and roll fever pitch which demonstrates how far the band have  come and how much progressed they have made as the album harkens back to  the band’s wild beginnings that took root in the mid-1960’s for which the back to  basics success made this one a bonafide hit.  Officially aimed to be a statement  on the media, the track set begin with an artistic band on the open track Around  The Dial as it concludes with a series of rock-steady energetic power rock com-  positions, like the exhilarating title track, Killer’s Eyes, Predictable (described as  a monotony of the average person’s life played with a self-fulfilling background),  the opulent Destroyer and the ‘cheer-up’ Top Ten classic Better Things.  With a  special guest appearance by Chrissie Hynde (of The Pretenders fame) on three  tracks, what also gave Give The People What They Want it’s high-rocking focal  point is how The Kinks fire up the boisterous solos as Mick Avory delivered yet  another set of thundering drum solos to utmost effect while Dave Davies’ guitar  brims with dynamic excellence, which gave this supercharged hit the intelligent  interplay and slam bang soaring rapport that it definitely deserves.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    some great rockers on this typically solid Kinks offering
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2006*

Originally released in August of 1981, "Give The People What They Want" is simply a solid Kinks album, with all of the songs written and produced by the at-the-time trusty Ray Davies.A bunch of these songs really rock out.  "Around The Dial" is a great, catchy tribute to a DJ that seems to no longer be on the air.  The highly sarcastic title track, with lyrics about how people crave witnessing sex and violence, starts off with power chords and rapid-fire drumming that really get the blood flowing, and the chorus riff is simply infectious.  "Destroyer", left over from the "Low Budget" era, deliberately reuses the "All Day And All Of The Night" riff as the basis for a really fun, amusingly paranoid rocker, and it's got great punchy choruses.  The stampeding "Back To Front" is another ultra-exciting blast, with amusing lyrics and great riffs--Dave Davies really shines on this one.The rocked-up pop-rocker "Add It Up" is catchy too, if a bit rote--it's another one of those Ray songs about how people become blindsided by wealth.  The ballad-rocker "A Little Bit Of Abuse" is also strong--its lyrics, about staying with a boyfriend despite his physically abusive behavior, are really on the money and peppered with some dark humor.Of the more ballad-ish tracks, the best is the gentle "Art Lover", a touching song about a man who yearns for the daughter he is unable to see.  The weakest is "Better Things" which is yet another in a string of optimistic album-closers--the song is just too slight and sloppily performed to make much of an impact.  But the rest of the tracks are all quite strong--there's the moody "Killer's Eyes"; the pensive 'power ballad' "Yo-Yo"; and the musically upbeat, yet lyrically dour "Predictable" which is one of Ray's trademark examinations of a man stuck in a dreadful day-to-day rut.So, overall, this is a high quality Kinks record--if you're a fan of the band, I can't see not liking it unless you have a problem with the hard rocking side of the band.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Are you listening?...
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 23, 2011*

I really like this era of the Kinks though it may not be as critically regarded as their '66-'71 period. Each record from `Sleepwalker' through `Word of Mouth' has much to recommend and is consistently entertaining. Case in point is 1981's `Give the People What They Want' which as some cynical reviewers have said may directly pander to discriminating American tastes but since I'm an American I think it's great. "Around the Dial" may be the most overlooked song in the entire Ray Davies canon. This LP also came out when I was just entering adolescence and I distinctly remember "Around the Dial" on the radio, so it will always be special to me. "Destroyer" and "Better Things" are the two hit singles and both songs represent a sort of nostalgic view of past Kinks' triumphs with the former being more obvious as it rips the riff from "All Day and All of the Night" while the latter brings back memories of such Davies masterpieces as "Waterloo Sunset" in its gentle reminiscence. The Kinks were riding a popularity high that they had never enjoyed before or since in the late seventies early eighties, especially as an arena concert draw in the States.  Much like its predecessor `Low Budget', `GTPWTW' is a very hard rocking affair with production values to match.  "Art Lover" may be about pedophilia but the narrator goes to great lengths to tell his audience that he isn't perverted and "Killer's Eyes" humanizes a psychopath; both examples of Ray Davies still not afraid of taking on controversial subjects to create memorable music.  `Give the People' is pretty much an enjoyable listen from start to finish or in other words - from `back to front'.  Certainly not `predictable' either...

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