Sleepwalker (The Kinks album)
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| Studio album by The Kinks | ||
| Released | February 25, 1977 | |
| Recorded | July 1976 - December 1976 | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 40:10 | |
| Label | Arista Records | |
| Producer(s) | Ray Davies | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Kinks chronology | ||
| Schoolboys in Disgrace (1976) |
Sleepwalker (1977) |
Misfits (1978) |
Sleepwalker is a 1977 album by the English rock group The Kinks. Whilst there is something of a somnambulent [?] theme to the album, this first album on the Arista label broadly ditched the theatrical and occasionally impenetrable concept album style the group had been mining with diminishing returns since 1968. A modern, confident series of melodic tracks was described in the American music press as "a phoenix rising from the ashes". The overall sound was certainly slicker than the rather rougher RCA albums of the mid seventies, but saw the group begin to edge closer to the stadium rock and pseudo heavy metal that would characterise their eighties albums.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Ray Davies
- "Life on the Road" – 5:02
- "Mr. Big Man" – 3:49
- "Sleepwalker" – 4:04
- "Brother" – 5:28
- "Juke Box Music" – 5:32
- "Sleepless Night" – 3:18
- "Stormy Sky" – 3:58
- "Full Moon" – 3:52
- "Life Goes On" – 5:03
[edit] Bonus tracks on CD reissues
- "Artificial Light" – 3:27
- "Prince of the Punks" – 3:18
- "The Poseur" – 6:01
- "On the Outside (1977 Mix)" – 2:53
- "On the Outside (1994 Mix)" – 5:07
| The Kinks |
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| Ray Davies – Dave Davies – Bob Henrit – Pete Quaife – Ian Gibbons – Mick Avory – Jim Rodford |
| John Gosling – John Dalton – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards |
| Discography |
| Albums: The Kinks (1964) - Kinda Kinks (1965) - The Kink Kontroversy (1966) - Face to Face (1966) - Something Else by the Kinks (1967) - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) - Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) - Muswell Hillbillies (1971) - Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) - Sleepwalker (1977) - Misfits (1978) - Low Budget (1979) - Give the People What They Want (1981) - State of Confusion (1983) |
| Songs: "You Really Got Me" – "Waterloo Sunset" – "Lola" |
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