Low Budget (album)

Low Budget
Studio album by The Kinks
Released July 10, 1979 (US)
7 September 1979 (UK)[1]
Recorded January 1979 - June 1979 at The Power Station and Blue Rock Studios, New York
Genre Hard rock
Length 45:14
Label Arista
Producer Ray Davies
The Kinks chronology
Misfits
(1978)
Low Budget
(1979)
One for the Road
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Blender [3]
Robert Christgau (B-)[4]
Rolling Stone (favourable)[5]

Low Budget is a 1979 album by the English rock group, The Kinks. It was a great success for the group, becoming their best-selling non-compilation album, peaking at #11 on the US album charts.[6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ray Davies

Side 1
No. Title Length
1. "Attitude"   3:47
2. "Catch Me Now I'm Falling"   5:58
3. "Pressure"   2:27
4. "National Health"   4:02
5. "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"   3:36
Side 2
No. Title Length
1. "Low Budget"   3:50
2. "In a Space"   3:44
3. "Little Bit of Emotion"   4:51
4. "A Gallon of Gas"   2:45
5. "Misery"   2:57
6. "Moving Pictures"   3:47
CD reissue bonus tracks
No. Title Length
12. "A Gallon of Gas" ([Note 1]) 3:52
13. "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" ([Note 2]) 6:49
14. "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" ([Note 3]) 5:59
Notes
  1. ^ U.S. single extended edit with extra verse. Originally released as a single in the United States only, August 1979.
  2. ^ Original extended edit. Previously unreleased.
  3. ^ Disco mix extended edit. Originally released as a 12″ single in the United States, March 12, 1979, and in the United Kingdom, March 1979. Never before released on compact disc.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Kinks, The - Low Budget". discogs.com. http://www.discogs.com/Kinks-Low-Budget/release/2632633. Retrieved July 10, 2011. 
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Kinks: Low Budget > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  3. ^ Blender review
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert. "The Kinks". RobertChristgau.com. http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1464. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  5. ^ Fricke, Davie (September 20, 1979). "The Kinks: Low Budget". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow) (RS 300). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071002035612/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thekinks/albums/album/101057/review/6067335/low_budget. 
  6. ^ "The Kinks' Chart Positions". kindakinks.net. http://www.kindakinks.net/charts.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011.