Word of Mouth (The Kinks album)

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Word of Mouth
Studio album by
the Kinks
Released19 November 1984
RecordedJune 1983–September 1984
StudioKonk Studios, London
Genre
Length43:04
LanguageEnglish
LabelArista
ProducerRay Davies
The Kinks chronology
State of Confusion
(1983) 		Word of Mouth
(1984) 		Think Visual
(1986)
Singles from Word of Mouth
  1. "Good Day"
    Released: 1984 (U.K.)
  2. "Do It Again"
    Released: 1984
  3. "Living on a Thin Line"
    Released: 1985 (U.S., Radio Promo)
  4. "Summer's Gone"
    Released: 1985 (U.S.)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Word of Mouth is the twenty-first studio album by the English rock group the Kinks. It was released November 1984. "Do It Again" was released as a single from the album in 1985.

Information

The track "

University" of the American TV show The Sopranos. According to producer Terence Winter on the DVD extras, it is the series' most asked-about song. The song was also played in the final episode of the HBO series Vice Principals
.

The song "Good Day" includes an allusion to the death of actress Diana Dors.

The song "

Do It Again" was featured in the film Click (released in 2006), and in trailers that were promoting the film.[5] It was also used in TV ad promotions for the 2013 edition of the Tour de France
.

Three tracks ("Going Solo", "Missing Persons", and "Sold Me Out") were repurposed for Kinks leader Ray Davies' solo debut album, the soundtrack to his concurrently produced, self-directed film, Return to Waterloo.

Commercial performance

The album spent twenty weeks on the US Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of No. 57 in February 1985.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ray Davies, except where noted

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Do It Again" 4:14
2."Word of Mouth" 3:51
3."Good Day" 4:35
4."Living on a Thin Line"Dave Davies4:16
5."Sold Me Out" 3:44
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Massive Reductions" 3:15
2."Guilty"Dave Davies4:12
3."Too Hot" 4:08
4."Missing Persons" 2:53
5."Summer's Gone" 3:52
6."Going Solo" 3:58
1999 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Good Day" (extended edit)5:31
13."Summer's Gone" (extended edit)4:54

Personnel

The Kinks

  • Ray Davies – guitar, keyboards, harmonica, vocals, drum machine on "Good Day", "Do It Again" and "Living on a Thin Line"
  • Dave Davies – guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "Guilty" and "Living on a Thin Line"
  • Jim Rodford – bass, background vocals
  • Bob Henrit – drums, percussion except on "Missing Persons", "Sold Me Out" and "Going Solo"
  • Mick Avory – drums, percussion on "Missing Persons", "Sold Me Out" and "Going Solo"
  • Ian Gibbons – keyboards, background vocals

Additional personnel

  • David Baker – engineer
  • Donn Davenport – art direction
  • Chris Morton – concept
  • Maude Gilman, Howard Fritzson – design
  • Renate Stürmer – illustration

Notes

  1. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help
    )
  2. AllMusic
    . Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  3. ^ Blender review Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original
    on 10 May 2007.
  5. ^ "Soundtracks for Click". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  6. ^ "Billboard 200: February 9, 1985". Billboard.com. Billboard. 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.

External links

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