Something I Like

This is one of those things where an album is so much of everything that there's no excuse for not being one of the best. it's pretty much the very top of the Kinks' mountain. it seems like they just hit a point where everything was going together much better than it had been, and probably would be. these songs are so well orchestrated that you really don't realize that there are four horns playing throughout the verses. it all just becomes part of the same thing. and i feel like that's kind of a hard thing to do, especially if you're a band that's been known for British Invasion music and all of a sudden there's a french horn and strings in the songs. but that's one of the incredible things about this album, is that it's so conceptual that everything that's involved needed to be there. The four minute jam that is most of Australia is representing what the song is about in context to the narrative of the album. and the same with the group chorus outro to Arthur. and these were new things that they were doing, but it's a part of what makes this record so outstanding in the Kinks r'epertoire. the artwork is great, the songwriting is at it's finest. it's a master work.