Computer Age

The truth is that the phrase "perfect songs" seems set up to define the music of the Kinks, no other group in the world with such a density "temazos" per square meter, and challenge you to desmintáis this.
And that "Music Jukebox" and not another song? Well, here is the thing most neighborhoods. While in the sixties Ray Davies and Co. achieved in its own right was the category of myths in the seventies, for my taste, where the wheels of the machine operating at full capacity, to the extent that any of the songs included in one of the "Preservation Acts", "Sleepwalker," "Misfits" and "Schoolboys In Disgrace" simply frightening.

"Music Jukebox" is the fifth cut of "Angel" (1977), an album that was special for many reasons. It was the first album for Arista The Kinks and the first recorded in their own studies, the legendary Konk studios. With this record, Ray Davies seemed to leave behind the concept album (for relief of his brother Dave) and the entire album breathes a refreshing scent of Rock smoothly. But the Kinks nothing is as simple as it seems because the texts of this album contains a good dose of irony and bad milk served by the unique talent of Mr. Davies and compositional background is still a conceptual thread between songs difficult to guess sight: somnambulism and thus the nightlife.
And focus on "Music Jukebox", the theme speaks of the effect of music on people, particularly the effect on a girl who sits night after night in a dark bar listening to sad songs on the machine and create music in everything we heard, that lets the music guide your feelings and prefers to be alone with their songs to relate to anyone. Ray Davies returns between lines (I did in "A Rock and Roll Fantasy") to the theme of the big lie of the Rock, the big lie that supposed to believe that some songs can save your life, the big lie in his final own life.
The song starts with a few simple bongos, who joins a battery reece quickly and accurately. Enter a guitar riff, comes another sound below, other than electric guitar, bass, voice. Every millimeter measured with a precision overwhelming. In the part of stanzas is only the voice and a new chorus to Rhodes in which re-enters his memorable riffs with Dave and the rest of the band, ending a memorable one with another wild Jam Dave.

It is often underestimated the ability of interpretative Ray Davies, and maybe is not the time to come here in sterile polemics, the truth is that he sings this song so sublime, always controlling the tempo of a song that has now truly frenzied, a real tour de force "to the limit for a band that does not touch a single note out of tune. Dave Davies here again in your sauce, a rock song that comes as the ring finger and delivers a collection of riffs alone and completely devastating. The youngest of the brothers Davies was a guitarist who was less than, but at this time reached a considerable level of excellence.
It may sound like a cliché, but no longer do so songs.