The truth is that the phrase "perfect songs" seems designed to define the music of the Kinks, there is no other group in the world with such density "temazos" per square meter, and you desmintáis to challenge this assertion.
And that "Music Jukebox" and not another song? Well, here is the thing most neighborhoods. While it is true that in the sixties Ray Davies and Cia reached 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 "Sleepwalker" (1977), a record that was special for many reasons. It was the first album from The Kinks to Arista and the first to be recorded in their own studies, the mythical studies Konka. With this record, Ray Davies seemed to leave behind the conceptual albums (for relief of his brother Dave) and the entire disc breathes a refreshing aroma of Rock without complications. But with the Kinks nothing is as simple as it seems because the texts of the album will contain a good dose of irony and bad milk served by the matchless compositional talent of Mr. Davies and depth is still a conceptual thread between songs difficult to guess at a glance: somnambulism and thus the nightlife.
And focusing on "Music Jukebox", the theme spoke of the effect of music on people, specifically the impact on a girl who sits night after night in a dark bar listening to sad songs on the machine music and he believes in all I heard, that let the music lead their feelings and prefers to be alone with his 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, the voice. Every millimeter measured with a precision overwhelming. In the part of stanzas is only the voice and a Rhodes until the new chorus in which he re-enters Dave with his memorable riffs and the rest of the band, ending a memorable one with another savage 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 in this song so sings sublime, always controlling the tempo of a song that has now truly frenetic, a veritable "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 delivering a collection of riffs Demolition and totally alone. 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 we do not do songs like that.
