LoginSchoolboys in Disgrace
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The Kinks' concise, typically bittersweet 1975 reflection on the trials and tribulations of the English school system would foreshadow Pink Floyd's similarly themed, if gratuitously unfocused The Wall by half a decade. It would also close out the band's oft-misunderstood "concept" period. Following on the heels of Preservation, Acts 1 and 2, and Soap Opera, albums whose sprawling, Floydian narratives were pointedly deflated by Ray Davies' lovable, Vaudevillian loopiness. Schoolboys has long seemed the red-headed stepchild in that ancestry. But, it's precisely the album's scaled-back ambitions and breezy delivery (typif
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Manufacturer: Velvel Records
Release date: 24 November 1998
EAN: 0634677972423 UPC: 634677972423
Release date: 24 November 1998
EAN: 0634677972423 UPC: 634677972423
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