Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe (Ltd Ed Deluxe CD/DVD Combo)
|
List Price: Our Price: $14.70 You Save: $6.28 (30%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $9.40 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Working Man's Cafe (Ltd Ed Deluxe CD/DVD Combo)
Free Music Review: "God Bless Raymond Douglas Davies"
Hit: 5 Stars
Thank You Ray for giving us old(First saw you in 1970)fans some great music to listen to again. You are a true genius and and it has been that way for always!!!!!!Free Music Review: Ray gets back to form
Hit: 4 Stars
Workingman's Cafe is a real return to form for Ray, hearkening back to his salad days with the Kinks. The title track and "Vietnam Cowboys" have that character study feel that remind you of "Village Green"-era Kinks.
Another aspect of the disc is how Ray's medical woes after the stabbing in New Orleans seem to have permeated his writing. There are several references to hospitals and a stark view of death and dying that are revealed here. Ray can be sentimental, but he seems clearheaded in facing his and others' demise.
The music is understated, but the arrangements feel familiar, one or two could have fit in well with the speak-singing that he did on "Soap Opera" or "Preservation Act I".
If you are a Kinks or Ray Davies fan, get this.
Free Music Review: very enjoyable
Hit: 4 Stars
I love the new lp, and I just saw him live april 29th. He only played 3 songs from this lp and 3 from the last one, and OH! was Ray in a good mood and the rest of the night was filled with Kinks song. It sure is nice when an artist loves his work, because the whole audience was up and into his performance. Hooray for you Ray, now get your brother and the rest of the Kinks and do a tour....Free Music Review: New work from an old master
Hit: 4 Stars
Ray Davies still has the eye for detail and ear for melody that made the Kinks one of THE classic rock bands. His new songs, as ever, comment wryly on the world today, including class differences, something rarely discussed in rock. The songs are good, the arrangements show them off well. And if you can catch Ray live, he still rocks.Free Music Review: NO GREAT SING ALONG MELODIES...
Hit: 3 Stars
I know. You ALL gave the CD FIVE Stars. I have been as most of you have been a KINKS /RAY Davies fan since 1964. As the lyrics of "Rock and Roll fantasy" go "I've Seen Them Up and I've Seen Them Down" (Down includes seeing Ray throw a bottle of water on Dave at the Pier during a fight in NYC in 1986! abruptly ending a GREAT Kinks show). Sorry, for me, the melodies don't cut it. the words are fine poetry. But not the music. I don't hear any great Ray melodies. The last great RAY melody for me was THE ROAD, LONDON SONG, TO THE BONE or X RAY (the song). I anticipated this release greatly even buying an advance copy from the UK which did not even include the DVD. I prefer Ray's more acoustic work of the past solo Cd's and his solo recent live storyteller tours For me, this musically is just "OK". But then again "I'm Not Like Everybody Else".