As word of mouth has it, if you clicky on this linky, you'll go to the main Kinkys page ... Word of Mouthwash Overall Album Score: 6.0 out of 10 ...The World of Mouth of this album is grim ... everyone says it sucks ... and everyone is 100-PERCENT CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ray Davies needed to get all this freaking 80s pop posturing and shove it up his posterior! Sure, it all worked well enough on State of Confusion ... but it doesn't work well here at all. Let me 'splain. The melodies are, by and large, no good. There's like two or three melodies on here that are pretty catchy. But they mostly suck. (That wasn't the case on State of Confusion.) Secondly, the instrumentation is too dressed up in 80s pop rock for comfort. Sure, 80s pop rock instrumentation can be really fun and awesome summa the time. But, indeed, here, they downright STINK! There are, like, two songs that are worth listening to. "Good Day" has a pretty catchy melody and, while the instrumentation is overblown, it's still kinda fun to listen to. "Do it Again" is alright, too ... even though it only scored an 8. Yeah ... Davies isn't cool anymore. Boo to this album! Overall Album Score: 6.0 out of 10 (...They pretty much survived the 80s ... until now. They've finally sunk!) Average Song Score: 6.5 (A very small handful of decent songs amidst piles of generic 80s pop rubble.) Album Tilt: 6.0 (This album has no real value.) Artist Rating: 5.5 (I'd rather be listening to Styx ... *ouch*!) Track Reviews Do it Again 8/10 Not horrible ... but this is 80s pop rock and it's not that good. Surely, Davies' melodic talents are still intact. And it's played nicely. It's kind of fun to listen, but am I going to remember how it goes tomorrow morning? Doubtful! This is just empty, soulless, and unmemorable. ... Yeah ... who needs that? Word of Mouth 6/10 Does this have to be the 80s? ... What's with the loud drums?? ... I don't even think these old rockers know how to use them drums ... not that they were ever a thing that needed to be used. The instrumentation of this song (even apart from the drugs) is horrible. The electric guitar is uggggggglyyyyyyy and overblown. And the melody isn't anything to scream about, either. This is poo. Good Day 9/10 Well, here's a good song, at least. ... Yeah, it's too freaking caught up in the 80s for its own freaking good, but at least it has a good melody. And I like those acoustic-guitar sounding things ... and ... yeah. This is fairly enjoyable! Yay. Living on a Thin Line 7.5/10 This song is kinda good, I guess ... It starts out okay ... but then that freaking chorus repeats about 8 billion times and ... yeah ... This isn't so great. The Kinks aren't so great. Why the freak do I like this band, anyway? Sold Me Out 6/10 ...Yeah, blame selling out on somebody else now, eh? ... Yeah!!! Hmmmm! Apparently selling out means writing really obnoxious songs without melodies to speak of. ... And this is also LOUD. Grrrr! Why do we need this? I axe you? Why? Massive Reductions 6.5/10 Now, look. I am only a person in his young twenties, born in 1982, and I happen to find power-chords with 80s-synths *very cool*. Unfortunately, The Kinks didn't put those to a very good song! ... This is just crap pop. I mean ... yeah ... those power synth chords were totally wasted. Guilty 5/10 Dang it, Ray!!!!!! Maybe it's time to give this whole thing a break! I mean ... dude! You're making me hate your stupid butt now! ... I mean ... The Village Green Preservation Society, which is ever-so-slowly fading away from memory, I seem to be becoming less fond of. Yeah ... not cool. This song is GUILTY. Of sucking. Too Hot 7/10 Michael Lawrence is "too hot." But that's a subject for a different time and place. There is a better melody and stuff here, overall, but ... what the HECK is up with that drum? It sounds like somebody's beating my head in with a sledgehammer ... in rhythm. ... I wish this freaking album didn't suck so much. Missing Persons 5/10 Yeah! Where's the Kinks go? I used to remember them being here ... but they don't seem to be anymore. ... Huh? ... Some of this sounds like he was ripping off "Heart of Gold." ... Yeah ... except this is a dull and plodding ballad! ... RAY DAVIES, YOU SUCK! Summer's Gone 5/10 Yeah ... and so are The Kinks. ... WHAT THE *#*#$*#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These songs are freaking horrible! The melodies are dang uninteresting, and the instrumentation is freakinggggggggg generic. There's hardly an ounce of enjoyment within this thing! Going Solo 6/10 ... Interesting title ... hmmmm ... Unfortunately, this song is completely UNinteresting. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Melody stinks, instrumentation stinks. Song stinks. Goodbye. Send some word of mouth (or word of type) about what you think of this album here.

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