Length 54:23 Artist The Kinks Producer Ray Davies Genre Rock music | Live The Road
(1988) UK Jive
(1989) Release date 9 December 1987 Label Metronome | |
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Released 11 January 1988 (US)
23 May 1988 (UK) Recorded 29 June – 1 July 1987, recorded by Fanta Sound mobile studio.
September – overdubs at Konk Studios, London
2–12 October mixing session at PUK Recording Studios, Denmark.
17–27 October mixing session at Konk Studios, London.
2–9 November – mastering at Masterdisk, New York City. Similar The Kinks albums, Rock music albums | ||
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Live: The Road is the third live album recorded by the British rock band, the Kinks. It was recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, on 29 June 1987, and at Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 1 July; the second date provided most of the material on the album. One new song, "The Road", was recorded in the Kinks' own studio in September. Most of the concert songs were previously released on other Kinks albums except for "The Road" and "It (I Want It)".
Contents
Upon release, the album, like many other albums the band made at the time, was a flop, both commercially and critically. It did not make a dent in the Billboard 100, only hitting 110. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as "a tepid document of their workmanlike arena rock shows from 1987" and said the album "wasn't anything special." Rolling Stone was more kind to the album, saying that "it's less predictable and more textured than the tiresome arena-rock performances of the early-Eighties Kinks."
Track listing
All tracks written by Ray Davies except "Living on a Thin Line", which was written by Dave Davies..
Personnel
Songs
1The Road6:19
2Destroyer4:11
3Apeman2:09