State of Confusion
Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". State of Confusion is the twentieth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks, released in 1983. The record features the single "Come Dancing", which hit number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was one of the band's biggest hit singles in the United States, equaling the 1965 peak of "Tired of Waiting for You". The album itself was a major success, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard albums chart. The album was certified gold in Canada by August 1983.[1] It was the last Kinks album on which drummer Mick Avory appeared as a full member of the band.[2]
Production
The album was recorded between September 1982 and March 1983 at Konk Studios, London, and was produced by Ray Davies. It was recorded during another period of turmoil for the band, as Ray recalled:
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It was a difficult time: '83, '84. Songs like 'Definite Maybe', 'State of Confusion', it's all got this concern about it. If you look at the album cover, everybody's going in different directions. And that was the last of ... that band's records. And it had our biggest single on it. So there you go.[3]
Release
The cassette versions of the album included two additional tracks at the end of both sides: "Long Distance" and "Noise". The former was also released as one of the two B-sides on the "Do It Again" single in Germany (the other being "Guilty"), while the latter was the B-side to "Come Dancing" single.
State of Confusion was reissued on CD in 1999. It featured shorter version of "Bernadette" than the original LP release and included four bonus tracks, two of which were previously unreleased: "Don't Forget to Dance" (Original extended edit) and "Once a Thief".[4]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Blender | [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [8] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| Uncut | [9] |
State of Confusion saw acclaim from American critics. Rolling Stone commented, "Nobody but the Kinks could have made such a record in 1983, and no band deserves more to be at the very top, which is where this LP ought to place them".[3]
The track "Long Distance", which only appeared on the cassette version of the album, has generally received positive reviews from critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic retrospectively praised the track as "wistful pop",[5] and went on to call it a "terrific obscurity".[10] Rolling Stone critic Parke Puterbaugh hailed the song as "astonishingly Dylanesque", and went on to say that "there's no excuse for omitting ['Long Distance' from the LP version of State of Confusion]".[7]
Track listing
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Additional tracks on the end of both sides on the Cassette edition
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Personnel
The Kinks
- Ray Davies – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, piano
- Dave Davies – lead guitar, vocals (lead vocals on "Bernadette")
- Mick Avory – drums
- Jim Rodford – bass guitar
- Ian Gibbons – keyboards
Technical
- Written and Produced by Raymond Douglas Davies
- John Rollo – engineer
- Damian Korner – engineer
- Bob Ludwig – mastering engineer
- Howard Fritzson – album design
- Robert Ellis – photography
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gold/Platinum". Music Canada. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Kinks' Chart Positions". kindakinks.net. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hasted, Nick (1 October 2017). You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-991-8.
- ^ State of Confusion CD reissue liner notes
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Kinks: State of Confusion > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Powers, Ann. "Blender :: guide". Dennis Digital, Inc. Archived from the original on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Puterbaugh, Parke (7 July 1983). "The Kinks: State of Confusion". Rolling Stone. No. RS 399. Straight Arrow. ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kinks Klassics". Uncut. No. 88. September 2004. p. 62.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Kinks: Come Dancing with The Kinks > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
External links
- State of Confusion at Discogs (list of releases)
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