Nuggets

Last week, we had WEHM on the air in our home and on came the piano and then the words:

Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
This is captain america calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now Im falling

What a great song (Catch Me Now I'm Falling) and what a great record - Low Budget, another of the crop of 1979, the year I graduated high school. It was a tremendous year in rock music and Low Budget was certainly one of the highlights. It's not on my top 50, but it's on Jackson's top 50.

This is a tremendous record from start to finish and includes three of my favorite Kinks songs, Catch Me Now I'm Falling, Superman, and A Little Bit of Emotion. Ray Davies writes great songs and he was in fine form on this record.

If you've got Rhapsody, do yourself a favor and tune into Low Budget. 

Low Budget

You won't regret it.

Comments

[jackson]

Nice!

'Attitude' is my current fave.

[JayR]

Great album. Similar to Some Girls, it showed how a great band could adapt, incorporate what was happening around them and stay relevant. But I don't think it aged as well as Some Girls.

[andy m]

Great post Fred.

Love Ray Davies - and this was one of his best works....

There is a great story in a biography about him, regarding the conditions and his relationships when this album was made---- which makes the lyrics even more impactful.

[David J. Whelan]

You are a man after my own heart, Fred! To me, the Kinks are an underappreciated band that could stand alongside the Who, the Stones, and even the Beatles. And you are talking to a huge Beatles fan here.

I’m partial to the earlier Kinks—“Sunny Afternoon,” “Waterloo Sunset,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”—but “Catch Me Now I’m Falling” is definitely a great example of their later work, along with the depressing duo of “Father Christmas” and “Celluloid Heroes.”

When I lived in London, I trekked to the outskirts of London, on Christmas Day, in fact, just to see the parking lot the Kinks sang about in “Come Dancing.” Now that was a musical journey!

Thanks for the great post and some great memories.

[jackson]

'Celluloid Heroes' was an early seventies track off of 'Everybody's In Showbiz'.

[blackeyedpig]

1979, what an awesome year. Rust Never Sleeps, Squeezing Out Sparks, Alive on Arrival, Armed Forces, and London Calling. As the ad for that Graham Parker record said "The Decade Finally Toughens Up."

I love the Kinks but I think Sleepwalker is better than Low Budget. Not alot better, but better.