Word of Mouth (The Kinks album)

Word of Mouth

Studio album by The Kinks

Released

19 November 1984

Recorded

June 1983 - September 1984 at Konk Studios, London

Genre

Rock

Length

43:04

Language

The Kinks chronology

Singles from Word of Mouth
State of Confusion (1983)	Word of Mouth (1984)	Think Visual (1986)
"Good Day" Released: 1984 (U.K.) "Do It Again" Released: 1984 "Living on a Thin Line" Released: 1985 (U.S., Radio Promo) "Summer's Gone" Released: 1985 (U.S.)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Blender	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]

Word of Mouth is the twentieth studio album by the English rock group, The Kinks. "Do It Again" was released as a single from the album in 1985.

Information

The track "Living on a Thin Line" by Dave Davies was played three times in the 2001 episode "University" of the American TV show The Sopranos. According to producer Terence Winter on the DVD extras, it is the series' most asked about song.

The song "Good Day" includes an allusion to the death of actress Diana Dors.

The song "Do It Again" was featured in the film Click (released in 2006), and in trailers that were promoting the film.^[4] It was also used in TV ad promotions for the 2013 edition of the Tour de France.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ray Davies, except as noted.

Side 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Do It Again"	4:14
2.	"Word of Mouth"	3:51
3.	"Good Day"	4:35
4.	"Living on a Thin Line" (Dave Davies)	4:16
5.	"Sold Me Out"	3:44

Side 2
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Massive Reductions"	3:15
2.	"Guilty" (Dave Davies)	4:12
3.	"Too Hot"	4:08
4.	"Missing Persons"	2:53
5.	"Summer's Gone"	3:52
6.	"Going Solo"	3:58

1999 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Good Day" (extended edit)	5:31
13.	"Summer's Gone" (extended edit)	4:54

Personnel

Ray Davies - guitar, keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Dave Davies - guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "Guilty", and "Living on a Thin Line"
Jim Rodford - bass, background vocals
Mick Avory - drums on "Missing Persons", "Sold Me Out", and "Going Solo"
Bob Henrit - drums on all other tracks
Ian Gibbons - keyboards, background vocals
"Special thanks to" Luisa and John for their help on "Too Hot" and "Good Day"
David Baker - engineer
Renate Sturmer - illustration

Chart performance

The album spent twenty weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #57 in February 1985.^[5]

Notes

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Kinks: Word of Mouth > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
↑ Blender review Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Fricke, David (31 January 1985). "The Kinks: Word of Mouth". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow (RS 440). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 10 May 2007.
↑ "Soundtracks for Click". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
↑ "Billboard 200: February 9, 1985". Billboard.com. Billboard. 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2016.

External links

Kinks, The – Word Of Mouth at Discogs (list of releases)

The Kinks

Ray Davies Dave Davies Mick Avory Pete Quaife John Dalton Gordon Edwards Ian Gibbons John Gosling Mark Haley Bob Henrit Andy Pyle Jim Rodford Nicky Hopkins Shel Talmy

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Live albums	Live at Kelvin Hall One for the Road Live: The Road To the Bone

EPs	Kinksize Session Kwyet Kinks

Compilations	Kinks-Size Kinkdom Greatest Hits! Well Respected Kinks Sunny Afternoon The Kink Kronikles The Great Lost Kinks Album The Kinks Are Well Respected Men Lost & Found (1986–1989) The Ultimate Collection Picture Book

Unreleased projects	Four More Respected Gentlemen A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)

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