Sleepwalker (The Kinks album)

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Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker cover
Studio album by The Kinks
Released 25 February 1977
Recorded July 1976 - December 1976
Genre Rock and roll
Length 40:10
Label Arista Records
Producer Ray Davies
Professional reviews
The Kinks chronology
Schoolboys in Disgrace
(1976)		 Sleepwalker
(1977)		 Misfits
(1978)

Sleepwalker is a 1977 album by the English rock group, The Kinks. Whilst there is something of a somnambulant theme to the album, this first album on the Arista label broadly ditched the theatrical and occasionally impenetrable concept album style the group had been mining with diminishing returns since 1968. A modern, confident series of melodic tracks was described in the American music press as "a phoenix rising from the ashes". The overall sound was certainly slicker than the rather rougher RCA albums of the mid seventies, but saw the group begin to edge closer to the stadium rock and pseudo heavy metal that would characterise their eighties albums.

All songs by Ray Davies

  1. "Life on the Road" – 5:02
  2. "Mr. Big Man" – 3:49
  3. "Sleepwalker" – 4:04
  4. "Brother" – 5:28
  5. "Juke Box Music" – 5:32
  6. "Sleepless Night" – 3:18
  7. "Stormy Sky" – 3:58
  8. "Full Moon" – 3:52
  9. "Life Goes On" – 5:03

  1. "Artificial Light" – 3:27
  2. "Prince of the Punks" – 3:18
  3. "The Poseur" – 2:53
  4. "On the Outside (1977 Mix)" – 6:01
  5. "On the Outside (1994 Mix)" – 5:07
The Kinks
Ray Davies – Dave Davies – Mick Avory
Pete Quaife – John Gosling – John Dalton – Ian Gibbons – Jim Rodford – Bob Henrit – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards
Discography
Albums: The Kinks (1964) - Kinda Kinks (1965) - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) - Face to Face (1966) - Something Else by the Kinks (1967) - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) - Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) - Muswell Hillbillies (1971) - Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) - Preservation: Act 1 (1973) - Preservation: Act 2 (1974) - Soap Opera (1975) - Schoolboys in Disgrace (1976) - Sleepwalker (1977) - Misfits (1978) - Low Budget (1979) - Give the People What They Want (1981) - State of Confusion (1983) - Word of Mouth (1984) - Think Visual (1986) - UK Jive (1989) - Phobia (1993)
E.P.s: Kinksize Session (1964) - Kinksize Hits (1965) - Kwyet Kinks (1965) - Dedicated Kinks (1966) - The Kinks (1968 ep) (1968)
Compilations: Greatest Hits! (1966) - The Kink Kronikles (1970) - Come Dancing with the Kinks (1986) - The Ultimate Collection (2002)
Songs: "You Really Got Me" - "Waterloo Sunset" - "Sunny Afternoon" – "Lola" - "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" - "All Day and All of the Night" - "Tired of Waiting for You" - "Celluloid Heroes" - "Father Christmas"
Related: British Invasion - Argent
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