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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am a dull and simple lad, cannot tell water from champagne..."'']]
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4	''Something Else by the Kinks'' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheKinks, released in 1967. It's a continuation of the more melodic and wittily observational songwriting which first emerged on their previous album ''Face to Face'', the title reflecting the band's desire to be known for "something else" besides the raucous GarageRock with which they'd first gotten attention. The album was a slow seller, partly due to the band's being banned from touring in the US.
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7	!! Tracklist:
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9	[[AC:Side One]]
10	# "David Watts" (2:32)
11	# "Death of a Clown" (3:04)
12	# "Two Sisters" (2:01)
13	# "No Return" (2:03)
14	# "Harry Rag" (2:16)
15	# "Tin Soldier Man" (2:49)
16	# "Situation Vacant" (3:16)
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18	[[AC:Side Two]]
19	# "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" (3:16)
20	# "Lazy Old Sun" (2:48)
21	# "Afternoon Tea" (3:27)
22	# "Funny Face" (2:17)
23	# "End of the Season" (2:57)
24	# "Waterloo Sunset" (3:15)
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27	!!Principal Members:
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29	* [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Avory]] - drums, percussion
30	* Dave Davies - guitar, backing and lead vocals
31	* Ray Davies - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, harpsichord, organ, harp, tuba, maracas
32	* Pete Quaife - bass, vocals
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34	!!As long as I trope on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise:
35	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''unny '''F'''ace".
36	* ArcWords: Coincidentally or not there are three songs on here with "sun" or some variant in the title: "Love Me Till the Sun Shines", "Lazy Old Sun" and "Waterloo Sunset".
37	* BigManOnCampus: The title character in "David Watts":
38	-->''He is the head boy at the school''\
39	''He is the captain of the team''\
40	''He is so gay and fancy free''\
41	''And I wish all his money belonged to me''\
42	''And I wish I could be like David Watts.''
43	* CannotSpitItOut[=/=]ObliviousToLove: A two-sided version occurs in "Afternoon Tea". A man meets with a woman, Donna, everyday for tea. He has deeper feelings for her, but never gets around to telling her. He's then shocked when she gets tired of waiting and stops showing up.
44	* DeliberatelyMonochrome[=/=]{{Retraux}}: The cover has black-and-white portraits of the band in curlicues that look like Victorian picture frames.
45	* FaceOnTheCover: The band appears on the cover separately.
46	* IntimidatingRevenueService: In "Harry Rag":
47	-->''Ah, bless you tax man, bless you all''\
48	''You may take some but you never take it all''\
49	''But if I give it all, I won't feel sad''\
50	''As long as I got enough to buy a harry rag.''
51	* LyricalDissonance: Being in a hospital and having the doctors forbid you to see the person you're there for is not really a happy circumstance. Especially when you keep asking yourself "How can I live without her?" Yet "Funny Face" sounds downright upbeat.
52	* ObnoxiousInLaws: The mother-in-law in "Situation Vacant" pressures her son-in-law to leave his job and try to get a better one. When he can't, the marriage falls apart and his wife moves back in with her mother, which is what the MIL wanted all along.
53	* OneManSong: "Tin Soldier Man".
54	* OneWomanWail: Ray's then-wife Rasa provides the haunting backing vocals on "Death of a Clown".
55	* ThePowerOfTheSun: "Lazy Old Sun":
56	-->''You make the rainbows and you make the night disappear''\
57	''You melt the frost so I won't criticise my sun.''
58	* RecordProducer: Shel Talmy, The Kinks' regular producer up to this point, helmed most of it. Ray Davies insisted on producing "Waterloo Sunset", and basically remained the band's sole producer afterwards.
59	* ShoutOut: The title is an echo of Music/BobDylan's ''Music/AnotherSideOfBobDylan''.
60	* SmokingIsCool: "Harry Rag" is all about the joys of lighting up. "Harry rag" is Cockney rhyming slang for "fag".
61	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Dave Davies sings lead vocals on "Death of a Clown", "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" and "Funny Face", all of which he wrote as well.
62	* WatchingTheSunset: "Waterloo Sunset", of course. The singer avows that when he sees it, he's "in Paradise" despite his implied friendlessness and being out of step with modern life.

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