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I’ve said this a million times so I won’t repeat myself, too much. keep on searchin’ around the dial.” Try independent radio, you’ll find ’em. DJ, did they take you off the air? Was it something you said to the corporation guys upstairs?. But back to Around The Dial and its lyrics: “You always played the best records, you never followed any trend, FM, AM, where are you? You gotta be out there somewhere on the dial”. It was the lead song on the Give The People What They Want album, issued during a commercial hot streak for The Kinks that started with 1979’s Low Budget album and continued through State of Confusion in 1983 with the hit single Come Dancing and to a lesser extent with 1984’s Word of Mouth and the Do It Again single, although I think the Dave Davies-penned Living On A Thin Line about the decline of England, the third single from that album, and a track I should return to at some point, is the best song on the record. Good rocker with telling lyrics about corporate radio, and this is from 1981 when commercial rock radio actually would play a deeper cut like this. Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin).John Lennon, Bring On The Lucie (Freda People).The Rolling Stones, Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor, from Grrr Live!).My track-by-track tales follow this bare-bones list.
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