- rock
- 38 min
- 12 tracks
- Sanctuary Records
Soap Opera, or The Kinks Present a Soap Opera, is a 1975 concept album by the Kinks. It is the fourteenth studio album by the Kinks.
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Character
Spare, cool, raw and grave.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Allmusic1/5 ★
- Blender1/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC+
- Rolling Stone(unfavourable)
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Tracks
- 1Everybody’s a Star (Starmaker)2:57
- 2Ordinary People3:50
- 3Rush Hour Blues4:29
- 4Nine to Five1:48
- 5When Work Is Over2:06
- 6Have Another Drink2:43
- 7Underneath the Neon Sign3:56
- 8Holiday Romance3:12
- 9You Make It All Worthwhile3:50
- 10Ducks on the Wall3:23
- 11(A) Face in the Crowd2:18
- 12You Can’t Stop the Music3:13
12 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Kinks
- Label
- Sanctuary Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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