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Title: Underrated gem!
Review: "Word of Mouth" is a great album (the last great Kinks album, in fact) that for some reason is consistently overlooked in favor of the Kinks' other Arista efforts. Sure, there are a couple of throwaways here ("Too Hot," "Massive Reductions"), but the highlights more than make up for them. "Do It Again," "Good Day," and "Summer's Gone" are some of Ray's very best '80s compositions, and "Living on a Thin Line" is, in this Kinks fanatic's opinion, the best song Dave Davies ever wrote.The album gels together wonderfully, and it has an upbeat, summery mood in stark contrast to the hyper-bleakness of "State of Confusion" and "Give the People What They Want." If you are new to the Kinks' '80s output and have been scared away from "Word of Mouth" by bad word of mouth, I'd urge you to give it a chance. It's one of the most underrated albums in the Kinks kanon.
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