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Other People's Lives - Ray Davies
  • Band Name: Ray Davies
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: Feb 21, 2006
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Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

User Score
9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 29 Ratings

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  • Summary: This is the first album of any kind in eight years (and the first true solo singer-songwriter album period) for the former leader of the Kinks.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Davies has lost little of his ability to marry great rock melodies to exquisitely offbeat lyrics. [24 Feb 2006, p.61]
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  2. Under The Radar
    60
    [The] glossy, over-the-top production style... detracts from the beauty and wit of the songs themselves. [#12, p.90]
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  3. NOW Magazine
    30
    Uniformly mediocre.... It leads one to assume he's either lost the ability to discern the padding from the profound or he just didn't give a shit.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Jim
    10
    Ray is the man! Superb album!!
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  2. LanceS
    10
    I have been a Kinks fan for my whole life, and I had very little expectations for this new Ray Davies album, and I couldn't have been more wrong. All She Wrote is a devastatingly brilliant song, and Stand Up Comic is the funniest song Ray has ever wrote. All that needs to be said is that "Other People's Lives" is the BEST ALBUM OF 2006. Period.… Expand
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  3. NormP
    5
    Like the Kinks LPs from the late 80's up to Phobia, a couple of gems such as Over My Head and All She Wrote, surrounded by a bunch of mediocre filler, and over-produced at that.… Expand
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