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* [[Album Title Drop]]: ''Everybody's in Showbiz'' takes its title from a lyric in "Celluloid Heroes".
* [[Album Title Drop]]: ''Everybody's in Showbiz'' takes its title from a lyric in "Celluloid Heroes".
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Dave Davies is a good [[Real Life]] example.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Dave Davies is a good [[Real Life]] example.
* [[Anti Love Song]]: "When I Turn Off The Living Room Light" - because you're too ugly to get it on with otherwise.
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: "When I Turn Off The Living Room Light" - because you're too ugly to get it on with otherwise.
* [[Book Dumb]]/[[Dumb Is Good]]: "Mountain woman couldn't read or write but she knew good from evil, she knew wrong from right".
* [[Book Dumb]]/[[Dumb Is Good]]: "Mountain woman couldn't read or write but she knew good from evil, she knew wrong from right".
* [[Born in The Wrong Century]]: "20th Century Man" is just the most obvious example.
* [[Born in The Wrong Century]]: "20th Century Man" is just the most obvious example.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] / [[Write What You Know]]: Ray and Dave Davies regularly fought each other onstage in [[The Sixties]]. Therefore the American Musicians' Union banned [[The Kinks]] from touring in the U.S. from 1965-1970. This led to Ray and Dave being isolated from and uninvolved with American politics and counterculture. They reverted to writing about British concerns, British culture and Britain, from a British perspective, language and humor separated from their Americanized peers. This may have hurt their sales in America, but would give them an identity as [[Britpop]] innovators.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] / [[Write What You Know]]: Ray and Dave Davies regularly fought each other onstage in [[The Sixties]]. Therefore the American Musicians' Union banned [[The Kinks]] from touring in the U.S. from 1965-1970. This led to Ray and Dave being isolated from and uninvolved with American politics and counterculture. They reverted to writing about British concerns, British culture and Britain, from a British perspective, language and humor separated from their Americanized peers. This may have hurt their sales in America, but would give them an identity as [[Britpop]] innovators.
* [[Rock Opera]]: From the much-praised (''Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)'') to the much-maligned (''Preservation''; ''Soap Opera''; ''Schoolboys in Disgrace'') although if you can get into the camp humour of the latter two they become much more tolerable.
* [[Rock Opera]]: From the much-praised (''Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)'') to the much-maligned (''Preservation''; ''Soap Opera''; ''Schoolboys in Disgrace'') although if you can get into the camp humour of the latter two they become much more tolerable.
* [[Satire Parody Pastiche]]: "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" is Satire; "Top Of The Pops" is Parody; "Sunny Afternoon" is Pastiche.
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" is Satire; "Top Of The Pops" is Parody; "Sunny Afternoon" is Pastiche.
* [[Self-Titled Album]]: Their debut album was simply titled ''Kinks''.
* [[Self-Titled Album]]: Their debut album was simply titled ''Kinks''.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock And Roll]]: Especially in the early days, and especially especially for (then teenaged) Dave Davies.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock And Roll]]: Especially in the early days, and especially especially for (then teenaged) Dave Davies.
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