The Kinks

In typically perverse style, Ray Davies kicks off the Kinks' debut effort for their new label
with "Working at the Factory," a searing indictment of the industrialization of rock. The
song finds Ray in a mood of pissed-off resignation, as if he's finally given up altogether on
whatever remained of his rock & roll fantasy. Ray even points a finger at "the corporations
and the big combines," which he blames for having "turned musicians into factor... More >