250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 6 The Kinks Face To Face

 

                             'Music changes the way you feel inside.' James Brown

I first heard  The Kinks Face To Face in the Greenwich East Village in Spring 2001. It was my third time in New York and Belle & Sebastian seemed to rule the hip spaces of Manhattan., There were so many hip spaces in Manhattan. There always are and always will be..

I was visiting the city with one of my best friends and his partner. They would go on to get married, have two boys and get divorced some years later in no little acrimony and vituperation. 

So much water under the bridge and meanwhile in the background Face To Face plays on my record player in 2026. True. Eternal. Like a river. A durty old river. Got to keep rolling. Always the same but always different.