Low Budget
The Kinks
The Kinks channel The Rolling Stones.
Running on a guitar riff that would have made Keef proud, the band sing the woes of being broke. REALLY broke. About having the good life once, but now it's super tight and you gotta economize. Based on the year it came out (1979), I wouldn't be surprised if it was a knock at the horrible economic impact of Thatcherism.
It's a good, dirty, rock n' roll song with some very clever lyrics. Interestingly, the following lyrics show up in the booklet, but aren't actually in the song:
Quality costs, but quality wastes
So I'm giving up all my expensive tastes.
Caviar and champagne are definite no's
I'm acquiring a taste for brown ale and cod roes.
I look like a tramp, but don't write me off.
I'll have you all know, I was once a tough.
At least my hair is all mine, my teeth are my own.
But everything else is on permanent loan.
From the album Low Budget
The Kinks channel The Rolling Stones.
Running on a guitar riff that would have made Keef proud, the band sing the woes of being broke. REALLY broke. About having the good life once, but now it's super tight and you gotta economize. Based on the year it came out (1979), I wouldn't be surprised if it was a knock at the horrible economic impact of Thatcherism.
It's a good, dirty, rock n' roll song with some very clever lyrics. Interestingly, the following lyrics show up in the booklet, but aren't actually in the song:
Quality costs, but quality wastes
So I'm giving up all my expensive tastes.
Caviar and champagne are definite no's
I'm acquiring a taste for brown ale and cod roes.
I look like a tramp, but don't write me off.
I'll have you all know, I was once a tough.
At least my hair is all mine, my teeth are my own.
But everything else is on permanent loan.
From the album Low Budget
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