Three Bitter Songs

A Rate A Record wrath-o-rama to prepare you for February 14

Steven Hale
Plethora Of Pop
Published in
2 min readFeb 3, 2024

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The Kinks, “Where Did My Spring Go?”

Unlike his British Invasion counterparts, Ray Davies tends to write songs that are more sad than happy and more dark than sad. “Where Did My Spring Go” is probably the most despairing and angry of his bleakest works.

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