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"Low Budget" became a popular song for the Kinks to play live in concert. [4] Of a performance in Binghamton, New York on February 18, 1979, the Binghamton University newspaper Pipe Dream noted that "'Low Budget' became an audience effort when Davies ceded his microphone to members of the front row during the chorus."
Low Budget is the eighteenth studio album by English rock group the Kinks, released in 1979. It was their first to feature bassist Jim Rodford who would remain with the group until their disbandment in 1996.
"Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" is a song written by Ray Davies that was first released on the Kinks' 1979 album, Low Budget. The song, inspired by Superman: The Movie, employs a disco beat and lyrics that describe the singer's wish to be like the fictional character Superman.
The song was one of two U.S. only singles taken from Low Budget (the other being "A Gallon of Gas") to be released. Despite being an FM radio hit, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. [7] It also appeared on the compilation album Come Dancing with The Kinks and in live form on the album One for the Road. [8]
"Attitude" was first released on the Low Budget album in 1979 as the opening track of said LP. The next year, a live version of the track appeared on the One for the Road album. This version would appear afterwards as the B-side of the live " You Really Got Me " single that same year.
"Moving Pictures" was released as the second U.K. single from Low Budget, backed with "In a Space", a track also from Low Budget. [3] [deprecated source] It was not considered commercially successful, as it did not make a dent in the charts. [citation needed] The single was not released in either the United States or Continental Europe.
It was backed with "Low Budget". In addition to its release as a single in America, the single was also released in Japan that same year. [citation needed] "A Gallon of Gas" also appears on the greatest hits albums Come Dancing with The Kinks and the live album To the Bone. An alternate edition of the song appears on Picture Book.
Davies explained, "That song was written in 1979, and it was turned down for Low Budget because the band couldn't get it together". [4] The song was later recorded for Give the People What They Want in April 1981, with the recording session dubbed by Ray Davies as "a total send-up."