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I'm in Disgrace - Wikipedia

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"I'm in Disgrace"

Single by The Kinks

from the album Schoolboys in Disgrace

B-side

"The Hard Way"

Released

21 January 1976 (US)

Recorded

19 August 1975 – 24 September 1975 at Konk Studios, London

Genre

Length

3:21

The Kinks singles chronology

"You Can't Stop the Music"
(1975)

"I'm in Disgrace"
(1976)

"No More Looking Back"
(1976)

"I'm in Disgrace" is the opening track on the second side of The Kinks' 1975 concept album, Schoolboys in Disgrace. It was written by Ray Davies.

Background

"I'm in Disgrace" plays an important role in the plot line of Schoolboys in Disgrace lyrically, as it describes the main character, Jack (a young Mr. Flash), being publicly disgraced for his inappropriate behavior with his former girlfriend. According to Jack, the first two times that he saw her, he was in love with the girl, but because he was treated "with such distaste" the third time, he now wishes he'd "never seen [her] face." Now, because he "fell for [her] pretty face", he's "in disgrace" and his "name's dirt." However, he claims that "it wasn't lust, it wasn't rape, it was just a mistake" and says to his girlfriend that "There's no use blaming me and saying I was your ruination Because it was you equally That got us into this situation." In the next track on the album, "Headmaster", he refers to the incident as he confesses to the headmaster that "I've been with those naughty little girls again, now those naughty little girls are going to put me to shame."

The lyrics in this track reference a moment in Ray Davies's brother and bandmate, Dave’s, youth. Davies was very rebellious, (the polar opposite of his introspective brother, Ray), and he often got into trouble. One time, as a fifteen-year-old, Davies was expelled from school after he was discovered having intercourse with Sue Sheehan, his girlfriend at the time.^[3]^[4] on Hampstead Heath. The two were promptly separated by their families when Sue discovered she was pregnant. This event heavily influenced Dave's later songwriting, in songs such as "Funny Face," "Susannah's Still Alive," and "Mindless Child of Motherhood."

Release and reception

"I'm in Disgrace" was the debut single from Schoolboys in Disgrace in America, where it was backed with "The Hard Way", a popular live track from the same album. It was, like many Kinks singles of this time period, unpopular, as it did not make a mark in the charts.

Despite its poor commercial showing, the track is often mentioned as one of the best tracks from Schoolboys in Disgrace. Paul Nelson of Rolling Stone said that "'I'm in Disgrace' is a terrific rock & roll song about erotic confusion and shame."^[1] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine cited the track as a highlight from the album.

Cash Box said that "the tune starts out gently, the vocal warmly played out over a seemingly classical piano figure. Suddenly, falling into disgrace, the band slips into hard rock, with great backing vocals."^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Nelson, Paul. "Rolling Stone". Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 31 January 1976. p. 26. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ Thomas M. Kitts (2008). Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 4. ISBN 978-0415977692.
^ "The Dedicated Follower". Uncut. January 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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Live albums	Live at Kelvin Hall (1968) One for the Road (1980) Live: The Road (1988) To the Bone (1994/1996) BBC Sessions: 1964–1977 (2001)
EPs	Kinksize Session (1964) Kwyet Kinks (1965)
Compilations	The Kinks Greatest Hits! (1966) Well Respected Kinks (1966) Sunny Afternoon (1967) Then Now and Inbetween (1969) The Kink Kronikles (1972) The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973) Come Dancing with The Kinks (1986) The Kinks Are Well Respected Men (1987) The Ultimate Collection (2002) Picture Book (2008) Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies (2012) The Essential Kinks (2014)
Unreleased projects	Four More Respected Gentlemen A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)
Concert tours	1965 UK tour 1965 US tour
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v t e The Kinks singles discography
1960s singles (UK & US)	1964 "Long Tall Sally" "You Still Want Me" "You Really Got Me" "All Day and All of the Night" 1965 "Tired of Waiting for You" "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" "Set Me Free" "See My Friends" "Who'll Be the Next in Line" "A Well Respected Man" "Till the End of the Day" 1966 "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" "Sunny Afternoon" "Dead End Street" 1967 "Mister Pleasant" "Waterloo Sunset" "Death of a Clown" (Dave Davies solo) "Autumn Almanac" "Susannah's Still Alive" (Dave Davies solo) 1968 "Wonderboy" "Days" "Lincoln County" (Dave Davies solo) 1969 "Starstruck" "Hold My Hand" (Dave Davies solo) "Plastic Man" "Drivin'" "The Village Green Preservation Society" "Shangri-La" "Victoria"
1970s singles (UK & US)	1970 "Lola" "Apeman" 1971 "God's Children" "20th Century Man" 1972 "Supersonic Rocket Ship" "Celluloid Heroes" 1973 "One of the Survivors" "Sitting in the Midday Sun" "Sweet Lady Genevieve" "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" 1974 "Money Talks" "Mirror of Love" "Mirror of Love" (band version) "Holiday Romance" "Preservation" 1975 "Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)" "Ducks on the Wall" "You Can't Stop the Music" 1976 "I'm in Disgrace" "No More Looking Back" 1977 "Sleepwalker" "Juke Box Music" "Father Christmas" 1978 "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" "Live Life" "Black Messiah" 1979 "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" "A Gallon of Gas" "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" "Moving Pictures" "Pressure"
1980s singles (UK & US)	1980 "Lola" (live) "You Really Got Me" (live) 1981 "Better Things" "Destroyer" "Predictable" 1982 "Come Dancing" 1983 "Don't Forget to Dance" 1984 "Good Day" "Do It Again" 1985 "Living on a Thin Line" (radio promo only) "Summer's Gone" 1986 "Rock 'n' Roll Cities" "How Are You" 1987 "Lost and Found" 1988 "The Road" 1989 "Down All the Days (Till 1992)"
1990s singles (UK & US)	1990 "How Do I Get Close" 1993 "Only a Dream" "Scattered"
Other singles (non-UK/US)	1966 "Dandy" (Europe) 1969 "Picture Book" (Australia) "Australia" (Australia) 1983 "State of Confusion" (Germany) 1991 "Did Ya" (Europe)
Other songs	"So Mystifying" "Bald Headed Woman" "Stop Your Sobbing" "Dancing in the Street" "I Need You" "I Go to Sleep" "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" "Big Black Smoke" "Party Line" "Rosy Won't You Please Come Home" "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" "David Watts" "Two Sisters" "Polly" "She's Got Everything" "Do You Remember Walter?" "Johnny Thunder" "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" "Big Sky" "Sitting by the Riverside" "Animal Farm" "Village Green" "Phenomenal Cat" "All of My Friends Were There" "Wicked Annabella" "Monica" "People Take Pictures of Each Other" "Berkeley Mews" "Mr. Churchill Says" "Strangers" "This Time Tomorrow" "Rats" "Got to Be Free" "Have a Cuppa Tea" "Oklahoma U.S.A." "Muswell Hillbilly" "Sitting in My Hotel" "The Hard Way" "Life Goes On" "Misfits" "Attitude" "Low Budget" "Give the People What They Want" "Heart of Gold"

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