| Live: The Road | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | the Kinks |
| Cover: | Live The Road - The Kinks.jpg |
| Released: | 11 January 1988 |
| Recorded: | 29 June – 1 July 1987, recorded by Fanta Sound mobile studio. September – overdubs at Konk Studios, London 2–12 October mixing session at PUK Recording Studios, Denmark. 17–27 October mixing session at Konk Studios, London. 2–9 November – mastering at Masterdisk, New York City.[1] |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 54:23 |
| Label: | London |
| Producer: | Ray Davies |
| Prev Title: | Think Visual |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | UK Jive |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
Live: The Road is the third live album recorded by the British rock band, the Kinks. It was recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, on 29 June 1987, and at Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 1 July; the second date provided most of the material on the album.[2] One new song, "The Road", was recorded in the Kinks' own studio in September. Most of the concert songs were previously released on other Kinks albums except for "The Road" and "It (I Want It)". The album was released on 11 January 1988 in the US and on 23 May 1988 in the UK.
Upon release, the album, like many other albums the band made at the time, was a flop, both commercially and critically. It reached number 110 on the US Billboard 200. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as "a tepid document of their workmanlike arena rock shows from 1987" and said the album "wasn't anything special."[3] Rolling Stone was more kind to the album, saying that "it's less predictable and more textured than the tiresome arena-rock performances of the early-Eighties Kinks."[4]