My Top 1000 Songs #215: Better Things

My Kinks loyalties lie firmly with their late 60s/early 70s run of outstanding LPs. Still, their return to straightforward album-oriented rock in the late 70s, after a few years of sketchy, narrative concept albums, provided a number of stellar tunes. This is my favorite song from that era, off 1981's underrated Give The People What They Want (IMHO their most consistent album since maybe Muswell Hillbillies a decade earlier). 

It's a feel-good, unabashedly optimistic power pop tune, a sunny close...