Song of the Day 10/5: The Kinks, “Situation Vacant”

With a tip o’ the sombrero to El Som.

Yoohoo, anybody home? House Republicans are demonstrating that maybe men do too think about the Roman Empire too much, and no that good comes of it.

One online reviewer called this tune “a classic Ray Davies character piece in which ambition leads to misery.” That sounds about right. Featuring the ubiquitous Nicky Hopkins on piano, it appeared on “Something Else by the Kinks,” the 1967 LP that sank with barely a trace in the U.S. (No. 153 on the Billboard 200).