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re: the Kinks are vastly underrated
Posted on 4/27/23 at 1:58 pm to OWLFAN86
Posted on 4/27/23 at 1:58 pm to OWLFAN86
Which Kinks are you celebrating?
The proto metal punks?
Or the wistful introspection of Face to Face through Arthur, one of the great runs a band ever had? (VGPS is my all time fave album)
The proto metal punks?
Or the wistful introspection of Face to Face through Arthur, one of the great runs a band ever had? (VGPS is my all time fave album)
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Posted on 4/27/23 at 1:59 pm to Telecaster
quote:it should have been the A-side
Sitting On My Sofa
This was the b-side for “Dedicated Follower Of Fashion”. Killer.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 2:10 pm to Kafka
The Kinks - "This Is Where I Belong"
Cut during the F2F sessions but inexplicably left off the album. Finally released as the flip of "Mr. Pleasant"; again, this should have been the A-side.
Per a comment to the video, Ray Davies cited this as one of his favorite Kinks songs.
Nice, laid-back cover by Yo La Tengo
Cut during the F2F sessions but inexplicably left off the album. Finally released as the flip of "Mr. Pleasant"; again, this should have been the A-side.
Per a comment to the video, Ray Davies cited this as one of his favorite Kinks songs.
Nice, laid-back cover by Yo La Tengo
Posted on 4/27/23 at 2:32 pm to OWLFAN86
I have been a big fan of The Kinks for many years. I really think that See My Friends is one of the great tracks that they recorded.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 3:30 pm to Kafka
quote:
The Kinks - "This Is Where I Belong"
Another killer track, included on “Kink Kronicles” also, iirc. Looks like a Kinky evening on the stereo.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 3:34 pm to Telecaster
I wore out some kind of compilation in high school. I tried to find it just now online only to see there's like 40 Kinks compilations. Oh well.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 3:58 pm to AlxTgr
One of the all time great comps
For novices this is a great intro to the band's greatest period
For novices this is a great intro to the band's greatest period
Posted on 4/27/23 at 4:11 pm to Kafka
I was briefly in a band with some buddies a long, long time ago. We worked up a cover of She’s Got Everything.
God save the Kinks.
God save the Kinks.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 4:22 pm to Telecaster
quote:This track was cut in early '66 but for some reason not released until '68, as the flip of "Days" (another of my favorite Kinks songs)
She’s Got Everything
A great rocker, but it must have sounded archaic in 1968.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 5:27 pm to OWLFAN86
"The Kinks' next single, "Waterloo Sunset", was released in May 1967...Pop music journalist Robert Christgau called it "the most beautiful song in the English language"
"A stopover in Bombay, India, during the band's Australian and Asian tour had led Davies to write the song "See My Friends", released as a single in July 1965.[52] This was an early example of crossover music, and one of the first pop songs of the period to display the direct influence of traditional music from the Indian Subcontinent.[52] ... Music historian Jonathan Bellman argues that the song was "extremely influential" on Davies' musical peers: "And while much has been made of the Beatles' 'Norwegian Wood' because it was the first pop record to use a sitar, it was recorded well after the Kinks' clearly Indian 'See My Friends' was released."[52] Pete Townshend of the Who was particularly affected by the song: "'See My Friends' was the next time I pricked up my ears and thought, 'God, he's done it again. He's invented something new.'... In a widely quoted statement by Barry Fantoni, 1960s celebrity and friend of the Kinks, the Beatles, and the Who, he recalled that it was also an influence on the Beatles: "I remember it vividly and still think it's a remarkable pop song. I was with the Beatles the evening that they actually sat around listening to it on a gramophone, saying 'You know this guitar thing sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those."
beautiful song
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"A stopover in Bombay, India, during the band's Australian and Asian tour had led Davies to write the song "See My Friends", released as a single in July 1965.[52] This was an early example of crossover music, and one of the first pop songs of the period to display the direct influence of traditional music from the Indian Subcontinent.[52] ... Music historian Jonathan Bellman argues that the song was "extremely influential" on Davies' musical peers: "And while much has been made of the Beatles' 'Norwegian Wood' because it was the first pop record to use a sitar, it was recorded well after the Kinks' clearly Indian 'See My Friends' was released."[52] Pete Townshend of the Who was particularly affected by the song: "'See My Friends' was the next time I pricked up my ears and thought, 'God, he's done it again. He's invented something new.'... In a widely quoted statement by Barry Fantoni, 1960s celebrity and friend of the Kinks, the Beatles, and the Who, he recalled that it was also an influence on the Beatles: "I remember it vividly and still think it's a remarkable pop song. I was with the Beatles the evening that they actually sat around listening to it on a gramophone, saying 'You know this guitar thing sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those."
beautiful song
LINK
This post was edited on 4/27/23 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 4/28/23 at 9:59 am to Kafka
I think that was it.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 10:28 am to OWLFAN86
Not on this board.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 5:17 pm to OWLFAN86
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the Kinks are vastly underrated
I couldn't agree more. They've always appealed to me more than the Rolling Stones, for instance. The Who have been my favorite band forever, and I've been negligent in listening to the Kinks too little, and I really don't know why. Their early stuff was certainly better than the early stuff by The Who (mostly). But when the Who hit their stride, for too brief a time, it was all over for competition from other bands, strictly in my subjective opinion. But the Kinks were pretty F'ing great.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 5:34 pm to OWLFAN86
No reason to fight you if I agree! Although popular, they may be underrated as a victim of the competition of the times. 1966-1980 had a ridiculous amount of great U.K.bands hit their peak: Zeppelin, Stones, Rod Stewart and Faces, Jethro Tull, The Who, Yardbirds, Genesis, Sex Pistols, The Clash, ELP, Yes, Mott The Hoople, Bowie, etc. Then came punk in the late seventies and British Ska in the early eighties.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 6:23 pm to Telecaster
quote:
I was briefly in a band with some buddies a long, long time ago. We worked up a cover of She’s Got Everything.
How about the Romantics version
LINK
This post was edited on 4/28/23 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 4/28/23 at 7:55 pm to OWLFAN86
I agree about the Kinks, but why don't I kick your arse anyway?
Posted on 4/29/23 at 8:19 am to Wtodd
quote:
The only English bands I like are: Maiden Priest
Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Animals, Black Sabbath. You need to expand your horizons.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 9:07 am to nealnan
Catch Me Now I'm Falling is a nice gem from the 70's
Posted on 4/29/23 at 10:50 am to Chitter Chatter
A Little Bit of Emotion
Posted on 4/29/23 at 3:45 pm to OWLFAN86
The Kinks were awesome. Just don't tell Kafka what the song "Lola" was about.
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