the Kinks are vastly underrated

the kinks invented metal

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I am too much of a Well Respected Man for that.

Great kick drum logo too:

The underrated albums of an underrated band: Everybody's In Show-biz, Preservation Act I & II. I feel like people are starting to get the brilliance of Face To Face through Lola, but they are so much more than that.

I saw the Kinks at UNO in 1984 and it was a solid show.
They only played NOLA 5x's and never the same venue:

1984 - UNO
1981 - Saenger
1979 - Municipal Aud.
1978 - Warehouse
1976 - McAllister Aud. Tulane Campus

Where Have All the Good Times Gone a Kinks original and later covered by VH and Bowie.

Sitting On My Sofa

This was the b-side for “Dedicated Follower Of Fashion”. Killer.

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 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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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.