3.
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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969 -- 53 Points (16 Votes, 5 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
2.
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Something Else By The Kinks, 1967 -- 67 Points (19 Votes, 5 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe schoolboys in disgrace took the top spot
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Quick question: What's up with the blue Something Else? I've been posting the Castle/Sanctuary covers (non-deluxe) when applicable, but my copy of their edition of the album is gray.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I used to like Muswell more than I do now, but this is a solid top 5.
I think the blue Something Elses are just cruddy scans.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote in the albums poll, but would have voted "Arthur" for #1 (also let me be the first to say "Lola vs Powerman" is too low).
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp I've only ever seen gray Something Elses. First US Kinks album artwork not to be fucked with by Reprise, though.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
1.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a8/4c/0c5581b0c8a037ecd0b0c110.L._AA300_.jpg
Think Visual, 1986 -- lol Points (haha Votes, yuckyuck #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
har har
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
yuckyuck #1s ftw
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if a single track from that album even got a vote from anyone. The band's nadir? Possibly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
No really,
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rWPP0EAEL._SS400_.jpg
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, 1968 -- 73 Points (20 Votes, 7 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
xp "Working at the Factory" might've made my top...50.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, this was up as a customer image on the amazon Think Visual page:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b6/a0/66bc810ae7a0d30be5a31210.L.jpg
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
heh yukyuk
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. That's a real good song, although it gets tiring listening to Ray whine about the music industry.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I remember liking "The Video Shop" too, but thinking it was twice as long as it needed to be.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
I think other people must enjoy the Kinks differently from me, because "Village Green" is easily my least favorite of the 1966-1971 Kinks albums. It sounds like de-clawed Kinks to me.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
random Kinks catalog question: how many songs has Ray Davies written about/referencing his sister emigrating to Australia. 10? 20?
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Now the "Most Hated"
5 (Three-Way Tie)
http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/T/The%20Kinks/A%20Gallon%20of%20Gas/A%20Gallon%20of%20Gas.jpg
"A Gallon of Gas"Low Budget, 1979
http://www.demotivationalposters.org/image/demotivational-poster/small/1009/destroyer-paranoia-poster-day-cubby-kinks-tribute-demotivational-poster-1284127934.jpg
"Destroyer"Give The People What They Want, 1981
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"Somebody Stole My Car"Phobia, 1993
Each 3 Points (2 Votes)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for "Destroyer" -- i will try not to troll this thread too much but in the course of putting together my ballot and listening to a bunch of songs (I'm mostly familiar with them from the Ultimate Kinks 2xCD comp) i realized that i kinda sorta hate this band, or at least RD's voice/sense of humor.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
4.
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"Harry Rag"Something Else By The Kinks, 19676 Points (3 Votes, 1 #1)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Lazy_Lester.jpg/220px-Lazy_Lester.jpg
"Naggin' Woman"Kinda Kinks, 19656 Points (2 Votes, 2 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Harry Rag is so weird. never heard this euphemism for weed anywhere else.
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, That's Lazy Lester, who did the original. (xpost)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.wax.fm/releases/1572018/kinks-come-dancing-1310276.jpeg
"Come Dancing"State of Confusion, 19837 Points (3 Votes, 2 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Weird. Had no idea that song was hated by Kinks fans at all. Always thought it was widely seen as a resounding return to form.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
well, 3 votes. and one of 'em is me, who just came out as a non-fan.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.45cat.com/the-kinks-a-rock-n-roll-fantasy-1978-s.jpg
"Black Messiah"Misfits, 19789 Points (3 Votes, 3 #1's)
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I was 8 when Come Dancing came out, but I thought it was great if not a little confusing thanks to the video, which I watched over and over and over while we were on vacation because I had MTV for the first time in my short life. Had nfi what a Pally was, that's for sure.
I didn't know anyone hated it either.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
some people need to listen to 'art lover'
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
And that's it for today.
Will be back to begin the "Top 50" Rollout tomorrow.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
haha, no, I wasn't saying "Grr, you're not a fan if you don't like this." I'm just surprised is all.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
idg hating "Come Dancing", at least not enough to give it a hate vote.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Come Dancing" is great. video with the old cleaning ladies dancing with mops = A+
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for hated songs because I don't hate any enough to put my loathing on record.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i remember first hearing it while watching a block of random videos on MTV2 or VH1 Classic like 15 years ago and just being horrified by it
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I DO get hating "Destroyer"...can totally understand that impulse. I don't though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
People, what is wrong with Come Dancing? It's a great song. How can it get more hate than Rock n' Roll Cities?
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's way more famous obviously, for one
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for any hated tracks. There's a whole gob of shit on things like Soap Opera or Think Visual, but I don't guess I honestly hate any of it. Even the more famous tracks that can be overplayed are still underplayed by virtue of them being Kinks songs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I mainly voted for hated tracks because of "Black Messiah." Has Ray ever been called out on that song's racism?
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say 95% of Ray's whole repertoire is sung from a character pov, so "Black Messiah" is a slippery one.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I hate "Harry Rag", even tried to sell Something Else once because of it before a friend kindly intervened
― Euler, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doesn't Harry Rag = Fag = Cigarette?
― rob, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
yah I always thought it was about cigs, lyrics definitely imply hardcore addiction
"Village Green" is easily my least favorite of the 1966-1971 Kinks albums. It sounds like de-clawed Kinks to me.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:16 (Yesterday)
I agree with this challop.
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
ha! i put come dancing on my best-tracks ballot! oh well.
i voted for arthur as the best kinks album.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
also tbqh i'm pretty sure ray davies is a racist.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
he's an asshole, anyway. he just got the holy spirit for a few years there.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Harry Rag" almost made my top 20.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, I did not know abt these old Dave tracks
― sleeve, Monday, 12 August 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
just realized the last track on the “hidden treasures” comp is a spider john koerner cover !
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 August 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
also, does anybody know if the tracks collected here are available elsewhere, in print and preferably legally ?
i think i used to have the mp3s somewhere but not anymore and i wouldn’t mind investing in a physical disc
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 August 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
link:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Kinks-Neue-Revue-The-Great-Lost-Album/release/4713595
Seems like a bunch of those have been spread out as bonus tracks on expanded/deluxe editions.
Several are also on The Great Lost Kinks Album (Kink Kronicles sequel the Ray had pulled after the initial pressing).
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/The-Kinks-The-Great-Lost-Kinks-Album/master/293040
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
it’s mostly the demo stuff (particularly “tell me now so i’ll know”) that i’m after
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 August 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Ok, based on the fine-to-good Something Else and the so-far-incredible Arthur, there's a clear moment when this band became great - TKATVGPS.
― imago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
if you haven't heard Face To Face, I think that's where the greatness begins fwiw
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
I won't leave it out! Arthur is just next-level though for all sorts of reasons
― imago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
esp "Shangri-La" :)
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
yes sir, no sir is a personal fave from arthuri will also stan for sleepwalker but i know it's not esp popular
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
good to know, i have that one but I don't think I've re-listened in a long time
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
It’s fun and funny (Life on the Road), has at least one jam (Mr Big), and the whole thing isn’t great but the songs I love are among my fave Kinks songs. Sleepwalker, Jukebox Music come to mind. It’s a fun rock album. I keep it in my car bc it’s perfect for listening to while driving.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
I basically spent an entire summer as a teenager listening to VGPS on repeat and playing old Zelda games
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
I thought Village Green was the one album I could never wear out, though I have, kinda. Still the only album I've regularly listened to in every decade of my life. (save 0-9).
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I’m with UMS on Some Mother’s Son. Just devastating and flawless the way he moves back and forth through the three different viewpoints/time periods of the song (mother of young child, soldier, parents of fallen soldier).
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
the bridge of shangri-la is monumental
― imago, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
imago - you’ve heard “See My Friends” and “Autumn Almanac” right? There are so many singles comps and bonus track editions now that I’m not sure what you find where.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
This thread revive has got me revisiting the peak-era albums over the past week, right now I'm thinking Arthur is their best.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
that seems pretty clear to me too
autumn almanac obviously mega-classic and long-beknownst to me, dunno why I didn't check out the albums sooner
― imago, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
timely message in arthur concerning the british tendency to genuflect before wealth and power even as it destroys you. quite dispiriting that he ended up accepting a knighthood
― imago, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
New mix of "Australia" from the reissue sounding pretty good this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FKOzZwODO8
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday Ray Davies! Long live THE KINKSTheir music always puts me in a good mood, feels like home :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 21 June 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
"Some Mother’s Son" missed the top 50!? I figured that that was widely beloved.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
A good countdown, the only song in the top 50 that I dislike is "Dedicated Follower of Fashion".
Favourite deep cut not included: "Supersonic Rocketship" or "He's Evil".Favourite Dave song: "Lincoln County".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Chatting with a buddy tonight about all things Kinks on Ray's bday, & he contends Ray is UK's best songwriter, & I do believe I may agree with him. Arthur sounding great tonight. They should have never trashed those Holiday Inns. America missed out. But maybe that's what made em great.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
I absolutely love "Destroyer" what the fuck was wrong with ILX in 2012?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
i've got red hot kinks fever. i really love this live cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkUwSiJ7VQ
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
this would be my ballot, or something like this:
till the end of the daypicture bookdead end streetdaysi go to sleepi need youwaterloo sunsetsession manstrangerstired of waiting for youbig skydeath of a clownyou shouldn't be sadparty linestarstruckdavid wattsyou really got methe world keeps going rounddo you remember walter?victoriaall day and all of the nightanimal farmi'm not like everybody elsewhen i see that girl of mineshe's got everything20th century manshangri-lamr. pleasantring the bellsget back in line
i have no idea on the albums. i do think that i favor arthur/lola less than a lot of others, and i think their earlier garage stuff is wonderful even when they're on autopilot. ray davies sounded cool as hell on some of those songs.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
Nice to see your appreciation for some of the more obscure tracks on The Kinks Kontroversy.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
yeah i love that album so much! it flows really well. songs like "what's in store for me" are kind of the "autopilot" mode i was talking about - it would fit in really well on the Beatles Help, I think from the same year, which is high praise imo. i'm not sure who's influencing who at that point, in '65. but i think it's impressive for the kinks to hang with the beatles on a kind of deep cut like that, from the same year, because at the point the beatles had played a billion raw garage shows in germany/liverpool etc and they were probably tight as hell. the kinks seem to just kind of arrive and immediately sound like an absolute unit. underrated drumming, in the pocket/ringo style
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
Plus they had like half an hour to record their albums in Pye's second rate studios.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link