Thanks C Grisso. My ballot:
1. Waterloo Sunset (1)2. Days (5)3. The Village Green Preservation Society (15)4. See My Friends (16)5. Autumn Almanac (14)6. Victoria (2)7. You Really Got Me (3)8. Better Things (31)9. The Way Love Used to Be (39)10. Tired of Waiting For You (7)11. Art Lover (DNP)12. Dead End Street (12)13. Sunny Afternoon (8)14. Shangri-La (4)15. Celluloid Heroes (29)16. Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy (DNP)17. Do You Remember Walter? (17)18. David Watts (9)19. Who’ll Be the Next in Line (DNP)20. Fancy (34)
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
In the now honourable tradition..
1. "Victoria" (2)2. "All Day And All Of The Night"(10)3. "Dead End Street"(12)4. "You Really Got Me"(3)5. "Mr. Churchill Says"6. "Party Line"(36)7. "See My Friends"(16)8. "Susannah's Still Alive"9. "Dandy"10. "Wonderboy"11. "The Village Green Preservation Society"(15)12. "Where Have All The Good Times Gone"(43)13. "Sunny Afternoon"(8)14. "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion"(37)15. "Apeman"(46)16. "Days"(5)17. "Waterloo Sunset"(1)18. "Tired Of Waiting For You"(7)19. "Picture Book"(21)20. "Death Of A Clown"(35)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
Go on then, "Susannah's Still Alive" was 51, wasn't it?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 09:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fjr0y4I%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
hmmmm is that ... is that a thing?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
apparently! Sadly, an overpriced import to the States.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
5 cds and a dvd. http://www.thekinks.info/the-kinks-at-the-bbc/
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, just saw that it was more than $100! maybe it'll come down. looks niiiiiice.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Is it weird that I read that in a Dave Chappelle voice?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
yes.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Way cheaper here: http://www.deepdiscount.com/cd/kinks-at-the-bbc-import/
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
hot damn tamale.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
when are we doing The Who. Did I miss it?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
The Who will be #24, and will be run by Tarfumes.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just seen the timing thread, and notice The Cure and Kate Bush are upcoming. Must find out how to vote, some spreadsheet malarkey iirc. Is there an idiot's guide?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw on the Kinks fb page that Rosie Davies, sister of Ray and Dave and inspiration for many of the former's songs, has passed away.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Here's Dave Davies taking the ice bucket challenge as nominated by Mark Hammill.
Wait, what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRZVISDppU
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Why didn't any of you tell me about The Kinks? Gonna have to listen to the first ten albums and then get back to you about these results, but let's just say that I'm enjoying them quite a lot. My initiation, courtesy tt, is Lola vs Powerman, and you all seem to think it's not even one of their best, but my god it's great
― imago, Sunday, 11 August 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
Utterly baffled by this band, early fuzz notwithstanding. Cultural barrier may be a factor.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
Utterly baffled by imago liking the Kinks tbh.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
I liked my ballot so much I made a playlist out of it and have listened to it countless times. I even tried to play all the songs a few times, to varying degrees of success. Always good to think about the Kinks 😀
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
it's not our fault, look cardiacs even covered "susannah's still alive" in 1988, what else did you need?
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 11 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Pssst imago the Kinks are fantastic
Also there are like a hundred ILM Kinks threads
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 11 August 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Face to Face through Muswell is pretty much all essential, and get the expanded editions so you don't miss all the non-album sides.
― o. nate, Sunday, 11 August 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Haven't looked at these results yet but if Ray Davies has written more than two or three better songs than Do You Remember Walter then I'll hardly believe it, that is one of the best things I have ever heard
― imago, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
Wistful songs of lost opportunity, middling regret, and unsatisfied complacency? I'd put that one in the middle of a dozen great songs in that mode.
― bendy, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Kink Kronicles is one of the best compilations ever made and it's downright essential even if you've got all the studio albums since half of it is non-album/single tracks
― frogbs, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
The big 50th anniversary reissue box set of Arthur is coming out in a couple months. Theres a few different super deluxe versions of it with tons of extras and bonus discs and toys, but none of the bonus material really tempts me that much, my vinyl copy still sounds great and endless alternate mono mixes don't really excite me. But I'll probably still get whatever the cheapest CD version is that still comes with the book-length liner notes -I know the broad strokes behind the context & making of the album but I'd love to dig deeper into it.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
Which reminds me, imago, don't sleep on the unreleased Dave Davies album, which is pretty easy to find in various versions, amazing stuff there!
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
picked up a nice copy of Arthur been listening a lot... lyrics to Some Mother's Son are so brutal, what a songwriterTwo soldiers fighting in a trenchOne soldier glances up to see the sunAnd dreams of games he played when he was youngAnd then his friend calls out his nameIt stops his dream and as he turns his headA second later he is deadSome mother's son lies in a fieldBack home they put his picture in a frameBut all dead soldiers look the sameWhile all the parents stand and waitTo meet their children coming home from schoolSome mother's son is lying dead
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
Wow. Makes me think of the Kipling poem "The Beginner"
On the first hour of my first dayIn the front trench I fell(Children in boxes at a playStand up to watch it well.)
― Lily Dale, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
For such a 'Lost Album' there's been loads of Official reissues of the Dave stuff. Your best bet is a single disc called Hidden Treasures that collects the most relevant stuff (and then some) with superb annotation.
"Creeping Jean" is one of the great lost Kinks songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07i8jUpFxg
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 August 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah the Hidden Treasures disc is the one I've got, definitely recommend it, seems like the definitive version of that group of tracks.
"Creeping Jean" is an all-time track for me, would have been very high in my ballot if I'd voted here
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 August 2019 20:20 (four 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