"I go to BlackPOLL for my holidays,"-- ILM Artist Poll #17 -- The Kinks RESULTS THREAD

yeah, just saw that it was more than $100! maybe it'll come down. looks niiiiiice.

hmmmm is that ... is that a thing?

Is it weird that I read that in a Dave Chappelle voice?

yes.

Way cheaper here: http://www.deepdiscount.com/cd/kinks-at-the-bbc-import/

hot damn tamale.

when are we doing The Who. Did I miss it?

The Who will be #24, and will be run by Tarfumes.

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?

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.

Here's Dave Davies taking the ice bucket challenge as nominated by Mark Hammill.

Wait, what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRZVISDppU

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

Utterly baffled by this band, early fuzz notwithstanding. Cultural barrier may be a factor.

Utterly baffled by imago liking the Kinks tbh.

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 😀

it's not our fault, look cardiacs even covered "susannah's still alive" in 1988, what else did you need?

Pssst imago the Kinks are fantastic

Also there are like a hundred ILM Kinks threads

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

picked up a nice copy of Arthur been listening a lot... lyrics to Some Mother's Son are so brutal, what a songwriter


Two soldiers fighting in a trench
One soldier glances up to see the sun
And dreams of games he played when he was young
And then his friend calls out his name
It stops his dream and as he turns his head
A second later he is dead
Some mother's son lies in a field
Back home they put his picture in a frame
But all dead soldiers look the same
While all the parents stand and wait
To meet their children coming home from school
Some mother's son is lying dead

Wow. Makes me think of the Kipling poem "The Beginner"

On the first hour of my first day
In the front trench I fell
(Children in boxes at a play
Stand up to watch it well.)

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

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

whoa, I did not know abt these old Dave tracks

just realized the last track on the “hidden treasures” comp is a spider john koerner cover !

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

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).

https://www.discogs.com/The-Kinks-The-Great-Lost-Kinks-Album/master/293040

it’s mostly the demo stuff (particularly “tell me now so i’ll know”) that i’m after

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.

if you haven't heard Face To Face, I think that's where the greatness begins fwiw

I won't leave it out! Arthur is just next-level though for all sorts of reasons

esp "Shangri-La" :)

yes sir, no sir is a personal fave from arthur
i will also stan for sleepwalker but i know it's not esp popular

good to know, i have that one but I don't think I've re-listened in a long time

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.

I basically spent an entire summer as a teenager listening to VGPS on repeat and playing old Zelda games

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).

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).

the bridge of shangri-la is monumental

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.

This thread revive has got me revisiting the peak-era albums over the past week, right now I'm thinking Arthur is their best.

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

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

New mix of "Australia" from the reissue sounding pretty good this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FKOzZwODO8

Happy birthday Ray Davies! Long live THE KINKS
Their music always puts me in a good mood, feels like home :)