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

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17. "Do You Remember Walter?"
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
286 Points (12 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/cA5bcZeGqwE

wow, "Walter" at only 17. kinda shocked!

We remember him, but not as fondly as he would like to think we do.

"golden age" period stuff is getting the shaft imho

well there are only so many spots

I think vgps prob had a lot of vote splitting

Don't Worry, Euler:

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16. "See My Friends"
Kinkdom, 1965
305 Points (11 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/ZCSzxkbMri8
Mimed on TV: http://youtu.be/S2Al7u0cKRk
Mimed on "Shindig!": http://youtu.be/HueiKoc1jmU

I have to say, Kinkdom is doing pretty well for a long OOP cash-in album.

fabulous; the song that opened my mind to the genius of this band. They were soooo ahead of the curve, so many times; still can't believe this song came out in 65.

their first gay subtext song...?

is it? ha, i have no idea what that song is about. but i love it. voted it pretty high I think. mission of burma did a cool version of this back in the 80s. can't find it on youtube tho.

no one left to love
'cept my friends

richard thompson's recent-ish version is pretty ace too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7EdYT7_eU
though i wish there was a fairport version, i can kind of hear it in my head.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CiE_xz40zik/St00qZyzOpI/AAAAAAAABC0/cfQaqJNwsAg/s400/Kinks_helmfrid-sofa3.jpg

15. "The Village Green Preservation Society"
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
321 Points (14 Votes, 1 #1)

The Track: http://youtu.be/zL9tyzE83nc
Live on TV in '73: http://youtu.be/e3nvJ2hmaUI

I like that Richard Thompson version! Thanks tyler.

VGPS just squeaked onto my ballot.

yeah it's pretty nice, part of the 1000 Years of Music set I think. xp

Geez, I was sure this would finish in the top ten. What popular songs from Village Green are left?

I don't think any others will make it

I'll close today w/the one that gave us a thread title:

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14. "Autumn Almanac"
Non-LP Single, 1967/The Kink Kronikles, 1972
321 Points (12 Votes, 2 #1's)

Mimed on Top of The Pops: http://youtu.be/p_u0gn1I8xQ

Baker's dozen on Monday to close!

I'm hoping for Big Sky.

Autumn Almanac is so great. the chord structure is stunningly weird and complex, but it sounds so effortlessly catchy.

really marveled at its construction when I sat down to learn to play it

for reasons lost in the mists of time, my kids always sing this as My Automatic Cat

What weird results. There are about 8 ringers left, but as for the rest, I have no idea.

Catching up...

Always liked the lyrics on "VGPS" more than the music.

"See My Friends" was my #2 for no other reason than I find it seductive as hell. Maybe it's the gay subtext.

"Autumn Almanac" surprised me most in relistening. Must have just blended in with stuff like "Mr. Pleasant" and "Wonderboy" too much for me in the past, but considering it on its own, I finally realized exactly how good a single it was. Had it number four when I thought originally that it would be in my bottom ten.

for reasons lost in the mists of time, my kids always sing this as My Automatic Cat

I always thought Big Sky was the one people would vote for from VGPS, so curious to see if it's upcoming.

If Mr. Pleasant finishes ahead of Sweet Lady Genevieve and Animal Farm I will barf.

I'm getting the distinct impression everyone likes different things about that record. There's at least a quarter of it I have no use for, to be honest, and I don't really rate it any higher than Something Else or Face to Face, which have similar hit-to-miss ratios. For some reason VGPS seems to hang together a bit more stylistically and thematically than the other two... my favorite songs on it aside from the title track are All of My Friends Were There and Sitting by the Riverside. Starstruck, Picture Book, Walter are all aces too

big sky was my highest VGPS vote.

totally baffled at how any of u could dislike "Shangri-La", but then again I dislike lotsa Kinks tunes that others seem to rate like "Sunny Afternoon", so to each their own.

This might be odd, but I tend to link Arthur with Who Sell Out, in the sense that they both feature a pretty incredible string of great songs, in very different styles, all leading up to (possibly) the band's best single right around the middle of the album. Have to say that going from Shangri-La to Mr. Churchill Says always seems kind of jarring, though I don't know what else they could have done. I Can See For Miles into Atlas/Can't Reach You is a much better transition.

i think my #1 isn't going to place. :-(

Autumn Almanac and See My Friends were my #1 and #2, and in large part that's due to seeing him play them live on recent tours. They seem to have more resonance and poignancy when sung by 67 year-old Ray.

It's been hard to keep up with this at work. Very glad to see "Nothin' in This World...", "See My Friends," and "Love Me Till the Sun Shines." There's a chance everything on my list (of only 10) may place, although there's one where I have no idea at all if it's considered a significant song.

"See My Friends" is another song about Rene Davies' death.

found a nice copy of UK Jive that was recommended upthread. i agree it's some very good Kinks i'd never heard of before. thx for the rec whoever that was!

John Lennon cited Wonderboy as his favourite Kinks song. When I first heard them as a teenager, I only liked the rockers. The subtlety of his 'light' songs has crept up on me through the years.

xp That was probably me, but I know there's one other person on ilx who reps for UK Jive (unfortunately, can't remember who...) One song from it made my ballot ("War Is Over").

it pleases me that people like UK jive because that means that some of the copies out there are being appreciated. so i respect that in a utilitarian sense. even though the album is horrid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiosGC7RKc
This is so awesome, if it dosen't make top 10 I'm Lord Kitchener's valet

I'm also a UK Jive partisan. hi fives, tarfumes and outdoor miner!

Woo-hoo! I thought that was you, JFever!

Shorn of its arena-rock trappings, this is a really beautiful song:
http://youtu.be/xpbFPA19Axg
(although the version on UK Jive is still nice in a we're-taking-back-the-metal-we-invented kind of way)

I saw them on the UK Jive tour and they were amazing.

This is so awesome, if it dosen't make top 10 I'm Lord Kitchener's valet

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hello Lord Kitchener's valet...

22. "Till The End of The Day"
The Kink Kontroversy, 1965
271 Points (14 Votes)

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oh wait I was confused

lol.

Let me be clear: THE REVEALS CONTINUE ON MONDAY.

I'll probably do a recap before then so people who haven't been able to keep up can catch up.