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

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 :)

"Some Mother’s Son" missed the top 50!? I figured that that was widely beloved.

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".

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.

I absolutely love "Destroyer" what the fuck was wrong with ILX in 2012?

i've got red hot kinks fever. i really love this live cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkUwSiJ7VQ

this would be my ballot, or something like this:

till the end of the day
picture book
dead end street
days
i go to sleep
i need you
waterloo sunset
session man
strangers
tired of waiting for you
big sky
death of a clown
you shouldn't be sad
party line
starstruck
david watts
you really got me
the world keeps going round
do you remember walter?
victoria
all day and all of the night
animal farm
i'm not like everybody else
when i see that girl of mine
she's got everything
20th century man
shangri-la
mr. pleasant
ring the bells
get 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.

Nice to see your appreciation for some of the more obscure tracks on The Kinks Kontroversy.

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

Plus they had like half an hour to record their albums in Pye's second rate studios.