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