Howard the Duck

nobody underrates the 60s Kinks - everybody praises that period

now, 70s Kinks - that's underrated - some terrific songs there, even if most albums were patchy

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NEWGUY562

They had some great songs in the 70's (Lola,Apeman,Celluloid Heroes,Sitting in my Hotel) 3 solid albums (Lola versus Powerman,Muswell hilbilly,Everybody's in Show-Biz) but most of the other albums werent A material more like D material :/

Howard the Duck

i like most of the singles from that era

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KrazyKrizic

I just generally like Joe Satriani's upbeat sounds a lot more than Steve Vai's technical, experimental styles. And that's not to mention that Joe Satriani does do his fair share of experimentation with different styles as well...even though some of them turn out to be rather mediocre (Yes; I'm looking at you, Engines of Creation.)

Frownland

Oh well, I tend to lean far more to the experimental end of music (my username being a Captain Beefheart song should be a good hint as to my musical taste). Upbeat music is generally not my flavour, but I love experimental music to no end; Steve Vai--fresh from the cradling arms of Frank Zappa--has a lot of brilliant experimental moments in his music and he edges out Satriani for me because of that. Both are phenomenal guitarists and kick my ass at the instrument, but Vai is far better and less cliched in my opinion. But to each his own, I guess.

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Dvorak

The Kinks were a good band. However it is now seemingly very fashionable to look back in retrospect and suggest they were the "forgotten" band of the 60's and that they were on par with The Beatles, Stones and The Who.

I believe that the general assessment of the band in the 60's/70's was spot on - A good band with a talented songwriter, but clearly a class below the big 3. Perhaps the band suffered from the fact that it had no real counterweight to Ray?

I am not a great fan of Face to Face or Arthur. In fact Arthur (with the exception of Victoria) is rubbish in my view. Of all the Kinks albums I have heard, Village Green is the best overall and just about keeps itself together. However, the first half is far superior to the second. Lola is solid enough, but outside the title track is nothing special.

*trots into hiding*

NEWGUY562

they aren't on the same level as the beatles imo nobody is and nobody will be but the kinks are very slept on they are'nt mentioned with the greats of the 60's (beatles,stones,who,beach boys,pink floyd)...at first i only liked them because of you really got me..but as i listened to their music more and more i grew fond of their sophisticated british sound ..

GrapevineFires

Queen. The most overrated pile of novelty pap I've ever heard.

Burning Down

Well Freddie Mercury still has a better voice than anybody putting out music today.