I have Face to Face. Which I found to be quite decent. I do always have a soft spot for the Kinks.
Why Ray Davies isn't treated like Paul Weller is, I dont know.

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I prefer that to the original

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I love the Kinks in the 1960's because:
- they could lose it and get heavy
- they were pastoral-yearning English brilliance, and I am currently residing in the English countryside
- Ray Davies' vignettes of the disaffected and rejected are brilliant
- they arguably had the single largest influence on the US garage/psych movement, which was jolly good
- their influence eventually consummated in the Blur album 'Modern Life Is Rubbish', a sentiment I thoroughly agree with and the group's best album

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I could understand some music fans, those steeped in 'modern' sounds, not connecting with the 'twee-ness', but if you are cool and enjoy the 60's in all it's all it's vast creativity and diversity then you have to at least check out the Kinks. right? I was driving around once with a friend, slammed on some classic Heavy Nuggets, and the best she could do was complain about how bad the quality was...

*3 threads merged.

As good as they are...still grossly under rated.

oh, and they had a song called Phenomenal Cat. I mean come on!!

Elaborate...

and, your right, no band is better than the Beatles. The Stones did and album called Between the Buttons which was basically a rip-off of the Kinks and all the quirky, innovative pop of the mid-60's. It's hit and miss but definetly worth checking out.

I happen to think The Kinks are better than the Beatles, but I'm a big Kinks fan and am outrageously biased.

i can definitely respect that...favourite album? I've heard people say they were purely a singles band, this is nonsense:
'Something Else By the Kinks'
'Village Green Preservation Society' (god save mrs.mop, vaudeville and variety)
'Face to Face'
'Arthur' is where I stopped following their saga.

From the fraction of Kinks records I own:
The Village Green Preservation Society > Somthing Else > Kinks Kontroversy > Face To Face

I feel gheey seeing they have a neverending discography
i would appreciated suggestions on what to get next!

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