The Official Kinks Thread (favorite song, single, album, beatles, discography)

dog · 10-02-2005, 06:36 AM

that songs great, lola is great also.

cardboard adolescent · 07-15-2006, 12:21 AM

I really like Something Else by the Kinks.

(and I like basically every song on there, so they don't strike me that much as a singles band)

jackhammer · 12-12-2007, 02:18 PM

Just listening to Everybody's Gonna Be Happy from the High fidelity soundtrack and it reminded me how damn good the Kinks are but I only a few tracks here and there. I need to rectify this ASAP.

cardboard adolescent · 12-12-2007, 02:43 PM

I think Something Else and Village Green are the greatest pop albums ever recorded.

Friday · 12-13-2007, 12:21 PM

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.

pheurton · 12-13-2007, 12:22 PM

waterloo sunset cover

I prefer that to the original

Molecules · 02-10-2008, 04:39 AM

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

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...

right-track · 02-10-2008, 05:08 AM

*3 threads merged.

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

Molecules · 02-10-2008, 05:09 AM

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

right-track · 02-10-2008, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Molecules

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

Elaborate...

10-02-2005, 06:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
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12-12-2007, 02:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Just listening to Everybody's Gonna Be Happy from the High fidelity soundtrack and it reminded me how damn good the Kinks are but I only a few tracks here and there. I need to rectify this ASAP. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

12-13-2007, 12:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
Friday Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dear Old Blighty Posts: 253	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. __________________ www.myspace.com/ch3ssclub

02-10-2008, 04:39 AM	#7 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	the Kinks 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 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... __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

02-10-2008, 05:09 AM	#9 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	oh, and they had a song called Phenomenal Cat. I mean come on!! __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

07-15-2006, 12:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,511	I really like Something Else by the Kinks. (and I like basically every song on there, so they don't strike me that much as a singles band)

12-12-2007, 02:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,511	I think Something Else and Village Green are the greatest pop albums ever recorded.

12-13-2007, 12:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
pheurton n/a Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 990	waterloo sunset cover I prefer that to the original

02-10-2008, 05:08 AM	#8 (permalink)
right-track Atchin' Akai Join Date: May 2005 Location: Unamerica Posts: 8,770	*3 threads merged. As good as they are...still grossly under rated.