In praise of The Kinks

[Fab Foodie]

I saw them at Glastonbury in the early-ish 90s, they were really good. Bought a later album of theirs 'Low Budget', on the strength of a Fab Foodie recommendation, which is excellent. I like 'em, good rock and roll band.

Glad you liked-it 'A little bit of Emotion' is for me without doubt one of the best lyrics ever written about the state of the human condition....
Actually, Low-Budget is a pretty good album for our current times!

The Kinks and Ray Davis are most excellent. There was a good 'Imagine' documentary on recently filmed by Julien Temple centered on Ray Davis, good stuff, but never got into the animosity between him and his brother.
R2 however did a very good documentary a couple weeks ago whiched touched on this area and is well worth a listen if available as a podcast.

As well as the stonking tunes, there's some great wordsmithery, like 'Autumn Almanac' for example.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've always had a strange liking for his Ape Man (''I'm an ape man/I'm an ape ape man/I'm an ape man'' is actually about as deep as it gets, and it's probably just Lola - ''Lola/lo-lo-lo-la-Lola, etc '' - with different lyrics...), but because I've spent far too long covering other people's songs, Sunny Afternoon is one which is always a real pleasure to play, and its descending bass lines remind me of that other classic, Waterloo Sunset.

 

[Over The Hill]

He was on with Johnny Walker a week or two ago. Brill programme.

Ray Davies noted that they did not "do as they were told" and went against the system which may be why they were never up there in many peoples eyes but their work has stood the test of time so well.

I liked them as a kid but they were just there at the time and I re-discovered them about 20 years ago.

I get a bit fed up with people putting the Beatles up in a league of their own. While good they should not be placed in a league above the Kinks.

 

[Intelligenthamster]

Deptford- I'm with you on Apeman, too- it just has a happy tune which cheers me up.

Sunny Afternoon- there is one particular riff in it- starts with the "Help me, help me, help me sail away.." refrain, which for some bizarre reason reminds me of a children's programme theme tune - I think it was Paddington Bear.

It doesn't put me off the song though!

 

[darth vadar]

Best of the Kinks £3 Asda