saturn Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 I think they are sometimes overlooked for how many great songs they did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpkY0P_JGs&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namvet Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Always loved the Kinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 I always keep a killer Kinks playlist on my iPod. I love the pop genius of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). The twangier Muswell Hillbillies was a great album too. And I like the live album One For the Road too. Almost forgot the Low Budget album... good stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTC4FNlxik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 I accidentally gave you a minus and It seems I can't take it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexri Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Hell yeah. "You really got me" was one of the first pop songs ever to use distortion! Apparently that song was also a hugely important influence on Ozzy, as its generally considered to be the first metal song ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon S. Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqbc7X2NQY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 I've always liked The Kinks. Kind of a hard-to-figure-out band. They were rock, folk, mainstream, kind of taboo, bad boys, the-boy-next-store, and all of the above (and good at all of them). Pretty cool in my view. When LOLA first came out, it took me 2-3 months to understand it...lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted December 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 I thought this was Canned Heat when I first heard it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TraFxjPyDns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 I always rather liked the Kinks, but frankly I always considered them more in line with the Beatle sort of evolutionary music hall version of material. As for the first to use distortion... Link Wray was there in '58. And again as I've said before frankly I think a lotta the distortion thing simply is a mode of emulation of sax sounds. In fact, in retrospect I wonder sometimes the degree to which sound analysis might show some interesting commonalities between jazz fiddle and Strat "blues" tones. Anyway... Kinks were fine. But there were some incredible blending of styles by a lotta bands at the time kinda taking a cue from the Beatles in terms of not having every song sound like a variation of every other song. <grin> I guess I'm also perhaps a bit closer to Wray's "stick it in your ear" concept of rock complete to Camels, leather jackets and such than the more ... gentle ... later stuff. It's almost as though it's a version of the "rumble" of the 1950s complete to a switchblade concealed in the zippered cuff of a bike jacket. It ignores the intellectual and is culturally reminiscent of the Lakota warrior daring enemies to strike him before he can count coup. Oops... is an antique like me supposed to confess that? <chortle> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymeedc Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Davies brothers were a big influence on my early playing/writing. One of my all time favorite bands. I bought their first album when it first came out, & stuck with them until the "Soap Opera" era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57classic Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Always loved the Kinks. They were in the first wave of the British Invasion. They and the Animals stick in my mind as 2 really important bands from that era that never got just recognition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 The Kinks were a big part of the British Invasion. Their hard sound helped to sculpt the hard rock a couple of years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymeedc Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 They and the Animals stick in my mind as 2 really important bands from that era that never got just recognition. Eric Burdon..... one of rock/blues/soul's most underrated vocalists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 The Missus gave me The Kinks Greatest Hits 1970-1986 for Christmas and a couple of years ago gave me the complete box sets of the RCA Years and The Artista Years.I have all their 60s hits in vinyl so now all I have to do is to get them in CD format and I'll have the complete Kinks Discography in CD format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Much appreciation for the Kinks You Really Got Me Tired of Waiting Days Waterloo Sunset Lola....etc etc....Great Stuff !! V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJriOurLLzI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_QkUVZGPc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Days My all-time favourite Kinks song Happy New Year Many more friendly, fun, forum, frolics...... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymeedc Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Days My all-time favourite Kinks song Great choice from their finest period (IMHO), the Face To Face through Arthur (last album with all of the original members) time frame, including all of those great English singles (Days being among the best) of the period (some younger players may not realize that for years, when Ray was writing his best material, & the band still had that original jell, between Sunny Afternoon & Lola the Kinks had almost no presence on the American scene, while hugely popular in England). Beginning with Face to Face, their next albums were all flops in America, quickly selling for 99 cents at discount outlets, which is where I picked up more than one replacement copy at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Yes ray.... The Kinks are often described as quintessentially English...even inspiring the more recent 'Britpop' genre, headed up by Blur and Oasis IMO they were a highly eloquent meld of hard rocking innovative pop music And charming poetic story telling....Waterloo Sunset etc.... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2kFrGluKs I know it's not the definition of The Kinks, but this song was part of the soundtrack of my youth. It always brought a smile to my face and proved that the Kinks could be just as New Wave as they were Hard Rock or Pop. Even Folk at times. The Kinks are with there with The Stones, The Beatles, and The Who as far as Rock and Roll History is concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymeedc Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 .....a couple more of their "English" singles for your early New Year's morning listening pleasure..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8Bk__ENKU&list=FLyrqNIhNDXWZ3ybnN7HL_zQ&index=3&feature=plpp_video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymeedc Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 ..... a couple of rockers from the same era, including a lead vocal from Dave on the live cut..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8yVC6VCoE4&list=FLyrqNIhNDXWZ3ybnN7HL_zQ&index=2&feature=plpp_video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDLnTqT_b28&list=FLyrqNIhNDXWZ3ybnN7HL_zQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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