.....;Posted on 03/29/2014 8:10:57 PM PDT by virgil283
"The Kinks an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Dave Davies and Ray Davies in 1963. The Kinks, who rose to fame during the mid-1960s and were part of the British Invasion of the US, are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock groups of the era....."
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I’ve had this Kinks album for decades. Never dreamed it would so accurately predict the Obamunists....
“We’re tired of hearing promises we know they’ll never keep”
“I’m your man. I’ll work out a five years plan...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE_tNHWtspU
See post 21
Thank you.
Pull out your old Jethro Tull albums.
“Too old to Rock and Roll”
Too young to Die.
It’s about aging liberal elitist Professors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uUh1xsL14
bttt!
I’ll go back to my first post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD14kdgQEe8
” I was born in a welfare state
ruled by bureaucracy, controlled by civil servants
and people,,,,,,,,dressed in grey,,,,,,,”
“I’ve got no privacy, got no Liberty
because the 20th century people,,,,,,
took it all, away from me”
If you are conservative you must watch this.
Ray Davies 20th Century Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD14kdgQEe8 SaveFrom.net
Yes!
I’ve been a HUGE Kinks fan since “You Really Got Me” was released.
The album “Lola VS Moneyman and the Power-Go-Round” is a GREAT album as is “Mudswell Hillbillies”.
My FAVORITE Kinks tune (done live BTW):
The Kinks - Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues, 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgG-Ilvd8GE
That’s a keeper.
Well done !!!!!
Old school and loving it.
The Kinks invented the modern pop/rock formula. Everyone copied them, including the Beatles. I place the Kinks in the same orbit as The Who, The Rolling Stones, and the Fab Four. The Kinks music is a fresh today as it was 50 years ago.
Some time ago I was in an online poker game and one of the players was “David Watts”
I sent him a message “I wish I could be like you”
He nearly lost it.
Said that I was the first to get it.
I saw them on that tour where it was recorded. Great show.
Muswell Hillbillys is one of their top LPs.
Dave Davies had a stroke some time back, don't know the extent of his recovery. I have a copy of him doing a live show at The Bottom Line before that. Very good.
Let’s not forget “Tired of Waiting”!
CA....
Oh, these songs were all from my rock and roll formative years and bring back such memories, good ones. I love the golden era of rock music, primarily the mid-sixties through the mid-eighties. Such great music.
I remember Pete Townsend opining once that Ray Davies should be the UK's Poet Laureate.
While most bands sounded best in studio.
The Kinks, “One for the Road” is by far the best live album ever produced.
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Agreed. My favorite cut from that album, far better than the studio version. Never mind the homemade video, the track is great.
The Kinks - “Cliches of the World (B Movie)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysksi4DXfhw
The first concert I ever attended was The Kinks at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1970. For me, the best song by them is “Waterloo Sunset.” I just love that song.
And this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzrUqAtUcpU
I saw them in Boston circa 1970. They came out drunk and quickly got much drunker. They spilled so much beer on the stage that Dave Davies got shocked and went to the hospital.
Epochal performance! I would have liked to have seen them play but this way better.
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