This is why The Kinks were banned from the United States

Far Out ^ | 2/28/20 | Joe Traysom

[DallasBiff]

The Kinks found themselves on the receiving end of a four-year ban from touring in the States sanctioned by the American Federation of Musicians. The banning severely hampered the band’s career across the pond as once they were allowed to tour again tastes had drastically changed

[BraveMan]

Do It Again!

[Sawdring]

Living on a thin line is their best work.

[llevrok]

And who can forget the song that Big Mike and Barry had their first dance to:
L-O-L-A Lola.

[sushiman]

My fave Kinks albums all have Peter Quaife on bass : Face To Face , Something Else and Village Green Preservation Society . That 1972-1975 period when they had the horns and female singers was horrible for the most part but I did buy all the albums up until State Of Confusion . Haven’t listened to anything post VGPS in many many years . Saw them three times : once in 1972 in CT and they sucked . This was during the Preservation period . Ray was drunk and the rest of the band were very sloppy . Saw them on the One For The Road tour at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island in 79 and in Tokyo in 1991 and they were fantastic both times .

[ChildOfThe60s]

Schoolboys in Disgrace is a little offbeat (not for the Kinks LOL) but it is a good LP.

I remember buying Lola when it came it. Who but Ray Davies would right a song like Apeman. I still sing it to myself when it gets in my head.

The One For the Road show was very good.

[nicollo]

Saw the kinks in early 80s in a small venue in Europe. Great show, but if you want front row w/ Ray singing, bring a raincoat.

[sushiman]

They were even better in Tokyo in 91 .

[Clutch Martin]

“You are in a unique company of a few who don’t like Beatles”

I don’t hate The Beatles, I have listened to Beatle songs because they were (here, there, and) everywhere.. I just never became invested in the Beatles.

I did like their Get Back release... I watched the globally televised “Hey Jude” the over-the-top hype was crazy. Those mop tops The Fab Four, The Lads... Beatlemania, psychedelica, Sergeant Peppers, the working class hero BS... The Rutles was humorous. But stating that the whole scene was contrived is an understatement. They were entertainers and heavily branded, it was all a show and people hung on every word that came out of their mouths... it was weird to me and I am not alone in that thought.

[musicman]

IMHO, The Kinks could release this one again right now...(one of my favorites!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFNn85XRadY

The Kinks - Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues

[musicman]

(Ping to #49...!!)

[dfwgator]

Dave Davies wrote Living On A Thin Line.

[imabadboy99]

Degenerate stuff, yet even “conservatives” on here will praise it.

This stuff warps people’s minds and ‘normalizes’ filth.

[imabadboy99]

Beatles were demonic and led many people astray.

[BraveMan]

Ha!

I have Schizophrenia, and so do I . . .

[PLMerite]

As soon as I saw a thread about the Kinks, I was going to have to mention this song. You did a better job. :)

[Redcitizen]

Weird Al Yankovic made a parody of Lola called Yoda. He’s a hoot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLQUbqpRdc&pp=ygUreW9kYSB3ZWlyZCBhbCB5YW5rb3ZpYyBvZmZpY2lhbCBtdXNpYyB2aWRlbw%3D%3D

[Clutch Martin]

“Beatles were demonic and led many people astray.”

Well there is that... I’ve always thought that growing up in Seattle Washington was very nice before the Beatles showed up. And that’s just a point in time but before that it was just a little fishing village in a logging town that had an aircraft Factory close by. And then the Beatles showed up. We moved to SE Asia but I always “stayed in touch” and things got weird back there.

I think if you look further back than the Beatles or jazz or any other genre of modern life that had a negative effect on the population in general, one could take it all the way back to Marconi and the invention of wireless communications. Perhaps even to the days of telegraph, or the railroad, or the bicycle.

It’s not the invention or the genre that is demonic it’s that demons choose to use these as vehicles to affect large swaths of the highly impressionistic human population.

[higgmeister]

As soon as I saw a thread about the Kinks, I was going to have to mention this song. You did a better job. :)

Thanks.   It is a poignant song that really hits home.   Especially that he chose to portray his sister living a fulfilling life with daughters of her own, who waits for her daughters to come home at night.   And then he states:

But if I asked her, I wonder if she would

Come dancing
Come on, sister, have yourself a ball
Don't be afraid to come dancing
It's only natural

[octex]

TWO Thumbs UP! I was in my twenties then and didn’t see the appeal of the Beatles. Have never understood the craze. They had a few songs I liked, but most were blaaa.

I grew up as a R&B lover and transitioned into some R&R. Then, later, into some jazz (Ahmed Jamal, Brubeck).