SHIT HOT BAND INDEED.

get face to face its great

I don't know why I over looked em so long ago.

I always saw them as a pub jukebox band. What with Lola and You really got me, always on rotation at the local tavern.

victoria . victoria is a great tune.

the kinks are the village green preservation society

Ray Davies is a genius.

One of my favourite childhood memories is dancing around the kitchen with my Mama singing along to the Kinks.

your mum rules.

my mum had the single to lola and she had stuck onto the front cover a cutting of the kinks out of the paper, she used to deface all her record covers.

For a long time my favourite band.

Ray Davies is just one of those great pop writers.

Every record up to 71 is essential!

The Kinks
Kinda Kinks
Kink Kontraversy
Face to Face
Something Else by The Kinks
Live at Kelvin Hall
The Kinks are the Village GReen Preservation Society
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Lola Vs Powerman and the Money-go-round Part 1
Percy
Muswell Hillbillies
Everybody's in Showbiz, Everyody's a Star

So tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for yoooouuuu.

I bought this the other day too Phil thanks too thanks to some encouragement from Handshakedrugs and have been wondering why I hadn’t gotten it sooner too!!

Makes me want to go and dance!

let's try that again!

The Kinks

Kinda Kinks

Kink Kontraversy

Face to Face

Something Else by The Kinks

Live at Kelvin Hall

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Lola Vs Powerman and the Money-go-round Part 1

Percy

Muswell Hillbillies

Everybody's in Showbiz, Everyody's a Star

and you can throuw in the Great Lost Kinks Album if you can find it - though kmost of its tracks have turned up on the reissues of vairous records

muswell hillbillies is their most under rated record for mine. VGPS is amazing

What Medman said. Last album of theirs to buy is Muswell Hillbillies. You can't go wrong with anything released between 64 -71. Also check out "Unfinished Business: The Dave Davies Kronikles". Although it doesn't feature "Creeping Jean", there's shitloads of other DD goodies.

oh yes he is...

OH YES HE IS!

Haha...

He's a dedicated follower of fashion!

oh Ubu - you've won my heart again :)

i haven't heard of anyone else who love's Creeping Jean.

An amazing song!!!

one of my faves!

I hve it on some weird Psych comp - so glad to finally see it on a kinks related issue (it is a bonus on the deluxe Village Green Preservation Society)

"What Medman said. Last album of theirs to buy is Muswell Hillbillies"

why do you say that? I personally love this record. Maybe its an acquired taste ease into it thing

overground - as in that's the last good album they did. I love "Muswell Hillbillies" too. Me and a mate did a Muswell Hillbillies related pubcrawl when I lived in London. Went to all the places they used to hang out. I remember sitting outside The Well on Muswell Hill Broadway listening to the album on a tiny walkman, and getting a nod from this old alco staggering past us.

maybe he meant last album in terms of time period i.e don't buy anything released after muswell.

which i will disagree with as I think Everybody's in Showbiz is the last great record.

i fell asleep listening to Arthur or the decline . . . last night

great lp so I'll listen to the rest of it tonight!!

apeman!

and i wish i could be like david watts!

the wikientry for ''waterloo sunset'' is fascinating.

did you know these curiousities?

References in other works:

• The 1987 Bob Geldof song Love Like a Rocket tells of Terry and Julie's romance having gone cold twenty years on. In it, ''the Waterloo sunset won't work for her anymore''.
• ''4 am'', a song written by Mike Barson and Graham McPherson, recorded first by Suggs on his 1995 album The Lone Ranger and then by Madness on the 1999 LP Wonderful, also picks up the story of Terry and Julie some years later.
• John Wesley Harding wrote the song In Paradise which included Terry and Julie. One version of the song also includes the chorus of Waterloo Sunset.
• Indie group The Willows wrote a song about Terry and Julie passing like ships in the night on Wandsworth Common in the early 90s. The song was called ''South Of The River'' and is included on their album English Country Garden (Suddick 1993).
• In 1985 Ray Davies released an album entitled Return to Waterloo, a soundtrack for the movie of the same name. The song ''Return to Waterloo'' and its accompanying video seemed to reference the struggles an aging person has returning to the world of their youth, with the narrator wondering ''Will I get away/will I see it through/On the return to Waterloo.''
• Ray Davies also wrote a collection of short stories called 'Waterloo Sunset'. The Stories revolve around an aged Rock Star called Les Mulligan and a cynical promoter planning his comeback. All Stories are named after Kinks/Ray Davies songs and it is said in the book that Les Mulligan wrote the song ''Waterloo Sunset''.

Keep reading The Thin Kids thread as The Kinks

This could be good:

New Kinks Documentary to Hit DVD This Spring
3/24/2010 By Josiah Hughes

This year is shaping up to be a good one for Kinks fans. First, there was the news that Ray Davies was teaming up with an all-star cast, including Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, to re-record some classic Kinks songs for an upcoming compilation. Then we caught wind of an upcoming Kinks album featuring unreleased archive tracks. Now, we're happy to report that a brand new Kinks documentary will be dropping on DVD.

The doc is called You Really Got Me — The Story of the Kinks, and will be released this spring. The documentary footage includes interviews with both Ray and Dave Davies, along with Mick Avory, among many others. The DVD will also include some rare live footage, spanning from the '60s to the '90s, and includes live concert and television performances.

The DVD will be released on May 18 by MVD Visual.

This year's Glastonbury performance is well worth checking out

Yeah, wow! You are not wrong Godzilla. That's a cracking set, singalongs and all. The dedication of 'Days' to Pete Quaife is very touching.

i just watched waterloo sunset and it was lovely - but ultimately i'm fucking glad i wasn't there, glastonbury looks horrible

The documentary footage includes interviews with both Ray and Dave Davies, along with Mick Avory, among many others.

love the kinks, but do we really need another documentary?

yeah dave, we know you punched holes in your speakers with a pencil to get that sound...

I reckon we do need another kinks doco because I think Julian Temple will do an amazing job of it. Anyone that can make The Clash seem a lot more interesting than they were (see Joe Strummer the Future is Unwritten) is obviously a very talented filmmaker.

yeah dave, we know you punched holes in your speakers with a pencil to get that sound...

they slashed the speakers with a razor.

sorry, mistook speaker puncturing methods with link wray...

'Living on a thin line' is an excellent Kinks song.

Here’s an excellent performance-documentary of The Kinks in concert at the Rainbow Theater in London, 1972. It was shot around the time of their classic album Muswell Hillbillies, and the performance footage was originally shown as part of the BBC’s In Concert series.

What makes this program especially wonderful is the way highlights form the concert have been inter-cut with documentary footage with interviews from the band, vox pops, celebrity fan / film and TV producer, the late Ned Sherrin, together with clips from The Virgin Soldiers, and Ray Davies wandering around the disappearing London haunts of his childhood. Tracks include:

“Till the End of the Day”
“Waterloo Sunset”
“Top of the Pops”
“The Money-go-Round”
“Sunny Afternoon”
“She’s Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina”
“Alcohol”
“Acute Schizophrenia Paranoid Blues”
“You Really Got Me”

watch here

Victoooooooria

OH YES HE IS

Now I must listen to the Kinks.

A Ledgendary Band.

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OH YES HE IS

OH YES HE IS!