God Save the Kinks

Mr. Shankly · 2010-05-27T18:59:26-04:00

I've been listening to a lot of Kinks lately, and I decided to start an appreciation thread for this criminally underappreciated band. So when one talks about the greatest bands of the British Invasion, the same names always come up: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and sometimes The Who. The Kinks are often left off that list or relegated to second tier status. In my opinion, this is very wrong. The Kinks are every bit as important and influential as The Beatles or the Stones. Over the course of their career they went from raw garage rock to music hall and a lighter folk influenced pop to a brief fling with country rock to a vaudeville influence to arena rock. Their golden period from about 1966-1970 is almost and sometimes every bit the equal of The Beatles. The Kinks had one of rock n roll's all-time greatest songwriters in Ray Davies, especially in the lyric department. Lennon / McCartney were great tunesmiths, but they couldn't write lyrics as great as Ray Davies and often Davies was both a great lyricist and great tunesmith, so he had the whole package. They made three (maybe four) absolutely classic albums in the 60's, wrote what has to be one the top five ballads ever written, Waterloo Sunset, and influenced both punk and Brit pop in a big way. Yet they don't seem to get their due. The casual music fan knows probably two, maybe three songs of theirs (You Really Got Me, Lola, and possibly All Day and All of the Night). So who else here thinks the Kinks are tragically underrated both on this site and by music fans in general? If you agree, why do you think they're not more well known? Or if you prefer, just tell me what you think of The Kinks. Favorite albums,songs? Post You tube clips if you want. God save the Kinks!

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"Something Else" is heaven. The Kinks are also one of my favorite bands. I'd never say they are better than The Beatles, they are not Probably the same with the Rolling Stones adn The Who, but I still like more the Kinks than those last two ones. Even thought after "Lola versus Powerman" the quality of their albums was lower, still there are LOTS of song post 70's that absolutely rock and most of the poeple don't know and probably will never know. I'm still waiting for a stereo boxset from them (mono boxset was already released so hopefully stereo one is close). Love them, Hail the kinks! 👏

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