The Friday Canon: THE KINKS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

These lads from Muswell Hill invented heavy metal! Sort of. Out of 21 UK Top 40 hits, you get to pick your favourite SEVEN....

[Poll #1028678]

Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry: (link)
1. Virginia Plain
2. Love Is The Drug
3. More Than This
4. Street Life
5. Dance Away
6. Let's Stick Together (Let's Work Together)
7. All I Want Is You
=8. Avalon
=8. Pyjamarama
10. Jealous Guy

OMD: (link)
1. Enola Gay
=2. Joan Of Arc
=2. Souvenir
4. Tesla Girls
=5. Maid Of Orleans (The Waltz Joan Of Arc)
=5. Messages
7. Genetic Engineering
8. So In Love
=9. (Forever) Live And Die
=9. Locomotion

Comments

[koganbot]

Did "Death Of A Clown" never chart? Or was the single under Dave Davies name?

Heavy Metal invention would go the Yardbirds, whom the Kinks were dedicatedly aping in many ways and who really were a lot heavier than the Kinks.

"Autumn Almanac" (what a weird choice for a single) does go all toothless and mumbly - I realize that that's deliberate, but still don't like it - but "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" is hilarious, this giant twisting silly putty of a song. And as Chuck said, in stuff like that and "Sunny Afternoon" - bright, goofy, nasty - the Kinks were inventing a whole new way to hate.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Death of a Clown and the bizarre Susannah's Still Alive ("she sleeps with the covers down hoping that somebody creeps in") were both Dave Davies, though they often appear on Kinks compliations.

[koganbot]

"Death Of A Clown" was also on Something Else, a Kinks album proper (at least in the U.S.). "Mindless Child Of Motherhood" (!!!) is actually my favorite of the Dave songs. No, make that "I'm Not Like Everybody Else." Or "Love Me Till The Sun Shines." Or....

Something Else

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

...is a very good album indeed, and being bookended by Face to Face and Village Green Preservation Society only serves to show what a roll they were on artistically, even as their sales apparently dropped away. Funny Face is on it too, isn't it? Dave must have been in Ray's good books that year.

Re: Something Else

[koganbot]

Yeah, "Funny Face," "Death Of A Clown," and "Love Me Till The Sun Shines."

I'm waiting for Dwight Yoakum or some other honky-tonk guy to cover "Harry Rag."

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

So many favorites not on here! Would have ticked "Sunny Afternoon" in a flash. Really like "Autumn Almanac," though probably for the same reasons koganbot hates it.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

OMG I just overlooked it. Vote switched.