Kinks OPX

Who'll Be the Next in Line
Death of a Clown
Don't You Fret
Something Better Beginning
Holiday
You're Looking Fine
Party Line
Apeman
Better Things
Victoria

"This Is Where I Belong"
"Little Miss Queen Of Darkness"
"Phenomenal Cat"
"Wicked Annabella"
"Animal Farm"
"Young And Innocent Days"
"Autumn Almanyac"
"No Return"
"Love Me Til The Sun Shines"
"Big Sky"

when it comes to the Kinks, ten's not enough

--Maybe not the best, but the first that came to mind.

Tired of Waiting for You
Ring the Bells
Too Much on My Mind
Most Exclusive Residence for Sale
David Watts
Waterloo Sunset
Do You Remember Walter?
People Take Pictures of Each Other
Days
Victoria
Young and Innocent Days
Lola
Muswell Hillbilly

waterloo sunset
oklahoma, usa
autumn almanac
david watts
jukebox music
see my friends
afternoon tea
starstruck
do you remember, walter?
celluloid heroes
rosie won't you please come home
fancy
uncle son

Picture Book
Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Big Sky
Wicked Annabella
King Kong
Wonderboy
You Really Got Me (this would be higher if not for that crappy live version VH1 Classic keeps playing from the '80s)
David Watts

1. Waterloo Sunset
2. Afternoon Tea
3. Dead End Street
4. Sunny Afternoon
5. Two Sisters
6. Village Green
7. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
8. Stop Your Sobbing
9. Harry Rag
10.Starstruck

"Tired of Waiting for You"
"Dead End Street"
"Mr. Pleasant"
"Sunny Afternoon"
"Waterloo Sunset"
"Autumn Almanac"
"Susannah's Still Alive" (I had to include one Dave Davies song)
"Big Sky"
"Victoria" (although I sort of prefer the version on The Storyteller)
"Shangri-La"

plus "Rock & Roll Fantasy" (Seventies Kinks doesn't deserve to be part of my top 10)

This leaves off lots of stuff that I derive immense pleasure/catharis from listening to (e.g. "Holiday in Waikiki", "Big Black Smoke", "See My Friends", "Death of a Clown") as well as stuff that I thought was great at one time but have simply heard too many times to enjoy as much anymore (e.g. "Lola", "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "Apeman"), so it's pretty much worthless, but it's a list.

I really need to listen to the albums more; when at home I'll have access to "Village Green", "Percy" and "Arthur" at least. Sounds like "Face to Face" and "Something Else" are very much worth checking out...?

Look, how about I do ten songs from the 60s then ten songs from after the 60s? How about that?

OK, 60s list.

People take pictures of each other
Love me 'til the sun shines
Shangri-la
This is where I belong
Animal farm
Mindless child of motherhood
I need you
Too much on my mind
Big sky
Do you remember Walter?

(Yes I do like "Village Green". A lot)

70s onwards list

No more looking back
A long way from home
Oklahoma USA
A face in the crowd
Scattered
Only a dream
Full moon
Good day
Get back in line
20th Century Man

(Hmm, that was a struggle)

Yes, very much so, IMO.

Act Nice and Gentle
This Man He Weeps Tonight
Mr. Pleasant
King Kong
Creeping Jean
Plastic Man
Lincoln County
Polly
Mindness Child of Motherhood
She's Got Everything
Berkeley Mews
Hold My Hand
There Is No Life Without Love

Listening to this compilation just now has convinced me of the utter folly of trying to pick only ten Kinks songs...

Autumn Almanac
Act Nice And Gentle
Afternoon Tea
End Of The Season
Waterloo Sunset
Village Green
Drivin
Shangri La
This Time Tomorrow
Skin And Bone
The Way Love Used To Be
Moments

Oops, that's 12. Take out Skin And Bone and Moments.

Waterloo Sunset
Do You Remember Walter
Drivin'
Shangri-La
Autumn, uh, thing
This Time Tomorrow
Sitting in the Midday Sun
Nobody Gives (you heard)
Full Moon
War is Over

Shit this is hard. I had to chop all of Muswell Hillbillies because no single track stands out.

I tried and failed, but I know that King Kong, Australia, Wicked Annabella and Shangri-La would be on there. As for the rest, too many options.

just because my sons are now discussing their favourite kinks song:

Shangri-La
Waterloo Sunset
Dead End Street
Victoria
Sunny Afternoon
You Really Got Me
Wonder Boy
Till the End of The Day
Days
We are the Village Green Preservation Society

Village Green Preservation Society
Autumn Almanac
Victoria
Better Things
Till the End of the Day
Do You Remember Walter
Stop Your Sobbing
Shangri La
Susannah's Still Alive
Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Reflecting current preferences:

Ducks On The Wall
Money Talks
Ordinary People
Demolition
He's Evil
Australia
A Face In The Crowd
Daylight
One of the Survivors
Flash's Confession

Any Kinks fan who hasn't heard Ducks on the Wall is to be pitied...

thanks for the recommendation, I was always afraid of "Soap Opera" but I can probably find it for a couple of bucks.

The more I play it, the more I realize how hysterically funny (on purpose) it is.

"Where Have All the Good Times Gone?"
"Too Much on My Mind"
"Tired of Waiting for You"
"Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl"
"Love Me Till the Sun Shines"
"See My Friends"
"Lola"
"Afternoon Tea"
"Stop Your Sobbing"
"Party Line"

More or less in order...Amazing top 10, but I'd still rank them behind the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Who (I know it's not all that unusual to argue otherwise). Ditto what swoods wrote way upthread re Rushmore.

Am I the only one in here who loves '(Wish I could fly like) Superman'?

I have to admit I have little interest in most Kinks material from after the "Arthur" album. Yep, already on "Lola Vs. Powerman...." I felt they were starting to lose it a bit.

At this point, seems like they took a dip after TKATVGPS, then rebounded for Preservation through Schoolboys, then tanked again until Low Budget. But I keep extending thier glory period. Maybe eventually it'll contain every album they did.

Schoolboys took me the longest to love, but seriously it's insanely great. If you stop listening to the 50's doo-wop stuff before RD starts to fuck with it, you'll never know...

How is this not considered one of their best? Just boggles the mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYFIm4y8F5o

And this may actually be the best live Kinks video I've ever seen:

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

Those songs just don't sound like The Kinks to me. They sound like some American rock band with Ray Davies on vocals. Long gone is archetypically English kitchen sink music hall approach that was musically typical of their 1965-69 style.

Lazy Old Sun is one of my favourite Kinks songs. Have a soft spot for Harry Rag too. Apeman is an all-time favourite song too, depsite slightly quasi-racist undertones.

is there a good book about the kinks? i see a few in my library system

he could be so corny in his tone and his phrasing when he wanted to, and he often did want to. there are moments in that live version of "celluloid heroes" ("don't step on bela lugosi/because he's liable to turn and bite) where i could swear i'm listening to adam sandler.

at its heart, "celluloid heroes" is the overdone, underthought american version of "the village green preservation society."

hugs and kisses to everyone on this thread who has mentioned "rosie won't you please come home"

was it a big hit in the US? I don't feel like it's very well-known here in Britain.

Yes, I'd never heard this song until I heard this album, and then it was a relief to hear a memorable tune having had to sit through the likes of "Hot Potatoes".

i finally bought—and listened to—"everybody’s in showbiz." this seems pretty transparently to be the point where the kinks, or at least ray davies, jumps the shark.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, June 13, 2016 1:32 PM (2 days ago)

Ray attempted suicide shortly after the release of this record when his wife left with the kids. I don't think the Kinks were ever the same without Rasa and it took Ray about 10 years to return to form (abandoning their awkward stadium rock period), writing about his sister's generation and nostalgia for the Fortis Green/Muswell Hill/North London of his youth.

too hard.

too much on my mind
sunny afternoon
waterloo sunset
dead end street
you really got me
father christmas
lola
victoria
set me free
starstruck

No More Looking Back
Tired of Waiting For You
Two Sisters
Catch Me Now I’m Falling
Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
Lola
Days
Fancy
I’m Not Like Everybody Else
Do It Again

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/how-important-was-rasa-davies-to-the-kinks.174341/

Must...read...that Johnny Rogan bio of Ray.

Are there any good Kinks documentaries?

i thought about doing part of this Kinks walk when i get to London, but only as a detour from Marx's grave

http://london.kastoffkinks.co.uk/html/the_great_north_london_kinks_t.html

I'm far from a Kinks completist, but one go to track I don't think I've seen mentioned: All God's Children.

challops obviously but KINKS > BEATLES > STONES > THE WHO > JAMES BROWN > DYLAN/BAND > ZOMBIES > DOORS > NEIL/STEPHEN/CROSBY/BYRDS/GRAM > JOHNNY CASH '60s OPX rock hierarchy

KINKS = UK CREDENCE

You Really Got Me
All Day and All of the Night
Death of a Clown
Harry Rag
Waterloo Sunset
Rosy Won't You Please Come Home
Sunny Afternoon
Picture Book
Victoria
Arthur

A Kinks OBX never really goes out of style...

1. Shangri-La
2. Dead End Street
3. I Need You
4. Where Have All The Good Times Gone
5. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
6. Dandy
7. Victoria
8. Gotta Get The First Plane Home
9. I Gotta Move
10. She's Got Everything

Animal Farm
Monica
Wicked Annabella
Sunny Afternoom
Strangers
Powerman
Shangri-la
Get Back In Line
Two Sisters
Do You Remember Walter?

Waterloo Sunset
Oklahoma U.S.A.
Lola
Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur
She's Got Everything
Days
Mr. Shoemaker's Daughter
This is Where I Belong
Susannah's Still Alive

Guess it's Ray solo, rather than Kinks, but Imaginary Man is an astonishing song, up there with his greatest work imo

I had a dream that I was walking around at night in a foreign city (it might have been Montreal I'm not sure) when I heard coming out of a corner bar the sound of a throng singing along to "Autumn Almanac". I had to check that out. By the time I could make my way in through the crowd "Set Me Free" had begun to play with everyone in the place singing their lungs out. There were no karaoke screens or anything showing lyrics. All the people evidently just knew them, although many were surprisingly young. Some were standing, some sitting on stacked beer cases, most were holding a beer and couldn't have looked happier to be there.

I asked the bartender what was going on. (By then "So Mystifying" was blasting away.) He told me the bar was an all Kinks all the timesingalong. It had started a few years before with a general oldies format on Mondays only. Soon everyone was requesting more Kinks and less Beatles, less Motown, etc. Then nothing but Kinks. Then Tuesdays were added and eventually every day of the week.

Anyway, he counted down for me the bar's Top 10 most popular singalongs:

10. Dead End Street
9. Too Much on My Mind
8. Afternoon Tea
7. Something Better Beginning
6. Victoria
5. Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
4. Sunny Afternoon
3. Lola
2. Dedicated Follower of Fashion
1. (of course) Alcohol

Waterloo Sunset
Picture Book
Victoria
Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home?
Sunny Afternoon
Tired of Waiting for You
I’m Not Like Everybody Else
The Village Green Preservation Society
Have a Cuppa Tea
Complicated Life

I'm far from a Kinks completist, but one go to track I don't think I've seen mentioned: All God's Children.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, March 14, 2018 2:33 PM (one year ago)

God's Children is one of my personal favorites!! Top 5 at least. I love that song so much. The lyrics, the melody, everything. And he's got no right to turn us into machines...<3

I should have put "Fancy" on my POX.

IT must be this time of the year because "Fancy" just came on and I immediately had to check to see if it was on my ballot. deep shame on me, unforgivable miss.

Here's one just from the Arista years:

1. Moving Pictures
2. Property
3. Living On A Thin Line
4. Art Lover
5. Better Things
6. Long Distance
7. Misfits
8. Permanent Waves
9. Sleepwalker
10. Juke Box Music

sorry for daily mail but I thought this was sweet

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/26/01/37268018-9088237-image-a-3_1608947109066.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9088237/Kinks-brothers-ditch-natty-threads-dressed-Christmas-walk.html

Great photo.

Crazy.

still have trouble telling them apart!

What lager are they drinking?

Don’t know the brand, but it’s gluten free. Dave not too happy at the intrusion.

My bloody overcoat looks nice it’s got great shoulders and it was expensive and my brother brought it for me@last Christmas and we were drinking gluten free beer -why can’t the paparazi leave us alone for 5 minutes so we can catch up and have a beer https://t.co/Cc4JMj9Afg

— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) December 26, 2020

lol are the paparazzi really out hounding the Davies bros? Camped outside Ray's door? This pic seems more like a happy accident for rando paparrazi in the course of other work

Yes, exactly.

maybe some innocent wishful thinking

I don't think you have to try too hard to get a photo of Ray Davies, he's not exactly one for the reclusive rock star lifestyle, from what I've heard

forgot he was "sir ray" now

The Kinks

announce The Journey,

a two-part special anniversary anthology release

The Journey - Part 1

2CD, 2LP, Digital & HD Digital

Worldwide release March 24th, 2023

The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British rock groups, celebrate their 60th Anniversary in 2023. Formed in 1963 in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies with their friend Pete Quaife, and joined by Mick Avory in early 1964, the band quickly established themselves as one of the epoch-defining groups of the 60s, with their impact still being felt around the world today.

The stats speak for themselves: The Kinks have sold over 50 million records worldwide and have been streamed over a billion times; they have achieved five US Top 10 singles, nine US Top 40 albums, seventeen UK Top 20 singles and five UK Top 10 albums, with four albums certified Gold. Among numerous honors, they have received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Service To British Music and have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame. Multi-award winning, legendary frontman Sir Ray Davies is widely recognized as one of the greatest British songwriters of all time.

The Kinks 60 campaign will be a two-year-long celebration of their illustrious musical journey career, confirming their place as one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time. As a key part of the campaign, and to mark this milestone, a career-defining anthology, The Journey, will be released on BMG in two parts, with The Journey - Part 1 released on 24 March 2023.

The songs on The Journey - Part 1 (1964-1975) have been handpicked for the first

time by Ray, Dave and Mick, curated according to themes inspired by the trials

and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963. Featuring hits such as “You Really Got Me,” “Waterloo Sunset,” “All Day And All Of The Night,” “Celluloid Heroes,” “Supersonic Rocket Ship,” “Dead End Street,” and “Death Of A Clown” The Journey - Part 1 follows recently remastered 50th anniversary deluxe editions of The Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Versus Powerman Part 1, Muswell Hillbillies and Everybody's In Show-Biz. All tracks have been lovingly remastered from the original audio sources.

"Ask yourself the question, is this journey really necessary?.......Yes!” Ray Davies muses on The Journey. Dave Davies continues, “I’m delighted with what I think is an inspiring selection of timeless and magical Kinks music.”

The Journey - Part 1 will be released on 2CD, 2LP, Digital and HD Digital albums. The physical formats contain a booklet with band photos and personal track-by-track notes from Ray, Mick, and Dave, sharing their memories of the time these tracks were recorded and weaving them into the Kinks’ incredible story.

Details of the The Journey - Part 2 will follow later this year.

A host of global events and activities will be launching throughout 2023 & 2024 to mark the band’s 60th, with more to be announced in the coming months.

RELEASE FORMATS:

2LP

Side 1

Songs about becoming a man, the search for adventure, finding an identity and a girl:



1. You Really Got Me (UK#1, 1964)

2. All Day And All Of The Night (UK#2, 1964)

3. It's All Right (1964)

4. Who'll Be The Next In Line (1965)

5. Tired Of Waiting For You (UK#1, 1965)

6. She's Got Everything (1968)

7. Just Can't Go To Sleep (1964)

8. Stop Your Sobbing (1964)

9. Wait Till The Summer Comes Along (1965)

10. So Long (1965)

Side 2

Songs of ambition achieved, bitter taste of success, loss of friends, the past comes back and bites you in the backside:

1. Dead End Street (UK#5, 1966)

2. Schooldays (1975)

3. The Hard Way (1975)

4. Mindless Child Of Motherhood (1969)

5. Supersonic Rocket Ship (UK#2, 1972)

6. I'm In Disgrace (1975)

7. Do You Remember Walter? (1968)

Side 3

Days and nights of a lost soul, songs of regret and reflection of happier times:

1. Too Much On My Mind (1966)

2. Nothin’ In The World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl (1965)

3. Days (UK#2, 1968)

4. Where Have All The Good Times Gone (1965)

5. Strangers (1970)

6. It’s Too Late (1965)

7. Sitting In The Midday Sun (1973)

Side 4

A new start, a new love, but have you really changed? Still haunted by the quest and the girl:

1. Waterloo Sunset (UK#2, 1967)

2. No More Looking Back (1975)

3. Death Of A Clown (UK#3, 1967)

4. Celluloid Heroes (1972)

5. Act Nice And Gentle (1967)

6. This Is Where I Belong (1967)

2CD

CD1

Songs about becoming a man, the search for adventure, finding an identity and a girl:



1. You Really Got Me (UK#1, 1964)

2. All Day And All Of The Night (UK#2, 1964)

3. It's All Right (1964)

4. Who'll Be The Next In Line (1965)

5. Tired Of Waiting For You (UK#1, 1965)

6. Dandy (Germany#1, 1966)

7. She's Got Everything (1968)

8. Just Can't Go To Sleep (1964)

9. Stop Your Sobbing (1964)

10. Wait Till The Summer Comes Along (1965)

11. So Long (1965)

12. I'm Not Like Everybody Else (1966)

Songs of ambition achieved, bitter taste of success, loss of friends, the past comes back and bites you in the backside:

13. Dead End Street (UK#5, 1966)

14. Wonderboy (1968)

15. Schooldays (1975)

16. The Hard Way (1975)

17. Mindless Child Of Motherhood (1969)

18. Supersonic Rocket Ship (UK#2, 1972)

19. I'm In Disgrace (1975)

20. Do You Remember Walter? (1968)

CD2

Days and nights of a lost soul, songs of regret and reflection of happier times:

1. Too Much On My Mind (1966)

2. Nothin’ In The World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl (1965)

3. Days (UK#2, 1968)

4. Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains (1968)

5. Where Have All The Good Times Gone (1965)

6. Strangers (1970)

7. It’s Too Late (1965)

8. Sitting In The Midday Sun (1973)

A new start, a new love, but have you really changed? Still haunted by the quest and the girl:

9. Waterloo Sunset (UK#2, 1967)

10. Australia (1969)

11. No More Looking Back (1975)

12. Death Of A Clown (UK#3, 1967)

13. Celluloid Heroes (1972)

14. Act Nice And Gentle (1967)

15. This Is Where I Belong (1967)

16. Shangri-La (1969)

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Oh, on the Kinks official side, they are knocking out the Superdeluxe boxes - Muswell/Everybody for £50, VillGreen £65 and suchlike..

... except they seem to have run out of stock.

Still taking orders though.

It seems I'm getting mine on Monday.

Still available....

Is anybody else a bit worried about Ray Davies? I don't want to pry but he's been very quiet since his last album five years ago and doesn't seem to turn up for anything anymore.

He's been fairly involved with the reissues (the bonus disc of him and Dave chatting over a cuppa in the Lola box is pretty priceless.) I've always thought he seemed the type to just pack in in, creatively, at some point and just sit down by the riverside.

Didn't know about that bonus disc, will have to track it down!
A few years ago I heard a depressing account about him hanging around an old haunt but I imagine that's nothing new.

I'm always on the look out for him if ever I'm in the Muswell Hill/Highgate area.

... in pubs usually at some point.

Wasn't some sort of Kinks reunion in the works? That might have been five years ago now, so maybe not anymore.

There were a handful of good songs on Our Country / Americana Act II, enough to make it a decent envoi if he doesn't release anymore.

I think the reunion was first properly mooted in 2014, so nearly a decade ago. Ray did make a surprise appearance at a Dave Davies gig in London in 2015, quite tentatively singing “You Really Got Me”. I think Dave has an issue with Mick Avory; according to Avory, the reunion is now off because Ray and Dave didn’t agree on how best to do it.

Bizarrely there hasn't been a Kinks podcast of note until now. Loving this:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thoroughly-kinky-a-kinks-podcast/id1729244527

How are people feeling about the podcast so far? I've listened all the posted episodes and have learned a few little things from the older host. It's funny how they use the younger host as a naif with no prior knowledge of the band, although he can demonstrate riffs and things on the guitar. I'll be sticking with this.

i tried to listen to the first episode. it sounds like a zoom call that somebody recorded on a cell phone. no thanks.

heck yeah dave !!

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