Your favorite Kinks album is? (sorry if previously explored)

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What Kinks album do you prefer the most? I'll get things started with Kink Kontroversy cd reissue. Commitment has neve come easy for me so I'm sure later on I'll be telling someone my favorite Kinks release is Something Else. You?

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

We Are the Village Green Preservation Society

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What Ben said. But man, Face to Face is a real close second.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

near impossible for me to pick from their prime era -- i do have a special fondness for Muswell Hillbillies, though, especially the song "Oklahoma USA" (i think that's right).

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(that's right).

Kronikles for me (if it counts).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to say Victoria.
Every song is ace on that one. The highs might be better on Village Green (Monica, Village Green) but there are some bad songs (Last of the steam powered trains)
Plus, I think the concept holds together pretty well from the beautiful tragedy of "some mother's son" to the comic "she bought a hat like princess marina"
Has anyone seen the movie? Or was it not even made?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

In order: Something Else, Face To Face, Village Green, and Arthur. But what's really groovy is putting them all on shuffle in my CD changer so the tracks form themselves into a '60's Kinks mega-album.

I like their later work as well, but whole albums don't tend to cohere for me the way these four do.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

kontroversey, kinda, something else & face to face. arthur's good. village green seems sad to me, like the final chapter of a book I really liked reading or something, it's good and everything but it kind of feels like there's nowhere to go from there whereas all of the other eariler build on one another.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, sorry I meant Arthur, not Victoria

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a great way of putting it Fritz. I kinda feel that way about Sweetheart of the Rodeo, too.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

WATVGPS.

Favorite single is Waterloo Sunset, though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Of the four I've heard (Something Else, Village Green, Arthur, and Muswell Hillbillies), I like Something Else the best.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially the CD reissue, with non-album singles like "Autumn Almanac" tacked on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe this is going to be an unpopular choice, but I'm going with Give the People What they Want, as I mistook "Destroyer" for Punk when I first heard it as a young lad, and "Yo Yo", "Better Things" and "Art Lover" are all fantastic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Village Green......every song, every time. Then Something else. Then Kinda Kinks.

― David Nolan (David N.), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Village Green, then Face to Face, then Arthur, then Something Else

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Something Else." I like the "Something Else"-to-"Lola" period the best, but there's some great stuff on some of those early, pre-"Face to Face" albums, too. For later albums, I'm partial to "Sleepwalker," or some of it at least.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Something Else and Village Green - flip a coin...although i have a big soft spot for Muswell Hillbillies.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Village Green.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Kontroversy's getting the shaft here!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Something Else" wins for me, although the second half of the 60s were generally a great period for them as far as albums go.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tally:

WATVGPS: 6
Something Else: 4
Kinks Kontroversy: 3
Muswell Hillbillies: 1
Kinks Kronikles: 1
Arthur: 1
Give The People...: 1

M@tt, I didn't include a vote as you were sitting on the fence b/t WATVGPS and SE.

― metfigga (metfigga), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll quit being a sissy (haha probably not truth be told) and say Something Else.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

tie between Face to Face and Something Else.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Village Green" every time, Their earlier albums have moments of ineffable genius but they are far too patchy, the later albums have genius moments too but 70s stodge replaces 60s elegance

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 14 February 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur by a kilometer.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Saturday, 14 February 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Something Else By the Kinks followed by The Kinks Live At Kelvin Hall

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 14 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur, even though Face to Face is more fun to listen to. Village Green Preservation Society would be number three on my list, followed by Kinda Kinks(especially with the bonus tracks on the reissue) and Something Else. I'm surprised that so many people voted for The Kink Kontroversy; the only tracks I really like on that one are the singles, and I have them on other disks anyway.

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm gonna have to go with arthur as well. "shangri la" is my favorite kinks song (sometimes my favorite song, period) and there's not a dull moment on the whole thing (that really long jam at the end of "australia" excepted).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

If compilations count, their Greatest Hits - mid sixties - with You Relly Got Me, All Day And All Of The Night, So Tired Of Waiting For You, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, A Well Respected Man etc. was about my first music purchase ever. It's been played to death.
My favorite "real" album is Muswell Hillbillies. Seems strange to say, but I don't mind "Misfits" either.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 15 February 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

village green

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Sunday, 15 February 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Face to Face.

― CL, Monday, 16 February 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Another vote for Give the People... I just got really into it when I was a kid. Alex didn't even mention "Around the Dial," my favorite song on it.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Village Green and Muswell Hillbillies

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 February 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinda surprised I don't think anyone has mentioned my favorite Misfits. My first Kinks cd and I really think their last really good one.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 16 February 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the first album, "Well Respected Man" and a Hits one.

So, the first album.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Around the Dial" is excellent, yeah! Forgot about that one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Village Green

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur beats Village Green by an inch, for me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

Lola Vs Powerman & The Moneygoround.

― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Thursday, 26 September 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

Kinks Kronikles, one of the alltime compilations.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 September 2013 03:06 (twelve years ago)

yeah when it's all said and done i think Lola might be my favorite

― |citation needed| (will), Friday, 27 September 2013 03:14 (twelve years ago)

Kinks Kronikles, one of the alltime compilations.

Yeah, kind of amazing how good this is.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 September 2013 03:45 (twelve years ago)

that was the album that turned me from casual fan to lifelong fan. it's beyond fantastic, with bonus points on top of that for john mendelsohn's liner notes.

and there are days when i think the followup compilation, the great lost kinks album, is even better, though mendelsohn's liners to that one don't reach the same heights.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 04:24 (twelve years ago)

my favorite song is on face to face.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

"Party Line"?

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 September 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

the song right after that!

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 04:38 (twelve years ago)

"Holiday in Waikiki"?

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 September 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

Oh, I see. Sorry, it's been a while.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 September 2013 04:46 (twelve years ago)

the line "your room's clean and no one's in it" has haunted me since the first time i heard it. the quavering vocal. the spareness of the arrangement set off against the distortion in the mix. the way ray's voice is almost buried in the b parts. just everything.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 04:57 (twelve years ago)

at first i thought something deeper and more world-shaking was going on in the lyric. then when i found out it was about his sister moving away from home, i was like, really?, that's what all the hubbub is about? then i was like, yeah, actually, what's more world-shaking than that? like walter white likes to say, it all comes down to family. it's even more haunting to me now.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 05:01 (twelve years ago)

Indeed.

I not infrequently recall this exchange we once had related to the album in question, fcc: The Ubiquitous HIred Gun Session Veteran Shout-Out Thread

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 September 2013 05:16 (twelve years ago)

ha! i remember that. i wonder why neither of us pointed out that he eventually topped his four-syllable pronunciations of progression and musician with the five-syllable takedown of "pol-i-tic-i-ans" in "apeman." perhaps that was the wrong thread. perhaps the is the right one.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 05:26 (twelve years ago)

perhaps this is the right one.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 September 2013 05:27 (twelve years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bvZM8ZFX2N4/S2hKjaWrXDI/AAAAAAAAAOY/m7FEAtRL_ts/s320/the+kinks+-+something+else.jpg

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 September 2013 15:45 (twelve years ago)

Tally:
WATVGPS: 6
Something Else: 4
Kinks Kontroversy: 3
Muswell Hillbillies: 1
Kinks Kronikles: 1
Arthur: 1
Give The People...: 1
M@tt, I didn't include a vote as you were sitting on the fence b/t WATVGPS and SE.
― metfigga (metfigga), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:25 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vs:

Poll Results
Option Votes
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Pye 12 track version, 1968) 12
Something Else by The Kinks (Pye, 1967) 7
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (Pye, 1969) 4
Live at Kelvin Hall (Pye, 1968) 1
Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (Pye, 1970) 0
The Kinks (Pye, 1964) 0
Face to Face (Pye, 1966) 0
The Kink Kontroversy (Pye, 1965) 0
Kinda Kinks (Pye, 1965) 0
Percy (Pye, 1970) 0

from The Kinks Pye Albums Box Set (10 CDs) : POLL

― Mark G, Friday, 27 September 2013 15:55 (twelve years ago)

My official answer is usually "Arthur" but I swear the one I've been playing the most over the past year is "Schoolboys In Disgrace." True story.

― dlp9001, Friday, 27 September 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)

Schoolboys is pretty underrated. It's easily my favorite of the 70s RCA musicals.

― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 September 2013 17:47 (twelve years ago)

I should check that out. No More Looking Back is one of the great Kinks songs.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 September 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)

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