Posted on 08/02/2021 7:33:02 PM PDT by ex91B10
You Really Got Me-1964
All Day And All Of The Night-1965
Tired Of Waiting-1965
Lola-1970
Muswell Hillbillies was a great album. On 20th Century Man Dave gets to rock.
A truly great band.
L
Good one!
My favorite Kinks is “Lola”
Both fit todays world.
Forgot the link-—
Lola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU
Lifelong Kinks fan. Knew You Really Got Me and All Day All of the Night as a young kid but the game changer was this album (Muswell Hillbillies). Never looked back (and yes Kinks reference intenional).
Muswell Hillbillies was a great concept, great writing, but the way the record “sounds” - it has this gritty yet melodic sound that I just love.
The concept is multilayered. It’s a play on the Beverly Hillbillies. It’s a British take on American C & W but not a literal take. It’s autobiographical. And it’s anti urban renewal. And it’s populated by all these special Rau Davies characters.
Thanks to The Sopranos, I discovered this Kinks Gem...
I’m Not Like Everybody Else (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkYoT5Gezo
Saw them live in 1980. Rowdiest concert I have ever attended. Robert Palmer opened. Was the 1st time I saw punk rockers in person.
Ray Davies knew, way back then
My favorite is Celluloid Heroes
The Kinks – Glenhenry Winners
A1 I Go To Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gMS7aiMLk
A2 There’s A New World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMI4PvzODnQ
A3 Time Will Tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOAccwKXNE
A4 Little Bit Of Sunlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vfIL2FLe_E
A5 This I Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMQrHh-5u2w
A6 Tell Me Now So I’ll Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8JznJD1_Q
A7 All Night Stand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4V-ptRgK9s
B1 I’m Not Like Everybody Else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmb7TU0OrOI
B2 Don’t Ever Let Me Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0sGQGZcnQ
B3 Strange Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espQlVYYaFQ
B4 Mr. Reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVX_ikCtu8o
B5 Hold My Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogt0oQYXwp0
Older version in the list I posted
The Sopranos used the live version and they used it after my all-time favorite Sopranos scene.
“I wonder what’s French-Canadian for ‘I grew up without a Mother’?”
“Sacre bleu, where is me mama?”
Beat me to it. I always thought of this song whenever I would would walk down the Hollywood Walk of Fame and see all the stars along the pavement. "Some that you recognize, and some that you never even heard of..."
ltr
wot? you really go me.
“Days”
Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I’m thinking of the days,
I won’t forget a single day, believe me.
I bless the light,
I bless the light that lights on you believe me.
And though you’re gone,
You’re with me every single day, believe me.
Days I’ll remember all my life,
Days when you can’t see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you’d leave me,
But it’s all right,
Now I’m not frightened of this world, believe me.
I wish today could be tomorrow,
The night is dark,
It just brings sorrow anyway.
Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I’m thinking of the days,
I won’t forget a single day, believe me.
Days I’ll remember all my life,
Days when you can’t see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you’d leave me,
But it’s all right,
Now I’m not frightened of this world, believe me.
Days.
Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I’m thinking of the days,
I won’t forget a single day, believe me.
I bless the light,
I bless the light that shines on you believe me.
And though you’re gone,
You’re with me every single day, believe me.
Days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0EakQ-BcNQ
And it has the only song by a British Invasion band that mentions a member of the Partridge Family. [Shirley Jones, in “Oklahoma USA”]
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