Comments on: The Kinks - A Great Sometimes Overlooked Band http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/ Retro Memories, Gallery, Spotlights and More Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Bill Ivers http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-488 Bill Ivers Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:42:56 +0000 http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-488 I've been listening to the Village Green Preservation Society album for several days straight and believe it to be one of their very best (that I've heard so far). It has such an English sound and contains some remarkably original lyrics and melodies. I particularly like Do You Remember Walter?, Picture Book, and, of course, Days. The album reminds of how the art of creating albums has been lost. That is, albums once were a collection of songs that worked well together as a song cycle. In the advent of MP3s and iTunes, people are more interested in downloading individual songs. I’ve been listening to the Village Green Preservation Society album for several days straight and believe it to be one of their very best (that I’ve heard so far). It has such an English sound and contains some remarkably original lyrics and melodies. I particularly like Do You Remember Walter?, Picture Book, and, of course, Days. The album reminds of how the art of creating albums has been lost. That is, albums once were a collection of songs that worked well together as a song cycle. In the advent of MP3s and iTunes, people are more interested in downloading individual songs.

]]> By: David http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-479 David Sat, 31 May 2008 15:09:28 +0000 http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-479 Ahhh.....The Kinks I agree with keith, I would even put them as one of the top 3 English bands. Ray Davies is an incredible lyricist, he leaves you wondering how he ever came up with some of the lines. Combined with brother Dave on guitar, Mick Avory on drums and a bassist (I CAN"T REMEMBER WHO IT WAS!!!!!) They never falied to dissapoint. My favorite was the Christmas show in the old Lowell Memorial Auditorium. PS...I still have a drumstick that Avory threw into the crowd!!!!! Ahhh…..The Kinks

I agree with keith, I would even put them as one of the top 3 English bands. Ray Davies is an incredible lyricist, he leaves you wondering how he ever came up with some of the lines. Combined with brother Dave on guitar, Mick Avory on drums and a bassist (I CAN”T REMEMBER WHO IT WAS!!!!!) They never falied to dissapoint. My favorite was the Christmas show in the old Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

PS…I still have a drumstick that Avory threw into the crowd!!!!!

]]> By: Bill Ivers http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-476 Bill Ivers Tue, 27 May 2008 22:43:23 +0000 http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-476 As a new Kinks fan, I’m rummaging through their music for the first time, and what strikes me the most is their clever originality. Besides the occasional cheap imitation (i.e. Green Day’s song “Warning” riff stole the hook from “Picture Book”), no band sounds quite like The Kinks—though many bands try to do so. While many ‘60s and '70s bands sound incredibly dated today, The Kinks early music, for example, has lasted because they weren’t so bogged down (at least to my knowledge) in the whole psychedelic thing. Their material, besides their disco album, could have been recorded yesterday. They were writing alternative music before there was such a genre. They were writing punk music when Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten were still “schoolboys in disgrace.” Speaking of which, I will post a review of that album soon. As a new Kinks fan, I’m rummaging through their music for the first time, and what strikes me the most is their clever originality. Besides the occasional cheap imitation (i.e. Green Day’s song “Warning” riff stole the hook from “Picture Book”), no band sounds quite like The Kinks—though many bands try to do so. While many ‘60s and ’70s bands sound incredibly dated today, The Kinks early music, for example, has lasted because they weren’t so bogged down (at least to my knowledge) in the whole psychedelic thing. Their material, besides their disco album, could have been recorded yesterday. They were writing alternative music before there was such a genre. They were writing punk music when Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten were still “schoolboys in disgrace.” Speaking of which, I will post a review of that album soon.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-183 Jeremy Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:25:53 +0000 http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/remember-when/the-kinks-a-great-sometimes-overlooked-band/#comment-183 saw ray davies recently, great show! saw ray davies recently, great show!

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