for a select few albums in their discography. This first album by the KInks is admittedly pretty stinky. I like "So Mystifying" also, as well as "Got Love if You Want It", and some others, but those Bald-themed songs are just embarrassing. Kudos to you for having the intestinal ...
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Available For Pre-Order Now ThroughAmazon The Kinks –The Mono Collection packages the band’s first 8 albums in glorious mono, including the previously out of print in the U.S. mono mix of ‘Live At Kelvin Hall’. The set also includes the bonus double LP compilation ‘The Kinks’ (aka...
The Kinks moved to RCA Victor and laterClive Davis's Arista Records, notching hits like"A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy"in 1978 and"(I Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"in '79. Record sales during those years were less about singles as their albums, often "concept" efforts, came to be highly...
Last year’s excellentKinksbox, the 50th anniversary ofThe Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Societyis now available in very limited numbers SIGNED by Kinks guitar legendDave Davies! This box set is the very definition of ‘super deluxe’ version of an album and won plaudits for the...
“Some of the greatest (jazz) records I heard from my brother,” Hynde recalls. “We didn’t listen to music together, but his albums were around so I would listen to them. I think anyone my age, who grew up in the ’60s, had some references to jazz. But I just slipped over the...
Getting' ReadyandSunshine Superman;Sounds of SilenceandParsley, Sage; the remarkableDedicated To You, by the Manhattans; the Kinks'Kontroversy; live Ochs; and memorable albums from Dusty, the Turtles, Manfred Mann, The Action, Shadows of the Knights, and the Everlies. And in a special ...
Although his greatest fame has come from leading the Kinks, Davies undertook several notable side projects while still a member of the band, and since its dissolution he has released a number of solo albums and has pursued a variety of other artistic endeavours. In 1981 he collaborated with pl...
Back home in England, their singles scored pretty well though their albums were (financial) flops. It was during this time, about 1966-1971, that was the band's prime time where they made great, very unfashionable music. Like the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Rolling Stones, the band starti...
He was initially awarded the CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) back in 2004. Davies also revealed that he is working on a new musical about siblings; his own contentious relationship with brother and fellow Kink, Dave Davies, is well documented. The pair ...