faviorte kinks album

[Mitchell]

What about stopping with Muswell Hillbillies?

[Fantastico!]

What about stopping with Muswell Hillbillies?

Muswell is their Carl and the Passions I suppose.
Preservation Act I is the close of their "Classic Era" == it's their Holland.

[Mitchell]

Oh, I forgot that I have that, too, on vinyl. I have Soap Opera as well, but I never really listened to either.

[TV Forces]

You're damn right.
Kronikles is the best. It has the best cuts from all the great albums, plus Have You Seen His Name and Big Black Smoke. Wow, I love that album.

Not true!  It completely ignores VILLAGE GREEN.

[Jeff Mason]

What about stopping with Muswell Hillbillies?

Muswell is their Carl and the Passions I suppose.
Preservation Act I is the close of their "Classic Era" == it's their Holland.

Disagree -- you gotta love Schoolboys in Disgrace.

The Arista period isn't bad but it isn't quite the Kinks as we know them either.  AOR music with a brain, I call it.

[Matinee Idyll]

My favourite Kinks song is "Lavender Hill", why Ray didn't put that on Village Green is one of the worst choices in music history.

That song is absolute bliss.

[andrew k]

Soap Opera.  i should heave mentioned it. its one of those albums i avoided for a long time, until i found a 1 dollar vinyl.  gotta say, i went out and bought the cd a few weeks later.  should i be ashamed to admit i really like this record?  there are admitedly a few week spots, and you have to get past some of the dumb dialogue bewteen songs ( ithink kinks invented the Rap skit record, way before prince paul

i kind of agree with the Preservation being the end of their classic era. soap opera and schoolboys are good, but out side of that.  im just waiting patiently now for hte bootleg dvd of all the bcc concerts and tv spots from sweden....

[Newguy562]

i stop at lola vs powerman
everything after is ughhhhhhhh not my cup of tea
when i first listened to village green i was completely blown away ..it was so bizarre hearing this beautiful british sound coming from the same guys who did "you really got me" it's like day & night.

[RadBooley]

i stop at lola vs powerman
everything after is ughhhhhhhh not my cup of tea
when i first listened to village green i was completely blown away ..it was so bizarre hearing this beautiful british sound coming from the same guys who did "you really got me" it's like day & night.

This thread is over 6 years old, chill out.

[Newguy562]

i stop at lola vs powerman
everything after is ughhhhhhhh not my cup of tea
when i first listened to village green i was completely blown away ..it was so bizarre hearing this beautiful british sound coming from the same guys who did "you really got me" it's like day & night.

This thread is over 6 years old, chill out.

i'mma bit late :] why should i chill out?

[Mike's Beard]

f*** it I have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning then respond to 6 year old posts from people that don't visit this site anymore. 

The first two Kinks albums are very patchy. They kept their best material from this period for their many singles and EPs.
Kontroversy is much better. Face to Face is my favourite album from 1966. Something Else has many great tracks but some filler (mainly from Dave).
Village Green is their masterpiece.
Arthur is a close second, let down only by Australia.
Lola - Preservation Act 1 are all very good but the overblown concepts are starting to bog the group down.
Preservation Act 2 is rubbish! Only three or four good songs on the whole thing.
Soap Opera is a camp classic.
Schoolboys is most dreck. After that I sorta lose interest.

[nickdunning]

f*ck it I have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning then respond to 6 year old posts from people that don't visit this site anymore. 

The first two Kinks albums are very patchy. They kept their best material from this period for their many singles and EPs.
Kontroversy is much better. Face to Face is my favourite album from 1966. Something Else has many great tracks but some filler (mainly from Dave).
Village Green is their masterpiece.
Arthur is a close second, let down only by Australia.
Lola - Preservation Act 1 are all very good but the overblown concepts are starting to bog the group down.
Preservation Act 2 is rubbish! Only three or four good songs on the whole thing.
Soap Opera is a camp classic.
Schoolboys is most dreck. After that I sorta lose interest.

I lose interest after Preservation Act 1. Sadly. Again certainly a parallel with 'Holland' being the last noteworthy BB's album.

Face To Face is the first real classic Kinks LP. It's almost on a par with 'Revolver' but with 'Pet Sounds' coming from 1966 it can only come in third for that year.

'Something Else' is a classic, not really a lot of filler.

'Village Green' is certainly the one though. A wonderful record. The parallel BB's record is 'Friends' - they're in some ways not that different.

'Arthur' is another five star masterpiece, even including 'Australia' which is wickedly funny IMHO.

[nickdunning]

My favourite Kinks song is "Lavender Hill", why Ray didn't put that on Village Green is one of the worst choices in music history.

That song is absolute bliss.

'Lavender Hill' is a 1967 track, I believe it was in competition with 'Autumn Almanac' as the Autumn 1967 UK 45, and didn't win, remaining unreleased until the US only, and swiftly deleted 'The Great Lost Kinks Album' in 1973. Same goes for the unspeakably beautiful 'Rosemary Rose' of the same era.

VGPS could easily have been a superb double album (and Ray did try to get Pye to release it as such, the compromise reached being the single LP 15 track version of VGPS we know and love). There was more stuff in the can of the same quality ('Misty Water', 'Pictures In The Sand', the unbelievably rocking 'Berkeley Mews' etc.)

[bossaroo]

don't forget "Mr. Songbird"

another splendid tune that should have been on the Village Green album.

[Newguy562]

don't forget "Mr. Songbird"

another splendid tune that should have been on the Village Green album.

i'm actually listening to mr. songbird right now :]

[Peter Reum]

Muswell  Hillbillies

[nickdunning]

don't forget "Mr. Songbird"

another splendid tune that should have been on the Village Green album.

It's good, but IMHO a bit of a lift from the S&G '59th Street Bridge Song'.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Preservation 1 is my personal fave!

C'mon: Sweet Lady Genevieve, One Of The Survivors, Where Are They All Now, Sitting In The Midday Sun, Daylight!

Those are all fantastic songs/performances.

[jimmy1949]

I've always liked "Sleepwalker" from the mid-70's but I also like Face To Face, S.E.,and Arthur.

[Newguy562]

Anybody have a top 5 kinks songs ?

[Outtasight!]

Everything from Something Else to Everybody's in Show Biz is solid gold. Preservation Acts 1 and 2 have their moments and for some reason I love Give the People What They Want. Ray's solo albums are pretty damned good too.

[EgoHanger1966]

Something Else

[Lonely Summer]

I go all the way to the end with this band. Love the albums everyone else loves, the often cited Face to Face, Arthur, VGPS, Something Else, Lola, but also love Misfits, State of Confusion, Word of Mouth, even their finale, Phobia.

[Outtasight!]

I go all the way to the end with this band. Love the albums everyone else loves, the often cited Face to Face, Arthur, VGPS, Something Else, Lola, but also love Misfits, State of Confusion, Word of Mouth, even their finale, Phobia.

Yeh Misfits is excellent, unfortunately by Word of Mouth and State of Confusion Ray's production had become of it's time and renders those albums difficult listening, mind you the songs on WoM are great. If they had trimmed Phobia down to 10-12 songs it would have been brilliant. The 2 new songs on To the Bone were better produced and Animal in particular is a favourite of mine.

[MBE]

Something Else is very good, I stop at Everybody's In Show Biz. Heard later albums but didn't like any of it.