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Post by Iñakink on Jan 2, 2009 10:46:47 GMT -5
I've bought 2... And any from the Top 45...
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Post by franklima on Jan 3, 2009 17:03:32 GMT -5
Ray returns to the scene of the crime ;D
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Post by Smiley on Jan 30, 2009 21:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by HollyH on Jan 30, 2009 22:02:43 GMT -5
They missed a couple.
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Post by Smiley on Jan 30, 2009 22:17:58 GMT -5
Yea... I know -- but not the MOST IMPORTANT ONE! ;D
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Post by HollyH on Jan 31, 2009 17:14:13 GMT -5
True. But he should have been ranked #1!!
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Post by Smiley on Feb 1, 2009 0:19:52 GMT -5
True. But he should have been ranked #1!! Indeed, but how did Neil get ranked #1 and Macca #9 and both of them LOWER than AC/DC, Motorhead and Elvis
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Post by cooldad98 on Feb 1, 2009 2:42:00 GMT -5
I'm happy he's ranked. You know I have let go, I'm happy who Ray is and were the Kinks fit in. I'm not angry anymore. Bubbleboy 2009
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Post by uncleson on Feb 1, 2009 16:14:54 GMT -5
Im glad that he ranked Ray, but I think he shouldve been ranked higher.
Ray has been very active lately, putting out great solo albums, completing a very successful tour, and producing a London stage play. Clearly, in this way, he is young at heart.
Also, Ray is an innovative genius, who has never been afraid of doing his own thing. I think he should be at the top of that list with McCartney and Dylan.
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Post by franklima on Feb 4, 2009 8:26:21 GMT -5
You can stop the musicals...
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Post by HollyH on Feb 4, 2009 17:39:52 GMT -5
I'm happy he's ranked. You know I have let go, I'm happy who Ray is and were the Kinks fit in. I'm not angry anymore. Bubbleboy 2009 This must be CoolDad's Year of Zen. ;D
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Post by kinkfrank49 on Feb 4, 2009 23:15:54 GMT -5
I'll probably get heat for saying this, but that list is preposterous. Lemmy Kilmister on a top 25 all time 50+ rocker list? Ozzy Osborne is a hack but at least was something of a metal pioneer. Prince was a James Brown/Hendrix rip that was over 20 years ago, Iggy Pop has his admirers as a protopunk, but all time 25? And seriously, if it weren't for the disc 'Back in Black', which had a hell of a good job of production, would anyone other than teenage guys really be into AC/DC? The guys that belong on that list are Dylan, Young, Davies, the guys in the Stones and Who, Richard Thompson, Van Morrison, Bowie, Springsteen, McCartney, Chuck B, Reed, Patti Smith, Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the ones they left off, not the least of which are Fats Domino, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder. It isn't too much of a stretch to include Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Joni Mitchell on that list either. After dumping Madonna.
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Post by franklima on Feb 5, 2009 12:30:25 GMT -5
found this blog fromthe UK Guardian site.. blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/01/27-week/The strangest musical conversation I have had in a while was in Los Angeles, where someone said to me: "The Kinks, weren't they a one-hit wonder-type deal?" For me, it's bizarre how the Kinks are generally only known as only a singles band. Only now - thanks to Wes Anderson putting them to the foreground of the soundtrack to The Darjeeling Limited - do people finally seem to be investigating the band's albums. How did the Kinks' albums become so underrated? After all, Ray Davies is CBE certified as a songwriting genius, the master of the English vernacular in song. His band were the original proto-mod electric punks, influencing the Who and the Rolling Stones. The warring Ray and Dave Davies were the original notorious rock'n'roll brothers. The Darjeeling Limited made great use of the music from Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, one of my favourite Kinks albums. The album was written at the time Ray Davies had almost given up in music and started life as a jobbing actor on the TV film The Long Distance Piano Player. By 1970, the Kinks were at a low commercial ebb. They had released two of their greatest albums, The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) and Arthur (1969), both sounding like a magical and quintessentially English sea of calm in the context of the revolutionary 60s. Yet they flopped. Ray Davies spilled out his feelings of rejection on Lola Versus Powerman. The album contains some of the most biting songs ever about the music industry. Top of the Pops mocks the illusionary nature of stardom, Denmark Street attacks the random nature of the music publishing industry and on Moneygoround Davies ultimately wonders where all his cash has gone. One barbed pop song after another, the album could be seen as the first in a long tradition of albums given over to complaints about the music business. Fortunately, Davies' sense of melody and humour mean that even at its most baleful, it's never a tedious listen. His ability to find hope in the direst of anxious situations - Strangers and This Time Tomorrow are songs of hope - ultimately elevates Lola Versus Powerman from cranky poison pen letter to classic. Ironically, the release of Lola as a single saw Davies having his first big hit in three years. Yet even this hit somehow confirmed the Kinks' reputation as a singles band. When the band released arguably their last classic album Muswell Hillbillies in 1971, the concurrent release of yet another Kinks single compilation easily outsold it. However, Davies will always persevere. During punk, the Jam and the Pretenders sat at his feet in an attempt to learn the Davies songwriting skills. Later on, Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher and the Libertines all wrote under the influence of the Kinks. Perhaps someone needs to piss off Ray Davies more often.
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Post by uncleson on Feb 5, 2009 14:39:48 GMT -5
You wont get heat from me. You made allot of good points. When he described Ray as a krank that told me he doesnt 'get it'.
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Post by franklima on Feb 5, 2009 16:16:33 GMT -5
Ordinary People performed as part of a musical
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