Sunday, September 21, 2008

Another list: my favorite Kinks tracks



I was a fan of their British Invasion songs, but really came to love them later, post-1972, with the release of Everybody's In Show Biz, Preservation, Village Green, and Schoolboys. Everybody's in Show Biz, in particular is my favorite, although it was critically panned. This was part of my soundtrack for the years 1972-74, along with Deep Purple's Who Do We Think We Are, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will The Circle Be Unbroken, CSNY's Four Way Street, Led Zep's Houses of the Holy, the mid to later Beatles (Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road), The Grateful Dead Europe '72, anything by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, The Doors, and my first forays into jazz with Charles Lloyd, Weather Report, and Chick Corea.

By the later 1970's, Kinks songs were being covered by all sorts of people, most notably Val Halen, The Pretenders, Blur, Joan Jett, The Jam, Seattle's Young Fresh Fellows, Mark Lanegan, Yo La Tengo, The Stranglers and many more. . .


Waterloo Sunset
Education

Celluloid Heroes
Victoria

'Till The End Of The Day
Muswell Hillbilly

Death of a Clown
Motorway
Sitting in my hotel
Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
Genevieve

I'm in disgrace
Sunny Afternoon
All Day and all of the night
20th Century Man
Apeman
Jack the idiot dunce
No More Looking Back
The Hard Way
Set Me Free
Alcohol
Lola
Motorway
Everybody's a star
Top of the pops
Lola
Fancy
David Watts
Stop your sobbing
You really got me
Lola
A Face In The Crowd
Starmaker
One of the survivors
Here comes yet another day
Tired of waiting for you

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