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Anyone ever hear 'Gods Children' from the Percy soundtrack, lovely song.
keithtalent
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I'd say it's either:
Till The End Of The Day
or,
Get Back In Line
Till The End Of The Day
or,
Get Back In Line
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
All Day and All of the Night
Tired of Waiting for You
Apeman
Tired of Waiting for You
Apeman
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
'See My Friend' - predated the Beatles' sitar dabblings by approximately six months
'Who'll be The Next In Line?' & 'I'm Not Like Everybody Else' - classics for years lost to b-sides
'I Need You' - another b-side and the oft-overlooked third in the 'You Really Got Me' / 'All Day...' heavy rock-pioneering trilogy
'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion' - the full flowering of Ray Davies' social commentator-style lyrical genius
'Mr Pleasant' - influenced everything from the 'Thomas The Tank Engine' theme to Blur's entire career
'Plastic Man' - another clear Blur derivative - just over two minutes of hilarious, perfectly-formed invective and banned by the BBC (for featuring the incendiary profanity 'bum') so generally overlooked
...and naturally, just about everything else pre-1975...
'Who'll be The Next In Line?' & 'I'm Not Like Everybody Else' - classics for years lost to b-sides
'I Need You' - another b-side and the oft-overlooked third in the 'You Really Got Me' / 'All Day...' heavy rock-pioneering trilogy
'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion' - the full flowering of Ray Davies' social commentator-style lyrical genius
'Mr Pleasant' - influenced everything from the 'Thomas The Tank Engine' theme to Blur's entire career
'Plastic Man' - another clear Blur derivative - just over two minutes of hilarious, perfectly-formed invective and banned by the BBC (for featuring the incendiary profanity 'bum') so generally overlooked
...and naturally, just about everything else pre-1975...
Seeing as we're not allowed to pick Waterloo Sunset (not just my favourite Kinks song but probably my favourite song ever), then it would have to be one of the following:
Dead End Street, See My Friend, Lola, Sunny Afternoon, The Village Green Preservation Society.
Love 'em all. Going to see Ray Davies at the Royal Albert Hall in September, really looking forward to it. Him and Weller are my musical heroes.
Dead End Street, See My Friend, Lola, Sunny Afternoon, The Village Green Preservation Society.
Love 'em all. Going to see Ray Davies at the Royal Albert Hall in September, really looking forward to it. Him and Weller are my musical heroes.
RubberBuccaneer
Hedd Wyn
Til the end of the day, always uplifting if you're down.
I'm not like everybody else , could imagine MM turning that into a Goth anthem!
I'm not like everybody else , could imagine MM turning that into a Goth anthem!
Waterloo Sunset & Louie Louie.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
And 'Starstruck'...the man had a million different voices from one day to the next...
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
acid priest said:
That's a nice selection. Agree with you about I Need You. A fierce song.
montevideo
New Member
another louie louie site.
http://oldies.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.xs4all.nl/~tdg/louie1.html
Bands that have apparently covered the song include:
the beach boys
bad religion
black flag
the fall
guru josh
otis redding
jonathan richman
rem
sisters of mercy
ike & tina turner
barry white (!)
& of course probably the best ever cover by:
john the postman
http://oldies.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.xs4all.nl/~tdg/louie1.html
Bands that have apparently covered the song include:
the beach boys
bad religion
black flag
the fall
guru josh
otis redding
jonathan richman
rem
sisters of mercy
ike & tina turner
barry white (!)
& of course probably the best ever cover by:
john the postman
Almost anything off "Something Else" for me -
David Watts; Harry Rag; Situation Vacant; Love Me Till The Sun Shines; Lazy Old Sun; Afternoon Tea; End Of The Season
hmmm.. can't decide.
Lazy Old sun or Afternoon Tea - and David Watts.
No - can't choose - I'll leave it at that.
David Watts; Harry Rag; Situation Vacant; Love Me Till The Sun Shines; Lazy Old Sun; Afternoon Tea; End Of The Season
hmmm.. can't decide.
Lazy Old sun or Afternoon Tea - and David Watts.
No - can't choose - I'll leave it at that.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
And 'Victoria'!
The Fall did a shitstorming cover of that, too.
The Fall did a shitstorming cover of that, too.
Being pedantic,Iggy pop did Louie Louie twice,first with the Stooges and solo with rewritten lyrics on the American Ceaser album.
My favourite song by anyone ever is 'Waterloo Sunset' but if that's to obvious so maybe 'Shangri-La' or 'Do You Remember Walter?' or 'Dead End Street' (the story of my life
).
By the way it could be argued that the Kinks ripped off the riff from 'Louie Louie' for 'All of the Day and All of the Night' and 'You've Really Got Me'.
As did the Who for 'I Can't Explain' or perhaps they were ripping off the Kinks.
My favourite song by anyone ever is 'Waterloo Sunset' but if that's to obvious so maybe 'Shangri-La' or 'Do You Remember Walter?' or 'Dead End Street' (the story of my life
).By the way it could be argued that the Kinks ripped off the riff from 'Louie Louie' for 'All of the Day and All of the Night' and 'You've Really Got Me'.
As did the Who for 'I Can't Explain' or perhaps they were ripping off the Kinks.
Orangesanlemons
Inamorati Anonymous
I'd say 'Waterloo Sunset' or 'Days', but they've been done already, so how about 'I'm Not Like Everybody Else'? Cracking tune, quite sinister in a way.
Here's a little nugget of interest: until David Chase got hold of Alabama 3's 'Woke Up This Morning', said tune was penciled in for the intro to 'The Sopranos'.
Oh, and did I mention I used to be Ray's next-door-neighbour but one?
Here's a little nugget of interest: until David Chase got hold of Alabama 3's 'Woke Up This Morning', said tune was penciled in for the intro to 'The Sopranos'.
Oh, and did I mention I used to be Ray's next-door-neighbour but one?
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
'Death Of A Clown', 'Susannah's Still Alive' and 'Love Me 'Til The Sun Shines' are all actually credited to Dave Davies (the lad having provided his own bluesy bar-room take on vocals), although are of course The Kinks in all but name, Ray having written them.
It was apparently Ray's vision to push his brother into the spotlight more, as he believed that Dave was pissing his talent away in the background. This was, ironically, one of the main causes of the vicious feud between them (the head-splitting genius guitar work on 'You Really Got Me' alone is surely proof of Dave's abilities).
Dave finally released a solo album last year but unfortunately had a heartattack just before he was about to go on tour with it. He's now hugely recovered, thankfully.
It was apparently Ray's vision to push his brother into the spotlight more, as he believed that Dave was pissing his talent away in the background. This was, ironically, one of the main causes of the vicious feud between them (the head-splitting genius guitar work on 'You Really Got Me' alone is surely proof of Dave's abilities).
Dave finally released a solo album last year but unfortunately had a heartattack just before he was about to go on tour with it. He's now hugely recovered, thankfully.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
I can get it down to about 5:-
Shangri-la
Village green preservation society
Sunny afternoon (Ray was especially proud of this cos it was number 1 when England won the World Cup)
Victoria
Well respected man
Incidentally, contrary to widely held belief, "Terry meets Julie" is not a reference to Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, who starred in a film contemporaneous to "Waterloo Sunset" (Ken Loach's "Poor cow" I believe"). In actual fact "Terry" is his nephew who was only a year younger than him, and "Julie" a girl who rebuffed him at school, but then tried to contact him when he was famous.
Shangri-la
Village green preservation society
Sunny afternoon (Ray was especially proud of this cos it was number 1 when England won the World Cup)
Victoria
Well respected man
Incidentally, contrary to widely held belief, "Terry meets Julie" is not a reference to Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, who starred in a film contemporaneous to "Waterloo Sunset" (Ken Loach's "Poor cow" I believe"). In actual fact "Terry" is his nephew who was only a year younger than him, and "Julie" a girl who rebuffed him at school, but then tried to contact him when he was famous.
acid priest said:
That's very interesting stuff.
Although most sources I've checked with today have 'Death Of A Clown' as a joint writing credit between the two, I'd always assumed Dave Davies must've written it without Ray's help, in a frustrated attempt at proving he was the equal of his brother.
I'm quite surprised that Ray was even (-allowed to be) involved. Makes me realise and re-assess the complexity of their legendary sibling rivalry...
acid priest said:
Quite an appropriate choice of words. One of my favourite Kinks stories is about how the drummer (Mick Avory?) thought he'd killed Dave Davies during a concert when he hit him over the head with a cymbal. Claret everywhere apparently. The drummer then legged it into the audience, leaving Dave with his head split open and the other two wondering what had happened.
West68thStreet
your misguided trousers
If we're not allowed Waterloo Sunset then Dead End Street, the lyrics, the trumpet, it's all too perfect.
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