If the info is wrong please feel free to correct it. I'll try not to do too much of it, but here is the wiki info on the early years of the band and how things came together. They came out of the British Rhythm and Blues and Merseybeat period of England, and up until a touring ban in the US, due to Ray and Dave constantly fighting, they were also part of the famous British Invasion. They have been an incredibly influential band from early on, and even through the punk movement their influence could be heard. The Kinks were formed in Muswell Hill, North London in 1964, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. The Kinks - a little Background on the band It makes it easier to find something for reference purposes, and it initially was to help folks who may not be familiar with the band, go straight to songs or albums, to check out what we are looking at, and whether they like what they hear and all that kind of stuff.Īnyway "God Save The Kinks", and I hope we can all have a bit of fun and a chat while going through the bands music. I do the surround thread on Sunday's, and it normally works well for folks to have a free day, or a catch up day or whatever.Įvery Saturday, unless something happens to drag me away, I will post a thread guide, with links to the albums and songs. If you feel you are getting behind, don't stress too much, Sunday's will be a day off. Please wait for songs to be posted, again, merely a case of trying to keep things as orderly as possible. That doesn't mean you can't reference something ahead, but try not to get too excited about Arthur, while we are looking at Kinda Kinks.
Please stay where we are at, for the benefit of people on the thread not getting confused as to where we are at. If it looks like I have missed something at some point, please keep me in check on that, because it certainly is not my intention to miss anything. So please bear with me as we move through the earlier stuff, as I may get a couple of things out of order. The way we do these threads is in a chronological order, as best as I am able - with these sixties artists and the singles and Ep's and albums spread all over the place, it can be quite daunting. That doesn't mean in any way that we don't want to talk about all that other stuff, just that I may be leading the dance in some ways, but I am not an authority, just a fan of the music. I am one who listens to and enjoys the music, and tend not to pay too much attention to the other stuff. I know they had an issue with the US in the mid sixties, which severely hindered their impact for a while.īut in reality that's about it. I know a little bit about Ray and Dave, and their issues, but not that much. I will start off by saying I am by no means any kind of expert on the Kinks. I don't quite have everything the band made (Percy, The Road, To The Bone, BBC being the most obvious ones that I am aware of), but I want to dive into the earlier albums, and get a little deeper, and generally these threads tend to lead to a deeper knowledge and exposure to a bands music.
I love that album, and went on to buy Low Budget and a couple of others, but it was only in 2004 when the sacd's came out, that I went along and bought them all.Īfter that I went on to buy the 2004 Sanctuary releases of the Pye albums. There was an older guy in the shop, and he came up and suggested that I would probably prefer the live album, because it had a bit more punch, and looking at this scruffy little Aussie Rules football player, hyperactive and all over the place, he was probably right. I was probably 14 or 15, somewhere around there, and we are in the early eighties.
I would have been familiar with You Really Got Me, Lola and a couple of other songs, from listening to the radio as a kid, and one day I went into my local record store, Atlas Records, near the old Boans building in Morley, Western Australia, where I spent countless hours as a young pup, and I asked them what would be the best Kinks album to get as a starter. The Kinks were a fairly early favourite of mine, although I discovered them a long time after most people here probably did.
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