Oh those discreet charms of the Kinks. As many of you patients out there in 115th Dreamland know, here at the asylum we love the dusty allure of the unreleased/lost album. Some of our favorites include: The Beatles Get Back (1969), The Beach Boys SMiLE (1967) and, now, The Kinks Four More Respected Gentlemen (1968). That's right patients, our rock 'n roll stethoscopes are talkin' about them ele...
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Reporter Geoff Edgers’ is trying to get the Kinks to reunite and is filming a documentary about it called Do it Again. However, the project is low on funds and he is launching a campaign to collect donations via paypal. According to an apparent press release I found on Benign Girl, anyone who donates over [...]
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The Kinks will release their first ever box set on December 8 when Picture Book becomes available from Sanctuary/Universal.The 6-CD set contains 130 tracks ranging from their biggest hits to rarities, demos and live tracks. Included are a few tracks from the pre-Kinks band, the Ravens.Accompanying the discs is a 60-page book with a biography, timeline and numerous previouly unpublished photos....
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New Yorkers trying to save historic Tin Pan AlleyA group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born.The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street were home to publishers of some of the catchiest American tunes and lyrics — from "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" to "Give My Regards...
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Items three to you from me:Sly Stone is a musical icon, one of the truly towering figures in the history of soul music. Sly Stone is also a man... a very troubled, erratic and possibly unbalanced man. For more on the Sly one's latest concert debacle, check this account . Joining the recent flurry of reunion rumors are The Kinks , the original British brothers-and-bandmates-who-frequently-c...
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The Kinks are an interesting band in history, everyone has heard their singles, but yet they never reached the massive commercial success of others at the time. The Kinks released a large amount of sensational records, yet you would be hard pressed to find people being able to name just one. Things become even more obscure when you look at the latter period of their career when they weren't d...
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Lately I've been going on a little bit of a Kinks binge. Maybe I decided to jump onto The Kinks because I've been listening primarily to metal in the weeks prior to last. The Kinks were the perfect band to brighten up the mood, and what better way to satisfy my vinyl cravings, then by purchasing a Kinks record. Misfits isn't the kind of album you expect from The Kinks, but while it may stray...
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Change is hard, and gets harder all the time. Change ebbs and flows around you, and you constantly have to ebb and flow along with it, or drop out and encapsulate yourself against the outside world. Much pop music made mourns love lost, but not a world lost, and innocence lost that is never to be recaptured. The 60s especially embraced a world full of life and change, and a dropping out of o...
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Been under the weather lately, and a cup of tea seems to be in order. I’m also prescribing one more go-round with the soundtrack of the new Wes Anderson film “The Darjeeling Limited,” which - administered in regular doses - has managed to soothe my soul over the past week.Although some of my colleagues may not be as enthusiastic about it as I am, “The Darjeeling Limited” – the misadventures of ...
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Here's a tune from the Kinks' self-titled debut album. Despite the nothingness of the lyrics, it is a catchy, melodic tune...kinda like the Beatles' in their very early days. That is to say, its value lies not in its musicianship but in its simplicity... Oh, and it is also a song which the record companies will include in those "The Best of" compilations every now and then.
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Lately I've been going on a little bit of a Kinks binge. Maybe I decided to jump onto The Kinks because I've been listening primarily to metal in the weeks prior to last. The Kinks were the perfect band to brighten up the mood, and what better way to satisfy my vinyl cravings, then by purchasing a Kinks record. Misfits isn't the kind of album you expect from The Kinks, but while it may stray...
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We've moved one step closer to a reunion of The Kinks, as the Davies brothers have started to write new songs in preparation for a possible World Tour the BBC reports. Guitarist Dave Davies, who suffered a stroke in 2004, seems to be on the mend according to singer and brother Ray Davies.The Kinks - [...]by Scott Bernstein Leave A Comment
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MUSIC NEWS- As Ray Davies has previously stated (and we've reported ), a Kinks reunion is truly in the works. He's now told the BBC "We've started a little bit of this and that", but it is too early to comment on the quality, he said. "It depends if there's good music. We want good new music. I'd like to do it as a more collaborative thing than we used to do." In the 1960's, The Kinks were o...
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Despite constant denials by other members, the Kinks' Ray Davies said the band has now reunited and are writing songs together . "It is too early to judge the quality. It depends if there's good music."Former Motown president/CEO Jheryl Busby died yesterday in Los Angeles....
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Inspired by EmergencyTrap's "post on love songs,":http://mog.com/EmergencyTrap/blog_post/7222 it's time for another mix list!My friend Viv introduced me to the Kinks' song "Better Things" when my ex and I split up. It's all about the good things on the horizon. Better things bound to happen. When she found love a while back it was time for a little nod to those better things. Love songs are...
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| 1 A Well Respected Man |
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| 2 All Day and All of the Night |
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| 3 Till the End of the Day |
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| 4 Some Mother's Son |
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| 5 I Gotta Move |
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