Monday, January 10, 2011

Music Top Tens 1: Songs by the Kinks

When I was keeping up a blog called And So Forth, which annoyingly doesn't seem to show my photos anymore, I posted from time to time about music.

I plan to eventually scratch And So Forth from my personal Web places, but not before mining a few significant posts.

One is a list of my Top Ten Favorite Kinks songs.

Of course, it has evolved a bit since then, as top ten song lists tend to do.

Here it is in its current version, without extraneous linkage or commentary.

Be warned: someday I may come back to this and write a post about each and every song...

1. Days

2. Shangri-la

3. There's Too Much on my Mind

4. Waterloo Sunset

5. Oklahoma USA

6. Strangers

7. 'Til the End of the Day

8. Lola

9. This is Where I Belong

10. Victoria

8 comments:

  1. The Kinks were my very first live concert, back in the early 80's!

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  2. No kidding! Where? I've seen them/Ray Davies at least a dozen times in three countries...

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  3. Saw Ray Davies (for the 1st time) at the Hop Farm Festival last July. He was fabulous!
    Days & Waterloo Sunset are my faves.

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  4. I saw them either in Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska, I can't remember, which...just that I took a road trip with my highschool buddies to see them and had a blast!

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  5. Some would be in my Top Ten too, Betty. For me, This Is Where I Belong precisely belongs to a wonderful '67 summer in Brittanny. At the time in France we had no singles but EPs, and This Is Where… was B-side for Mr Pleasant / Two Sisters, with…Village Green, which was featured in UK on VGPS only 1 year 1/2 later ! Sometimes we were lucky

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  6. Jean-Luc -- Interesting combination on that EP. I didn't know that France had no singles during the 60s, but then again I don't know a lot of things!

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  7. Great songs all -- though I think the only one that would make my Kinky Top Ten would be Waterloo Sunset. Mine would certainly include "Sitting in My Hotel Room" and "Tired of Waiting" -- "Dead End Street" and "Complicated Life" would probably make the cut too. But that's what's so fun about being a Kinks fan, the catalog is so immense and so deep. And as you say, it changes from year to year. So glad to see you're back blogging!

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  8. Thanks for your comment Holly. I have planned a few music posts here, although it won't be the main bent of the blog like yours. I think "Dead End Street" would make my top 20, maybe "Tired of Waiting" too..."Sitting in My Hotel Room" is great as well, but one I tend to forget a bit. I love "Complicated Life" for its sheer Kink-iness but it's not one I'd listen to over and over.

    I'd love to see your list "du moment!"

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