Something Else by The Kinks
Posted on March 27, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
So begins the “golden age” of Kinks records:
This album is lovable for so many reasons, and you probably don’t need me to tell you that. If “Waterloo Sunset” isn’t one of the most beautiful songs you’ve ever heard, then you must not have heard it. There are other installments here of the previously [...]
Read More..>>Face to Face
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under | 3 Comments
Why not begin with this one, Face to Face:
Ok. This is the album before the “great” period. It was released in 1966 and bears many of the marks of what people love in the records that came on its coattails. “Holiday in Waikiki” is on this record. “Sunny Afternoon” is also [...]
Read More..>>The Late-Middle Kinks
Posted on March 24, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
During the last couple of weeks I’ve been obsessively listening to the Kinks. I’ve been a fan for a long time. I remember some time around the spring of 1998 as the time that I first started really listening to them seriously. As it happens, “You Really Got Me’ was one of [...]
Read More..>>New Interview w/Me Up
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Rob McClennan has been kind enough to include me in his interview project “12 or 20 Questions.”
Thanks, Rob.
