Comments on: My Alphabetical iPod Diary (Day 6) http://www.carsonmills.net/2008/04/18/my-alphabetical-ipod-diary-day-6/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:43:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Tyson http://www.carsonmills.net/2008/04/18/my-alphabetical-ipod-diary-day-6/#comment-160 Tyson Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:58:23 +0000 http://www.carsonmills.net/2008/04/18/my-alphabetical-ipod-diary-day-6/#comment-160 I am going to start with the Kinks because I love the Kinks. I find this selection from "Muswell" to be somewhere between Cabaret and the montage music for an NBC Pilot in the late 60's. The album itself is a potluck of the bands reflections. We have Dylan (Complicated Life), the Beatles (Have a Cuppa Tea), some Graham Nash (Oklahoma USA), a Stones-Young concoction on the title track, more Beatles (Alcahol). I have heard this album referred to by Rolling Stone as the Kinks american album, and there is no denying that it is that but, I think the heavy influences that surrounded the Kinks in "Lola Versus Powerman" were still profound. This is what makes the Kinks, the Kinks. I cannot think of another band that rolls through the years with a definitive sound but obvious influence the way the Kinks do. This is most evident in their biggest commercial hits "Lola", "You Really Got Me" and my personal favorite "This Time Tomorrow". If it wasn't for Ray Davies distinctive voice it would be hard for a new listener to distinguish any song from another as specifically "the Kinks" but for those who have had a history with the band there is an unified strand to the Kinks. As much as any band of their time and usually more so, the Kinks shaped Heavy-Rock for the next generation. The muffled distortion the Kinks put together in the late 60's would become the preferred stylings of Heavy-Rock's biggest personalities in the late 70's early 80's. I love reading the Alphabetical iPod Diary and this is the song and the artist that resonated with me the most. "Go Forth" is a bit of a diamond mine that has been roughly given the once over. For every gem like Adopduction that is pulled out none are really dusted off and perfected. They still are gems all the same but are handed to the listener as a very raw foreshadowing of what the band is capable of. I am going to start with the Kinks because I love the Kinks. I find this selection from “Muswell” to be somewhere between Cabaret and the montage music for an NBC Pilot in the late 60’s. The album itself is a potluck of the bands reflections. We have Dylan (Complicated Life), the Beatles (Have a Cuppa Tea), some Graham Nash (Oklahoma USA), a Stones-Young concoction on the title track, more Beatles (Alcahol). I have heard this album referred to by Rolling Stone as the Kinks american album, and there is no denying that it is that but, I think the heavy influences that surrounded the Kinks in “Lola Versus Powerman” were still profound.
This is what makes the Kinks, the Kinks. I cannot think of another band that rolls through the years with a definitive sound but obvious influence the way the Kinks do. This is most evident in their biggest commercial hits “Lola”, “You Really Got Me” and my personal favorite “This Time Tomorrow”. If it wasn’t for Ray Davies distinctive voice it would be hard for a new listener to distinguish any song from another as specifically “the Kinks” but for those who have had a history with the band there is an unified strand to the Kinks. As much as any band of their time and usually more so, the Kinks shaped Heavy-Rock for the next generation. The muffled distortion the Kinks put together in the late 60’s would become the preferred stylings of Heavy-Rock’s biggest personalities in the late 70’s early 80’s.

I love reading the Alphabetical iPod Diary and this is the song and the artist that resonated with me the most.

“Go Forth” is a bit of a diamond mine that has been roughly given the once over. For every gem like Adopduction that is pulled out none are really dusted off and perfected. They still are gems all the same but are handed to the listener as a very raw foreshadowing of what the band is capable of.

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