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I'm downloading songs at random and have not yet heard a single album in its entirety, but from what I've heard, it seems like "Face to Face" and "The Village Green Preservation Society" are great albums. Is this generally considered to be true? What are some songs I must hear? List of songs I love thus far: Victoria Shangri-La Do You Remember Walter? Animal Farm Sunny Afternoon Well Respected Man Long Tall Shorty Waterloo Sunset Strangers Picture Book Dandy Dedicated Follower of Fashion |
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"Dirty old river, must you keep rolling Flowing into the night..." |
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I can't take "Animal Farm" off repeat. ...I'll take you where real animals are playing And people are real people not just playing... |
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My mind is still reeling from this discovery. Was I living in a cave for the past 20 years? How did I not stumble across the Kinks before this, not even in college, when I was buying CDs by the bucketful and trying to catch up on 500 years of musical history in the span of four? This is shameful. Some of these songs I recognize from covers (Of Montreal did "Do You Remember Walter?" ; "Animal Farm" was covered by the Judybats, etc.), and yet it didn't occur to me to investigate the originals when I was first exposed? Whatever, brain. I'm also listening to the recently-discovered-by-me !!! (or Chk Chk Chk, or whatever -- what a silly name). Another band I'm getting around to five years late, though not nearly as exciting or worthwhile. After soaking in Ray Davies' graceful lyrics for the past couple of days, this dude sounds like a tool. Good beats, though. |
finds jazz boring. hmmm. one of my fondest memories from when i was in high school - and spider was in like first grade - was sitting around a campfire, drunk and stoned with my buddies, while strumming a guitar and singing "apeman". |
I have always loved the Kinks and am so happy that a youngin like Spider can appreciate them.They've been around as long as The Beatles and the Stones,but they get no respect. I always loved Lola,"Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola" |
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The Kinks' "A Well Respected Man" makes me think of XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" -- another song about the crushing banality of the (British) middle class. Elvis Costello has got to have a song or two on that subject, but I can't think of any right now...can you? |
That really makes no sense under examination. |
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They cover "Intruder" by Peter Gabriel, which is where my weak linkage formed. I'm full of unexamined false-beliefs. |
this was in the age of dial-up BBS, and there was a kid with the handle 'nigel' who hung himself. take the level of asshole you've observed in me and multiply it by sexually frustrated 17 year old, add excessive caffeine and you get several weeks of me crossing every line i could fine in ripping on this poor dead kid and the people who liked or loved him. my lesson in humility came when i found myself in the wrong house with the wrong people figuring out who i am. i ended up stuttering a confession and apology while a weathered old biker pointed a shotgun at me. he accepted my apology and told me to keep my nose clean and then kept everyone else from kicking the shit out of me while i scrambled out of there. |
"Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the way he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him. Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging. He said he'd think about it but it would take him a while to decide. I pointed out that we'd have to know soon, because Howard, who is a conductor, would have to hire and rehearse the musicians and he couldn't begin until he knew what the music was going to be. Colby said he'd always been fond of Ives's Fourth Symphony. Howard said that this was a "delaying tactic" and that everybody knew that the Ives was almost impossible to perform and would involve weeks of rehearsal, and that the size of the orchestra and chorus would put us way over the music budget. "Be reasonable," he said to Colby. Colby said he'd try to think of something a little less exacting." this, in turn, made me think that i wish i had bought some charles ives music today. |
this was college, and my roommate had assumed i would sleep through the quiet thunder of him pounding his girlfriend a few yards away. i woke to the warm swamp smell of her cunt, reached for the first thing i could find (the ives biography), and hurled it. i had hoped to hit one of them, but the book was heavy and i managed to land the book on the floor next to his bed, where they had set their beers. this i barely remember, and he remembers not at all. we then had a loud argument, that the neighbor girl recounted for us the next day. good for a laugh. we all messed around with that neighbor girl at some point. her name was vicky. perhaps, short for victoria. and back we are to the kinks. |
Charles Ives makes you work for your pleasure, a good trait in a composer. |
I bought Brian Wilson's Smile without listening to it,I don't care what the Rolling Stone said,it fecking sucked.I swiped fecking from you Dougie.Love |
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I believe that you and me last forever Oh yea all day and nighttime yours, leave me never The only time I feel alright is by your side Girl I want to be with you all of the time all day and all of the night All day and all of the night! All day and all of the night! |
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