does anybody rembr a band called the kinks from the 80 s - thy had some ok tunes so much half the time I would listen to them sometimes if i ewas drinking drinkon but not in a heavy mdal music mood insted of loike van haln or Def Leoprd I would play the Kinks if I wanted to just chill.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Um, Kinks? Like the great british group that spanned the 60's,70's, 80's, 90's Kinks? Like Come Dancing Kinks? A lot of people remember them.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
THE KINKS gfo further back than the 80s....but a lot of people who like 80s music arent aware that some of the songs they like were originally KINKS songs. For examples, VAN HALEN did versions of YOU REALLY GOT ME and WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE and THE PRETENDERS did a cover of STOP YOUR SOBBING. Other popular KINKS songs are ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT LOLA APE MAN IN THE SUMMERTIME SO TIRED OF WAITING FOR YOU FATHER CHRISTMAS COME DANCING
I love THE KINKS and listen to their Greatest Hits every so often.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
The Kinks were so good, but they were in the shadow of the Beatles, Stones and Who, and they weren't as big in the US as the UK. Waterloo Sunset was amazing. Green Day's Warning song sounds a lot like the Kink's Picture Book. Another great band that was good in the 70's was Slade, but didn't make a dent in the US.
Posted by joker (Member # 3840) on :
i love this band i wished thay wood do a reunion tour so i could see them live
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
Destroyer is one of my all time favorite songs.
We are DEVO
Posted by Colt 45 (Member # 4940) on :
My favorit was 'Rally on a saturday'.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
God! I cant belive I forgot to put down DESTROYER and SUPERMAN as KINKS songs I like! Good stuff, good stuff.
By the way, mentioning SLADE made me think of QUIET RIOT covering a lot of Slade songs. A lot of people don't know that stuff like Mama Weer All Crazee Now was done by SLADE.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I like Apeman too, the whole album of Green Preservation society is amazing. Another group from that time I love is the Creation. Making time and How does it Feel wer so cool.
Slade were an amazing band, I was checking stuff of them on Youtube, and they were quite explosive. I think Enuff Z'nuff covered Slade too, Goodbye tuh Jane I believe. The Scorpions did Skweeze me, pleese me also. Funny, aside from their song Mental Health, Quiet Riot pretty much owed their whole career to Slade.
Posted by Capt Pugwash (Member # 5458) on :
Kinks....
Have to say the best band I ever saw live... think it was 94.... last UK tour...
Ray did an acoustic set first.... Then a legendary lesson in rock n roll.... Dave Davies is soooooooooooooo underated....
The bit that stood out was when someone shouted out "Death Of A Clown"... Ray looked at Dave and said something like... what do you think?... Dave just walked up to the Mike and let rip... stunning.....
It is such a shame that Dave had such a tragic accident and will probably never be the same again... although there was talk of a full Kinks reunion in last year I think, but nothing came of it....
"The Kinks were so good, but they were in the shadow of the Beatles, Stones and Who.."... did you know that Mike Avory briefly played for the Rolling Stones?.... but didn't want a fulltime job!!!...
Anyway back to the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Earth Angel (Member # 3301) on :
The kinks were abusive to my mum when she was a teenager...she's never liked em since. I however think despite them being idiots...they have done some briliiant songs X
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I guess the Davies brothers were the blueprint for the musical dysfunction/sibling thing that Oasis is. Both brothers are kind of testy personalities, hard to believe that Ray married another testy singer in Chrissie Hynde in the 80's.
