How Do I get into The Kinks?

How Do I get into The Kinks?
What is considered their worst and what is considered their best?

Village Green Preservation Society is a great record. Arthur is good too.

Rise and fall of the British empire

>GUYS WE'RE AS GOOD AS THE BEATLES TRUST US
Shit sucks.

You'll think they are really awesome at first but then three songs later you will be tired of listening to them.

Great singles band, Sunny Afternoon is amazing

Start here and move forward

listen to the singles the albums are boring

Their 66-70 phase is a must listen. If you like it then listen to 64-65 and 71-77. Everything else is kinda of meh (a few exceptions though).

Terribly boring political band. Just get the hits.

This, started from this, and am a big fan of them rn

>sunny afternoon

I love the kinks but it does make me cringe when scaruffi says they were better songwriters than the beatles.

Ray was definitely a better lyricist than any of the Beatles though, for certain

PFFFAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHA dream on, Dave, the Kinks lyric's are about nothing, they're as vague as you can get, just thinly-veiled commie nonsense.

Well you've almost got the subtitle of one of their albums there. Hint: it's actually called Arthur

Not the person you replied to but have you listened to the lyrics on lola or anything off of the rise and fall of the british empire

Once again, there's no Kinks abum called "Rise and Fall of The British Empire." You're thinking of Arthur. That's the albums name. In parentheses next to "Arthur" its says "(Or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire)." It was the soundtrack for a TV rock opera/play they were working on but never completed.

I bet you really impress people when you tell them about The White Album as well.

Knowing the title to a record is impressive to you?

That's pretty funny user

samefag

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>being ignorant is cool

Village Green>Arthur>Something Else>Lola Versus>Muswell Hillbillies

>just thinly-veiled commie nonsense.
if anything that's why I like the kinks

lol are you serious?

Yup, serious. That's not the name of the album.

Where would you get the idea that the Kinks were "commie nonsense?" A lot of their values seemed kind of traditionalist and nostalgic.

Remember Stalin killed more than Hitler. You're quite literally a holocaust denier.

Nothing about the Kinks was even vaguely "commie"

60s labour voters, who were in vogue at the time, are now very disgusting. The work the Tories are doing in eliminating the sick and disabled poor flock should be celebrated.

>The work the Tories are doing in eliminating the sick and disabled poor flock should be celebrated.
what does that mean

Listen to the album 'the rise and fall of the british empire'. It has very anti-war and socialist themes

It means he's a stupid poltard that doesn't know how to post in the correct section of the website.

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I would, but it turns out there's no album with that name. What about that album Arthur? Any of those themes on there?

this thread is the weirdest shit ive seen in a long time

Nice meme. Pity it doesn't sway the facts.

No, there are no socialist or communist themes on arthur