The most underrated band in rock history possibly. Ray Davies is a songwriter that few can be compared to , certainly in the same league as the very best of this generation. The depth of his lyrics and direct reflections of the social classes in post war England are unparalleled . This is likely what prevented the commercial success others enjoyed who wrote much less intelligent music. Furthermore he didn't rely on regurgitating American blues music to ship back the the US whitewashed.
There's not a single song The Kinks did in the 60's that I dislike, Ray Davies was an incredibly gifted and prolific writer and Dave Davies is such an underrated guitarist.
You are leaving out the initial reason of their problems Ray Davies would not perform in their concerts because he was a terrible alcoholic I remember I had friends who used to promote concerts and they were scared of promoting the kinks because they would lose their money if he wouldn’t show up or show up drunk I would also like to know what got him banned from the United States which you don’t delve into Ps when I was 10 years old my parents took me to France and I met them at the airport and asked for their autograph which they were very nice to give me I didn’t even know who they were I just heard a big commotion at the airport after they’re too big rock hits you really got me and all day and all of the night most people had no idea what the rest of their records they were too many good groups in the 60s to listen to their eclectic songs I like tired of waiting for you and maybe Sunday afternoon but you cannot compare the rest of the material to The monster songs of the decade and of course the Beatles and the stones
@@victorsamuelson3589 "you cannot compare the rest of the material to The monster songs of the decade". You are right you can't. Kinks lyrics are so much better and capable to withstand the passing of time than Beatles, Rolling Stones and Who.
Hard to add anything to Stephanie's post. They were (are still!) in the top 2 or 3 most awesome (in the literal sense) rock groups of our epoch. Or forever, since Rock music is more or less deceased. Given that Raymond Douglas Davies was virtually the sole composer of both music & words, that more or less puts him on par with the Beatles. But no need to compare him with anyone, especially not the God-like Beatles, he was/is a more rarefied thing: a master musical storyteller, eternally transcendent.
One of the greatest bands ever, with the catalog to prove it. Unfortunately, they shot themselves in the foot almost every chance they got, starting when they were banned from the US and keeping up right through to today with their bickering scuttling any hope of a reunion. If they had been a little shrewder and sensible, they might have been more recognized today.
That US ban made them better as they could do/be what they were in spite of greedy producers' pressures. Fortunately, they didn't become a product as Beatles and Stones got reduced to.
The reason the Kinks were barred from the US from 1965 thru 1969 was that one of the Davies brothers had an altercation in Sacramento during their 1965 North American Tour with a US musicians union rep who reported the incident. That ended the tour and put the ban in place.
I didn’t know about that, until later and I grew up in Sacramento and saw 11 of rock concerts between 1965 and 1967 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium thanks to my mom since I was 10-12 years old at the time…….my mom would have taken me to see the Kinks too.
It was more than that. they skipped a concert then played one song for 45 minutes and pissed off a union jerk at the dickhead clark show who made good on his threat he'd have them banned
One of the best British invasion bands. These guys have such a catalogue of genius songs. They were blessed having Ray Davies in the band. The Beatles & Rolling Stones had 2 great songwriters, the kinks only one. " celluloid heroes" is another example of his genius. A true masterpiece.
Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Muswell Hillbillies, Preservation, Lola Vs. Powerman and so much more. I"ve always said these guys are the second greatest of the British invasion bands. Everyone wants to pit the Stones against The Beatles but it isn't even close. The Kinks were far more creative than the Stones.
@@julenepegher6999 I’m 73 years old I started out a full blown Beatles fan in 1964 - also the stones in the beginning were in my book better than the kinks - then 1966 happened and that’s when the kinks surpassed the stones forever - I love the Beatles and Ray and Dave (Mick) - I still have to put the Beatles first followed closely by the MIGHTY KINKS!
Well with the exception of Dave Davies, every former member of the Kinks (including Ray) has performed with the 'Kast off Kinks', who are a fantastic live act and keep the original music very much alive.
i don't understand why the 3 studio albums "Sleepwalker" (1977), "Misfits" (1978) and "State Of Confusion" (1983) and the double live album "One For The Road" (1980) were not mentioned in this supposed thorough overview of the band. All 4 were great albums.
They were the great compromise date night with your girl. You want to go to the heavyweight boxing match, she wants to see the symphony. You both comprise and go to a Kinks concert instead.
I love The Kinks I dare call the my favorite band so here are my top 10 favorite Kinks songs 10 - You Really Got Me 09 - Lola 08 - Tired of Waiting for You 07 - Set Me Free 06 - Most Exclusive Residence for Sale 05 - Apeman 04 - Village Green 03 - See My Friends 02 - Deadend Street 01 - Sunny Afternoon
Joseph my top ten which changes often ….I need you - artificial man- holiday romance- around the dial - 20th century man - picture book - celluloid Heroes live - pictures in the sand - alcohol live - jukebox music… plus the rest of the catalog of 700 songs!!!!
Ok, why did I NOT hear the name 'LOLA' anywhere in this video! Easily, the most influential song of the Kink's catalog & a MONSTER hit back in 1970. Everything about 'Lola' was iconic. From the super powerful 12 string guitar vamp, to Ray's fabulous vocal work, to ...Oh Hell, the whole damn song is perfection!!
Loved The Kinks up to Lola vs Powerman then I increasingly lost interest. There was some undefinable quality to Ray's songwriting and the group's sound of that early period that for me seemed to go missing after that time. Even the non-released songs that later appeared on The Great Lost album were ... great. I saw them live in 1971. I recall they ran on stage and launched straight into Till the End of the Day. It was heaven.
I find it kind of sad that you continuously lost interest past Lola. Muswell Hillbillies might be my favorite album by them! I absolutely love a handful of songs off of show biz too (with a brilliant live album behind it also). I know people generally don’t like their preservation acts but to me it’s some of their best writing and playing even if it’s a bit overstuffed. Soap opera and schoolboys are also perfect imo. Past that point they become very 50/50 to me and get increasingly iffy, and to each their own ofc, but I absolutely adore a lot of what they did in the 70s. Soap opera might even be my favorite album depending on the day.
@@brendanspaulding7930 I tried to like their later albums more but always found myself going back to their Pye period. Muswell Hillbillies was good but to me that 'something' was missing. Like you I enjoyed Soap Opera (not many people did at the time) which to me had the vitality and witty British social observation that Ray Davies excelled at but I felt was increasingly missing.
@@brendanspaulding7930 The whole theatrical period of the kinks is soooooo underrated in my opinion. Such great storytelling. Its the period I listen to the most, especially the preservation albums
Hey we know all ABOUT the Kinks- you give us 2 minutes of what happened to The Kinks. Well- Ian Gibbons passed away 2019 and in 08 the first Kinks box set " picture book"6 cd set (8 previously unreleased songs). One magazine in England contained a live song on audio tape 2004ish...I've purchased all of the Expanded Cds and there is Alot if stuff out there Kool Kollectors who Kontinue to Kollect to build up their Aries. God Save the Kinks. I can't find Arthur..Or the.......50th 4cd anywhere!!!!!!! There are some newly recorded pieces there even DooWop(!?)
"You Really got Me" was the first ever British rock song spawning the likes of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, "Set ne Free Little Girl" was the first ever rock ballad, they literally invented rock music as we know it today...
Kinks had some really good songs.. Celluloid Heroes was popular in the 70's since it was translated in other languages. But what about 'Death of a Clown'? Really? I once thought it was Bob Dylan. But anyway a great song.
I liked them, and also the song 'Lola' (1970) is valid these days, and a clue to what happens these days: "Well, that's the way that I want it to stay And I always want it to be that way for my Lola Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world Except for Lola Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola How true...... Many of the bands, groups, singers from those long gone days (from the late 1950's, 60's), are far superior than some of the crap we have these days....😀
@@monkeytennis7477 They were still together for quite awhile married or not. And didn't he suffer severe injuries chasing down a man in New Orleans after the guy grabbed his girlfriends purse?. He doesn't sound like any homo to me. Dave Davies on the other hand is very open about his bi-sexuality.
How could you fail to mention Lola vs Powerman, Sleepwalker, and Misfits???? Really, are you qualified to do this? Those are great albums for any Kinks fan.
The most underrated band in rock history possibly. Ray Davies is a songwriter that few can be compared to , certainly in the same league as the very best of this generation. The depth of his lyrics and direct reflections of the social classes in post war England are unparalleled . This is likely what prevented the commercial success others enjoyed who wrote much less intelligent music. Furthermore he didn't rely on regurgitating American blues music to ship back the the US whitewashed.
Stimme dir voll zu !! (Means I agree totally!!)
@@canuckdave3397 If it wasn't for the American blues you brits would never had gotten past 'skiffle'.
There's not a single song The Kinks did in the 60's that I dislike, Ray Davies was an incredibly gifted and prolific writer and Dave Davies is such an underrated guitarist.
Hard to believe it's been 45 years since I went to a Kinks concert in Toronto.....but the memory's like it was yesterday. Great concert!
You are leaving out the initial reason of their problems Ray Davies would not perform in their concerts because he was a terrible alcoholic I remember I had friends who used to promote concerts and they were scared of promoting the kinks because they would lose their money if he wouldn’t show up or show up drunk I would also like to know what got him banned from the United States which you don’t delve into Ps when I was 10 years old my parents took me to France and I met them at the airport and asked for their autograph which they were very nice to give me I didn’t even know who they were I just heard a big commotion at the airport after they’re too big rock hits you really got me and all day and all of the night most people had no idea what the rest of their records they were too many good groups in the 60s to listen to their eclectic songs I like tired of waiting for you and maybe Sunday afternoon but you cannot compare the rest of the material to The monster songs of the decade and of course the Beatles and the stones
Fascinating
@@victorsamuelson3589 "you cannot compare the rest of the material to The monster songs of the decade". You are right you can't. Kinks lyrics are so much better and capable to withstand the passing of time than Beatles, Rolling Stones and Who.
Low Budget is a great album that successfully competed with Punk and Disco of the time.
Agree, not a bad song on it. Turning point for them going it the 80's.
the live album one for the road was also a great record
I saw them 1974,79,80,89🎯🇺🇸 🌹 I saw Ray in 2010🤓 My favorite band of all time. Check out, the kinks choral Collection 👌💐
Ahead of their time, misunderstood, and underappreciated. God help the human race. They just don't get it. Will always be my favorite band.
Ray is, in my estimation, the greatest English songwriter of The Beatles' era who wasn't a Beatle.
One of my favorites too! ❤
Absolutely agree with you Stephanie
Good!
Hard to add anything to Stephanie's post. They were (are still!) in the top 2 or 3 most awesome (in the literal sense) rock groups of our epoch. Or forever, since Rock music is more or less deceased. Given that Raymond Douglas Davies was virtually the sole composer of both music & words, that more or less puts him on par with the Beatles. But no need to compare him with anyone, especially not the God-like Beatles, he was/is a more rarefied thing: a master musical storyteller, eternally transcendent.
Saw them live 4 times. Loved them. Underrated for sure.
Couldn't agree more!
8 times in Germ.
One of the greatest bands ever, with the catalog to prove it. Unfortunately, they shot themselves in the foot almost every chance they got, starting when they were banned from the US and keeping up right through to today with their bickering scuttling any hope of a reunion. If they had been a little shrewder and sensible, they might have been more recognized today.
Bro fvck that rock and rooooooolllll success came to them on their terms. They did more than most.
My thoughts exactly.
One of the best British invasion bands.
That US ban made them better as they could do/be what they were in spite of greedy producers' pressures. Fortunately, they didn't become a product as Beatles and Stones got reduced to.
The reason the Kinks were barred from the US from 1965 thru 1969 was that one of the Davies brothers had an altercation in Sacramento during their 1965 North American Tour with a US musicians union rep who reported the incident. That ended the tour and put the ban in place.
I didn’t know about that, until later and I grew up in Sacramento and saw 11 of rock concerts between 1965 and 1967 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium thanks to my mom since I was 10-12 years old at the time…….my mom would have taken me to see the Kinks too.
It was more than that. they skipped a concert then played one song for 45 minutes and pissed off a union jerk at the dickhead clark show who made good on his threat he'd have them banned
One of the best British invasion bands. These guys have such a catalogue of genius songs. They were blessed having Ray Davies in the band. The Beatles & Rolling Stones had 2 great songwriters, the kinks only one.
" celluloid heroes" is another example of his genius. A true masterpiece.
700 songs!!!!! GSTK
I really wish I could have seen them live 😭
Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Muswell Hillbillies, Preservation, Lola Vs. Powerman and so much more. I"ve always said these guys are the second greatest of the British invasion bands. Everyone wants to pit the Stones against The Beatles but it isn't even close. The Kinks were far more creative than the Stones.
Here here !! You are spot on !!
Even jaggers son said he like the kinks more than the stones.
I would pick the Kinks over the Beatles and Stones, Hands Down!👏
@@julenepegher6999 I’m 73 years old I started out a full blown Beatles fan in 1964 - also the stones in the beginning were in my book better than the kinks - then 1966 happened and that’s when the kinks surpassed the stones forever - I love the Beatles and Ray and Dave (Mick) - I still have to put the Beatles first followed closely by the MIGHTY KINKS!
@@julenepegher6999 no sorry it is Beatles Kinks Stones
Well with the exception of Dave Davies, every former member of the Kinks (including Ray) has performed with the 'Kast off Kinks', who are a fantastic live act and keep the original music very much alive.
......Sleepwalker?......one of the greatest records ever made.
I've always argued that You Really Got Me was the UK's first punk song.
@@userbosco I think you mean ROCK!.
First concert ever! 1977 ip was 15 :) ❣️
I’m a major Kinks fan love you Ray “A Well Respected Man”
Me too since 64 GSTK
My favorite tune along with Waterloo Sunset
Sorry...since 66
Great video!
Great video
i don't understand why the 3 studio albums "Sleepwalker" (1977), "Misfits" (1978) and "State Of Confusion" (1983) and the double live album "One For The Road" (1980) were not mentioned in this supposed thorough overview of the band. All 4 were great albums.
True...also,what about Percy ?
@@davidg1087 not to mention “the great lost kinks album” and “80 days” bootleg
One for the road is one of the best live albums ever!
No mention of Ray getting shot in New Orleans
Face to face through Village Green Preservation society is my top 3 album run.
They were the great compromise date night with your girl. You want to go to the heavyweight boxing match, she wants to see the symphony. You both comprise and go to a Kinks concert instead.
The album Sleepwalker was left out.
Lawrence Hicks played drums for the Kinks for a short time in London.
I love The Kinks I dare call the my favorite band
so here are my top 10 favorite Kinks songs
10 - You Really Got Me
09 - Lola
08 - Tired of Waiting for You
07 - Set Me Free
06 - Most Exclusive Residence for Sale
05 - Apeman
04 - Village Green
03 - See My Friends
02 - Deadend Street
01 - Sunny Afternoon
Wow how could you leave out Waterloo Sunset.
@@pam-gw6uk you're right the kinks have so many good songs is hard just pick then so think it on number 11
Don't forget I'm Not Like Everybody Else- IMHO their best
Till the end of the day
Joseph my top ten which changes often ….I need you - artificial man- holiday romance- around the dial - 20th century man - picture book - celluloid Heroes live - pictures in the sand - alcohol live - jukebox music… plus the rest of the catalog of 700 songs!!!!
Jsem pamětník šedesátých let a Kinks jsem poslouchal na RFE. Rádio Svobodná Evropa. Kinks mám velice rád. Děkuji a zdravím srdečně.
Better than the Beatles in my opinion. Love the Kinks 💕❤️
What ever happened to the "Bay City Rollers", out of Michigan. They dressed Scottish, if I remember right??
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Ok, why did I NOT hear the name 'LOLA' anywhere in this video! Easily, the most influential song of the Kink's catalog & a MONSTER hit back in 1970. Everything about 'Lola' was iconic. From the super powerful 12 string guitar vamp, to Ray's fabulous vocal work, to ...Oh Hell, the whole damn song is perfection!!
It was mentioned.
Good band with some tough breaks. Ray is a talented writer. Low Budget is great album. We used to listen to it a lot. Check it out!
You forgot one of their best albums “Sleep Walker”
I don't understand why the 'preservation ' albums were so underappreciated. They were fine, were they not?
My favourite album was Misfits...didn't get a mention
It's pronounced "Davis"
And they put out records and toured up to at least the 90's like contemporaries the Stones and the Who.
...quite simply a monster band!...God Bless the Kinks!...
BS none of their music was a let down it was miles ahead of all the other crap out there along with the WHO
Love you, Peter Q. 💖🎶☮️
Kinks, Beatles, Who. The Holy Trinity.
Love them 💛
Loved The Kinks up to Lola vs Powerman then I increasingly lost interest. There was some undefinable quality to Ray's songwriting and the group's sound of that early period that for me seemed to go missing after that time. Even the non-released songs that later appeared on The Great Lost album were ... great. I saw them live in 1971. I recall they ran on stage and launched straight into Till the End of the Day. It was heaven.
My favorite stuff starts with powerman and everything after that.
Word of Mouth, Give the People, Phobia,
I find it kind of sad that you continuously lost interest past Lola. Muswell Hillbillies might be my favorite album by them! I absolutely love a handful of songs off of show biz too (with a brilliant live album behind it also). I know people generally don’t like their preservation acts but to me it’s some of their best writing and playing even if it’s a bit overstuffed. Soap opera and schoolboys are also perfect imo. Past that point they become very 50/50 to me and get increasingly iffy, and to each their own ofc, but I absolutely adore a lot of what they did in the 70s. Soap opera might even be my favorite album depending on the day.
@@brendanspaulding7930 I tried to like their later albums more but always found myself going back to their Pye period. Muswell Hillbillies was good but to me that 'something' was missing. Like you I enjoyed Soap Opera (not many people did at the time) which to me had the vitality and witty British social observation that Ray Davies excelled at but I felt was increasingly missing.
@@brendanspaulding7930 The whole theatrical period of the kinks is soooooo underrated in my opinion. Such great storytelling. Its the period I listen to the most, especially the preservation albums
Muswell Hillbillies is my favorite album of theirs, everything in the period 67-73 was the very best
So, in other words, the Kinks are still happening . . .
Killer Kinks
The kinks were kicked out of the US when they arguably made their best music. That's what happened to the kinks!
God save The Kinks!
Kinks always needed keys. Their music was way too colorful to not have them
Hey we know all ABOUT the Kinks- you give us 2 minutes of what happened to The Kinks. Well- Ian Gibbons passed away 2019 and in 08 the first Kinks box set " picture book"6 cd set (8 previously unreleased songs). One magazine in England contained a live song on audio tape 2004ish...I've purchased all of the Expanded Cds and there is Alot if stuff out there Kool Kollectors who Kontinue to Kollect to build up their Aries. God Save the Kinks. I can't find Arthur..Or the.......50th 4cd anywhere!!!!!!! There are some newly recorded pieces there even DooWop(!?)
"You Really got Me" was the first ever British rock song spawning the likes of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, "Set ne Free Little Girl" was the first ever rock ballad, they literally invented rock music as we know it today...
Totally skipped Sleepwalker and Misfits some of the best stuff in th 70's..I should know
Kinks had some really good songs.. Celluloid Heroes was popular in the 70's since it was translated in other languages. But what about 'Death of a Clown'? Really? I once thought it was Bob Dylan. But anyway a great song.
2 icons for me....the kinks and the who!!! The greatest bands ever
What happened----the same thing that happens to ALL of us; They got
OLD, and some....died....
I liked them, and also the song 'Lola' (1970) is valid these days, and a clue to what happens these days:
"Well, that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
Except for Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
How true......
Many of the bands, groups, singers from those long gone days (from the late 1950's, 60's), are far superior than some of the crap we have these days....😀
They got straightened out, HAHAHAhaha....i am sorry, i will leave.
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@@whathappenedtothem_ very gratefull for sending me to the spot where you did them thanks
Ray Davies was on of if not the first homosexual pop star of his generation. Great video.
He is not a homosexual, he was married to Chrisy Hynde for years.
@@lilajagears8317He was not married to Chrissie Hynde, they had a fling and she had his baby. They never married each other.
@@monkeytennis7477 They were still together for quite awhile married or not. And didn't he suffer severe injuries chasing down a man in New Orleans after the guy grabbed his girlfriends purse?. He doesn't sound like any homo to me. Dave Davies on the other hand is very open about his bi-sexuality.
They got old!
Your gonna get old too numbnuts
Jesus,, get a new guy to do the narration, I could handle about 30 seconds before it became too much.
idk, who cares. they couldnt even sing well
Bite me😡
So you watched a video about a band you don't like just to say THAT?
How could you fail to mention Lola vs Powerman, Sleepwalker, and Misfits???? Really, are you qualified to do this?
Those are great albums for any Kinks fan.
I don’t understand the “what happened to the Kinks”??
Better title would've been " Some things that happened to the Kinks"