The Kinks - Autumn Almanac Reaction
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this video we're listening to The Kinks. We've really been enjoying this band's music, and we're always eager to continue this journey with them. And we figured the autumn theme was suitable. Let's take a listen. Enjoy!
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The Kinks opened for the Beatles on there first major UK tour so the Beatles definitely knew the Kinks and the Kinks definitely knew the Beatles. In X-Ray Ray Davies autobiography he discusses them opening for the Beatles. John Lennon was giving Ray Davies a hard time before the show. The Kinks hadn't yet released You Really Got Me . As the Kinks stepped out on the stage John Lennon said to Ray Davies "iIfyou run out of songs we can lend you some". Ray turned back to him and said "We've got this one and played You Really Got Me which was usually their closing song. It was the first time most of the crowd had heard the song and they went crazy. The Kinks were kicked off the tour immediately.
Great song from one of my favourite bands. Ray Davies is one of the best songwriters in music. The Kinks are a treasure.
This man is the greatest english poet of the 20th Century
You have to hear their song “ Celluloid Heroes”. It’s about all the Hollywood actors and actresses that have passed on. I think it’s their best song.
Their album Arthur (or the Rise and Fall of the British Empire) is fantastic & was the soundtrack to a British teleplay. There are some great rockers on there such as “Victoria,” “Brainwashed,” “Shanghai-La,” “Mr. Churchill Says,” & “Arthur.”
This is from the year of Flower Power 1967. At that time we listened a lot to the English offshore stations such as Radio London, Radio Caroline and of course to our own offshore station Radio Veronica off the Dutch coast. Great time and in England and the Netherlands there were many many beat groups. The Kinks were one of my favorites.
A highly unusual structure for this song: apart from the two "la-la-la .... " choruses, they don't use the same tune twice anywhere. (In other words, it's a rhapsody, in the correct musical meaning of the term - look it up and you'll see what I mean.)
Note too the curiously flat tone to Ray's vocals, no hint of echo at all. It helps add to the harking-back-to-a-previous -era mood of the piece, as though it actually is a thirty year old recording.
Also just want to say watching you guys react to these incredible Kinks songs is really enjoyable. Also it's a very knowledgeable group of Kinks fans here. These recommendations have been the really good Kinks songs rather than the most well known ones. A suggestion for the next Kinks song whenever that is 20th Century Man. It's a wonderful song
I absolutely love the Kinks. Been watching them ever since they came over here during the British Invasion in the early 1960’s. Yes I’m that old 🙂
Ray Davies is a genius. Here's another single that wasn't on an album, in the era of Kinks' singles such as Deadend Street, Big Black Smoke, Mr. Pleasant, Days, etc. I followed the Kinks from the very beginning to the bitter end. God Save The Kinks!
This is one of my favorite songs. I heard something about the phrase “autumn almanac” being derived from another phrase in the song that was played backwards. This entire album is pure delight, with great great songs
Thank you for doing this. 🙂
Their music is so diverse they had songs like this and 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion', and 'All of The Day and All of The Night'. The great Ray and Dave Davies, they influenced so many bands at the time and later, bands such as 'The Jam' and 'The Stranglers' their music is timeless.
Yah! Fantastic song about Cherry Tree Woods (stiil there) in East Finchley, about a 10 minutes walk from where Ray Davies grew up and 5 minutes from the Clissold Arms where the Kinks first played which has loads of memorabilia from their early days and is a "Kinks' pub today. (The Who were influenced by The Kinks for their first hit single I Can't Explain). Incidentally Fairport Convention (Richard Thompson) were formed about a 10 minute walk away (but in posh Muswell Hill) from where the Kinks were formed. Autumn Almanac is a grower, keep playing it, I think Something Else is their best album too... I used to live in the area and my son loved playing in Cherry Tree Woods. It's a very safe and easy-going old London park full of trees, tennis courts, kids play areas, so they sound of the song reflects the character of the woods in Autumn. You would travel to Blackpool - the most famous seaside resort in Britain in the Autumn because they have the "Illuminations" an old fashion light show on every street introduced in 1879 to demonstrate what electric street lights look like (really) and each year built around a theme with many of the trams of the seafront lit up to look like gondolas or pirate ships or rockets. In the 60s that was a major childhood treat as only Blackpool had Illuminations. So a nostalgic look back at the pleasures of a damp Autumn, watching the Arsenal, whose football ground is nearby, Sunday roast lunch is more warming after the summer has cooled away. Great (North) London song. Love your reaction to those wonderful Muswell Hillbillies The Kinks! And do check out Ray's live version of Shangri-La at the (nearby) Roundhouse that you mention, it is a treat ua-cam.com/video/bI0QHXTM7Fo/v-deo.html
Chris is right. Not only did the Beatles listen to the Kinks Paul McCartney really liked their “Dead End Street” and arguably “Girl you really got me” is the most influential rock song of all time and influenced every rock band at the time including the Beatles. As for Ray Davies he liked the Beatles but was less impressed when they started to experiment with studio recordings like “Revolver” and “Sergeant Peppers Hearts Band” and in fact the album “Village Green Preservation Society” was very much a deliberate distancing by Davies from the growing psychedelia of the British musical scene.
Davies was every bit as talented songwriter as Lennon and McCartney and the main two reasons the Beatles were more successful was down them having two extraordinary songwriters and ironically the increasingly sophisticated study experimentation that Davies had refused to embrace in 1966. There is a UA-cam video about Davies lukewarm review of the Beatles’s album “Revolver” in the music magazine “Disc and Music Echo”which so incensed George Harrison that he responded in the following week’s edition!
Check out what McCartney (and the Beatles) thought of the Kinks in this interview with Rick Rubin - ua-cam.com/video/kIg9g-JrCrw/v-deo.html
👍👍 Old school classic. Great reaction. 🖖❤
Love the Kinks
Fortunately saw them Live in Concert at the Spectrum in Philly with Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson opening in 1979-80. The Kinks sounded Absolutely Amazing. Hunter/Ronson worked the crowd into a Frenzy. The Kinks were touring on the Low Budget album & Hunter/Ronson touring on the “You’re Never Alone With a Schizophrenic. Maybe react to the Kinks song from that album
1-Low Budget
2-Superman
3-Catch Me Know I’m Falling
All 3 Wonderful Songs from the Low Budget Album.
Wonderful Reaction as Always
Friday evening, ..... Tea & currant buns (not frosted).
Dave Davies sang a great song which is on the Kinks greatest hits called Death Of A Clown great song
....very nostalgic and evocative...a common theme in many of their songs...
Oh and by the way, love your channel. I always leave you guys a thumbs up 👍👍👍
In case you don't know, The Kinks were part of the so called British musical invasion of America in the 60s. However, they wouldn't sign US music Union forms and couldn't play there and neither side would back down. They went back to England and from then on decided to do English life tales. What they knew.
Up there with Keats and Byron
Love this ❤
And don’t forget to react to Gary Numan’s. “ We are Glass”. Thanks and have a great rest of your day.
Since we're at the start of autumn, I'll suggest , Falling leaves, by Snakecharmer. The band is really an who's who of classic rock stars.
for me the saddest line is. I like my football on a Saturday
like ray i remember a time when on sunday there was no football or cricket. a day of rest. now tv, the premier league and commercial interests means its non stop
I think you need to be British to get the nuances...... We played football on Saturday...... waited for the results on the wireless.. Then sunday was about the roast beef. The line "tea and a toasted buttered currant bun, are to compensate for lack of sun" is poetry and genius
Very few channels have reacted to Strangers, one by Dave Davies. Great track
But many acts have recently covered it. My 2nd favorite kinks song.
@@LSBBD So many stand out tracks it's hard to pick one. Which is yours?
If you like this, do try The Dukes Of Stratosphear. They really got that sound but with clearer Production. Maybe "The Mole From The Ministry" or "What In The World?". You won't regret it.
For full blown whimsical, there's always The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, perhaps, I'm The Urban Spaceman.
@@Sandy-dd4le That's true. They haven't done any of them yet.
@@SPKdesign1 it might be amusing!
Arent TDOS an XTC spin off?
@@Sandy-dd4le I was thinking "Canyons Of Your Mind" but that might be a bit much for them. Maybe "Ali Baba's Camel".
@@Sandy-dd4le The same band but The Dukes are a homage/parody of 60s style music.
Yea a really good song , sadly I’m only getting one channel on my moby and I’m too much of a tech dork to figure out the issue and maybe fix it 😅
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'Autumn Almanac' - Speaking of alliterations! 😉 And hopefully the channel still working for you was the one with the lead vocals on it, which were panned hard Right 😅
@@mightyV444 nope .. I could hear mainly drums and sone backing vocals , with a distant lead vocal 🤔
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - Reminds me of my very first 'pseudo' stereo when I was 9 (in '79), passed on to me from my Big Brother and which had only 1 speaker. I got obsessed with the very spooky-sounding 'Blue Jay Way' single by the Beatles ...and got a fright 25 years or so later when I listened to that song for the first time on YT, because it suddenly had very loud and clearly audible vocals! At first I was confused, but then I realised that they must've been on the missing channel of my old stereo, hence I'd only heard spooky whispering back then 👻😄
LOL
Buy some headphones.
Quite nice, but the lead vocals not being centred in the stereo mix kinda irritated me.
A lot of older Reggae tracks had just the vocal on one channel.
@@SPKdesign1 - I wonder why?! I do understand it in _this_ case, as the lead vocal is obviously meant to be in balance with the backing vocals that later enter on the other channel. I'd still not mix it like that myself, though! 😄
@@mightyV444 I think partly the limitation in recording equipment but also, a lot of studios/Producers would use the track for more than one artist, making it far cheaper and faster to produce.
Lee Perry was a master at this. A lot of his stuff could have three or four or more different Vocals over it as well as Instrumental versions with maybe a Sax over the main piece or extra Horns or Keyboards.
@@SPKdesign1 - That definitely could be _one_ explanation, yes! 🙂
This is one of my top 5 Kinks songs (I think... they've got so many bangers).