At Home with TheKinks.....

["An English Boy" <peter_dennis_blandford_townshend@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I wasn't saying we compare best vs. best in the same year, I was making the
> point that by 1971 (WN) the Kinks were no longer on The Who's level (if you
> want to insist they were "for a while").


Until '69, TheWho-> were a long, long way from being a "household name"
in the musical vocabulary of the *average/casual* Rock Music fan. ONLY
"Thomas" to some degree, and later LAL and WN made TheWho->

In the 60s, TheKinks were an AM Radio staple, filling the charts with hit 
after hit,
regularly seen on TV (Shindig, Hullaballoo, etc.), far more so than 
TheWho->.
However, the 70's was the era of the record album (a famous journalist was
quoted as saying:

"The Rock music record album is *THE* Art Form of this {the1970s} decade!")

and though TheWho->, with the release of "Who->'s Next," began to dominate
the now popular FM radio waves with hits, TheKinks were still putting out 
vital,
thought provoking, intelligent, plot ridden concept albums one after another 
on
a par above _all_ other bands, sans the infrequent releases by Pete & Co.

Back in *the day* that's how it was. (guess maybe you had to be there, but
denying this reality is equivalent to the movement to refute the actuality 
of
the Holocaust.)



> Here's that text from previous post:
>
> >>>The Kinks were certainly on the Who level for
> >>>a while.
> >>
> >>Maybe before 1971.
> >>After that, no way.
>
> Which you obviously agree with considering you posted this about the Kinks
> after 1971:
>
> >> Everybody's in Showbiz ('72)
> >> Preservation Act I ('73)
> >> Preservation Act II ('74)



I {AEB} posted those titles, and stand by them completely. No matter what
Saint Marcus Lysergic Acidophilus  ;-)  says, after spinning all 4 sides
{2 studio...2 live} of "Everybody's in Showbiz" {containing the masterpiece
"Celluloid Heroes) I stand firmly by this album as a classic.




> >Then (again) the Eagles rule.



Kill Me Quickly!



> >For that matter, Kinks songs have been
> >used on The Sopranos, and Who songs have not! Ha-HA!
>
> I don't need to list The Who's TV and Movie accomplishments.



What about Ray Davies'/TheKinks' soundtrack work on the British film, 
"Percy"
from 1971, predating _any_ Pete/Who-> soundtrack credits by 3-4 years.





> >> Beatles are perhaps even greater in the public's
> >> mass opinion than The Who.



Countless bands are, to the casual listener.





> >> In no way do I feel their best is even close to the
> >> best of The Who



Pete does. I have even seen hand written letters for sale on Ebay, written 
by
Pete while on tour with TheWho-> circa 1968 telling Ray Davies how great
he thought TheKinks/Ray was.

TheKinks, at their best, are as good as it gets, worthy of standing shoulder
to shouder with ANY band, bar none.




> And, I'm sorry that I simply can not say that The Kinks are more important,
> or better, or have grander songs than The Who.
> Are others really saying that?



Yes!

"AnEnglishBoy" is saying that TheKinks are as important, not better, and
do have as grand of songs as TheWho->.


AEB~

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