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been on a major kinks bender lately, so what the hell, here goes

 

1. Days

2. Waterloo Sunset

3. Victoria

4. Lost and Found

5. Death of a Clown

6. Till the End of the Day

7. This is Where I Belong

8. Shangri La

9. Sleepwalker

10. Well-Respected Man

11. Village Green Preservation Society

12. Get Back in Line

13. Mindless Child of Motherhood

14. Dedicated Follower of Fashion

15. Living on a Thin Line

16. Plastic Man

17. Polly

18. Celluloid Heroes

19. Better Things

20. Jack the Idiot Dunce

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Two Sisters

Death of a Clown

Autumn Almanac

David Watts

Afternoon Tea

Dead End Street

Sunny Afternoon

Alcohol

Sitting By the Riverside

Don't Ever Change

Stop Your Sobbin'

Rosy Won't You Please Come Home

Mr Pleasant

Animal Farm

Starstruck

You Really Got Me

All Day and All of the Night

Tired of Waiting For You

Wonderboy

 

and Dar Williams's cover of "Better Things"

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Waterloo Sunset

Two Sisters

Picture Book

Hairy Rag

Tired Of Waiting For You

Celluloid Heroes

Village Green Preservation Society

Sunny Afternoon

Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

Days

Stop Your Sobbing

Nothing In the World Can Stop Me Worrying Bout That Girl

Situation Vacant

20th Century Man

Lola

Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Come Dancing

Rosie Won't You Please Come Home

Afternoon Tea

Apeman

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In no particular order:

 

20th Century Man

Muswell Hillbillies

Here Come the People in Grey

Mountain Woman

Have a Cuppa Tea

Waterloo Sunset

Rats

Apeman

Lola

Get Back in Line

This Time Tomorrow

Celluloid Heroes

Can't Stop the Music

Destroyer

You Really Got Me

All Day and All of the Night

Victoria

Plastic Man

A Rock and Roll Fantasy

Father Christmas

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Not a lot of love for this masterpiece.

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That one's hard for me to get into. It always strikes me as morose, especially after so many joyous sounding tunes (musically, if not always lyrically) on Village Green and Arthur, which I got into shortly before Muswell Hillbillies. Maybe someday it'll click for me. Actualy, maybe it will now. I haven't played it in over a year.

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That one's hard for me to get into. It always strikes me as morose, especially after so many joyous sounding tunes (musically, if not always lyrically) on Village Green and Arthur, which I got into shortly before Muswell Hillbillies. Maybe someday it'll click for me. Actualy, maybe it will now. I haven't played it in over a year.

Yeah. It's definitely quite a departure from what they'd be doing up to that point stylistically. I'm not as enamored with the 60's catalog as I am with their 70's catalog. So I guess I didn't bring those expectations when I first heard MH.

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Not a lot of love for this masterpiece.

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Yeah. It's definitely quite a departure from what they'd be doing up to that point stylistically. I'm not as enamored with the 60's catalog as I am with their 70's catalog. So I guess I didn't bring those expectations when I first heard MH.

 

I think your right on all counts. For me it's their best overall album.

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01 do you remember walter (the village green preservation society)

02 autumn almanac (single)

03 20th century man (muswell hillbillies)

04 where have all the good times gone (the kink kontroversy)

05 god's children (percy)

06 yes sir, no sir (arthur or the decline and fall of the british empire)

07 animal farm (the village green preservation society)

08 waterloo sunset (something else/single)

09 muswell hillbilly (muswell hillbillies)

10 plastic man (single)

11 dead end street (single)

12 big sky (the village green preservation society)

13 the village green preservation society (the village green preservation society)

14 come dancing (single)

15 dandy (face to face)

16 berkeley mews (single)

17 this time tomorrow (lola versus powerman and the moneygoround)

18 duck's on the wall (soap opera)

19 sitting by the riverside (the village green preservation society)

20 moments (percy)

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Before I posted this, there were 3. Two by Todd, one by you. All good. I beefed up the Hillbilly love with 5 cuts.

 

 

:cheers

 

There was no reason for me to not count your cuts in, since you posted them before your post about how MH hadn't much love for you.

 

As for me, my feelings are the same as jff about it. I love it, but on repeated listens, not as much as I would like, since it's quite morose.

 

In my opinion, the Kinks lost a little something after 1968. But Ray Davies had still some kind of class after, nonetheless.

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You Really Got Me

Stop Your Sobbing

All Day and All of the Night

Tired of Waiting for You

A Well Respected Man

Death of a Clown

Celluloid Heroes

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Sunny Afternoon

Waterloo Sunset

Picture Book

Apeman

Lola

Come Dancing

Superman

State of Confusion

Living on a Thin Line

Where Have All the Good Times Gone

Don't Forget to Dance

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Not in order and not definitive but here's 20:

 

No More Looking Back

Death of a Clown

Waterloo Sunset

Victoria

Well Respected Man

Village Green Preservation Society

David Watts

Stop Your Sobbin'

Ducks on the Wall

Tired of Waiting

I'm Not Like Everybody Else

Celluloid Heroes

Trust Your Heart

Plastic Man

20th Century Man

Set Me Free

Till The End of the Day

Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Sunny Afternoon

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

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waterloo sunset

mindless child of motherhood

do you remember, walter?

20th century man

where have all the good times gone?

celluloid heroes

rock and roll fantasy

arthur

till the end of the day

see my friends

set me free

tired of waiting for you

i'm not like everybody else

love me til the sun shines

picture book

big sky

get back in line

god's children

father christmas

the contenders

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