Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
01-25-11, 10:02 AM
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Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
01-25-11, 10:18 AM
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it's a Rolling Stone list ... why would you bother bellyaching?
the fact the Mats aren't on there makes it irrelevant
the fact the Mats aren't on there makes it irrelevant
01-25-11, 10:46 AM
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Re: Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
Of course I'm not going to agree with the rankings, but there's some nice write-ups. I like this one:
The Kinks
Peter Buck
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I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time. When everyone was writing about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some suburb of London. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. He invented his world and gave it life. And in that world, people weren't wearing Nehru jackets, smoking pot and jamming for twenty-four hours a day. The Kinks created a different world — and I'm glad for it.
When I first heard Village Green Preservation Society, in 1971, I got this picture in my head of small-town English life: village greens, draft beer. But when R.E.M. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill — and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. From "Waterloo Sunset," I had this picture of a gorgeous vista — when it's really a grimy train-station area. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. There is a great air of sadness in those songs.
I am amazed at how great the Kinks' records sounded — even though, when you listen closely, there is very little going on in them. Village Green is the best example: There are two or three instruments in each song. And yet the songs are perfectly realized, well arranged.
I read that Ray wrote "You Really Got Me" on piano. Then he gives it to his brother Dave, this teenage maniac, who turns it into a demented guitar part. An interviewer once asked Dave if he thought the Kinks had gone heavy metal in the Eighties. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." When R.E.M. started, Dave's solo on that song was the only solo I knew. So whenever I had to do a solo, I'd play that.
The Kinks slipped into rock history through the back door. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face and Village Green — nobody bought those records in the Sixties. But those of us who love those records — and a lot of us are musicians — have loved them for more than thirty years.
The Kinks
Peter Buck
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I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time. When everyone was writing about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some suburb of London. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. He invented his world and gave it life. And in that world, people weren't wearing Nehru jackets, smoking pot and jamming for twenty-four hours a day. The Kinks created a different world — and I'm glad for it.
When I first heard Village Green Preservation Society, in 1971, I got this picture in my head of small-town English life: village greens, draft beer. But when R.E.M. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill — and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. From "Waterloo Sunset," I had this picture of a gorgeous vista — when it's really a grimy train-station area. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. There is a great air of sadness in those songs.
I am amazed at how great the Kinks' records sounded — even though, when you listen closely, there is very little going on in them. Village Green is the best example: There are two or three instruments in each song. And yet the songs are perfectly realized, well arranged.
I read that Ray wrote "You Really Got Me" on piano. Then he gives it to his brother Dave, this teenage maniac, who turns it into a demented guitar part. An interviewer once asked Dave if he thought the Kinks had gone heavy metal in the Eighties. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." When R.E.M. started, Dave's solo on that song was the only solo I knew. So whenever I had to do a solo, I'd play that.
The Kinks slipped into rock history through the back door. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face and Village Green — nobody bought those records in the Sixties. But those of us who love those records — and a lot of us are musicians — have loved them for more than thirty years.
01-25-11, 11:00 AM
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Re: Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
I think the top 20 is pretty good. There are a couple I do not like (subjective of course) but it's not that bad. Not going to go through all 100 though.
01-25-11, 11:07 AM
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01-25-11, 11:15 AM
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Re: Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
Of course I'm not going to agree with the rankings, but there's some nice write-ups. I like this one:
The Kinks
Peter Buck
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I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time. When everyone was writing about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some suburb of London. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. He invented his world and gave it life. And in that world, people weren't wearing Nehru jackets, smoking pot and jamming for twenty-four hours a day. The Kinks created a different world — and I'm glad for it.
When I first heard Village Green Preservation Society, in 1971, I got this picture in my head of small-town English life: village greens, draft beer. But when R.E.M. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill — and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. From "Waterloo Sunset," I had this picture of a gorgeous vista — when it's really a grimy train-station area. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. There is a great air of sadness in those songs.
I am amazed at how great the Kinks' records sounded — even though, when you listen closely, there is very little going on in them. Village Green is the best example: There are two or three instruments in each song. And yet the songs are perfectly realized, well arranged.
I read that Ray wrote "You Really Got Me" on piano. Then he gives it to his brother Dave, this teenage maniac, who turns it into a demented guitar part. An interviewer once asked Dave if he thought the Kinks had gone heavy metal in the Eighties. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." When R.E.M. started, Dave's solo on that song was the only solo I knew. So whenever I had to do a solo, I'd play that.
The Kinks slipped into rock history through the back door. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face and Village Green — nobody bought those records in the Sixties. But those of us who love those records — and a lot of us are musicians — have loved them for more than thirty years.
The Kinks
Peter Buck
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I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time. When everyone was writing about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some suburb of London. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. He invented his world and gave it life. And in that world, people weren't wearing Nehru jackets, smoking pot and jamming for twenty-four hours a day. The Kinks created a different world — and I'm glad for it.
When I first heard Village Green Preservation Society, in 1971, I got this picture in my head of small-town English life: village greens, draft beer. But when R.E.M. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill — and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. From "Waterloo Sunset," I had this picture of a gorgeous vista — when it's really a grimy train-station area. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. There is a great air of sadness in those songs.
I am amazed at how great the Kinks' records sounded — even though, when you listen closely, there is very little going on in them. Village Green is the best example: There are two or three instruments in each song. And yet the songs are perfectly realized, well arranged.
I read that Ray wrote "You Really Got Me" on piano. Then he gives it to his brother Dave, this teenage maniac, who turns it into a demented guitar part. An interviewer once asked Dave if he thought the Kinks had gone heavy metal in the Eighties. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." When R.E.M. started, Dave's solo on that song was the only solo I knew. So whenever I had to do a solo, I'd play that.
The Kinks slipped into rock history through the back door. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face and Village Green — nobody bought those records in the Sixties. But those of us who love those records — and a lot of us are musicians — have loved them for more than thirty years.
01-25-11, 11:58 AM
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used to listen to pink floyd but it was only selected songs. Stuff from The Wall, dark side of the moon and one or two other albums. most of their stuff may be good musically but i fast forward because it's boring. same with radiohead which i consider a pink floyd knock off. i like a few songs but most of it i just skipped. it was slow and sounded like the same song over and over again
01-25-11, 12:26 PM
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01-25-11, 12:52 PM
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Re: Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists of all time: No Queen or Pink Floyd
Of course I'm not going to agree with the rankings, but there's some nice write-ups. I like this one:
The Kinks
Peter Buck
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I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time.
The Kinks
Peter Buck
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I 've got pretty much every note the Kinks recorded on my iPod — certainly everything through 1980. And it all sounds good. The Kinks are the only major band from the Sixties I can think of that didn't go psychedelic, didn't do any of that crap that all of the other big bands did at the time.
I wouldn't say they were an out and out psychedelic band but they definitely were influenced by what was going around then.
01-25-11, 01:05 PM
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Yeah and he says he has everything up to 1980. I assume that includes the bizarre theatrical rock between Muswell Hillbillies and Sleepwalker, including the Preservation albums and A Soap Opera. I'm a huge Kinks fan but I could never stomach that period. Though Schoolboys in Disgrace had some good songs.
01-25-11, 03:00 PM
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01-25-11, 05:30 PM
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, considering they were responsible for (by RS's own estimation) the
01-25-11, 11:34 PM
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What are the smaller names under the main names? The runners up or something?
Nevermind..brain fart
Nevermind..brain fart
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