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Post by personunknown on Jan 4, 2023 15:38:48 GMT
Got The Kinks Choral Collection in today. It's Ray Davies and some session men with The Crouch End Festival Chorus.
A really exquisite work, half a dozen of the big hits plus a Village Green selection are given a heavenly choir treatment. I was going to post a YouTube video but compared to blasting it out on the shop rig, I think the dramatic power and then the whispered subtlety would be lost on small digital devices.
Magnificent.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 15, 2023 11:21:19 GMT
Got The Kinks Choral Collection in today. It's Ray Davies and some session men with The Crouch End Festival Chorus. A really exquisite work, half a dozen of the big hits plus a Village Green selection are given a heavenly choir treatment. I was going to post a YouTube video but compared to blasting it out on the shop rig, I think the dramatic power and then the whispered subtlety would be lost on small digital devices. Magnificent. I agree Thanks PU - would not have given it a go without your top tip You've steered me to some good shit many many times - thanks so much In other Kinks news... |
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Post by personunknown on Jan 15, 2023 12:24:46 GMT
Really hard to find original sixties and early seventies Kinks studio albums. Unlike The Beatles, Stones and Who which would have several vinyl represses, The Kinks label PYE only did one or two runs. Also strange was the fact that though Ray and the boys had lots of singles charts hits, the long players didn't trouble the album top twenty too much. Was the lack of album sales and subsequent chart placings down to PYEs lack of production and promotion? It certainly wasn't quality of material, their take on R&B was just as good, if not better than Stones and Who covers on their early albums. Opinions?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 15, 2023 14:33:23 GMT
Agree with all that PU. No idea about the Pye approach though but everything I have gleaned suggests a very traditional set up who didn't really embrace the possibilities of the 60s youthquake
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 3, 2023 17:19:13 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Jul 16, 2023 11:39:03 GMT
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Post by jsm on Jul 23, 2023 22:55:19 GMT
The Kinks play the blues. Brilliant. And check out the audience. Intense and into it
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Post by smogquixote on Jul 24, 2023 12:09:39 GMT
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Post by jsm on Jul 24, 2023 22:27:55 GMT
I know everybody else likes this version, but I prefer this one:
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Post by stu77 on Oct 28, 2024 2:17:57 GMT
The only Kinks album I own apart from compilations is the Lola Vs Powerman album which I like a lot. Due to inheritance I'll have a few pennies to spend on records soon and my first thought is to dive into the Kinks concept albums which I've never really explored.
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Post by personunknown on Oct 28, 2024 9:05:34 GMT
Village Green Preservation Society is well worth investing in Stu. It's main theme is the lamenting of things that have disappeared from modern life, steam trains to wooden beer kegs etc. Never maudlin though. Minor quibble, Dave Davies song about a witch frightening children is off kilter in relation to all of Ray's compositions.
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Post by Billy Idle on Oct 28, 2024 9:54:41 GMT
Village Green Preservation Society is esential stu !
PU knows
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Post by zeopold on Oct 28, 2024 22:57:12 GMT
Another vote here for Village Green, their magnum opus IMO
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