Re: can't love the Kinks

["Alan Pendleton" <a_pendleton@ho...com>]

>From: Phil Mason <phil.mason@ua...es>

>Alan, the Kinks fan, wrote:
> >I think the Fall ruined a Kinks song once.
>"Victoria", which I liked a lot. Oh dear, I'm a Kinks-hating Fall-fan.

Sounds like we could be friends, interesting discussions, I hate when
everyone agrees.

By the way, The Doors, good debut, good final album , stuff in the middle
a
pile of cack or what ? Discuss.

And please lets have no pretenses towards him being either a shamen or a
poet. A fat bastard who smelt and couldn't sing or write poetry, with a
death wish. That's him.

>Maybe I should make my excuses and leave... It seems I generally prefer
>other people covering Kinks songs to the originals. For example, there
was
>that band from Bristol who did an exciting cover of "Big Sky".

Who that then ?

>Kirsty MacColl's version of 'Days' (although Elvis C managed to do a
>version that
>was even more turgid than the original).

Elvis Costello is my second cousin oddly enough.

>For transvestite pick-up confusion
>songs, I'll take Richard Thompson's "Woman or a Man" over "Lola" any day.

Righto, have to take your word on that. Can't stand Lola myself.

>I've been transcribing a press conference that Ray held when he played
here
>in Madrid last week (it's not for me, it's for a friend, honest!). I'll
>give him his due in that he says that he only ended up singing because
>noone else in the band wanted the job.

Send me a copy will ya. Cheers

>Phil

Alan
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