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Re: Should love but can't


  • Subject: Re: Should love but can't
  • From: "Alan Pendleton" <a_pendleton@ho...com>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 04:55:02 -0700

> >Anybody else have a blind spot for a band that they really SHOULD love?
>
>The band that everyone seems to think I should love but generally can't
>abide (with the exception of a few fine songs) is the Kinks. Oh, Ray's
>whiney voice. Their supposed charm as a quintessentially English group
has
>never struck me as being particularly accurate, let alone important.
>I can almost smell the smoke rising from the newly lit stake upon which I
>am about to be burnt for heresy.

I love the Kinks, me. But I do agree Ray Davies's voice can in places
sound
like he's doing a bad China Man accent. The fella knew how to knock out a
cracking lyric or two. Arthur is the album to get, not that you will, not
liking 'em and all that.

I think the Fall ruined a Kinks song once.

Alan
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