The Kinks' This Time Tomorrow and the gloriousness therof

you don't have to go too far beyond lola vs. the powerman, though. get everything through muswell hillbillies, and don't forget to get the great lost kinks album as part of that spree if you can find it, and then you'll have everything you really need. most of the '70s albums are spotty at best, and though there are decent tracks on all of them, and though they start rocking out again with a bit of pizazz on schoolboys in disgrace, your life won't be too much worse for not owning them.

also, cece otm.

so, to sum up, quell urge to resist urge to curb urge to buy, say, preservation.

I disagree. Almost every song on this album is great. I'd say I like it better than, say, "Face to Face" or even "Something Else." Although, I must say, that a certain amount of bitterness is readily apparent in the lyrics of the album, which detracts from the 'innocence' I usually associate with Kinks records from 66-73.

Incidentally, "Strangers" is an excellent song too. As is "Money-go-Round", and "Top of the Pops."

i was going to express surprise at this until i saw that kontroversy is from 65

"Where Have All The Good Times Gone" should be seen as a companion piece to "See My Friend"; both saying what nobody else in Britain 1965 was daring to say. no other band in the 60s went from that far ahead to that far deliberately behind; within Ray Davies, there was something approaching psychosis.

I never understood why this song wasn't a single.

Gee thanks a lot, as if I needed anything else to pull right now. I've just burned three whole CD's what does the Music God want out of me? Doesn't anyone else here just feel fucking overwhelmed at times???
Way too much music WAY too little time! Suck it up folks it's bound not to last forever, that's all I say.

Okay, end of rant.

the great lost kinks album (or most of it) is on one of the two bonus disks on the latest Village Green Preservation Society rerelease.

Somebody tell me about the Misfits/ Low Budget era. I'm curious, but cheap;)

Aargh with the Preservation bagging. Aargh, I say. Aargh. Buy both 1 and 2, and treat them as a Ray Davies side project. They're not bad at all, just not very Kinks.

I've not heard Misfits or Low Budget for some reason, but Sleepwalker is a bit underwhelming. It sounds like Davies has unhappily submitted to conventionalism by force. It's all too serious and selfconscious and disciplined.

Misfits illustrates a change. Sometimes all-too-slick with the synths and a kind of wafting sound, but the title track's lyrics are poetry. A Rock N' Roll Fantasy is almost its equal in terms of greatness, also Get Up.

Davies' humor and irony are at their usual best on almost everything else.

As far as Low Budget, I'm really only familiar with the title track and it's classic Kinks.

Damn! There's another series of Kinks rereleases out? How many albums got the deluxe treatment besides Village Green?

still beautiful...also, is it possible lola vs the powerman is actually underrated given the ginormous shadow cast by "lola" and the supposed conceptual nature of it? ("supposed" cuz the music biz critique really isn't *that* obvious/distracting.) three of ray davies' most most gorgeous (the thread subject, "a long way from home", "strangers", plus "back in line"), "powerman" and "rats" strike me as some dave davies' most driving work, and "apeman" (depsite being derided above) cracks my shit up.

I forgot about this damn song -- hadn't played Lola vs Powerman in years I guess. I nearly drove off the road when this song came on and took over my car today.

Though I love that this is tucked away on this album all sneaky-like, this song will be used at the end of a movie someday, right?

Wes Anderson used it in The Darjeeling Limited

it's used to gorgeous effect in Garrel's "Les Amants Reguliers"

here's the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabTa3M4D6I

I saw that movie!

Actually maybe I am thinking of that movie and DL used Powerman

DL used This Time Tomorrow, Powerman, and Strangers, all from the Lola vs. Powerman album. And it shall one day come to pass that a graduate student will write her Master's thesis on the thematic parallels between the album and the movie.

Lo, let it be so

Wes Anderson used it in The Darjeeling Limited
it's used to gorgeous effect in Garrel's "Les Amants Reguliers"

Ha, I should have guessed it was used already (or checked imdb)

Great great song - that is all!

Great scene in Les amants réguliers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabTa3M4D6I