I really enjoyed this. The RCA years are so underated and I would go to them before the more "stadium rock" of the Arista years. It took me so long to get into Preservation II but I now see it as a masterpiece. The Celluloid Heroes comp (which you showed in your last video) is a great introduction to the RCA recordings.
Thank you ever so much for the love given to Soap Opera! It was the very first Kinks album I ever bought - loved it to pieces then, love it to the same degree now. Cheryl... Pete.
The Kinks are my favourite band of all time. And I totally agree with what you said about Dave Davies. Amazing guitar player. Was able to adapt to every style that Ray threw at him. Great country picker, proto metal shredder and everything in between. And those brotherly harmonies are priceless. God Bless the Kinkdom of the Kinks! xxx
I can remember when Soap Opera was released, I was still in High School and none of my friends were fans of The Kinks. I was chatting about this album to one of my friends, when a guy I never spoke to asked me if I liked this album. We wound up getting tickets to see them on the Soap Opera tour, and we've been friends ever since. There was something so inviting about that album. I was also a huge fan of the two Preservation albums, that horn fanfare played on Preservation Act 2 was something I've always loved. It's cool meeting fellow fans of The Kinks!
As a Londoner who grew up with the kinks I really enjoyed this video. I wasn’t that familiar with the RCA years until last week when I bought the latest super deluxe box set. I will now visit them all again thanks to your excellent video. All best wishes from Mick
Love the Kinks!!! One of my favorite bands ever. Ray’s a genius. I do really like the theatrical period as well. Some great hidden Kinks classics there.
Speaking as someone who only really became familiar with the Kinks catalog in the past 5 years,I love this period of the Kinks. I highly recommend the Rhino releases of these albums from the 1980s. Especially Preservation which is combined on a 2 CD set so you can play the whole thing through. There are some live videos of the Kinks in the 70s on RUclips as well as a theatrical performance of Soap Opera.
"Where's The Money" !!! One of my all time favorite records ! Very nice that you saw Dan & and his Lickettes open for our Kinks ! LoL !! I was missing "Soap Opera".. just picked it up at my local indie last week ! Nice video Mazzy.. ✌
You and I didn’t see The Kinks till the 70s because they got banned from the USA because of the musician union. I saw them at the Santa Monica Civic (always the late shows when they were liquored up) and I was especially into their “rock operas” that utilized video in sync to the live band to tell a story which is what I was working on doing back then (Rock & Roll Rehab). I vividly remember “Schoolboys In Disgrace” and “Misfits”. I love the theatrical Kinks too.
Gave the Preservation Act CD away as the running order was changed and the sound wasn't great, so will track down the vinyl. Will also look for Schoolboys In Disgrace and Soap Opera, both of which left me cold back in the day. Your enthusiasm is just great...even if we're talking about a bunch of Arsenal fans.
I first discovered the Kinks through covers (by the Pretenders, for instance) and finally decided to get me one of their records. The record shop on the corner only had one of theirs: Soap Opera. It was the mid '80s. I am still a fan. And I'll join the chorus: please more videos about the Kinks. Cheers.
I love your enthusiasm not just for the Kinks but vinyl in general. Of course I grew up with the Kinks since Well Respected Man and later got a double vinyl comp album. Great music. I appreciate the memories of great songs.
Thanks for this. I haven't heard these records, but they look cool. I think you and I are drawn to artists that have a quirky English side like Macca, Stackridge, even some of Steve Hackett's stuff ("Ballad of the Decomposing Man"). It's a nice break from the blues, pop-rock and the bombast.
One of my best Kinks memories was the live performance of Soap Opera in Birmingham UK. Ray Davies theatrically building up to Ducks On The Wall and suddenly bemoaning "those fu**ing Ducks". The profanity insert was met with outbreaks of cheering!! Thanks for a great overview of my favourite band of all time, and the acclaim of Soap Opera. Our living room has ducks on the wall, I always sing "Holiday Romance" wherever I am on holiday and my wife regularly asks if I want "steam pudding and custard for afters". I'll stop there as I suspect I am sounding a little odd. GOD SAVE THE KINKS!!!
As a Kinks collector, this video was spot on! Schoolboys is my second favorite album by them(Lola vs Powerman is my favorite). Thanks for featuring the RCA years
I always thought these albums got a bad rap. Preservation Act I is one of my favorite Kinks albums. P Act II is my least favorite Kinks 70s thematic album. I saw The Kinks live 4 or 5 times in the 70s, and at least 3 of them were in support of the theatrical albums, and they were awesome concerts. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
I love, love, love Soap Opera. It was part of a massive resugance in Kinks quality. With Sleepwalker, School Boys in Disgrace and Low Budget - a true golden period for the band. Thanks to Ray, I will never display ducks on my wall.
Couldn't agree with you anymore, those years (71-78) are the kinks at the top of their game. I am hoping for a Preservation Box set sometime in the future. I too was working in a record store in 72-74 in Sarasota Fl.
hey mazzy...glad you highlighted the rcs years...such good stuff...ray is a phenominal storfyteller.....and just a side note....not sure if you heard but we lost ahmad jamal...he passed away yesterday....may we all rest in peace...rocky
Kinks were and are my favorite band and I've loved everything they've done. The Reprise period is my favorite and it's the most varied. I think the RCA theatricals get short shrift because they're so different from the '64-'70 years. In particular, Preservation stands the test of time and is very apropos for today.
Nice review, and I envy you big time for seeing them in their theatrical area! Morning Song is indeed perfect and right going into Daylight makes it even nicer. (A) Face In The Crowd is Ray at his most vulnerable I would say, one of my most favourite songs of him. Sitting In The Midday Sun has one of my favourite lines ever: Why Should I Have To Give My Reasons For Sitting In The Midday Sun. I agree, guitarwork and singing of Dave is amazing, and also important he is a huge inspiration for Ray. I think Dave's school career was mostly model for Schoolboys In Disgrace.
Theatrical albums are fantastic - soap opera just for the idea to begin with deserves praise - a rock star wanting to be NORMAL again - holiday romances ending is incredible - I still laugh at the end when Ray sings the woman's part and I bought this album in1975 at tower records on Bay st. SF....Pres act 2 is my favorite of the 2 parts - artificial man is awesome. I love the cover of schoolboys - "you can't stop the music"
Hi Mazzy. Really enjoyed this. I really like those early 70’s records, particularly Lola and Muswell Hillbillies. I said to you before that I think 20th Century Man is one of the great album openers. I love the way it kind of whispers in and then builds up throughout the song. I’ll give Soap Opera another spin. Some days I enjoy it, other days if frustrates the hell out of me. Hopefully today will be the former. Cheers.
Love the RCA years. I read an interview with Ray once where he said a few of the Pythons used to hang out at Konk and I can sort of see a vague connection there.
I was born in '67, so I obviously only discovered their albums very much later. I loved 60's music in the late 70's, and the Kinks were just one of that bunch. I first learned to love their later music around "Come Dancing" etc. Then I bought the Nice Price album 'Misfits' in the early 80's, and only a few years later I had (obviously!) bad friends who told me all about the other 70's albums of the Kinks... I must admit I don't much like the theatrical things (well, Preservation Act's I and II), except for some songs as a whole, but I do love Soap Opera, though! That is so totally weird that I still don't want to really learn which of the characters started/ended as as the real one... ;D
Personally, I cannot understand anyone who says they like music but do not like The Kinks. The RCA years are problematic (don't you use the same word, Sammy?) and Preservation Act 2, save from When a Solution Comes, is too serious and negative. i have come to really enjoy and appreciate Act 1 as one of my favourite Kinks albums. Muswell Hillbillies is stellar, one of my top five Kinkies, where Everybody's in Showbiz would have been if it wasn't for that unnecessary live album. Soap Opera is actually very good (btw did you see the TV drama production made at that time? Worth watching.). So, thank you Norman for your enthusiastic Kinky videos, but the name of their first prodoocer (an expatriate American) is Talmy, T-A-L-M-Y.
This is great... but I can talk hours about The Kinks.... I was fortunate to grow up in the 70's in a neighborhood with two of my best friends who are huge Kinks fan... we probably were only kids on the street that read books too.... just saying... BTW Motorway always sounded like it should have been a Grateful Dead song... Loved all these albums.. My living will states that Days is my goodbye song to the world... hopefully many years from now...
I have just about all the original Kinks albums including the early albums on the 50th anniversary cut by Kevin Gray. I don’t have Preservation Act 1 and 2. Mazzy, wasn’t Act 1 album recently reissued on RSD last year? I might still be able to find a copy.
I was a fan of theirs from the start. I got it all. And I enjoy watching your videos because you're a Kinks fanatic like myself. But I just wanted to say that Muswell Hillbillies is a masterpiece. And as you know, every album has it's own little gems. I'm jumping the gun, but UK Jive is without a doubt their worst effort. There I said it, to my own dismay.
The stage show/ITV television show is up on RUclips. Terrible production values (wobbly sets etc) but a great upload if you like Ray’s 70s theatrical stuff.
Thanks Mazzy. Ray and the Kinks were really quite theatrical even before the RCA period, no... and brilliant social critics (A Well Respected Man/Dedicated Follower of Fashion). Demon Alcohol is one of my favorites on Hillbillies... so much theater of the mind. And thanks to your post here, I just rediscovered the poignant masterpiece, Celluloid Heroes. Such a sensitive portrayal of "striving, aspiring and perspiring", as an old pal from H'wood put it. A great slideshow of "Heroes" here: ruclips.net/video/zL0cG7a2PW0/видео.html
The RCA years were ok but preservation 2 sucked expect side 2 preservation 1 was gerat for the most part soap opra sucked except 4 a face in the crowd and u make it all worthwile and School Days is the best except the 2 songs on side 1
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A great run by The Kinks. Good to see another fan of Soap Opera.
My favorite period of The Kinks. Brilliant albums. Love Soap Opera and Schoolboys!
I really enjoyed this. The RCA years are so underated and I would go to them before the more "stadium rock" of the Arista years. It took me so long to get into Preservation II but I now see it as a masterpiece. The Celluloid Heroes comp (which you showed in your last video) is a great introduction to the RCA recordings.
Yes that RCA comp is fantastic nice to hear from you Richard
Thank you ever so much for the love given to Soap Opera! It was the very first Kinks album I ever bought - loved it to pieces then, love it to the same degree now. Cheryl... Pete.
The Kinks are my favourite band of all time. And I totally agree with what you said about Dave Davies. Amazing guitar player. Was able to adapt to every style that Ray threw at him. Great country picker, proto metal shredder and everything in between. And those brotherly harmonies are priceless. God Bless the Kinkdom of the Kinks! xxx
I can remember when Soap Opera was released, I was still in High School and none of my friends were fans of The Kinks. I was chatting about this album to one of my friends, when a guy I never spoke to asked me if I liked this album. We wound up getting tickets to see them on the Soap Opera tour, and we've been friends ever since. There was something so inviting about that album. I was also a huge fan of the two Preservation albums, that horn fanfare played on Preservation Act 2 was something I've always loved. It's cool meeting fellow fans of The Kinks!
No More Looking Back is my absolute favorite Kinks song. Schoolboys in Disgrace is a wonderful album. Thanks for the recap!
As a Londoner who grew up with the kinks I really enjoyed this video. I wasn’t that familiar with the RCA years until last week when I bought the latest super deluxe box set. I will now visit them all again thanks to your excellent video. All best wishes from Mick
Love the Kinks!!! One of my favorite bands ever. Ray’s a genius. I do really like the theatrical period as well. Some great hidden Kinks classics there.
Speaking as someone who only really became familiar with the Kinks catalog in the past 5 years,I love this period of the Kinks. I highly recommend the Rhino releases of these albums from the 1980s. Especially Preservation which is combined on a 2 CD set so you can play the whole thing through. There are some live videos of the Kinks in the 70s on RUclips as well as a theatrical performance of Soap Opera.
"Where's The Money" !!! One of my all time favorite records ! Very nice that you saw Dan & and his Lickettes open for our Kinks ! LoL !! I was missing "Soap Opera".. just picked it up at my local indie last week ! Nice video Mazzy.. ✌
Thanks for another great episode on the Kinks. Neil Young and the Kinks have always been my top two😎
So many great songs from this period, so thanks for highlighting. Sweet Lady Genevieve, for one, is so brilliant and bitter sweet.
You and I didn’t see The Kinks till the 70s because they got banned from the USA because of the musician union. I saw them at the Santa Monica Civic (always the late shows when they were liquored up) and I was especially into their “rock operas” that utilized video in sync to the live band to tell a story which is what I was working on doing back then (Rock & Roll Rehab). I vividly remember “Schoolboys In Disgrace” and “Misfits”. I love the theatrical Kinks too.
Gave the Preservation Act CD away as the running order was changed and the sound wasn't great, so will track down the vinyl. Will also look for Schoolboys In Disgrace and Soap Opera, both of which left me cold back in the day. Your enthusiasm is just great...even if we're talking about a bunch of Arsenal fans.
I first discovered the Kinks through covers (by the Pretenders, for instance) and finally decided to get me one of their records. The record shop on the corner only had one of theirs: Soap Opera.
It was the mid '80s. I am still a fan.
And I'll join the chorus: please more videos about the Kinks.
Cheers.
I love your enthusiasm not just for the Kinks but vinyl in general. Of course I grew up with the Kinks since Well Respected Man and later got a double vinyl comp album. Great music. I appreciate the memories of great songs.
Thanks for this. I haven't heard these records, but they look cool. I think you and I are drawn to artists that have a quirky English side like Macca, Stackridge, even some of Steve Hackett's stuff ("Ballad of the Decomposing Man"). It's a nice break from the blues, pop-rock and the bombast.
One of my best Kinks memories was the live performance of Soap Opera in Birmingham UK. Ray Davies theatrically building up to Ducks On The Wall and suddenly bemoaning "those fu**ing Ducks".
The profanity insert was met with outbreaks of cheering!!
Thanks for a great overview of my favourite band of all time, and the acclaim of Soap Opera. Our living room has ducks on the wall, I always sing "Holiday Romance" wherever I am on holiday and my wife regularly asks if I want "steam pudding and custard for afters".
I'll stop there as I suspect I am sounding a little odd.
GOD SAVE THE KINKS!!!
Look up on RUclips, "Gems From The Kinks Mine."
As a Kinks collector, this video was spot on! Schoolboys is my second favorite album by them(Lola vs Powerman is my favorite). Thanks for featuring the RCA years
I always thought these albums got a bad rap. Preservation Act I is one of my favorite Kinks albums. P Act II is my least favorite Kinks 70s thematic album. I saw The Kinks live 4 or 5 times in the 70s, and at least 3 of them were in support of the theatrical albums, and they were awesome concerts. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
Thanks for this, I will definitely check those albums out. You have given me some context for a way into these records.
Have all the RCA LPs myself..
Saw all the shows in the 70s...😎
Enjoyed the dive into the kinks.
Die Kinks waren immer herausragend und eigenständig in jeder Hinsicht
Soap Opera is an absolute masterpiece, the lyrics on every track is genius.
I love, love, love Soap Opera. It was part of a massive resugance in Kinks quality. With Sleepwalker, School Boys in Disgrace and Low Budget - a true golden period for the band. Thanks to Ray, I will never display ducks on my wall.
Couldn't agree with you anymore, those years (71-78) are the kinks at the top of their game. I am hoping for a Preservation Box set sometime in the future. I too was working in a record store in 72-74 in Sarasota Fl.
Hi Mazzy, "School Boys In Disgrace" is one of my favorite albums ! I saw the Kinks Live in the early 80's they were great ! Love your photos !
hey mazzy...glad you highlighted the rcs years...such good stuff...ray is a phenominal storfyteller.....and just a side note....not sure if you heard but we lost ahmad jamal...he passed away yesterday....may we all rest in peace...rocky
Kinks were and are my favorite band and I've loved everything they've done. The Reprise period is my favorite and it's the most varied. I think the RCA theatricals get short shrift because they're so different from the '64-'70 years. In particular, Preservation stands the test of time and is very apropos for today.
Nice review, and I envy you big time for seeing them in their theatrical area! Morning Song is indeed perfect and right going into Daylight makes it even nicer. (A) Face In The Crowd is Ray at his most vulnerable I would say, one of my most favourite songs of him. Sitting In The Midday Sun has one of my favourite lines ever: Why Should I Have To Give My Reasons For Sitting In The Midday Sun. I agree, guitarwork and singing of Dave is amazing, and also important he is a huge inspiration for Ray. I think Dave's school career was mostly model for Schoolboys In Disgrace.
Theatrical albums are fantastic - soap opera just for the idea to begin with deserves praise - a rock star wanting to be NORMAL again - holiday romances ending is incredible - I still laugh at the end when Ray sings the woman's part and I bought this album in1975 at tower records on Bay st. SF....Pres act 2 is my favorite of the 2 parts - artificial man is awesome. I love the cover of schoolboys - "you can't stop the music"
Hi Mazzy. Really enjoyed this. I really like those early 70’s records, particularly Lola and Muswell Hillbillies. I said to you before that I think 20th Century Man is one of the great album openers. I love the way it kind of whispers in and then builds up throughout the song. I’ll give Soap Opera another spin. Some days I enjoy it, other days if frustrates the hell out of me. Hopefully today will be the former. Cheers.
Sometime these records simply grab us at a certain time in our lives and these did for me 🤠
One of the very few places we can get our Kinks fix, thanks!
Ok , I will revisit Soap Opera. Saw them do it live in Salford way back but never had a copy
Love the RCA years. I read an interview with Ray once where he said a few of the Pythons used to hang out at Konk and I can sort of see a vague connection there.
Do you remember Walter?
I love the Kinks too. The video was fun. More of this please.🙂
I was born in '67, so I obviously only discovered their albums very much later. I loved 60's music in the late 70's, and the Kinks were just one of that bunch. I first learned to love their later music around "Come Dancing" etc. Then I bought the Nice Price album 'Misfits' in the early 80's, and only a few years later I had (obviously!) bad friends who told me all about the other 70's albums of the Kinks... I must admit I don't much like the theatrical things (well, Preservation Act's I and II), except for some songs as a whole, but I do love Soap Opera, though! That is so totally weird that I still don't want to really learn which of the characters started/ended as as the real one... ;D
Love the Kinks also, but there are allready so much comps.
Personally, I cannot understand anyone who says they like music but do not like The Kinks. The RCA years are problematic (don't you use the same word, Sammy?) and Preservation Act 2, save from When a Solution Comes, is too serious and negative. i have come to really enjoy and appreciate Act 1 as one of my favourite Kinks albums. Muswell Hillbillies is stellar, one of my top five Kinkies, where Everybody's in Showbiz would have been if it wasn't for that unnecessary live album. Soap Opera is actually very good (btw did you see the TV drama production made at that time? Worth watching.). So, thank you Norman for your enthusiastic Kinky videos, but the name of their first prodoocer (an expatriate American) is Talmy, T-A-L-M-Y.
The most creative period
Top 3 band ever 🙌
This is great... but I can talk hours about The Kinks.... I was fortunate to grow up in the 70's in a neighborhood with two of my best friends who are huge Kinks fan... we probably were only kids on the street that read books too.... just saying... BTW Motorway always sounded like it should have been a Grateful Dead song... Loved all these albums.. My living will states that Days is my goodbye song to the world... hopefully many years from now...
I have just about all the original Kinks albums including the early albums on the 50th anniversary cut by Kevin Gray. I don’t have Preservation Act 1 and 2. Mazzy, wasn’t Act 1 album recently reissued on RSD last year? I might still be able to find a copy.
Not sure if it was reissued. OGs are cheap though.
Definitely realizing just how little I know about this band 😂
I would like to see Ray do an official release of 80 Days
He says “Dave daveeees on lead guitar” on maximum consumption
My favorite kinks era was the RCA years
I was a fan of theirs from the start. I got it all. And I enjoy watching your videos because you're a Kinks fanatic like myself. But I just wanted to say that Muswell Hillbillies is a masterpiece. And as you know, every album has it's own little gems. I'm jumping the gun, but UK Jive is without a doubt their worst effort. There I said it, to my own dismay.
The stage show/ITV television show is up on RUclips. Terrible production values (wobbly sets etc) but a great upload if you like Ray’s 70s theatrical stuff.
Thanks Mazzy. Ray and the Kinks were really quite theatrical even before the RCA period, no... and brilliant social critics (A Well Respected Man/Dedicated Follower of Fashion). Demon Alcohol is one of my favorites on Hillbillies... so much theater of the mind. And thanks to your post here, I just rediscovered the poignant masterpiece, Celluloid Heroes. Such a sensitive portrayal of "striving, aspiring and perspiring", as an old pal from H'wood put it. A great slideshow of "Heroes" here: ruclips.net/video/zL0cG7a2PW0/видео.html
Thank you for stoping by Doug 🕺
Ducks, Ducks, Ducks on the Wall !!!
Preservation Act One is as good a record as made by any band at any time.
Hi, Mazzy, since you bring up the question of pronunciation (Davies), the correct pronunciation of Muswell is MuZwell (bee-sound, not snake-sound).
I actually prefer Dave's voice over Ray's.
Brother Dave pronounces the last name DAVIES (not Davis)
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Very underestimated period. The Kinks had an embarrassment of riches.
I agree! Great records. Check out my take (video) on those same albums.
I love Soap Opera. I don’t care what anyone says.
Either do I 😎
@@mazzysmusic It was actually the 2nd Kinks album that I ever got on vinyl (Muswell Hillbillies was my first).
Genevieve, not Guinnevere
Away from the mainstream music of the day.1972 1974.
The RCA years were ok but preservation 2 sucked expect side 2 preservation 1 was gerat for the most part soap opra sucked except 4 a face in the crowd and u make it all worthwile and School Days is the best except the 2 songs on side 1
Preservation Act 2 is hot garbage.
The rest are decent
There are som gems in 2 too ✌🏼
Man, it's like getting a tooth pulled to find out you've been mispronouncing something for decades!
Kinkdom..... love it..... got the Journey 1 any info on part 2...?
Ha yeah 🤠🤷🏻♂️