The Kinks — Misfits
This is the only record I ever stole from anyone. In 1980, in our last semester living in university housing, we had a bad suitemate. I’ve written several times before about that apartment, in...
Ramblings about My Records
This is the only record I ever stole from anyone. In 1980, in our last semester living in university housing, we had a bad suitemate. I’ve written several times before about that apartment, in...
There aren’t many bootlegs in my collection. Being mostly broke in the days when i gathered most of my collection, I simply wasn’t taking chances on unknown quantities. The couple of times I took...
I had passed on this for years and years – always saw it in the bins, never picked it up. I didn’t seem to know what it was. I’d look at the track listing and,...
When I started writing about The Kinks for this project, I was a little bit confused. I looked at The Kinks Greatest Hits and The Live Kinks, and wondered: could those really have been...
I’ve been so spoiled by a slew of recent live albums, with full, restored sound from well-recorded concerts of the ’60s – particularly those recorded at the Fillmore — that I started to wonder...
So here’s where we move into the 2020s with me making up for lost time on bands that I love, would consider myself a deeply devoted fan of, and yet have only a limited...
For the longest time, this 1966 greatest hits collection comprised my entire early Kinks, other than a live album we’ll talk about next and an odd Portuguese compilation. It seems that I was not...
Sometimes things linger so long on my “new acquisitions” shelf that I forget that I’ve already written about them. So, no, I didn’t accidentally buy two copies of this reissue. I just wrote about...
I’ve been a fan of The Kinks since college. Of course, their songs were in the backdrop all through my youth, just like any of the other British invasion groups. In fact, more than...
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