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Submitted by Ms. Info on Sun, 09/10/2006 - 8:26pm.

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Tim picked up some Kinks CDs at the library this past weekend. I finally get it; why you all like them so much. It's 'cause they're fucking great! I listened to Arthur: or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire today and was nearly reduced to weeping a few times. Good stuff. Thank you, library. I'll be returning the favor when I begin volunteering with you this week.

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	#1Submitted by Samantha Stephens on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 11:26am. the first ten Kinks records the first ten Kinks records are the ones to one. Damnit Arthur is the only one of those ten I dont have. reply quote


	#2Submitted by Samantha Stephens on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 11:27am. ones to one??? that should ones to one??? that should be ones to own reply quote


	#3Submitted by dingey on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 11:37am. awwwwwwwww Ms. Info, awww. You've picked up the Kinks at the PERFECT time--autumnal, a bit melancholy and sentimental--you are in the perfect zone to have the Kinks take over your musical headspace. That's all, really. I'll let the Kinks do the talking. Once you love them, you love them forever with an ardor that borders on the ridiculous. You'll see. You'll love them as bad as you love kittens. I wept at the very sight of them on that stupid British Rock and Roll Hall of Fame show. reply quote


	#4Submitted by Kapn on Tue, 09/12/2006 - 12:11am. "Young and Innocent Days" Few songs break me down like that one, off "Arthur". The two-part vocal harmony between Ray and Dave is the clincher. Dingey absolutely nailed the seasonal effect of autumn if listening to certain of the Kinks albums at this time of year. It was almost exactly this time of year when I first bought "Village Green", in the Meijer cutouts for $2.99, age 16. I was having a great time - just got a new girlfriend and was doing well in school and had a blast with friends and didn't have to work the paper route anymore. In some ways the songs soundtracked the bliss I was feeling, but at the same time I had a weird feeling other songs were prepping me for some future truths I'd face about missing this period once it was gone. I don't think about that time specifically when I listen to the LP now, but at this time of year it's more likely those memories are evoked if I happen upon "Do You Remember Walter" or "People Take Pictures Of Each Other". reply quote


	#5Submitted by dingey on Tue, 09/12/2006 - 7:11am. gawp! That's right about the same age when I somehow stumbled upon "Something Else" at BOOGIE and snatched it up. I'd heard them there new Kinks records at the time, and had been told by a substitute teacher who was incredibly excited to see me carting around a folder with the Kinks on it (does anyone remember those goofy pop folders with record covers and the fake record sticking out of the top?) that their 60's stuff was the stuff to get, so I was really excited when I found it. I STILL love that record so much. "Lazy Old Sun" is one of the strangest songs and strangest recordings ever. But yeah. What the Kap'n said. It just spoke to me right away. The goofy and the sad all mixed up in a big old tannin-tinted ball of autumnal Kinkiness. reply quote

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