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What Are You Listening To?.....v. Next Level Beats

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Right, I know that even The Kinks hate these records from Ray's breakdown period, and I know I always espouse their (not-universally-recognised) merits. This ain't 'cool', this ain't me being obscure, it's just Ray going mental but showing a scary vulnerability through the layers of schmaltz.

Fuck you, Bowie, for making so much money for doing the opposite. Even though some of your stuff's pretty good. Anyway:

The Kinks - The First Time We Fall In Love
 
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Fucking hell Myshkin great tracks sir. Orb and Kinks yeah I'm in mate.

*Cracks open a Cherry Cola and hands it to Myshkin*

Hmmm....Myshkin forget the band name I have the slightest suspicion you may like this one a bit maybe:

Arctic Monkeys - If You Found This It's Problably Too Late

Bordering on punk. Try and ignore the band name and give it whirl. Bless you. <3
 
Ben So Furry said:
Fucking hell Myshkin great tracks sir. Orb and Kinks yeah I'm in mate.

*Cracks open a Cherry Cola and hands it to Myshkin*

Hmmm....Myshkin forget the band name I have the slightest suspicion you may like this one a bit maybe:

Arctic Monkeys - If You Found This It's Problably Too Late

Bordering on punk. Try and ignore the band name and give it whirl. Bless you. <3
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Cheers for the cherry Coke and for indulging my passion for Kinks songs nobody else but a handful of weirdos like. ;)

Cherry Cola is second only to Red Bull Cola (which is disappearing) and the dearly-departed Rockstar cola. Don't start me off on Cola. Even Ben Shaw's traditional seems to be a niche product. Accountants dictating your tastes: soon there'll not be a single bottle of Stones Ginger Wine gathering dust in a single offy in the country. This saddens me.

And yeah, I wanted to hate the Arctic Monkeys but was just jealous really that these kids were getting it together when I'd faded into onscurity even by non-famous people's standards. And so began a long fall. I thought the hype was cynical and killed them creatively, more or less (for the time they were so overexposed at least) but I genuinely think that if the rumours (which were no doubt initiated by bitter ageing fucks like me) that they had outside lyrical help, then I'll say they're better than the Libertines. Much, much better. And songwriting knack they'd kill for.

I must say that I have a guilty weakness for watching exploitative R&B / 'urban' (why not just say 'black' videos with the sound turned down. Sure, they're crass and all that, but is it any more crass than the way in which even 'serious' female musicians are presented in the industry?

Even Kate 'fucking genius' Bush was reduced to a pair of tits, and that was years ago. Admittedly it looked good, but it's a tackiness that the (white) music industry pretends isn't there. Name five objectively 'ugly' (in the conventional sense) successful white female pop / rock stars, (solo, I mean). You'll struggle. At least these girls are hired as pure decoration; 'honeyz' or whetever they're called nowadays. In many cases to reaffirm the (debatable) heterosexuality of the performers, but we've covered that many times. And Tupac still leers down at many a teenage boy. I find that comnforting, actually.

Look... I'll leave this and just guiltily watch the 'sideboob action' while I plot my next furtive wank. Sorry. That was some pretty good rationalisation of misogny, though.
 
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A-fucking-greed mate. Jesus. Well said that man. Top words.

Bloke is a modern day poet. I wanted to hate them too, their following repulsed me to be honest. They got me though. Sucked in hook line and sinker.

Never heard of Red Bull Cola, I want one.

Arctic Monkeys - 'Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair'

To be honest with you that's the only track I have liked since 'Favourite Worse Nightmare' not sure what happened to them but they lost their way. Should have stuck to cheeky social commentary if you ask me.
 
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Never heard of Red Bull Cola, I want one.
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Should I find one somehow (probably in some godforsaken mill town or a branch of B&M) I'll send you one. Remember Pepsi Raw? It was like that. Contained enough coca to be banned in Germany for a time as well. Not enough to get you high, like, but a nice, natural taste. Not what you'd expect from Red Bull at all.

Ben So Furry said:
To be honest with you that's the only track I have liked since 'Favourite Worse Nightmare' not sure what happened to them but they lost their way. Should have stuck to cheeky social commentary if you ask me.
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Fame, money, success, sex with socialistes and cocaine? The usual killers of careers in the UK, or at least what sends them wayward. Look at Suede; they made one-and-a-half-albums as the band they began as, then made a (great) self-parody LP. The Darkness are an even more salient example. I managed it without the fame or the money (though I must thank a Mr. J.Cohen for paying my cocaine bills for some time. And you can't blame me for your daughter's lack of the kind of 'success' you wanted for her, either).

But hey, Ray even sank this low after his own stardom bubble burst, so there's hope for everyone:

The Kinks - Starmaker

The Kinks - The Ordinary People

Parts 1&3 of Starmaker, the Kinks' attempt at a big-budget stage show, like the Who used to do, but with a really intelligent (or at least by rock musical standards) storyline. If anybody's not too disturbed, check out Soap Opera, the album, from which the stage show was adapted (universally panned as The Kinks' nadir, but makes more sense now), or better still, light a spliff, have some drugs and watch the entire show, with apologies for the sound.

Am I really losing it, or are these records of any worth whatsoever? Not even sideboob action to be had (though they certainly had a 'traditional' attitude to the role of the female backing singers, and seventies 'totty' is another weak fascination of mine), or just one guy losing his mind on record company money. Which is beautiful and tragic, if you take these things as seriously as I (pretend I) do.
 
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Myshkin I don't know about their worth mate but I read them if it makes any difference. I love your obvious enthusiasm for the music you love. I mean that. I admire that quality even if I don't get on with all the tracks you play. Again, for what it's worth.

Red Bull Cola thing. Don't think I won't hold you to that even if it was just a throw-away comment. I will be watching your posts carefully from now on and if you post something like 'enjoying a Red Bull Cola' get ready for a deluge of PM's saying simply 'where's mine' OK? Good. Cheers btw.

I know this track is a cliche, probably already been posted but hey this is my favourite Kinks song:

the kinks Tired Of Waiting For You

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I'm in love with the bird in that video. Lulz. You fucking madman. <3
 
Hey Ben, I'm in the middle of a drugs binge. And i've only managed to convince a few people that those Kinks albums are anything but me having a laugh. I'm actually sincere, though I go through some silly cycles of loving stuff that's average at best, just bad at worst. They think it's some kind of prank, or me losing it finally, or worse.

Thanks for reminding EADD that Ray Davies was actually an undisputed genius, however. Stops me having to post the things he recorded that he'd rather forget. :)

One more bit of waffle before I go and erm, get some exercise (Cheers Ceres): he was at the brink of suicide all this time. Took an overdose backstage, got rushed to hospital, and his only word were "I am Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, and I am Dying". Theatrical, yeah? But he'd spent Christmas travelling the circle line drinking Kronenbourg, alone. That's all part of the morbid fascination with this less-than-celebrated period of a great artist's output. That and it gives you status among (sometimes even female) music-geeks. Though dubious the status I've gained from the above is. But I'm boring myself now.

But anyway, it took a white Jewish-American (closet case) rocker to invent / crystallise and eventually perfect the modern misogynist video (because he got the record company backing, figure it out for yourself), and here's the zenith / nadir. Though with slightly less attractive (and very eighties LA) models. Though some of them have impressive bodies, and being an eighties child, big hair still does it for me in a weird way I won't bother to analyse.

Turn the sound down (unless you like hair rock) and watch a clearly- self-obsessed man overcompensate for the umpteenth time:

David Lee Roth - A Li'l Ain't Enough

It'll make you laugh at him or with him. Either way, it'll make you smile. Or cringe. Or both.
 
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The Kinks are the fucking tits mate. I could happily put my name to any of their tracks posted. Yes all the obvious cliche ones. 'Girl', 'Waterloo Sunset'

Stay safe on your binge please. Esp. if MDPV is involved. Please. <3

Fuck it I saw this, I fucking wet myself, no joke:

Ray Davis @ Glastonbury.

Shall la la OK mate? Look after yourself. <3

Before you ask if that was me in the crowd I never wear those shitty straw hats OK? I want that made very clear. :D

edit. Bollocks just checked the Glasto line up. Why did I do that? The year I didn't get tickets. Line up is superb. Bastards.

One small mercy is The Black Keys are not playing, that would have floored me. Pagey too. You can breathe a sigh of relief now. <3
 
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I went to see Ray Davis about 10 years ago, we left during the interval, wasve boring, lot of nostalgic but dull stories, and all "new material".

I'm listening to the "final" version of the mix I did this week, considering i was pretty batttered on booze, weed, lots of (for me) benzos, and pirate last night when i did it, it sounds okay, still 2 or 3 bits i could have done better.

Added a few tracks too.

Pirate Tech v.3

which I'm now not sure is as good as v.2 :? fucking drugs.

Ben So Furry said:
edit. Bollocks just checked the Glasto line up. Why did I do that? The year I didn't get tickets. Line up is superb.
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yeah, Mumford and Sons! <3
 
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