Thanks for all the info, everyone. Looks like I need two more Cheap Trick albums, and a bunch of Kinks albums. (I have a number of Kinks greatest hits albums, but now it's time to go to the source albums."
Also, where can the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" be found? It was originally a b-side, right?
I can send it to buffistarawk when I get home tonight.
Also, where can the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" be found? It was originally a b-side, right?
Correct. But it should be on the reissue of Face to Face. I think you can also get it on the Kink Kronikles, though, which was a seventies compendium of lost Kinks tracks and singles put together by John Mendelsson (Ultimate Kinks fan and rock critic of the era).
I can just post it if you want.
Yeah, if one of you guys could post "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" that would be great.
Also, someone covered that song for a movie soundtrack in the early/mid '90s, but I can't remember the movie or the band that did the cover. Any ideas?
eta: Also, Camper Van Beethoven covered this, which I have. That version is pretty good.
Is this it, tommyrot? [link]
edit: Damn, that looks like a pretty sweet soundtrack. I miss the 90s.
Yeah, that's it. A roommate had that album at one point. I think I need a copy of that.
Also, that album's version of X's "Unheard Music" ("Performed by Elastica with Stephen Malkmus") is awesome.
It's posted now. I threw in "Celluloid Heroes" because that album, Everybody's in Show Biz, is less essential, but everybody needs that song.
You're welcome. And now I'm listening to a lot of Kinks. Currently: "Ape Man."
I think I need to track down some of their later hard rock songs like "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" and "Destroyer."
I love "Destroyer", as the AOR station I listened to in the early '80s played it a lot.
I like how they ripped off their own riff in "All Day and All of the Night" for "Destroyer." And it also mentions "a girl called Lola."
Give me a mo and I'll upload those two tracks. (My only version of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" is the live one from
One For the Road.
Do you want that version?)