What are the most fun Kinks songs to play live, Hayden?
Sunnydale's got too many demons and not enough retail outlets.
Glory ,'Potential'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - May 05, 2011 4:27:34 pm PDT #4479 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hayden - May 05, 2011 4:31:37 pm PDT #4480 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
On bass, it's either "Victoria" or "Do You Remember Walter?" 'cause both have excellent rip-roaring basslines. On guitar, I've thrown "Big Sky," "Picture Book," and "Animal Farm" into the mix, but all of those are mostly about the singing.
DavidS - May 05, 2011 4:49:21 pm PDT #4481 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of covering the Kinks, my all-time fav Kinks cover is "Days" by Kirsty MacColl. Though "Stop My Sobbing" by Ray's ex-gf is pretty awesome too. I also dig the hard drum assault of the Romantics on "She's Got Everything." Does everybody realize that the drummer on the Romantics sang lead on "What I Like About You"? Weird, huh? Big hulking dude, too. Rest of the guys were tiny. I think I saw them live about four times.
Trudy Booth - May 09, 2011 6:45:31 am PDT #4482 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Day off before the last of 7 My Chem shows.
Just FYI: If you ever have the chance to see them play in Jersey DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTT.
But only if you like 2 hour sets. And Sorrows.
Trudy Booth - May 09, 2011 6:45:51 am PDT #4483 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
And Frank stage diving to the fourth row.
Amy - May 09, 2011 6:53:53 am PDT #4484 of 6436
Because books.
Where'd you see them, Trudy?
Liese S. - May 10, 2011 3:17:21 pm PDT #4485 of 6436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So during this last group's interminable van rides, we got into a big argument about music. Perhaps unsurprising, you get a bunch of artists together, they're going to argue. But I thought the premise for this one was fascinating, and wondered if Buffistas had an opinion.
My opponent's argument was that the umbrella/root of all modern music was rock. I and my compatriot argued that it is blues.
He says that music critics (Rolling Stone?) say it is rock, and I say that the said critics are often subject to a racial bias (okay, I didn't bring up race until a good half-hour into the conversation, but still, I think it figures) that prevents them from acknowledging blues.
I think blues is much more fundamental to the various genres of music that have emerged since the era in question, influencing both form and harmonic structure. I see rock as springing from blues, along with many others.
What do you guys think? Do you see rock as a better overarching term?
Amy - May 10, 2011 3:29:38 pm PDT #4486 of 6436
Because books.
Rock *was* born of the blues, so I don't really see how you can skip over it.
Blues all the way.
Atropa - May 10, 2011 3:35:05 pm PDT #4487 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Rock *was* born of the blues, so I don't really see how you can skip over it.
Yeah. Without blues, there would be no rock.
DavidS - May 10, 2011 4:24:08 pm PDT #4488 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
All hard rock is based on the blues. Blues is, of course, also the root of Jazz.
Country music actually has a lot of blues in it also.
Of course, Gospel is also a huge influence and that rarely gets noted. But all those early uptempo R&B songs are basically gospel structures.
There's also a surprising latin influence that sort of courses through the music (the Bo Diddley beat is actually a latin beat. Same for "Louie Louie").
But yeah, blues is the big river that American music flows from.