The Kinks - Blog Posts

We need more classic rock memes y'all!

Put your entire library on shuffle and expose your music taste ! tagging anyone who wants to do this .

thanks to @dontworrylouis for the tag

- my sweet lord - george harrison

- the edge of seventeen - stevie nicks

- waterloo sunset- the kinks

- hallelujah- HAIM

- vincent- don mclean

- hey jude (anthology three version) - the beatles

- glasgow- catfish and the bottlemen

- weak- skunk anasie

- little red corvette- prince

- fame- david bowie

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average classic rock enjoyer

Legends Of Rock #03 - Ray Davies

Next up, the leader of my favorite rock band*: The Kinks, Mr. Ray Davies. The first time I heard a Kinks record (middle school, Sleepwalker), it really did a number on me. The Kinks have been the most enduring and consistent musical obsession I've had since that first taste. Ray Davies is the man behind the sometimes absurd, sometimes lovely rock-pop group that spanned three decades. I'm afraid The Kinks are one of those bands that most everyone has heard of, but not so many have heard anything other than You Really Got Me or Lola. Hoping this will help and ya'll like the illustration! I'm starting to feel pretty honored to just draw these Legends, as I'm maybe getting a bit obsessed by each of them as I stare at their photos and read of their accomplishments all the while listening to their radical music.

The Incorrigible Kinks by Austineustice on Mixcloud

*yeah, of all time.

ae album picks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) & Sleepwalker (1977)

Every time I hear Lola I cannot but be astonished that BBC executives went batshit over the usage of the Coca-Cola brand name but didn't bat an eyelid (sorry, it's practically impossible to resist a pun there!) at the whole "I'm not the world's most masculine man/But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man/And so is Lola" steadily progressing through the storyline.  

Just... HOW on earth?! Incredible.  Maybe it was well off their scale of comprehensibility, and yet...

Under rated rockstars that I can never find any good fic for!

1. Dave Davies

I can always find stuff with his brother but not him!

2. Eric Brittingham

Always Tom Keifer this Tom Keifer that, but never Eric!

3. Tom Petty

I mean why is it so hard to find a half decent Tom Petty fic?

4. Steve Jansen (honestly all of Japan)

I know they weren’t as popular as some of your other favorite bands, but these guys were fucking cool. Not to mention, incredibly hot. Steve is my favorite but it’s always all about his sorry excuse for a brother David!

5. Eric Burdon

I mean, here I was thinking that The Animals were a rather popular band from the 60s, but I was clearly wrong. Not mention, Eric was so fine I thought more chics would be pining for him.

Those are just the ones I’m thinking of off the top of my head. If you find some half decent fan fiction with these mfs let me know! I’m always looking for new fic!