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Screen13 · 11-23-2013, 10:48 PM

I still have to say that there should be a vote for Something Else/Village Green/Arthur as one as they're all great and a perfect trilogy of albums.

I stood by Something Else mainly for being the one with "Waterloo Sunset", "Death of a Clown" (One of Dave's highlights), "David Watts", and "Situation Vacant" - the perfect gateway to their back to back classics that followed and a bittersweet closing of their strongest commercial years. Sold a little in The US (it peeped for a couple of weeks at #153 despite the touring ban) and graced UK #35, kind of hinting that their true followers were already turning into a Kinks Cult. One can say my choice is mainly through my favorites from that album being among the very first songs that seriously introduced me into their music when I was digging through these bands back as a Teen and getting to these first before Village Green, but "Waterloo Sunset" still remains one of those songs that brought me in, practicing my acoustic guitar with the song.

..plus the additions to the CD (sans "Wonderboy") only make it better! Somehow, I find the "Lost Dave Davies Album"/The Album That Never Was story very interesting - maybe not as great as Ray's concepts and classics, but still has it's great songs. I'm all for the odd little details, I guess!

11-23-2013, 10:48 PM	#25 (permalink)
Screen13 Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,388	I still have to say that there should be a vote for Something Else/Village Green/Arthur as one as they're all great and a perfect trilogy of albums. I stood by Something Else mainly for being the one with "Waterloo Sunset", "Death of a Clown" (One of Dave's highlights), "David Watts", and "Situation Vacant" - the perfect gateway to their back to back classics that followed and a bittersweet closing of their strongest commercial years. Sold a little in The US (it peeped for a couple of weeks at #153 despite the touring ban) and graced UK #35, kind of hinting that their true followers were already turning into a Kinks Cult. One can say my choice is mainly through my favorites from that album being among the very first songs that seriously introduced me into their music when I was digging through these bands back as a Teen and getting to these first before Village Green, but "Waterloo Sunset" still remains one of those songs that brought me in, practicing my acoustic guitar with the song. ..plus the additions to the CD (sans "Wonderboy") only make it better! Somehow, I find the "Lost Dave Davies Album"/The Album That Never Was story very interesting - maybe not as great as Ray's concepts and classics, but still has it's great songs. I'm all for the odd little details, I guess!