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View Poll Results: Who was a better songwriter?
Pete Townshend (The Who) 3 23.08%
Ray Davies (The Kinks) 10 76.92%
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Old 01-14-2021, 06:31 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Between those two I’d say Waterloo Sunset pretty easy
Mee too, but I can't think of any song from The Kinks similar to Won't Get Fooled Again to compare them.
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Mee too, but I can't think of any song from The Kinks similar to Won't Get Fooled Again to compare them.
The greatest guitar work by The Kinks is the riff for You Really Got Me which is so raw and so early it’s one of the best and most influential riffs of all but Dave played it.
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Old 01-14-2021, 06:47 AM   #13 (permalink)
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The greatest guitar work by The Kinks is the riff for You Really Got Me which is so raw and so early it’s one of the best and most influential riffs of all but Dave played it.
Yeah, absolutely, but no one's sure who played the solo. Jon Lord (Deep Purple) played the piano on the track and told Blackmore and others that Jimmy Page had played. Page doesn't remember, although says he didn't. Ray Davies said it wasn't true and that Dave had played it.Dave Davies hasn't talked about it.. Sound engineers don't know either.
All Day And All Of The Night is cool, too, but the solo is almost identic to the solo of You Really Got Me.
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Old 01-15-2021, 01:06 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Ray Davies for me. I respect Townshend's intelligent writing, but I'm just not a Who fan. Davies is a supreme melodicist, and besides, I'm a supreme Anglophile. There's also a tenderness, poignancy and playfulness with Davies, which I tend to go for.

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Days is such a great song! As a fellow anglophile I relate to that, Ray Davies is certainly the quitessential English musician
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Ray Davies for me. I respect Townshend's intelligent writing, but I'm just not a Who fan. Davies is a supreme melodicist, and besides, I'm a supreme Anglophile. There's also a tenderness, poignancy and playfulness with Davies, which I tend to go for.

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Days is such a great song! As a fellow anglophile I relate to that, Ray Davies is certainly the quitessential English musician
Well, it was very difficult for me to vote, I voted for Townshend while listening to Roger Daltrey's scream in Won't Get Fooled Again. But now I'm not so sure. Thanks for voting!
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Days is such a great song! As a fellow anglophile I relate to that, Ray Davies is certainly the quitessential English musician
Marie, as an Anglophile you're certainly in the right place. I'm extremely jealous!

One of my favorite places is Tea & Sympathy, a quaint English restaurant/tea room here in NY. I always hear The Kinks playing in my head when I'm there (and it's been far too long because of Covid. Usually get a pot of Earl Grey and warm ginger cake with hot custard sauce - to die for.)
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my anglophilia is one of the reasons I ended up in England
obligatory song to go with your lovely little tea story:
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obligatory song to go with your lovely little tea story:
Yes, Sunny Afternoon is another one that I love, too.
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I voted for Townshend while listening to Roger Daltrey's scream in Won't Get Fooled Again.
That'll do it! This song is irresistible.
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