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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, 05:39 AM   #10 (permalink)
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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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