Feeling Kinky today

Great article on the Kinks today on the AV Club. This is the type of thing that will make me go on a Kinks listening binge for the weekend. All this primed by Crustodio and I enjoying the Village Green Preservation Society album while in Mexico.

Here are 2 very cool clips from the article. The first is a 1969 performance of Days, probably my favorite Kinks song. This is amusing, because not only are they clearly lip syncing the song, but the song is from 1966. Three years may not seem like much, but in the 60's it was the difference between I Want to Hold Your Hand and Strawberry Fields Forever. Light years apart.



The 2nd clip is of Sunny Afternoon, and a clear example of the Kinks' beautiful perverted career. These guys did almost everything wrong that they could. During the late 60's hard rock blooze phase they recorded whimsical pastoral albums about village greens, china cups and virginity. In the mid-60's at the height of the British invasion they got themselves banned from America. And in the early 70's they recorded a string of bizarre and totally uncool theatrical concept albums. And in this clip for Sunny Afternoon they are filmed in the middle of winter on a snowy field. Cheers, lads! God save the Kinks.