Kinks 1st LP OR UK PYE 1964 PSYCH BEAT GARAGE MOD MONO
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THIS IS THE 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP ON THE PYE LABEL FROM 1964, THE CATALOG NUMBER IS NPL 18096 AND IT IS MONO!
Original UK MONO pressing on PYE from 1964. The record and the flipback sleeve are in EX(-) condition.
'Rock bands will come, rock bands will go. But rock'n'roll will go on forever.' This statement certainly applies to the Kinks' debut album - sure enough, there's a lot of rock'n'roll here, but where's the rock band? The songwriting is next to none, and when it's there, it's mostly primitive. The playing is nowhere above average, and when it is, it's Jimmy Page who's playing guitar. The production is murky, too, courtesy of Shel Talmy who is probably one of the two legendary most hated thugs in rock business (together with Allen Klein). In all, this is a fascinating listen.
London had to respond to merseybeat sometime, so along come The Kinks. Two brothers, Ray And Dave. A template set by The Beatles and dozens of managers and record company type people at the time - play songs people know. So, a half dozen or so songs here are cover versions. Ray Davies own songs are better in every single respect. We start with a cover and it is barely competent at all. The second song is a Ray Davies original and, although rooted in blues, rhythm and blues - still contains a bunch more energy and excitement than the groups lack-lustre cover of 'Beautiful Delilah'. Other early Ray Davies signs of genius include 'Just Can't Go To Sleep', easily the equal of Beatle songs penned during the time. Then, however, we get 'Long Tall Shorty'. In a word, it's crap. We get other covers, 'I'm A Lover Not A Fighter', 'Cadillac', 'Bald Headed Woman', 'Too Much Monkey Business', 'I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain' and 'Got Love If You Want It'. None of them amount to anything at all, and if this was all The Kinks had to offer I wouldn't be writing this page and nobody would remember them to this day, at all. But of course, that's not all they had to offer. Oh, but of course not!
The key moment on this Kinks Kinky debut arrives Kourtesy of their 'You Really Got Me'. Suddenly, everything else here pales in comparison. Such energy, energy that has meant this song has not only stood the test of time but been credited with inventing heavy metal. It has a nice, even though primitive, five-note riff - the first heavy riff in history, it builds up well and includes a mad one-string solo by Dave who complemented the grumbling riff by a deserving, chaotic instrumental passage. Oh, where could we be without that needle today? But don't just think of the song as a rough beginning: even today, the riff sounds completely fresh and invigorating, and the song strikes me as far more 'heavy' than ninety percent of these goofy hair metal bands who want so much to sound 'heavy' but sound nothing but miserable. In a certain way, together with 'House Of The Rising Sun', 'You Really Got Me' was the most important number one single of 1964, and the one that really set the things happening. Along with 'You Really Got Me', the other song here that shows, even at this early stage, that Ray Davies was a great writer, is 'Stop Your Sobbing'. Many years later, a group called The Pretenders would take the song very high in the charts. It's a gorgeous song, plain and simple..
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