Uma biografia detalhada da banda em Wikipedia
Esta playlist não pretende ser um registo exaustivo das melhores canções dos Kinks, mas apenas as minhas escolhas passados 60 anos sobre a minha descoberta do grupo. Considero, com o recuo dos anos, que este grupo foi um dos cinco melhores nas ilhas britânicas, nos anos sessenta.
Pode parecer insólito, mas o meu critério não se alinha com os «Top Ten», ou o volume das vendas de discos. Baseio-me na qualidade musical das composições, dos arranjos, na originalidade das letras...
Considero que, com a panóplia instrumental que eles possuíam, conseguiram um som absolutamente original. As letras têm conteúdo*: Não são rebuscadas; procuram dar uns flashes da situação; ao auditor caberá reconstituir a história. Muitas das letras** têm um humor muito próprio, resultado da escrita de Ray Davies.
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* THE 20 th CENTURY MAN
This is the age of machineryA mechanical nightmareThe wonderful world of technologyNapalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare
This is the twentieth centuryBut too much aggravationIt's the age of insanityWhat has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem
Ain't got no ambitionI'm just disillusionedI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, I don't want to be here
My mama said she can't understand meShe can't see my motivationJust give me some securityI'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century
You keep all your smart modern writersGive me William ShakespeareYou keep all your smart modern paintersI'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough
Girl we gotta get out of hereWe gotta find a solutionI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, I don't want to die here
Girl, we gotta get out of hereWe gotta find a solutionI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, I don't want to be here
I was born in a welfare stateRuled by bureaucracyControlled by civil servantsAnd people dressed in greyGot no privacy, got no liberty'Cause the twentieth century peopleTook it all away from me
Don't want to get myself shot downBy some trigger happy policemanGotta keep a hold on my sanityI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here
My mama says she can't understand meShe can't see my motivationAin't got no securityI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here
I don't want twentieth century, manI don't want twentieth century, manI don't want twentieth century, manI don't want twentieth century, man
This is the twentieth centuryBut too much aggravationThis is the edge of insanityI'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to be her
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All the stories have been toldOf kings and days of oldBut there's no England now(There's no England now)All the wars that were won and lostSomehow don't seem to matter very much anymore
All the lies we were told (all the lies that we were told)All the lies of the people running roundTheir castles have burned
I see changeBut inside we're the same as we ever were
Living on a thin line, oohTell me now, what are we supposed to do?Living on a thin line, ooh (living on a thin line)Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line (living on a thin line)Living this way, each day is a dreamWhat am I, what are we supposed to do?Living on a thin line, ooh (living on a thin line)Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Now another century nearly goneWhat are we gonna leave for the young?What we couldn't do, what we wouldn't doIt's a crime, but does it matter?Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?Does it ever really matter?Yes, it really, really matters
Living on a thin line, ooh (living on a thin line)Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?Living on a thin line, ooh (living on a thin line)Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Then another leader says"Break their hearts and break some heads"Is there nothing we can say or do?Blame the future on the pastAlways lost in bloody gutsAnd when they're gone, it's me and you
Living on a thin line, oohTell me now, what are we supposed to do?Living on a thin line, ooh (living on a thin line)Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?Living on a thin line, ooh