Your Top 10 Kinks Songs

In chronological order...

I Took My Baby Home

You Shouldn't Be Sad

She's Got Everything

David Watts

Wonderboy

Village Green Preservation Society

Do You Remember Walter?

Picture Book

Johnny Thunder

Wicked Anabella

 

Really, really hard to pick just 10. The Kinks have as many, if not more, great songs as anyone. So, with very little thought put into it, here's 10 Kinks songs that may very well be my top 10.

In chronological order...

"Too Much On My Mind"

"End Of The Season"

"Mister Pleasant"

"Days"

"The Village Green Preservation Society"

"Do You Remember Walter?"

"Picture Book"

"Shangri-La"

"Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues"

"Sitting In My Hotel"

 

These might be a little obvious, but ask me again next week and I will have a different 10 :

Til the End of the Day (love the live version on Kelvin Hall)
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
This is Where I Belong
Waterloo Sunset
Days
People Take Pictures of Each Other
Celluloid Heroes
Better Things
Lola
Juke Box Music

 

Sitting In My Hotel
Celluloid Heroes
Strangers
Lola
Waterloo Sunset
Picture Book
Big Sky
Come Dancing
Dead End Street
Shangri La

 

Autumn Almanac
The Village Green Preservation Society
Strangers
Big Sky
The Moneygoround
Willesden Green
20th Century Man
Mindless Child Of Motherhood
Scattered
The First Time We Fall In Love

 

Victoria
King Kong
Till The End of the Day
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Sunny Afternoon
Dead End Street
Waterloo Sunset
Autumn Almanac
You Really Got Me
All Day and All of the Night

 

Celluloid Heroes
Some Mothers Son
Waterloo Sunset
Shangri La
Village Green
Afternoon Tea
Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Victoria
Sweet Lady Genevieve
This Time Tomorrow

 

1. Shangri-La
2. See My Friends
3. Do You Remember Walter
4. Autumn Almanac
5. Session Man
6. The Village Green Preservation Society
7. I Need You
8. Animal Farm
9. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
10. Mr Pleasant

 

So hard to pick just ten. I'm sure I'll be kicking myself in a few minutes over what I've left off but here's mine

Shangri-la
Waterloo Sunset
Lola
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Young And Innocent Days
This Is Where I Belong
Big Sky
Two Sisters
You Really Got Me
Death Of A Clown

 

mmmmmm let's see -- difficult:

Tired of waiting for you
Waterloo Sunset
Living on a thin line
Going solo - anyone who has kids should appreciate this song
Celluloid heros
i'm not like everybody else
where have all the good times gone
20th century man
see my friends
all day and all of the night

 

Very difficult.

1. Waterloo Sunset
2. God's Children
3. Get Back in Line
4. Picture Book
5. Big Sky
6. Victoria
7. Sweet Lady Genevieve
8. Too Much On My Mind
9. This Time Tomorrow
10. Autumn Almanac

 

Waterloo sunset
Victoria
Big sky
Animal farm
Strangers
Apeman
King Kong
Oklahoma USA
Complicated life
Juke box music

 

No top 10 is complete without the glorious "Waterloo Sunset"

 

Perhaps Waterloo Sunset is not so glorious after all if it hasn't made it to our - certainly incompetent - lists

 

Days
Waterloo Sunset
Village Green
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Til The End Of the Day
Rock'n'Roll Fantasy
Set Me Free
Art Lover
Lost And Found
Well Respected Man

 

in no order:

The Hard Way
Gotta Get The First Plane Home
Big Sky
The Contenders
Til The End of the Day
Animal Farm
Around the Dial
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Sunny Afternoon
Where have All The Good Times Gone

 

Good to see "Art Lover"!

 

no berkeley mews?

 

That's ridiculously difficult, if not impossible, but I have five minutes, so:

Ring The Bells
She's Got Everything
Waterloo Sunset
Autumn Almanac
Berkeley Mews
Johnny Thunder
Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains
Big Sky
Victoria
Get Back In Line

It'll change in a minute.

 

i'll do this later but wanted to make sure i had the thread followed

 

Holiday Romance
Money Talks
Lost And Found
The Road
Supersonic Rocket Ship
Black Messiah
Complicated Life
Sleepless Night
Where Are They Now?
Little Bit Of Emotion

 

But I forgot about...and...

 

(the first 10 I could think of. There are more...)
Better Things
Do You Remember Walter?
Celluloid Heroes
L-O-L-A!
Father Christmas
Fancy
Party Line
Love Me 'Til the Sun Shines
'Til the End of the Day
She's Got Everything

 

Not in any order, but at the moment...............

Waterloo Sunset
Shangri-La
Rainy Day In June
Holiday In Waikiki
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
The World Keeps Going Round
Alcohol
Ducks On The Wall
Tired Of Waiting For You
Village Green Preservation Society
Big Sky

 

Ten song I can think of now, in no particular order:

"Rosie Won't You Please Come Home"
"Wicked Annabella"
"Monica"
"Victoria"
"Yes Sir, No Sir"
"Too Much On My Mind"
"No Return"
"The Village Green Preservation Society"
"Big Sky"
"Animal Farm"