Your Top 10 Kinks Songs

"Tired of Waiting For You"
"Days"
"Death of a Clown"
"Apeman"
"Catch Me Now I'm Falling"
"Stop Your Sobbing"
"Waterloo Sunset"
"Wicked Annabella"
"Johnny Thunder"
"The Village Green Preservation Society"

 

Without putting too much thought into it:

1. Waterloo Sunset (would love to hear Paul McCartney cover this, and maybe have him and Ringo team up with Ray and Dave for an album and tour as it would also be cool to hear Ray tackle the Lennon Beatles' material)
2. Days
3. You Really Got Me
4. 'Til the End of the Day
5. Tired of Waiting
6. All Day and All of the Night
7. See My Friends
8. Lola
9. Come Dancing
10. Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

 

In no order, and it may change any day

Did Ya
Sunny Afternoon
Celluloid Heroes
Loony Balloon
Don't Forget To Dance
Days
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Do It Again
Rock And Roll Fantasy
Living On A Thin Line

 

Alchohol
Lola
Waterloo Sunset
Till the End of the Day
This Man He Weeps Tonight
Shangri-la
Some Mother's Son
Hot Potatoes
Sittin in My Hotel
Days

 

No order (except #1)

01 - "Shangri-La"
02 - "Days"
03 - "Mindless Child of Motherhood"
04 - "This Time Tomorrow"
05 - "Dead End Street"
06 - "I'm in Disgrace"
07 - "Waterloo Sunset"
08 - "Autumn Almanac"
09 - "Oklahoma, USA"
10 - "Life on the Road"

 

Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset
Waterloo Sunset

 

Come on now. They have plenty of other good songs.

For me today:

See My Friends
Two Sisters
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Scrapheap City (Ray vocal version)
Do You Remember Walter
Big Sky
Mindless Child of Motherhood
Ordinary People (live version)
Morning Song/Daylight
Uncle Son

 

Id love the Kinks and plenty of their songs. But Waterloo Sunset is not a song its a state of mind

 

All Day And All Of The Night
Tired Of Witing For You
Autumn Almanac
Waterloo Sunset
Death Of A Clown
Days
Arthur
Shangri-La
Better Things
Come Dancing

 

Big Sky seems insanely popular. I voted for it myself but nobody I know has ever heard of it. Sweet!

 

There are many Kinks songs I prefer to Waterloo Sunset. This is my off the top of my head, not strictly in order list:

Sunny Afternoon
She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina
Lazy Old Sun
Death of a Clown
Shangri-La
A Well Respected Man
Johnny Thunder
Animal Farm
Rosemary Rose
Alcohol

 

All PyE
Aye.
You Really Got Me
Lola
Sunny Afternoon
Til the End of the Day
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Waterloo Sunset
Days
Wonderboy ( JL fave)
Autumn Almanac
See My Friends

 

Way too hard. And surprisingly few "You Really Got Me"s so far. Off the top of my head, and no doubt will change two hours from now:

Waterloo Sunset
You Really Got Me
Scrapheap City (Maryann vocal)
David Watts
Sweet Lady Genevieve
Too Much On My Mind
Animal Farm
Days
Mr. Churchill Says
A Well Respected Man

Wait! What? That's ten already? What about Big Black Smoke? Better Things? And the Dave-sung songs? Oh, crap, All Day and All of the Night! This should have been a Top 25 thread.

 

You people have impeccable taste.

 

I suspect the story is apocryphal, but the song is pretty profound, which is highlighted by the promo film with the sudden jumps to clips of nature.

 

Yes, plenty of other good songs. But I get what he was going for - Waterloo Sunset is incredible. As is Celluloid Heroes, and , oh heck, you have a point too.

 

Impossible

 

That song is extremely overrated. I never cared for it.

 

You may not care for it but I think "extremely overrated" may be getting a little carried away.

 

As of today, in alphabetical order:

Autumn Almanac
Did You See His Name
Do You Remember Walter
Life on the Road
The Moneygoround
A Rock and Roll Fantasy
See My Friends
Sitting in My Hotel
Two Sisters
Young Conservatives

 

Two Sisters
Waterloo Sunset
Village Green
Just Friends
Mirror of Love
Oh Where Oh Where is Love?
You Make it All Worthwhile
The First Time We Fall In Love
Art Lover
War Is Over

 

Shangri-La
Celluloid Heroes
Waterloo Sunset
Misfits
Better Things
Days
Rock & Roll Fantasy
Art Lover
Catch Me Now I'm Falling
Victoria

 

I'm going to go chronological, since picking only ten is already doing my head in:

All Day and All of the Night - Hey guys, you've just recorded one of the greatest singles of all time. Can you go and do basically the same thing but - I don't know - even better?
See My Friends - Yeah, very nice apocalyptic thrashing there. Is that all you can do? How about some completely different kind of music that we've never heard before?
Rainy Day in June - Okay, now try writing a genuinely scary song. And it has to include elves and gnomes.
Waterloo Sunset - You remember that time you recorded the greatest single of all time? No, the other time. Well, do it again.
Days - Hey Ray, nobody's listening any more. Why don't you just do whatever the hell you'd like?
Animal Farm - I'm cold. Can you write a melody that's like being snuggled by the fire on a winter's night?
Shangri-La - Yeah, Waterloo Sunset was cool, and a couple of years later it's probably still the best single ever released, but. . . DO. IT. AGAIN.
Powerman - Remember that great riff thing you used to do? I bet you can't come up with any more of those. (Hey! One at a time!)
Celluloid Heroes - Well, yeah, that was a pretty good decade, I suppose. But don't you think you're limited by your sheer Englishness, Ray? I bet you couldn't write a song about, say, Los Angeles.
I'm In Disgrace - You were fine in the sixties, but you're getting old now. Past it. No way you could still rock out like you used to in '64.

Bonus Track:
Susannah's Still Alive - Ah, but without Ray's songwriting you're nothing.

 

Top Ten... I know it's a cliché but I could make Six more of these and not repeat myself.

Lazy Old Sun
Session Man
Love Me till the Sun Shines
Animal Farm
Shangri-la
Do You Remember Walter
No Return
End of the Season
Big Black Smoke
Dandy

Oh, and 'You're Looking Fine' for best lyrics EVER!

 

Instead of ten, I'll go with one: Don't Forget to Dance.