Ray Davies on Revolver

[Blue Train]

I posted somewhere that the Beach Boys were not in the same Universe as the Beatles.....and Armageddon resulted. I still think the same thing.

Ray Davies really wasn't a fan of Revolver, and English Jazz musicians can't swing.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_kinks_vs._the_beatles_ray_davies_thought_revolver_was_garbage

Edited October 20, 2013 by Blue Train

[paul secor]

Not that it matters, 47 years after the fact, but I think his comments were pretty much on the mark.

[Blue Train]

It's a subjective subject and very much À chacun son goût....and yes, 40-50 years. Watch out if you say the Beach Boys were not in the same Universe of the Beatles.

P.S. Joe Harriott and others could swing.

[paul secor]

Hey, at this point in my life, the Beatles and the Beach Boys are not in the same universe I'm in.

[Blue Train]

Hey, at this point in my life, the Beatles and the Beach Boys are not in the same universe I'm in.

FTW!

[mjzee]

Don't underestimate how much of this could be due to professional jealousy.

[Blue Train]

Don't underestimate how much of this could be due to professional jealousy.

You think?

Sorry for swinging @ that softball.

Edited October 20, 2013 by Blue Train

[paul secor]

Not that I plan to listen to it, but I'll never be able to hear "Taxman" in the same way as I once did. Songwriters can often have a good sense of where other writers got their stuff from.

[Blue Train]

Not wanting to start another Armageddon, but "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" & "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)"

Nuff said for me.

[.:.impossible]

That wasn't exactly a takedown. I read a lot of respect there. That's not to say that he isn't critical of a handful of songs! It reads to me like his expectations were not met. No big deal.

What does your last post mean? Those are your two favorite Kinks records?

I have a soft spot for EVERYBODY'S IN SHOW BUSINESS.