The Kinks are so much more important than a lot of folks realize-- I credit them with inventing punk rock, really especially with this song. And after that they went their own way, completely ignoring whatever musical trends were popular. Long after the Beatles broke up and the Stones and the Who got boring, the Kinks were making interesting music. Love them.
Love this song, Patti! Thanks for the reminder. Hadn't heard it in a while. I do remember when the Kinks music debuted on radio eons ago, how very different it seemed then.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
6 comments:
Great song!
And "All Day and All of the Night" was even better...Caribe flavors and a claim to being the loudest, heaviest band in the world at the time.
"It wasn't called 'heavy metal' when I invented it." --Dave Davies, joking a little.
I love this song! :-)
+ w/ Todd.
The Kinks are so much more important than a lot of folks realize-- I credit them with inventing punk rock, really especially with this song. And after that they went their own way, completely ignoring whatever musical trends were popular. Long after the Beatles broke up and the Stones and the Who got boring, the Kinks were making interesting music. Love them.
Love this song, Patti! Thanks for the reminder. Hadn't heard it in a while. I do remember when the Kinks music debuted on radio eons ago, how very different it seemed then.
You know what, it still does.
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