not too many bands can match a 7 consecutive album run like their first 7

Kinks clear easily

honestly yeah theyd be up there too, maybe slightly higher for me, with Kink Kontroversy through Muswell

(or Face to Face through everybodys in show biz)

crazy to see a classic longtime avy get mangled up like that

I figured I might as well really f*** it up for a bit

Aubrey has bops on Maid Of Honor ngl it's been on repeat. Told the cringelord papiangels I'd ice it out of Iceman was half decent which it barely is but there's also MOH.

i only heard a few random songs and couldnt stomach them

MOH is the album I was hoping for in 2013

:mystery:

A Hard Day’s Night might be my favorite Beatles album these days. Just perfect pop rock.

For me honestly they’re top 5-10 all time. Their creative chord voicings and bizarre lyrics changed my life listening to them around my parents as a kid. I had no frame of reference for that.

My mom is always foisting trinkets and crap on us but she finally pulled through a while ago with a sick jean jacket with huge A Hard Days Night album cover on the back

Yeah it's a banger album and the movie is clossic too

Are the Kinks in your top 5-10

you always the #1 Dan soldier around here

I absolutely struggle to enjoy Steely Dan

except Ricki Don't Lose This Number

Damn, that jacket sounds rad

The buttons loudly rattle around

It even sounds cool

For sure Ray Davies is one of my top 5-10 writers

Not to mention the sonic perfection and fusion of genres

I dont think they are the wrong answer to that question. Amazing unique band

The Dan arent better than the beatles tho

that 4 peat of Word of Mouth, Think Visual, UK Jive, and Phobia is perplexing

Haven't heard any of those yet

Just up to 1975 and they're my favorite band ever just off that

As i had to say when someone on here pressed me a while ago;

Pioneered the modern guitar riff out the gate which has influenced generations. From Stones Satisfaction, Who's Can't Explain, Yardbirds, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Van Halen literally any riff monster bands are direct evolutions of the revolutionary stuff The Kinks did right out the gate in 1964. And not just You Really Got Me, but All Day & All Of The Night, Till The End Of The Day and several other masterpieces are amongst the most pivotal and influential guitar rock songs ever (and not to just rock & roll but metal and punk as well).

They didn't rest on their laurels like most other bands would do and the next year brought social satire to the rock lexicon. Rays acutely witty and scathing songs picked apart the social fabric in a way that nobody else bar Chuck Berry had imagined doing at that point. A Well Respected Man was again one of the most influential songs ever and they kept bringing the heat with Dedicated Follower Of Fashion, Sunny Afternoon, Dead End Street, Afternoon Tea, etc etc almost nobody else was on Rays level for this.

The next move was being among the very first 3 or 4 bands laying the foundation for psychedelic rock in 1965 (although they were willfully unhip and never fully committed to that era) when they brought eastern droning scales to rock and roll with See My Friends. McCartney publicly tipped his hat to them at the the time and admitted he was jealous of the innovation. Like I said they brought Tolkienesque fantasy lyrics to rock with Rainy Day In June which totally paved the way for Syd Barrett, a bunch of Zeppelin and any other band that dabbled in that lane of psych. Stuff like I'm Not Like Everybody Else, Lazy Old Sun, Phenomenal Cat and Wicked Anabella rank amongst the greatest psych of the 60s.

First British band to embrace their own musical heritage instead of trying to sound as American as possible, which didn't just immediately influence the Beatles/Stones/Who etc but generations of legendary bands all the way up to the Britpop era at least. Big beer hall sing-along style songs like were unheard of until they did it but became a regular part of rocks vocabulary.

Arguably had the first concept albums (Face To Face), rock operas (Arthur), queer anthems (Lola) and prog experiments (Autumn Almanac). Staggering amount of influence.

You can trace half the innovations of the '60s and '70s back to the Kinks (and/or the Yardbirds). When literally ever other monster band of the era were directly pivoting their style based on what the Kinks just did, it's hard to call them "minor". I don't want to make it sound like they were just influential either, very few bands maintained the level of consistency that they did in their prime. Ridiculous amount of amazing songs.