The Kinks: Difference between revisions

* [[Heavy Meta]]: ''Lola versus Powerman...'' is about the music industry as a whole. Furthermore, there's "Session Man" (which is about session musicians, and how no one treats them like "real" musicians) and "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" (which is more aimed at the Mod scene as a whole rather than just the music). For an extra slice of meta, consider the fact that quintessential "session man" Nicky Hopkins plays on a song reportedly inspired by him.

* [[I Just Want to Be You]]: The narrator in "David Watts."

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: The Kinks (and many of their fans) would self-identify as misfits, or at least as "not like everybody else".

* [[Muggles]]: Ordinary people and working class situations feature in a lot of songs, and are probably the only aspect of British life to have escaped Ray's barbed wit.

* [[Rock Opera]]: From the much-praised (''Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)'') to the much-maligned (''Preservation''; ''Soap Opera''; ''Schoolboys in Disgrace'') although if you can get into the camp humour of the latter two they become much more tolerable.

* [[Satire Parody Pastiche]]: "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" is Satire; "Top Of The Pops" is Parody; "Sunny Afternoon" is Pastiche.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Ray and Dave Davies.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: "Harry Rag"

* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: "Shangri-La"

* [[Three Chords and The Truth]]: The early days, very much so.

* [[Trope Maker]]: Indian-sounding instruments and melodies were used on both "See My Friends" and "Fancy" a few months before "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles was released.

* [[Ur Example]]: The recent ''Heavy Metal Britannia'' documentary cited "You Really Got Me" as the starting point for the guitar-driven, riff-based rock that eventually evolved into hard rock and early metal.