Raymond Douglas Davies — LiveJournal

08:20 pm - When he's 64:)

Happy birthday, mr. Raymond Douglas Davies!
We love you!!!

I saw him on Thursday and yesterday. Again... One of the greatest songwriters ever.
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01:09 pm - Working in the Kinks

Celluloid Heroes: Must Be The Season of the Kinks

For a group that began making music 45 years ago, The Kinks are doing quite well this season in movie royalty checks. At least three recent movies have featured songs by the British invasion band, which graduated from "You Really Got Me'' to a quiet intellectual cult phase, a New Wave appreciation by The Jam and The Pretenders, and a heavier metal rebirth.

The Kinks make themselves heard in the just-released "Juno'' when studious and unglamorous high-schooler (and possible dad-to-be) Michael Cera is getting dressed in his track gear, rubbing deodorant on his thighs. "He's a well-respected man about town,'' sings Ray Davies in The Kinks's 1965 hit of the same name.

Indeed, ha ha.

The Jason Reitman movie attempts much of the same sensibility as a film by Wes Anderson, whose latest, "The Darjeeling Limited,'' had three Kinks tunes from the group's 1970 album, "Lola versus The Powerman and the Money-go-round.'' One of the "Darjeeling'' songs, "This Time Tomorrow,'' was featured in the movie's trailer, and another, "Strangers,'' came at the moment "brothers'' Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman stop simply traveling through India and actually interact with its people. In his earlier film "Rushmore,'' Anderson also used a melancholy Ray Davies song, "Nothing In This World Can Stop Me From Worrying About The Girl'' to back a cannonball splash and swim by sad-sack rich guy Bill Murray.

Oh, the third film? That would the pump-up-the-volume cops movie "Hot Fuzz.'' And how better to introduce the movie's big joke, that "Lethal Weapon'' could happen in a quiet Cotswolds town, than with The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society?''

Soon after that ode to orderly, uneventful small-town life sounds? Yes, you guessed it, blood.

"Everybody's in showbiz, and everybody's a star,'' Davies sang three-and-a-half decades ago on "Celluloid Heroes.''

For The Kinks, who ended up exploring different terrain that most love-stuck bands, that celluloid moment is now, as current filmmakers plumb the work of a classic band that matches their contemporary mix of irony, satire, and detachment.

Source: Boston.com

12:36 am - DAVIES PLANS KINKS REUNION

 THE KINKS frontman RAY DAVIES has hinted the legendary rock group are planning a comeback - but only if the band are able to write and record new material.
The You Really Got Me hitmaker, who has found success as a solo artist since the band's split in 1996, has agreed to the idea of a reunion - but refuses to play any of the British rockers' past hits.
He says, "I really would like to get together if we had new music. Otherwise it's just a nostalgia evening: 'Karaoke Kinks'."

09:50 pm - Hi all

Hi I'm Sarah and I've just joined, I love Ray and The Kinks! I think Ray's new album is brilliant. Look forward to posting more.

08:29 pm - I'm in....

...love with Ray and the kinks.

this community isn't active, so i just thought i'd post some of my fav photos...

  
thats is only a few of them, of corse.
what is everyone else's favourite photos?

04:04 pm - KINKY!

Hello all, I see this community isn't too active but i wanted to join anyway.
I have deeply fallen for the kinks after i bought a greatest hits cd, i can't stop listening to it!!!
But i need help, would any of you recomend a kinks cd i should buy? i need more kinks music but not sure which particular one to buy. please help!

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04:04 pm

17 Kinks Album Cover Icons

Previews:

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03:14 pm

Hello everyone. My name is Tory, and I'm a huge Ray/Kinks fan.

I see that no one has posted here since June. Hopefully this community can be revived. I have some Kinks album cover icons that i'll post sometime this week.

03:51 pm - Birthday

It's Ray's 64th!


Raymond Douglas Davies, b. June 21, 1944.

03:58 pm - Ray on Conan tonight

RDD is scheduled to be on the Conan O'Brien Show tonight promoting his new EP.

And his LOOONNNNG awaited solo DVD is due in February.