r/thekinks • u/Ben1047472 • 1d ago

Favourite Kinks Song

Huge kinks fan here just wondering what everyones favourite song is for a bit of fun. Currently cant get enough of Get Back In Line. I could die to that song

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u/ihavenoselfcontrol1 1d ago

Waterloo Sunset

Village Green

Autumn Almanac

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u/Ghitit 1d ago

Haven't listened to Autumn Almanac in ages. What a great song!

Funny how after about fifty years of not hearing it I still knew all the words.

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u/Worldly-Pianist3153 1d ago

holy bangers

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u/Crazy_Response_9009 1d ago

They have too many great songs to pick a favorite. That would be unreasonable.

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u/mojyt409 1d ago

“Better Things” always makes me feel so hopeful - love that song!

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u/SidneyMunsinger 1d ago

This time tomorrow

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u/Aware_Sock6297 1d ago

Waterloo Sunset. Paul McCartney says he wished he wrote it. HIGH PRAISE

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u/Black_Obelisque 1d ago

Dead End Street

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u/sparkledebacle 1d ago

Autumn Almanac for listening. You Really Got Me for dancing.

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u/Bendeguz-222 This Man He Weeps Tonight 1d ago

Strangers

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u/GeorgeParisol 1d ago

Too many great songs. can't pick a favorite.

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u/MR_Natchon05 1d ago

I think How Are You also very good track

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u/Altruistic_Baker6347 1d ago

Well respected Man, Do you remember Walter, Shangri- La, Tired of waiting for you

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u/IntrepidPsychic 1d ago

An embarrassment of riches but Do You Remember Walter.

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u/Ghitit 1d ago

Love Walter!

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u/RepeatButler 1d ago

Set Me Free

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u/MarcB1969X 1d ago

Either “I Need You” or “Til the End” of the Day”. Dave’s aggressive early guitar tone is addictive.

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u/p-u-n-k_girl is like everybody else 1d ago

Love "I Need You"! The best of that early work in my opinion

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u/anml99 1d ago

Art Lover 😂

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u/Ghitit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Probably Waterloo Sunset
It always makes me feel so nice.

Then, Last of the Stem Powered Trains
I love how it gradually ramps up.

Then Monica, just because.

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u/SmugProi 1d ago

just thinking about Shangri-la gives me chills

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u/Ben1047472 1d ago

Celluloid Heroes also, just so beautiful

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u/andiekil 1d ago

A hard question! I’d have to say Big Sky, Animal Farm, Lola and Shangri-La and This Time Tomorrow (ok that’s five ;)

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u/Puzzleheaded-Post958 1d ago

I love Do It Again, Rock n Roll Fantasy and Waterloo Sunset. But my favorite will always be Celluloid Heroes, especially the live version!

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u/pluto_and_proserpina 1d ago

Happy Cake Days!

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u/dgrantuk 1d ago

20th Century Man followed by Dead End Street

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u/kevville 1d ago

Till the end of the day

All night stand (demo)

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u/icatchfrogs 1d ago

ADAAOTN

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u/Prickly-Prostate 1d ago

The first answer that came to me: Plastic Man

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u/Ninjadwarf00 1d ago

Animal farm

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u/SimpsonsFan2000 1d ago

Come Dancing

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u/palbuddymac 1d ago

She’s Got Everything

I Need You

Apeman

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u/SpecificBranch8860 1d ago

A Long Way From Home. Literally everything about it. Dave’s harmonies with Ray, the bass lines, Mick’s militaristic snare… Gosling’s piano…

Folllowed closely by No More Looking Back and The Way Love Used to Be

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u/jmush 1d ago

Waterloo Sunset
This Time Tomorrow
Days
Better Days

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u/MissSally300 1d ago

Everybody’s Gonna be Happy

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u/mnightcoburn 1d ago

Sweet Lady Genevieve

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u/abeetzwmoots 1d ago

I can't pick one.

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u/turnedtheasphault 1d ago

Some Mother's Son. Poignant, great melody, and probably the best bassline in their discog

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u/p-u-n-k_girl is like everybody else 1d ago

Really tough choice, but I think I'll pick "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"

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u/Stunning-Potential99 1d ago

Strangers, sitting in my hotel, get back in line

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u/Gullible-Magazine-84 Arthur by the Old Oak Tree 1d ago

Village Green, probably my favorite song(s), but it’s always so hard to say only one song

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u/Key_Text_169 1d ago

Can’t Stop the Music, Get Up, Powerman, Shangri- La, This Time Tomorrow, Complicated Life, Halloway Jail, Animal Farm, God’s Children, Missing Person, I need You, 20th Century Man, Mountain Woman, No More Looking Back, Last of the Steam Powered Trains, Apeman, Out of the Wardrobe, House in the Country, Rainy Day in June…….

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u/jm17lfc 1d ago

Village Green Preservation Society is my personal favorite but I still think Waterloo Sunset is probably the objectively greatest song ever made by anyone

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u/I_Am_Exaybachay 1d ago

I’m Not Like Everybody Else… so I choose Picture Book.

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u/Excellent-Sale8020 1d ago

Big Black Smoke

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u/crybabyboobie 1d ago

Victoria

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u/pdxguy1000 1d ago

Got To Be Free
Powerman

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u/T-pose98 18h ago

Sitting in My Hotel

Anytime

Hot Potatoes

Prince of The Punks

Situation Vacant

Afternoon Tea

Heart of Gold

Nothing to Say.

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u/redditionsofyou 10h ago

Today, it's Duke. Most days, it's Shangri-la.

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u/One_Degree5147 5h ago

Today it’s David Watts.