[lbo-talk] Morrissey: Won't live in England, too many immigrants

[Eric]

>--- John Adams <jadams01 at sprynet.com> wrote:
>
>>  You think part of the reason the Kinks didn't get
>>  the attention they
>>  deserved is that they were so out of their time and
>>  place?
>>
>
>I never really thought about it before, but now that
>you mention it, yeah. The Kinks were very conservative
>(in their songs anyway) and full of wistfullness for
>the England of their grandparents, while rock is
>"supposed" to be about rebellion and young people.

Oh, man, are you kidding? Village Green, along with the other two 
great albums in the trilogy, Arthur and Muswell Hillbillies, is 
beautifully, insightfully, at times scathingly satirical. I don't 
know what their "real" attitudes were, but the records are clearly 
satirical, though not nastily so. And I like how each of those 
records takes on a different class.

Man, those guys were good.