{"id":1017,"date":"2007-11-24T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-24T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T23:29:35","slug":"rock-s-most-autumnal-band-the-kinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-most-autumnal-band-the-kinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Most Autumnal Band:  The Kinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow Town Hallers!  I&#8217;m passing these two vuh-deos along to prove a point:  there is something distinctly autumnal about the Kinks in their wistful, introspective but optimistic prime, &#8217;round about 1967.  The obvious choice to make this point is this song:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JWX22rwv9UU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>&#8230; but there&#8217;s also something crisp, snappy, and I-can&#8217;t-wait-to-get-home-to-warm-up-some-leftovers about this one, too:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gjxMwlgaoM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>And by the way:  is it just me, or do these two songs constitute one of the most amazing rock and roll singles of all time?  (&#8220;Mr. Pleasant&#8221; was the B-side to &#8220;Autumn Almanac.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I realize there&#8217;s nothing specifically autumnal in the lyrics to 95% of the Kinks&#8217; output in this or any other era of the band&#8217;s history, but, by golly, I hear it in the arrangements, the production, the melodies &#8212; Fall is everywhere!  Anybody else hear the band this way?<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow Town Hallers! I&#8217;m passing these two vuh-deos along to prove a point: there is something distinctly autumnal about the Kinks in their wistful, introspective but optimistic prime, &#8217;round about 1967. The obvious choice to make this point is this song: &#8230; but there&#8217;s also something crisp, snappy, and I-can&#8217;t-wait-to-get-home-to-warm-up-some-leftovers about this one, too: <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-most-autumnal-band-the-kinks\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}