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#Kinks6Music - What should be on a Kinks-inspired playlist?

Fresh from Tom Robinson's new interview with Ray Davies, Now Playing need two hours of music to preserve village greens fit for a Waterloo Sunset via #Kinks6Music.

They invented rock guitar, y'know. And distortion. And Damon Albarn. And loads of other stuff.

The Kinks are one of Britain's finest musical exports. Hugely influential, brave and at times self-destructive, they formed the third prong on the trident of the British Invasion of America next to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

They lasted much longer than the Fab Four, too, and barely a year goes by without an inevitable Kinks reunion rumoured to be in the pipeline.

Tom Robinson, who signed to Kinks frontman Ray Davies' label (and then fell out with him) in the 1970s, wants your music suggestions for this special Kinks playlist. Fresh from Tom's brand new interview with Ray, in which the two make friends, we at Now Playing need two hours of music to preserve village greens fit for a Waterloo Sunset (sorry).

Artists influenced by The Kinks include punk rock groups such as the Ramones, The Clash and The Jam, new wave and heavy metal acts like Van Halen and Britpop groups such as Oasis, Blur and Pulp. The Kinks were an influence on late-1960s American psychedelic groups like the Doors, Love and Jefferson Airplane.
Get your Kinks-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Kinks6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@6music.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

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Sun 29 Mar 2015 18:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • Essential.

  • Kate Rusby

    The Village Green Preservation Society

    • (CD Single).
    • Pure Records.

  • The Jam

    David Watts

    • The Jam - Compact Snap.
    • Polydor.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Days

    • Virgin.

  • Lambchop

    Art Lover

    • This Is Where I Belong.
    • Rykodisc.
    • 9.

  • Pretenders

    Stop Your Sobbing

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • Ray Davies

    Morphine Song

    • Working Man's Cafe.
    • V2.
    • 4.

  • David Bowie

    Black Country Rock

    • The Man Who Sold The World.
    • EMI.

  • The Beautiful South

    Don't Marry Her

    • (CD Single).
    • Go! Discs.

  • Blur

    For Tomorrow

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Who'll Be The Next In Line

  • Pixies

    Here Comes Your Man

    • 4 A.D..

  • The Fall

    Victoria

    • BEGGARS BANQUET.

  • 鈥淲eird Al鈥� Yankovic

    Yoda

  • The Kinks

    Shangri-La

  • Oasis

    The Importance Of Being Idle

    • Big Brother Recordings.

  • 鈥淲eird Al鈥� Yankovic

    Yoda

  • Supergrass

    Evening of the Day

  • The Flock

    Tired Of Waiting For You

    • Alternative 60's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • The Stranglers

    All Day And All Of The Night

  • Dave Davies

    Mindless Child Of Motherhood

  • Pink Floyd

    Arnold Layne

    • Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd.
    • EMI.

  • Jefferson Airplane

    Somebody To Love

    • Columbia.

  • The Sonics

    Strychnine

  • Van Halen

    You Really Got Me

    • Van Halen.
    • Warner Bros Records.
    • 3.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.

  • The Kinks

    Celluloid Heroes

    • Essential.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Mar 2015 18:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music