Too Much on My Mind - The Kinks

[williamcelaya1]

Don't forget Arthur er1975us

[er1975us]

The Kinks music from 1965 to 1968 was,IMO,the best of all the Brit bands.....Kinda Kinks,Face to Face,Something Else,and the perfect Village Green.

[toocheaptobuyatripod]

This is my theme song!

[TheGnosticmonkey]

The Kinks are the Dickens of Ditty, well beyond the rest of the meagre Rock genre.

[WELLRESPECTEDAPE]

I knew Ray Davies was a genius after hearing "Too Much On My Mind" and " A Well Respected Man" . This was an incredible time for the Kinks when they had tunes like "Dead End Street", "I'm Not Like Everbody Else" and "Waterloo Sunset", but were banned in the U.S. for 5 years- for refusing to pay the musician union dues and punching out a union boss on a tour of the U.S. In 1965. Way to go Ray! I have always hated unions...

[ZedgetRedd]

This song makes me feel so sad.

[pmoyer50]

Ray Davies is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Though, don't know if others will agree with me on this, but this sounds like the kind of melody that the Dave Clark Five would have done. I could be wrong. I often am, you know. Face to Face was a phenomenal album for its time. It still is. Ray's songwriting was really starting to take off on this album. God save the Kinks forever.

[foolforbeckiescakes7]

top 500 reasons Kinks are better than the Beatles:

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f it.

[fantasykiss08]

the kinks were so much better than the beatles. fuck em

[stpierreorama]

@fantasykiss08 why do have to say one band is better than the other. Just enjoy them all, it doesnt matter. I hate when people start a big BS argument on who is better and why. We all have opinions and good music is good music. thats all htere is to it. Just shut the hell up and stop hating for no reason.

[7777srd]

@stpierreorama Of course you're right...but they were.

[7777srd]

@7777srd , Yeah, furthermore, I'll put Dave's guitar picking over Ray's strumming on the same plate as any done by John and George - there's a sort of "ticket to Ride" quality to it - fucking brilliant!

[ethifanman]

@stpierreorama I think u r missing the point....sure the beatles were great, and they alot of ink thru the yrs, the kinks were just as good and got little ink........I love the beatles, but the kinks music hits closer to my heart than the beatles

[sapphiretaurus]

@ethifanman The KInks got a lot of press coverage in the U.S. from '64-65, and got a lot of attention in the UK as well. If you read old issues of British and American music magazines from that time, you'll see it.

[sapphiretaurus]

@stpierreorama Well said, stp. I hate those arguments. They don't solve anything and are all based on personal preference anyway. 

[shinybald36]

@stpierreorama totally agree!

[sarahjeanner]

@fantasykiss08 TRUE ; )

[sapphiretaurus]

@sarahjeanner FALSE

[jamreaper]

i think they were about equal but the beatles just were way more popular and the kinks were way underrated

[sapphiretaurus]

@fantasykiss08 Fuck you.

[whiskersdog77]

Face to Face is my favorite Kinks album. There are so many great songs on it!!!

[fviskovi]

Without doubt. Face to Face is in every way a classic. This tune is top drawer. In many respects this is the first concept album. Just terrific and probably the best liner notes of all time.

[SkateSka]

For me this is their best album, such a great band!

[bloodnokian]

Face To Face, Something Else By... and Village Green Preservation Society are my 3 favourite Kinks albums. Great stuff!

[pinkstarburst95]

Soo True.

[captainkundalini1]

For me Something Else is consistently brilliant also....Ray was n't half prolific throughout this period.....

[spreadthissong]

Too much on my as well!!

[Spinni]

Really nice song and...yeah, true lyrics...

[Ranchboss55]

Seems that the past won't let to you live your life.

By me. I'll try to forget with my horses and the ranch here.

Try to be a cowboy.

[Ranchboss55]

Great, really great.

I see the summer of 66 in Amsterdam, our little home, the backdoors open to the balcony, the music of my older brother and me.

And, even after more then 40 years the lyrics are still true.

There's too much on my mind...

[THEKINKS08]

what an album, this just reminds me some of the best Byrds tunes, but even better

[captainsoul1953]

Face to Face is one of those rare lps you can play from start to finish without track jumping

Jim

[DaigoMoustache]

I completely agree! I find that this is the most solid Kinks album. Each song works and flows together perfectly, and like you said there's never any need to skip a track!

[athrough0]

Personally VGPS does that better for me, but you can't go wrong with vintage Kinks

[carspiv]

Put this on an orange-and-yellow swirl Capitol 45 with "The Beatles" as the artist, and you have another # 1.

A PERFECT 10 SONG. What we all have let pass by!!!

[newfuckingwave]

@carspiv so fucking true

[Lody10]

HAMMERSONG!!!

Der amerikanische Freund

[garethhulin]

love this song ,thanks for posting...ray davies is a genius.