The Kinks - Big Sky

Quite brilliant, really.

I always thought this song had a "Hendrix" feeling, I'm not surprised that he loved it, but it's nice to hear!

Well I've read that Ray wrote this after attending a play or something and as he was exiting the playhouse, he noticed all the "upper crust" sitting in the upstairs balcony looking down on everybody else. You know, typical Ray singing about those in power and thinking they are God.

sounds dead right to me... rays deep insight to his post war surroundings as a child and its effect on english society as he was growing up coupled with... his distain for the "old guard" stiff upper lip is everywhere in this song... Best kinks album ever...

Jimi Hendrix said this was one of his favorite songs ever, and yet most people have never heard it. Just another Kinks Klassic. No band has had as much influence on all of rock (including punk) as The Kinks; The Beatles were great, but they could not match The Kinks for originality - if The Kinks had not been banned by the f**ing US, they coulda been as big as Beatles - but I'm glad they weren't. To be a part of the Kinks Klub is a special thing, but you need to listen to ALL their LPs 1st :)

This is probably my favorite Kinks album though it's hard to choose. I know "Revolver" is my favorite Beatles album with "The White Album" coming in second. Too bad THIS album was released the same day as "The White Album" (Nov. 22, 1968). There's just no winning that fight! Both bands were equally as good in their own ways, that's why I love practically ALL the music of the '60s. You get to love ALL of it as far as I'm concerned.

Were the Kinks really banned in the US? why?

The US (Government) did not "ban" the Kinks. Think about it. The government can only ban criminals and no member of the Kinks had been convicted of a felony anywhere. The TRUTH is that the US Entertainment UNIONS withdrew their support of the Kink's tours - since they would employ non-Union stage labor. Typical Ray Davies. Listen to "Get Back into the Line". So PLEASE don't let the myth myth that the US banned the Kinks continue. Pure hogwash.

I never took this song as being about an indifferent god, though compared to a "personal god" that's how it must seem. Just a god that's not a giant-size version of us - and I find that vision very comforting, and find this song very soothing as well.

Whenever people try to force their version of god on me as if god is some kind of personal pan pizza, I think Why stop at one god? Let's have thousands, millions, billions...and so we have, each our own, all shared under one Big Sky.

i can't get over how brilliant the kinks are.