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25. Mai 2020
Delicious
Reminds me of the rollerball lip gloss I had in the 80’s but without any bad stuff in it.
13. Jun 2006
Even with the UFO's... It's the KINKS!!!
1 von 1 finden das hilfreich Even with the somewhat odd bits about communicating with ET's this book is far better than Ray Davies' pseudo-Orwellian "X-RAY" if you want to really get into the Kinks' experience. Dave Davies' account is ten times more readable, actually contains family pictures that Ray did not include in his unauthorized autobiography, and is a slightly goofy, far-out, and totally friendly read.
Dave's account is fun and transparent in all of the opposite ways that Ray's was buried, then masked and cloaked, then disguised as fiction. I could barely finish "X-Ray" because it was so totally pompous and contrived. Ray is the better songwriter of the two, I think, but his book is unreadable. Too many cheap smoke-and-mirror tactics that give little while they retract from the book. I know that Ray probably put them there to make the thinking reader laugh at their obviousness, but... really, Ray. No wonder you end up dying alone in an industrial wasteland at the end of your book.
Dave Davies' totally open, zany personal style comes through in the book. His telling of some of the more absurdist situations is very... very , very funny. It is obvious, of course, that the stories have probably improved with much telling over the years, but that is a known danger with rock biographies. It is not a tale told in flowers, though, and taxing and troubling times, but the overall experience of the book almost leads me to believe that he just might be someone that the ET's would choose to talk to. I know I would. It's no wonder that everyone wanted to sleep with him... and it sounds like it really was EVERYONE from the way the book rolls it out. They title "Kink" is apt and funny in that Totally English Monte Python sort of way. (And, yes... there are men behaving badly while dressed in skirts...!)
The biography is one of the more satisfying biographies that I have read because it presents a flawed person who has made a good deal out of the flaws and has turned them into virtues in the process. It does not read as a cautionary tale, a kiss-and-tell-all, or a simple biography that happened to be written by the person it all happened to.
If you want to read a 1984-style paranoid biopic of the Kinks filled with the soul-saving abilities of the Ray, then buy Ray's book. If you want a fun read that balances atrocious behavior with absurdly beautiful moments and alien mind games, buy Dave's.