Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: autumn almanac

It's a miniature movie, basically, that unravels itself as you are
listening
to it, and it has all these little movements or scenes. And they all seem
to take place in the kind of mythical cozy London that the Ealing studios
always had in their films, like The Lavender Hill Mob. The song just
keeps turning and changing; you see a new facet every few seconds. 
But there's nothing unsettling about the fact that there are so many parts.
Normally that would just be the death of a song, it would just scramble 
peoples brains.
The lyrics are very everyday. There's no "calling occupants of
interplanetary
craft" in it. All the language in it is what you'd say over a cup of tea.
It's like a roller-coaster, but it's not a high-speed chromium-plated
space-age 
roller-coaster - it's this slow creaking wooden baroque kind of
roller-coaster.
There are some lovely moments in it, like that sections that starts "Friday
evening....." It starts off in this mournful minor thing, and you think,
"Oh dear,
Friday evening, the end of something," and then suddenly: "People get 
together" - it clicks into major, and becomes very optimistic. It just
lifts your heart up another rung. And there's something very plain and 
uplifting about [from the chorus] "yes, yes, yes," this repetition of the 
affirmative.
The woodiness of "Autumn Almanac" is really appealing. Everything sounds
like
sticks and branches and planks. The whole song is wallpapered in dead
leaves,
as far as I'm concerned. The [the Kinks] touched on this same sort of thing
later on, in "Shangri-La" and "Lavender Hill," but it was more mannered, a
bit
more ponderous.
Damn, I wish I'd written this song. I'll probably spend my life trying to.
It's such a huge ghost; my entire songwriting career has been trying to 
exorcise it.
Andy Partridge of XTC on 'Autumn Almanac' - Musician Magazine, May, 1997
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'Autumn Almanac' -  [cut]
E' opinione comune che il miglior pezzo dei Kinks sia "Sunny afternoon".
Personalmente li metto a pari merito.

 E' opinione comune che il miglior pezzo dei Kinks sia "Sunny afternoon".
Sunny Afternoon/ I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Pye, 1966)
45 giri da paura, praticamente due lati A.
indiepop anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkYHyDMO1OY&mode=related&search=
e, a proposito di suono angolare, quante volte l'avranno ascoltata i wire questa canzone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9cgNl5r61I
 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9cgNl5r61I
Credo di avere ascoltato i Wire una sola volta e non me ne ricordo. Cmq
questo pezzo che citi mi sembra (felicemente) sulla falsariga di "You really
got me".

 got me".
YRGM penso sia stata recepita ed abbia influenzato soprattutto gli esponenti
del lato oscuro del rock (la cover di Van Halen non č assolutamente casuale)
All Day invece mi sembra responsabile di molta, molta new wave (il Black&White
degli Stranglers č praticamente un tributo a quel pezzo).
comunque i kinks avevano indubbiamente 2 facce in totale contrapposizione
e questi 2 pezzi sono un ottimo esempio del loro lato piů spigoloso.