Blog: End Hits

Kinks Week kontinues! (Sorry. I wish I could say that I won't do that again, but I just can't make that promise.) Here's a goofy video, complete with wigs, mustaches, and corpses brought back to life. The undertaker theme seems darkly fitting for this ragtime-y, brass band tune, which makes the whole clip vaguely reminiscent of a Python sketch. Meanwhile, the footage is interspersed with still photos of real life down-on-their-luck Londoners. This was well within Ray Davies' ultra-English phase, when every song he wrote examined some aspect of British life. This parochialism didn't [...]