THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,907) The Kinks — “God’s Children”
This song from the Kinks’ Percy soundtrack (see #100, 381, 417, 450, 508, 529, 606, 623, 753, 865, 978, 1,043, 1,108, 1,330, 1,451, 1,591, 1,697, 1,784) is ineffably beautiful — “Superb. Sublime. Perfect. Kinks.” (carspiv, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSciUplVZrA)
And for a quasi-comedy about the world’s first penis transplant, Ray Davies’ lyrics are, if not subversive, at least off-message.
“Oh, the good lord made us all And we are all his children And they got no right to change us Oh, we gotta go back the way the good lord made us all”
Cwitt1980 writes:
I admire this album. What can Ray Davies do to sabotage the success of the Kinks reinstated fame [following “Lola”]? Make a soundtrack. But it’s great. What’s even greater is that the movie is about obtaining a fake *. And what does Ray do? He writes “God’s Children.” Hilarious. Who put him up to this?
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-kinks-percy.113859/
Andy Gill asked Ray whether he wrote the soundtrack’s songs for the movie. Ray replied:
[I]t was a masterpiece of mismanagement! “Lola” had been a worldwide hit, and America was crying out for us to go back there, but our managers decided it would be nice if we did the soundtrack to a film! . . . [M]ost of it was done to fit . . . the film.
Ah, Percy:
This film begins with an antique dealer by the name of “Edwin Anthony” (Hywel Bennett) on his way to deliver a chandelier on a busy city street. All at once, a man falls to his death from a skyrise building resulting in a piece of glass from the chandelier severing Hywel’s male organ. In yet another strange twist of fate, there just happens to be a noted physician by the name of “Dr. Emmanuel Whitbread” (Denholm Elliott) waiting for the opportunity to be the first surgeon to ever successfully transplant a male organ onto another person. To his credit, the operation turns out to be a huge success–in more ways than one. Things change, however, when news of this event is released to the public and Edwin becomes obsessed with finding out the identities of everyone his unlucky donor ever slept with.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067568/reviews/?featured=rw2045070&ref_=tt_ururv_c_1_hd
I think I’m gonna have to watch Percy, though it gets decidedly mixed reviews!
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