Comments on: Carl’s Rock Songbook #34: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 02:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JF William http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16468 JF William Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:22:13 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16468 A songwriter’s songwriter; Ray Davies astonishing catalogue of classics remains one of the smartest, original, deep felt & most beautiful accomplishment in pop music

We cooked up a little homage here…
KINKS :: WATERLOO SUNSET :: BOOTIK MOOSIK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91peFmR0DM

Thanks Ray !

]]> By: darrenk http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16458 darrenk Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:42:24 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16458 Is it possible that the sun in the sunset is God?

]]> By: Carl's Rock Songbook #34: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” | Blue Meanie Me .com http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16399 Carl's Rock Songbook #34: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” | Blue Meanie Me .com Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:33:09 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16399 [...] Carl's Rock Songbook #34: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” The song is not, like “Eleanor Rigby” or “Sounds of Silence,” mainly about displaying or lamenting modern loneliness, but is rather mostly about how people cope with it, even if their ways of doing so are problematic, or indeed, part of the problem. … Read more on First Things (blog) [...]

]]> By: John Offord http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16389 John Offord Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:45:23 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16389 Carl, I too was directed to your excellent piece via the Kinks Fan site (I am a member of the Official Kinks Fan Club).
This song is one of my all time favorites and your description is brilliant. Thanks.
I lived in London for a short time in the 60s and I now have to pass through it, via Waterloo Station, to see our grandchildren. The song brings back great memories of those remarkable (for music) 60s days.

]]> By: Carl Scott http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16349 Carl Scott Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:54:15 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16349 Thanks Steve…there certainly is something healing about it that eludes any lyrical analysis. To my shame I first heard the song only a couple years ago, but it’s melody already belongs to my personal likely-to begin-humming-out-of-the-blue top twenty.

]]> By: Steve Carroll http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16344 Steve Carroll Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:49:26 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16344 Carl, I came across this via a kinks fan site, and I am so pleased I did. Very insightful and informative. Waterloo Sunset is my all time favorite song, and I must listen to it at least once a week. When a certain mood takes me, this beautiful song is like oxygen. What I hear is something so beautiful and fragile, that it seems a miracle that it exists at all for those few minutes. Thanks, steve

]]> By: John Presnall http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/10/carls-rock-songbook-34-the-kinks-waterloo-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-16324 John Presnall Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:54:31 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=5382#comment-16324 Great post Carl!

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