# Ray Davies, You Are Lame! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963 "2003-08-04T20:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ace\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Ace\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_Face)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/41 "2003-08-15T07:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\*Come on, man! You got more stuff in ya than that shit we’ve heard over and over ad nauseam! Good shit though it was. 😃 - Big Sky too big to cry Big Sky too high to see People like you and me \* Seriously, I remember when the Kinks came to play my third-rate, bumblefuck undergrad college. They put on a show like they were playing the Albert Hall or something. Class act. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/42 "2003-08-15T17:52:54Z")
I’m on a Kinks album! Part of _The Road_ album was recorded at a concert I went to at Merriweather Post Pavilion near D.C. It was the only time I’ve seen the _It_ song performed. Isn’t this **MPSIMS**? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/43 "2012-02-24T17:32:37Z")
I was reminded of this old thread, when last night I just aware of the recent Ray Davies album _See My Friends_, on which Ray revisits old Kinks classics in duets with other famous singers. This, a year or two after the release of the _Kinks Choral Collection_ album, on which Ray revisited old Kinks classics accompanied by a choir. What’s next, an album on which Ray plays old Kinks songs on a kazoo, accompanied by those barking dogs that recorded “Jingle Bells”? How about some new stuff? Ray Davies, you are lame! I still might buy the album, though. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/44 "2012-02-24T20:33:14Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDELvvyyFc) What? No Dave and that Silvertone cranked to eleven, even if it only went to ten? He made me fall in love with tube amps. Metallica isn’t nearly as loud with all the technology available to them. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/45 "2012-02-24T21:26:10Z")
When this thread was started, Ray was 58. Now he’s 67. Can the man get some rest, ferchrissakes? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/46 "2012-02-25T01:15:59Z")
[Moderating] This is an older thread, but I don’t see any reason to close it. Probably a better fit for Cafe Society than the Pit, though. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/47 "2012-02-25T01:49:17Z")
Well, we could ask Dave Davies about Ray. That’d put it back into the Pit again. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963/48 "2012-02-25T01:50:45Z")
There’s a documentary somewhere in film limbo land called [Do It Again](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_It_Again_%28film%29) that I’ve been dying to see. It’s the story of columnist Geoff Edgers’ quest to reunite the band. It’s been on the film festival circuit and been shown on a couple of PBS stations, but I can’t find a sign of it anywhere else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-davies-you-are-lame/192963.md?page=2)