We're not trying to start any lawsuits here, but let's face it; some songs just sound too much like other songs to be a coincidences. Or do they? Music doesn't usually come with footnotes or bibliographies, so on Friday nights we engage in wild speculation about where our favorite songwriters might have owed someone a hat tip. Welcome to Friday Night Ripoffs (?) at the LNMC.

"Warning" (the title track from your DJ's favorite Green Day album) sure sounds a helluva lot like The Kinks' "Picture Book". Green Day are clearly no stranger to the creative lift (See: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Summer of 69 or Brain Stew/25 or 6 to 4) and to me, this sounds too close for chance. What do you think? Coincidence or theft? What other songs pose that same question to you?

(h/t to Dylan for the heads up on this one.)

The Singles Collection
	Artist: The Kinks

Got a favorite 'autumn' song?

The Singles Collection
	Artist: The Kinks

This has been my jam today. Did he say 'lazin' or 'blazin?

Arthur
	Artist: Kinks

I heard this song this morning, and it really resonated given all the wars and whatnot going on around us. Ray Davies sure has a penchant for putting things into perspective. Have a Monday!

S.F. Sorrow
	Artist: The Pretty Things

S.F. Sorrow was released the same week as The Beatles' White Album, The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet and The Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Pretty hard to get attention with that kind of competition. Nevertheless, it definitely stands up there with those classics. It was recorded at Abbey Road and is one of the first rock operas (although Pete Townsend claims that it had no influence on him whatsoever). Hope your week got started on the right foot!

Rock critic Robert Christgau deemed it "the most beautiful song in the English language". Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine listed it as "possibly the most beautiful song of the rock and roll era." I consider it the second greatest pop song ever written, behind John Lennon's 'In My Life'. Dig it.

PS. Our sister site Newstalgia has for its Backstage Weekend, Mike Raven's Rhythm & Blues Show With Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames And The Rolling Stones - 1964

Waterloo Sunset from Something Else by The Kinks

Sure it's easy to make a case that Ray Davies is a combative, neurotic jerk (just ask his bandmates- including brother Dave- and his ex-wives), a joker with a perverse sense of humor (listen to Lola), or just plain psychic when it comes to both Marvel Comics and the present state of the US of A (1979's Catch Me Now I'm Falling), but I'm tellin' ya here and now that if he never writes another song, Waterloo Sunset proves him one of the most hopeless romantics to walk the Earth.