Thank You for the Days

I've mentioned several times over the years that a tentpole moment at my funeral will be a playing of The Kinks' classic Days. Gee, you ask, who else of great importance in the history of rock music would like Days to be played at his own funeral WELL GOLLY GEE ME it's only Ray Davies himself, people!

“Thank you for the days, those endless days / Those sacred days you gave me,” Davies sings in this chiming farewell that he wrote for (but ultimately cut from) the first of the Kinks’ several concept albums, “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.” “But that’s only if I have to pick one of my songs,” he says. “If not, I choose ‘SOS’ by ABBA.”