Knowing what a huge Kinks fan Ron is, I wonder how many members here are as
well,
I think Kinks fan will get a kick out of The Kunks, The Kunks are, in a
nutshell, a Rutles
version of The Kinks.

It's avaiable on Amazon, Not Lame and hpunch.com

Here's the bio


The Kunks were formed in the sleepy little UK town of Swell Mum
Hill by brothers
Dae and Nite Ravens and childhood friend Pat Quaint; drummer Nick Avarice joined
in the
middle of their first recording session when their original drummer, Henry
Bobbit, was
kicked out of the British Federation of Musicians for cutting off the president
of
orginization on the M4 en route to the studio. Their career spanned four decades
but they
were constantly overshadowed by the legendary Rutles. While Rutlemania swept the
world,
The Kunks continually put out solid albums and built up a cult following that
started a
tradition of throwing paper cups on stage with song requests written inside
them.
After a string of unsuccessful singles, The Kunks finally broke
through with the
song I've Got Nothing, a song written by Dae after losing his girlfriend to Stig
O'Hara of
The Rutles, hence the lyric," He's in a money making band, And he's the one who
holds
your hand and I've got nothing." The song is often covered to this day: Swedish
rock god
Hans Valen's version of the song is often mistaken for being the original.
They built a reputation as consistent hit-makers. The most popular
ones, Mr.
Trendy, Beautiful Spring Day & The Bad Times Are Coming are all included
on this compilation CD. They were soon respected for their string of, now
considered,
classic albums; Kunkthing Else, The Olde Fasioned Values Committee,
Archie and Swell Mum Hill Follies. In the 70's they gained a bad reputation for
entering the
world of concept albums a little too enthusiastically. Although the albums
Scubas In
Distress, Sleeping Fits and Fit Miss, among others, were dismissed by fans and
critics
alike, you could still find a Dae Ravens gem or 2 hidden inside those ambitious
efforts.
Their later records were amongst the biggest sellers of their
career, but they lost
some of their dedicated cult following. Later albums, No Budget, Give The Pupils
What
They Want and State of Connecticut gave them a new fanbase that only knew them
from
the hits off those albums-Aquaman, The Next Day and At The Picture Show are
represented on this disc. The legendary strained relationship between brothers
Dae and
Nite finally led to the disbanding of The Kunks in the 90's. Diehard fans keep
hoping the
rumors that pop up every couple of years about a reunionon tour will one day
become
true.