Well looky here - we have The Kinks up first this week with "Who'll Be the Next In Line" - a minor hit for them in 1965 (2:02). In this under-rated rock rhumba, Ray Davies and the band inhabit the mind of a bitter pub drinker: a lurching, sorta Latin groove and vocal performance make this one of the earliest examples of musical theatre in RD's songwriting catalog. Next in line are The Knack - no, not those guys, these are some 60s freakbeaters who mod-ify the song by speeding it up and adding some cool guitar slashes while they impatiently wait for the next schlub to fall for the femme fatale (43:15). The third in our series of suspects is the Sir Douglas Quintet, who swapped out the Latin rhythm for a very satisfying Tex-Mex flavour (1:04:37). It's got that accordion-sounding organ that we like from ? and the Mysterians and those unheralded new wavers Joe 'King' Carrasco and the Crowns. The final perp is Yonin Bayashi, who focus on the "prog" part of the lurching chord progression from the original (1:25:16). Wordless sopranos, pizzicatos & arpeggios - an overall disorienting take, but it kinda works? Now fade away, okay?
