Listened to this a couple weeks back and have been too lazy to comment, but thoroughly enjoyed it, of course.

My main concern going into the episode was whether anyone would take Ray to task for his less-than-charitable views on the working class, and I was mollified when Ben (it was Ben, right? I still have a bit of trouble keeping everyone straight...) did so more capably than I could ever manage.

Granted, you guys did a pretty good job of persuading me on "Shangri-La", but even aside from that song there's a general nastiness to Ray's worldview that taints a lot of his later work for me (ie. "Ducks on the Wall", "Juke Box Music", etc.), and I've long wondered how people can refer to him as a champion of the common man or "the greatest humanist in rock" (the old Starostin site) when I perceive more ivory-tower contempt from him than I ever have from, say, Roger Waters.

P.S. looking at the old Kinks pages in the WRC, Cap'n Marvel seems to be the only one who called Ray out on a lot of this stuff. Whatever happened to that guy?