"Waterloo Sunset" is one the most gorgeous pop songs ever written. I cry with melancholic joy (appropriately oxymoronic) every time I listen to it. Yes, Ray is a genius.
Ray Davies is maybe the greatest songwriter as he catches people's humanity, all the tragic-comic quirks they have. Ray does this though with incredible insight, empathy, & compassion. The Kinks as a band can play primal rock to exquisitely beautiful ballads that make nearly all the Kinks albums klassic gems.
700 songs in the kinks catalog - Im 73 now been a fan since 1964 - I have all their records plus a bootleg called 80 Days which is fantastic - currently listening to....around the dial - holiday romance - pictures in the sand - big sky - I need you - articifical man - holiday live - animal - two sisters - dreams - GSTK
24:00 Had just bought Anthology (mp3)before seeing your video - 5 CDs' worth of the Kream (on the Pye!) of the Kinks. What an artifact! Ray is our national treasure, the Dickens of our time. Dave, the original punk rocker.
I was born in ‘68 - so I’m from the ‘60’s. For me, at this stage in my life The Kinks are the best band to come out of the UK in the ‘60’s. With The Kinks it’s a slow burn. As much as I love the Beatles and the Stones I just don’t listen to them as much as The Kinks. The Kinks have not been over exposed to me. The banishment from the USA was in the long term a blessing in disguise. And I say that as someone born and raised in Belfast Ireland. The comp that brought me in was a cheapo called The Complete Collection on the Castle Communications label from 1991 covering the PYE era. I’ve used it as a template for my own playlists by the Kinks. What can I say about the Kinks that has not already been said? The original band was special beyond words. My interest so far ends in 1971 with some much more to explore. “Face to Face” still sounds modern to my ears and is my favorite album by them. Yes, Ray is amazing - and so is Dave, f##k the whole band is amazing. Just listen to the BBC Sessions album! Stunning! Love them. God bless The Kinks! Love them so much.🎉
Great video Mazzy, my older brothers turned me onto The Kinks as a teenager in the 70's and quite fondly remember Lola. My 1st album was Low Budget and still have my original...cheers...✌
Love The Kinks, one of my top five bands ever. A copy of the 5-CD Anthology just broke my heart (and will probably soon break my bank too). Thank you for this retrospective.
One of the greatest bands ever. I like lots of 70s/80s kids educated myself on music via my parents record collection. The first kinks comp I heard was part of a box set by readers digest titled superstars of the 60s and 70s it had a number of records inside and one was side A the kinks and flip over you the trigger in side B. It maybe falls outside of your compilation list. I’ll watch and see.❤
I was born in '67, so I didn't really discover The Kinks until 8-9 years later. Most would think that was due to anything they recorded at that point, but it was really discovering my mother's brothers/sisters' collection of old 60's singles. I discovered The Beatles etc the same way! So I learned to love the 60's version of the Kinks as a kid, but I never explored further. And then the Come Dancing song, or whichever from that record, hit me in the 80's! And still I didn't worry about what happened in-between... Until those Nice Price records started to appear in the 80's, and I personally started to have enough money to buy those. "Misfits" was the record that really blew my mind as a teenager, and from there I went on to have eventually get all of them. However, the early 70's albums were introduced to me in the middle of the 80's by a classmate. I actually love Soap Opera, but the Preservation Act 1&2 albums are the ones I prefer to never listen to (a few songs excluded...).
Terribly frustrated old boy. I almost fainted when I noticed you failed to mention 20th Anniversary Box on Prt. It's off to the headmaster with you. I have all mentioned except the promo. Seriously great job. Cheers.
I can't say that I was ever a huge Kinks fan but Arthur, Lola and Muswell Hillbillies is a fantastic trilogy. I know Percy was in between Lola and Muswell, but that was a soundtrack so I don't count it. Great video Mazzy!
Hey Mazzy, thanks for this video. Tempted to get a vinyl version of "The Journey" though the CD is half the price. 🙄 I only own one solitary Kinks compilation on CD called the Ultimate Collection, a 25 track release. I don't have any of their LP's and just a handful of 45's. I remember your video of the Kinks Mono Box but sadly that's hard to find now. Time to rectify that methinks. Cheers 👍
1966, first year on high school (UK) music class with the new music teacher, young attractive lady. Would we like to hear the Kinks new song? Sunny Afternoon, she wanted to play it over and over. What a great music period, a big change from Bach and madrigals 😊 thanks for bringing that back. 👍
I envy your Kinks collection. I've been slowly buying the Kinks catalog and listening to the band more & more. I do need to get a Kompilation of the early songs (hits & deep tracks). Peace
Great video, Mazzy. One compilation that you didn't mention, but is well worth seeking out, is "(The Kinks Are) Well Respected Men" from 1987. This UK release compiled all of the Pye-era non-album songs, in their original mixes. It's a great sounding double LP, and is a perfect complimentary release if you already have all of the studio albums of that era.
The Kinks recent super deluxe sets are absolutely wonderful. Especially the Village Green Preservation Society.....that would be my favourite Mazzy :-)
Was doing a acoustic duo gig once about twenty years ago. Double bass and piano, we played Waterloo sunset and Paul McCartney was there semi drunk with his second wife . He was the only person in the restaurant who clapped for us. We were next to Tower Bridge the location of the London Town by Wings recording.
I purchased The Kinks The Journey it looked good? Anyway when it comes to your records OG I can only explain it like this. I go out to dinner with my wife and I’m not sure what I ordered is going to look or taste like then there is this Awww (maybe not a word) wow that looks amazing Lol Thank You
Whenever anyone asks me Beatles or Stones? I always snort back The Kinks!! Though I have at various times in my 40 + years of life, obsessed over, absorbed and collected all the usual suspects of the Brit Invasion, The Kinks and maybe The Who are the ones that for me, endure and mean the most. My favourite comp is the 6 CD box Picture Book (2008). Admittedly, it has a few head-scratchingly inferior ''alternative'' mixes of some crucial 60's era singles, but otherwise one of the very few (if any others exist?) comps that fully span 1960's - early 90's.
I freely admit to being a low brow music listener so i very much appreciate compilations as it is often/usually the "best of" the band's output. Since the mid seventies i always thought on most albums there were only a few songs that were really worthwhile. Not always true of course, but all too often for my taste.
"The Essential Kinks" has 48 tracks with liner notes written by David Bowie. That one shouldn't have been allowed to go out of print, but I guess you can still get it used. So many brilliant songs! Celluloid Heroes is a personal favorite. Bowie of course had good taste.
Of course being of a similar age to you I heard and liked the singles that I heard on the radio through the years by the Kinks but I never got into them, Recently I bought an album called The ultimate collection off a stall on the market in Salisbury where I live which is run by a bloke who gets CD's from people who sell their collections for peanuts and I have been playing that double CD album which I got for a fiver almost constantly and I can honestly say that that album is now one of my favourites, You are right Mazi the Kinks are one of the best bands ever.
i've been trying to get to this all day and so far am only 3 minutes in. by minute 22 i expect you to honor ailing president who oversaw first 4 years of their arista period by negotiating peace talks between ray and dave and getting them back in the studio. i've joked on this topic before but it isn't a joke. they've survived strokes and stabbings and while i never knew "when i turn off the living room light", the performers of "father christmas" need to record together again. this is not someone saying bruce springsteen owes his fans such and such. i'm not saying "do it before you pass on!" do it because after the beatles (no offence to mick and keith or to pete and roger) but you are the best and norman more than any brit i know can make it happen. now i'm going to watch the video. thanks for making it.
I bought that new comp for myself and the store. It's a really nice set for the money and sounds great. Pretty sure it's an all analog release as well.
Remember being at a friends house with friends as a teenager and we were sixties buffs and eating pickles, tortillas, and ice cream and listening to one of the American sixties Kinks albums. It sounded sooo good and was just a magical feeling. Sure the sound quality was not the best but we did not know better so it did not matter. Just a quirky moment.
I picked up on the Kinks about 1980, I was 18 then they weren't the Beatles they weren't the Stones but I loved Ray's lyrics and British sensibility. So yeah I really dig them.
The Kinks are one of my favorites of the British Invasion but always that number 3 or 4 on my top 10 list. I don’t know why that is. My favorite comp will always be Kronikles. I also like the Arista years starting with Sleepwalker, I bought that album when it came out in 1977. There’s lots of great tunes to Cherry pick off those early eighties albums.
I was not aware of that Anthology set! I’ve been hoping for a vinyl mastering/pressing of the 2008 Picture Book 6-CD box. (Another super-fun Kinks komp.) Any idea if the “rarities” on the Anthology comp are taken from that set? If not, I’ll need to track it down.
The Kinks absolutley DO NOT need any more compilations. At this point, it's beyond ridiculous. However, I like the super deluxe box sets, although it looks like they won't be releasing those anymore, as they didn't even bother for Muswell Hillbillies or Everybody's in Show-biz. I would also definitely buy a remastered release of Kink Kronikles on CD or SACD.
I'm English (in London). Yeah I bought "The Journey" a few weeks ago, on both vinyl and CD. I had them waiting on pre-order and the release date written down on my hang-up kitchen calendar. If I could only have one Kinks single it would be "See My Friend". No 'S' added. I don't like it when things like that are changed around, they should leave it as it is. Anyway, the singular implies greater intensity and mystery of a personal relationship. So it's better. If I'd been living next door to Raymondo at the time I would have given him the benefit of my advice and told him to make it singular in the first place. PS. I would never refer to Keith Richard in the plural, either. For Godsake leave it all alone 😩
The LP version of Celluloid Heroes has the faster version of "Here Comes Yet Another Day" on it. The CD has the original album version. I like the faster version better. I met Dave before one of his concerts. His wife was running the merch table and refused to sell me a 2XL T-shirt because she said it would be too big on me.
My prize Kinks is A Complete Collection 20th Anniversary Edition The Kinks. Since Dylan is not a group, I have an opening for top three: Beatles, Stones, ........
"Living room light" was written for an English TV show, so the "who cares if you're Jewish" iine is the voice of the conflicted character from the show speaking about his girlfriend
Their records are not sonic masterpieces at all. It’s pretty much what you get. The new comp is cut by Kevin Grey and depending on the track, it’s about the best you’re gonna get. The music is great but these ain’t no Steely Dan records.
I love the great lost kinks album . Found it one day in a record store can’t remember where . Probably 42nd street. The kink kronikles is the best compilation in my opinion.
Whats Next, , How about the recording CORPORATIONS make dual band compilations.. YEAH,, the greatest hits from 1962 to 1969 of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones together in a 20 album boxed case of 20 boxes.....Hey, it you want a band to pair up with the kinks how about the Hollies,, They are always getting mixed up anyway. .....
Hi Massy, After the Beatles & Stones the Kinks are definitely in my top 5 along with the Who and Small Faces. As a UK ex-pat from London living a stones-throw away from Waterloo (now living in SF Bay Area for the past 30 years), Waterloo Sunset really chokes me up every time I hear it. If you ever stood on Waterloo Bride during dusk you know what he means about Waterloo sunset. Fantastic song! You got me thinking of Kinks rarities and I thought of single I bought as a kid that Ray did for a classic 70’s TV show called Budgie (starting Adam Faith). Ray wrote and sung the theme tune for the 2nd season under the guise of Cold Turkey. It was released on Pye records and the B-Side was the theme tune to Sesame Street. When they released the deluxe version of Muswell Hillbillies they included a demo instrumental version, but for some reason not a version with lyrics. The intro really reminds me of Animal Farm. Link below to Budgie TV show. It’s worth watching for the intro: www.dailymotion.com/video/x8axfb4
"Waterloo Sunset" is one the most gorgeous pop songs ever written. I cry with melancholic joy (appropriately oxymoronic) every time I listen to it. Yes, Ray is a genius.
100% spot on
Ray Davies is maybe the greatest songwriter as he catches people's humanity, all the tragic-comic quirks they have. Ray does this though with incredible insight, empathy, & compassion. The Kinks as a band can play primal rock to exquisitely beautiful ballads that make nearly all the Kinks albums klassic gems.
Perfectly put. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Agree with everything you say here ✌🏼
On my first car in 1974, I had a bumper sticker that said “The Kinks Ray Davies for President “
Great video Mazzy. Ray Davies is the greatest songwriter of all time IMHO. God save The Kinks!
I can't imagine anyone more qualified than you doing a retrospective (or any) video on The Kinks. Sooo well done!🎸✌👍 And thank you for the shout out!🙏
700 songs in the kinks catalog - Im 73 now been a fan since 1964 - I have all their records plus a bootleg called 80 Days which is fantastic - currently listening to....around the dial - holiday romance - pictures in the sand - big sky - I need you - articifical man - holiday live - animal - two sisters - dreams - GSTK
24:00 Had just bought Anthology (mp3)before seeing your video - 5 CDs' worth of the Kream (on the Pye!) of the Kinks. What an artifact! Ray is our national treasure, the Dickens of our time. Dave, the original punk rocker.
I was born in ‘68 - so I’m from the ‘60’s. For me, at this stage in my life The Kinks are the best band to come out of the UK in the ‘60’s.
With The Kinks it’s a slow burn. As much as I love the Beatles and the Stones I just don’t listen to them as much as The Kinks.
The Kinks have not been over exposed to me. The banishment from the USA was in the long term a blessing in disguise. And I say that as someone born and raised in Belfast Ireland.
The comp that brought me in was a cheapo called The Complete Collection on the Castle Communications label from 1991 covering the PYE era. I’ve used it as a template for my own playlists by the Kinks.
What can I say about the Kinks that has not already been said? The original band was special beyond words.
My interest so far ends in 1971 with some much more to explore.
“Face to Face” still sounds modern to my ears and is my favorite album by them.
Yes, Ray is amazing - and so is Dave, f##k the whole band is amazing. Just listen to the BBC Sessions album! Stunning!
Love them.
God bless The Kinks!
Love them so much.🎉
The Kinks invented punk rock!!!
A very enjoyable deep dive into the Kinks. Thank you well done.
Great video Mazzy, my older brothers turned me onto The Kinks as a teenager in the 70's and quite fondly remember Lola. My 1st album was Low Budget and still have my original...cheers...✌
Love The Kinks, one of my top five bands ever.
A copy of the 5-CD Anthology just broke my heart (and will probably soon break my bank too).
Thank you for this retrospective.
The Kinks are also my top 3 bands. I agree with all your sentiments. God save the Kinks. Only group to have never made a bad song
One of the greatest bands ever. I like lots of 70s/80s kids educated myself on music via my parents record collection. The first kinks comp I heard was part of a box set by readers digest titled superstars of the 60s and 70s it had a number of records inside and one was side A the kinks and flip over you the trigger in side B. It maybe falls outside of your compilation list. I’ll watch and see.❤
We LOVE The Kinks ❤
love the kinks rca years..schoolboys in disgrace is one of my favorites...please stay well my friend... peace..rocky
I was born in '67, so I didn't really discover The Kinks until 8-9 years later. Most would think that was due to anything they recorded at that point, but it was really discovering my mother's brothers/sisters' collection of old 60's singles. I discovered The Beatles etc the same way! So I learned to love the 60's version of the Kinks as a kid, but I never explored further. And then the Come Dancing song, or whichever from that record, hit me in the 80's! And still I didn't worry about what happened in-between... Until those Nice Price records started to appear in the 80's, and I personally started to have enough money to buy those. "Misfits" was the record that really blew my mind as a teenager, and from there I went on to have eventually get all of them. However, the early 70's albums were introduced to me in the middle of the 80's by a classmate. I actually love Soap Opera, but the Preservation Act 1&2 albums are the ones I prefer to never listen to (a few songs excluded...).
Hi Mazzy, “You really got me” with this post. I love the Kinks, txs for this dive into them.
Thank you Nick!
Terribly frustrated old boy. I almost fainted when I noticed you failed to mention 20th Anniversary Box on Prt. It's off to the headmaster with you. I have all mentioned except the promo. Seriously great job. Cheers.
I LOVE this release!!!
Another great Komp (six cd set by Universal) is The Kinks Picture Book.
I can't say that I was ever a huge Kinks fan but Arthur, Lola and Muswell Hillbillies is a fantastic trilogy. I know Percy was in between Lola and Muswell, but that was a soundtrack so I don't count it. Great video Mazzy!
Hey Mazzy, thanks for this video. Tempted to get a vinyl version of "The Journey" though the CD is half the price. 🙄 I only own one solitary Kinks compilation on CD called the Ultimate Collection, a 25 track release. I don't have any of their LP's and just a handful of 45's. I remember your video of the Kinks Mono Box but sadly that's hard to find now. Time to rectify that methinks. Cheers 👍
Great stuff Mazzy
Thank you ✌🏼
Very good video. I have an unusual one called Golden Hour of The Kinks Volume 2. It's a New Zealand import from 1985.
Great video Mazzy, i have no Kinks comps, cause i guess all the b sides/rarities are featured on cd 2 or 3 of those reissues they did ! Cheers !
i had a quick listen on Spotify, a fab selection from one one the best, thks mazzy....
1966, first year on high school (UK) music class with the new music teacher, young attractive lady. Would we like to hear the Kinks new song? Sunny Afternoon, she wanted to play it over and over. What a great music period, a big change from Bach and madrigals 😊 thanks for bringing that back. 👍
My favourite song is 'Animal Farm' since hearing on 'Golden Hour Of The Kinks.' Fabulous band and great video!
Wonderful song!!
Come Dancing With the Kinks is essential for me. A perfect comp of the Arista years
I envy your Kinks collection. I've been slowly buying the Kinks catalog and listening to the band more & more. I do need to get a Kompilation of the early songs (hits & deep tracks). Peace
Great!
Great video, Mazzy. One compilation that you didn't mention, but is well worth seeking out, is "(The Kinks Are) Well Respected Men" from 1987. This UK release compiled all of the Pye-era non-album songs, in their original mixes. It's a great sounding double LP, and is a perfect complimentary release if you already have all of the studio albums of that era.
Wonderful stuff. Love the Kinks, despite them supporting Arsenal, the North London rivals of my beloved Tottenham Hotspur soccer team.
Ha. Happy you worked through that 🤠
I think the word you were trying to say was, “kerfuffle”!
Love the Kinks - always have, great episode, thanks
Yes thank you. My brain slows down 🤯
I always felt that "Tales of Drunkenness and Cruelty" would be a great title for a Kinks Kompilation.
Go straight to Holloway Jail!
Marvellous komp Mazzy. Remember buying You Really Got Me.
I enjoyed their theatrical shows in the seventies. Gems either out of context. How about the Kinks in the eighties and even into the nineties.
The Kinks recent super deluxe sets are absolutely wonderful. Especially the Village Green Preservation Society.....that would be my favourite Mazzy :-)
Was doing a acoustic duo gig once about twenty years ago. Double bass and piano, we played Waterloo sunset and Paul McCartney was there semi drunk with his second wife . He was the only person in the restaurant who clapped for us. We were next to Tower Bridge the location of the London Town by Wings recording.
I purchased The Kinks The Journey it looked good? Anyway when it comes to your records OG I can only explain it like this. I go out to dinner with my wife and I’m not sure what I ordered is going to look or taste like then there is this Awww (maybe not a word) wow that looks amazing Lol Thank You
Whenever anyone asks me Beatles or Stones? I always snort back The Kinks!! Though I have at various times in my 40 + years of life, obsessed over, absorbed and collected all the usual suspects of the Brit Invasion, The Kinks and maybe The Who are the ones that for me, endure and mean the most. My favourite comp is the 6 CD box Picture Book (2008). Admittedly, it has a few head-scratchingly inferior ''alternative'' mixes of some crucial 60's era singles, but otherwise one of the very few (if any others exist?) comps that fully span 1960's - early 90's.
I freely admit to being a low brow music listener so i very much appreciate compilations as it is often/usually the "best of" the band's output.
Since the mid seventies i always thought on most albums there were only a few songs that were really worthwhile. Not always true of course, but all too often for my taste.
Love that hat.
"The Essential Kinks" has 48 tracks with liner notes written by David Bowie. That one shouldn't have been allowed to go out of print, but I guess you can still get it used. So many brilliant songs! Celluloid Heroes is a personal favorite. Bowie of course had good taste.
I had a rare 10 inch of the kinks , unfortunately I sold it! Need to have more, they influenced a lot of folks!
Of course being of a similar age to you I heard and liked the singles that I heard on the radio through the years by the Kinks but I never got into them, Recently I bought an album called The ultimate collection off a stall on the market in Salisbury where I live which is run by a bloke who gets CD's from people who sell their collections for peanuts and I have been playing that double CD album which I got for a fiver almost constantly and I can honestly say that that album is now one of my favourites, You are right Mazi the Kinks are one of the best bands ever.
i've been trying to get to this all day and so far am only 3 minutes in. by minute 22 i expect you to honor ailing president who oversaw first 4 years of their arista period by negotiating peace talks between ray and dave and getting them back in the studio. i've joked on this topic before but it isn't a joke. they've survived strokes and stabbings and while i never knew "when i turn off the living room light", the performers of "father christmas" need to record together again. this is not someone saying bruce springsteen owes his fans such and such. i'm not saying "do it before you pass on!" do it because after the beatles (no offence to mick and keith or to pete and roger) but you are the best and norman more than any brit i know can make it happen. now i'm going to watch the video. thanks for making it.
Mazz, one of the most iconic guitar riffs in history, "you really got me" off the hook good
Oh yeah !!!
I bought that new comp for myself and the store. It's a really nice set for the money and sounds great. Pretty sure it's an all analog release as well.
Mastered cut bu Kevin Grey
Remember being at a friends house with friends as a teenager and we were sixties buffs and eating pickles, tortillas, and ice cream and listening to one of the American sixties Kinks albums. It sounded sooo good and was just a magical feeling. Sure the sound quality was not the best but we did not know better so it did not matter. Just a quirky moment.
Always had a sense of humour.
Celluloid Heros is a Masterpiece.
They deserve so many komps as they created so many klassiks… as any fule kno.
I picked up on the Kinks about 1980, I was 18 then they weren't the Beatles they weren't the Stones but I loved Ray's lyrics and British sensibility. So yeah I really dig them.
The Kinks are one of my favorites of the British Invasion but always that number 3 or 4 on my top 10 list. I don’t know why that is. My favorite comp will always be Kronikles. I also like the Arista years starting with Sleepwalker, I bought that album when it came out in 1977. There’s lots of great tunes to Cherry pick off those early eighties albums.
I’ll do an Arista years video after todays RCA theatrical overview. 🤠
Lots and lots of compilations of tyrannosaurus rex T.Rex as well.
I was not aware of that Anthology set! I’ve been hoping for a vinyl mastering/pressing of the 2008 Picture Book 6-CD box. (Another super-fun Kinks komp.) Any idea if the “rarities” on the Anthology comp are taken from that set? If not, I’ll need to track it down.
The Kinks absolutley DO NOT need any more compilations. At this point, it's beyond ridiculous. However, I like the super deluxe box sets, although it looks like they won't be releasing those anymore, as they didn't even bother for Muswell Hillbillies or Everybody's in Show-biz. I would also definitely buy a remastered release of Kink Kronikles on CD or SACD.
They certainly did release a Muswell Hillbillies / Everybody's In Show-Biz Box
I'm English (in London). Yeah I bought "The Journey" a few weeks ago, on both vinyl and CD. I had them waiting on pre-order and the release date written down on my hang-up kitchen calendar.
If I could only have one Kinks single it would be "See My Friend". No 'S' added. I don't like it when things like that are changed around, they should leave it as it is. Anyway, the singular implies greater intensity and mystery of a personal relationship. So it's better. If I'd been living next door to Raymondo at the time I would have given him the benefit of my advice and told him to make it singular in the first place.
PS. I would never refer to Keith Richard in the plural, either. For Godsake leave it all alone 😩
Kronikles is a desert island album of comps.
Mazzy does the new BMG sound good? I think Kevin Gray’s name is on it somewhere so it should be but…
Yes. But the later recorded tracks sound the best.
I'm sure you have this also the Kinks on the BBC box set with a dvd
I lost my cherry to Celluloid Heroes
Got kinks 45s guy who had them must have been a mod.
Why didn't you mention Kinks Kinkdom? Just like their second album, full of singles and Ep's.
The LP version of Celluloid Heroes has the faster version of "Here Comes Yet Another Day" on it. The CD has the original album version. I like the faster version better. I met Dave before one of his concerts. His wife was running the merch table and refused to sell me a 2XL T-shirt because she said it would be too big on me.
My prize Kinks is A Complete Collection 20th Anniversary Edition The Kinks. Since Dylan is not a group, I have an opening for top three: Beatles, Stones, ........
"Living room light" was written for an English TV show, so the "who cares if you're Jewish" iine is the voice of the conflicted character from the show speaking about his girlfriend
Kinks
Not remastered very well the pye stuff.
I have yet to find a good sounding Kinks comp. Love the songs hate the sound quality. Ill look for that Kinks Kronikles.
Their records are not sonic masterpieces at all. It’s pretty much what you get. The new comp is cut by Kevin Grey and depending on the track, it’s about the best you’re gonna get. The music is great but these ain’t no Steely Dan records.
Kronikles is the best sounding Reprise vinyl (IMO).
1963 1968 days.
compared with the mono box wich sounds better
I don't think Ray Davies' "Animal Farm" lyrics have anything to do with George Orwell!
No but it’s obvious that he got the title from it
Good for you More FREE records Whoopy The Kinks where fun for the day
Isn’t it Davies pronounced Dave Ees not Davis?
Ray says Davis
I love the great lost kinks album . Found it one day in a record store can’t remember where . Probably 42nd street. The kink kronikles is the best compilation in my opinion.
Davies
But they actually pronounce it like Davis
@Norman Maslov thanks, I never that before. Good to know. Agree with you about the kinks,
Whats Next, , How about the recording CORPORATIONS make dual band compilations.. YEAH,, the greatest hits from 1962 to 1969 of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones together in a 20 album boxed case of 20 boxes.....Hey, it you want a band to pair up with the kinks how about the Hollies,, They are always getting mixed up anyway. .....
Weak record autumn almanac.
Nit at all 🤠🤷🏻♂️
Hi Massy,
After the Beatles & Stones the Kinks are definitely in my top 5 along with the Who and Small Faces. As a UK ex-pat from London living a stones-throw away from Waterloo (now living in SF Bay Area for the past 30 years), Waterloo Sunset really chokes me up every time I hear it. If you ever stood on Waterloo Bride during dusk you know what he means about Waterloo sunset. Fantastic song!
You got me thinking of Kinks rarities and I thought of single I bought as a kid that Ray did for a classic 70’s TV show called Budgie (starting Adam Faith). Ray wrote and sung the theme tune for the 2nd season under the guise of Cold Turkey. It was released on Pye records and the B-Side was the theme tune to Sesame Street. When they released the deluxe version of Muswell Hillbillies they included a demo instrumental version, but for some reason not a version with lyrics. The intro really reminds me of Animal Farm. Link below to Budgie TV show. It’s worth watching for the intro: www.dailymotion.com/video/x8axfb4
Sorry forgot to mention name of the song: Nobody’s Fool
Really good recommendation. Just started listening to the kinks kronikles. Really really good.
Absolutely !!!