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The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles Audio CD

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The Kinks Band: The Kinks
Title: The Kink Kronikles
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Victoria 2: Village Green Preservation Society 3: Berkeley Mews 4: Holiday in Waikiki 5: Willesden Green 6: This is Where I Belong 7: Waterloo Sunset 8: David Watts 9: Deadend Street 10: Shangri-La 11: Autumn Almanac 12: Sunny Afternoon 13: Get Back in the Line 14: Did You See His Name? 15: Fancy 16: Wonderboy 17: Apeman 18: King Kong 19: Mr. Pleasant 20: God's Children 21: Death of a Clown 22: Lola 23: Mindless Child of Motherhood 24: Polly 25: Big Black Smoke 26: Susannah's Still Alive 27: She's Got Everything 28: Days

The Kink Kronikles
The liner notes are maybe the best I have read on any album. Superb songwriting. They gave me a better understanding of the songs. .


The best of the best
It is simply a classic overview of Brit pop beauty and a great introduction to the Kinks if you need one. This is an album I'd take to a desert island. Ray Davies is a certifeid genius and there are songs on here that are heart breakingly beautiful. If this kind of music interests you at all, you have to have this one.


Simply Put - A Great Album
For many who know them from the "You Really Got Me" sound, this shows how versatile they were. This collection is a gem. They could rock with the best bands of the time (as they would come back to do later once again) and yet create some really neat theme albums. The Kinks rightfully belong up there with the Stones and the Beatles. This album is a must for any collection of Kinks' music. .


a few Kinks in the road


There is no rhyme or reason to the listings, some songs are mid '60's hits, others fallen flat 45's, some reaching the top 20 of the early '70's, others only LP cuts to which Kink fans hold dear. This two CD collection is not a Greatest Hits hurray of favorites, it's more like a hide and seek of forbidden fun.

It has hard to find 45s like "Fancy", "Dead End Street" , "Death of a Clown", "Polly" and maybe one of the best Ray Davies' songs ever, "Days".
Some of these reached the bottom of the top 100, others a back in line top 40. All are examples of songwriting at its most exquisite.

It also has the 45 version of 'Waterloo Sunset"
need I say more?.


Briliiant four-sided case for a most brilliant band
John Mendelssohn fills all four sides of this two-LP set with informed and wonderfully inspired thematic collections of Kinks songs, one lyrical theme per side. Take that, shuffle-play. In other hands, such an approach might have a reductive or pigeonholing effect, but here it provides a perfect, provactive glimpse into the depth and range of the Kinks' early recordings -- songs that reached beyond themselves to create lasting narratives, connections, and meaning. .


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