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The Kinks - Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986 Audio CD

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Title: Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986
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Release Date: 2005-03-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Come Dancing 2: Low Budget 3: Catch Me Now I'm Falling 4: Gallon of Gas 5: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman [Disco Edit] 6: Sleepwalker 7: Full Moon 8: Misfits 9: Rock & Roll Fantasy 10: Do It Again 11: Better Things 12: Lola (Live) [Live] 13: You Really Got Me (Live) [Live] 14: Good Day 15: Living on a Thin Line 16: Destroyer 17: Don't Forget to Dance 18: Father Christmas

Great combination of live and studio Kinks.
Ray's vocals and Dave's playing are top notch. It's easy to swayed by how simple the songs by the Davies brothers are but a great pop song is still the hardest to write.


Great compilation of Hits for a great British band
e. The Kinks may not have had the same overwhelming media coverage that other extraordinary British bands (i. Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who, Pink Floyd et al) had in their moments of biggest glory, but even though they're a very good band.

This Come Dancing is a nice compilation of their greatest hits, including their Tour De Force live performance of "Lola", as well as "Come Dancing" and a nice Rock piece "Destroyer", among other great songs.

Nice cover, full detailed booklet. . . This album is worth to be included in any serious Brit Rock fan collection. .


Preservation, The Arista Years.
Till then, Arista was known primarily as a home to the likes of Barry Manilow and The Bay City Rollers. Clive Davis personally signed the Kinks to his then relatively new Arista label, when he was trying to establish a rock and roll foothold. The Kinks, under Davis' tutelage, staged a comeback that brought them to a whole new audience who looked at Ray and Dave Davies as Punk Rock Godfathers, even as the band suddenly found themselves successful enough to tour American Sports Arenas.

"Sleepwalker" was the first album of that batch, and heralded that The Kinks were back. In retrospect, the songs sound very much of their time, heavy on the synths and radio friendly. When "Misfits" arrived, it contained a bonafide Davies' masterpiece, the melancholy "A Rock and Roll Fantasy. " It singled the introspective streak that became a running strength for the following albums.

In between was the successful "Low Budget. " It had an almost hit with the disco-fied "Superman," even if the title track and "A Gallon Of Gas" sound dated. But is sure was weird hearing The Kinks in dance clubs along with The Bee Gees. "Give the People What They Want" was the radio breakthrough, as Album Rockers began giving heavy spins to "Destroyer. " Quoting the riff from "All The Day and All Of The Night" and referencing "Lola," it brought fans old and new to the band. But even better is "Better Things," which even Davies lamented had not become a more well known song.

Radio and MTV really came forth when "State of Confusion" arrived. "Come Dancing" became the biggest hit The Kinks had on Arista, and it was followed by the nostalgic "Don't Forget To Dance. " They were the lightest songs on an album filled with anger and disillusionment. Ray was ending a marriage and Dave was having problems. By "Word of Mouth," Mick Avory had left and the album sounded disjointed. The terrific "Do It Again" still sounds great (and it would have been nice to have "Summer's Gone"), but that was it for this era.

"Come Dancing With The Kinks" gets a few bonus licks in via a pair of live cuts. Both "Lola" and "You Really Got Me" from "One for the Road" fill in an earlier chapter. The anti-Christmas classic "Father Christmas" is here, too. All in all, a solid package.


Dollars and (common) cents.

The Kink's CDs really put a person in a 'State of Confusion'. I'm going to rate this CD based on a $1 per song cost to total cost for the entire CD (Apple and Rhapsody charge $1 per song). I have yet to find a CD collection with all of the Kink-essential songs on it. This CD is bad because it doesn't have all of the essential songs, AND to top it off two of the songs are LIVE versions. What a rip off!
The essential songs are: Come Dancing, Catch Me Now I'm Falling, Lola, You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, Destroyer, and Around the Dial (if I'm missing any, please let me know).
So, you have to pay $14 to buy the CD on Amazon, but you are only getting $3 worth of original, great songs (Come Dancing, Catch Me Now I'm Falling and Destroyer). You can buy the songs Destroyer, Around the Dial and Catch Me Now I'm Falling for $1 each on iTunes. (Unfortunately, iTunes and Rhapsody don't currently sell the other essential songs I've listed. )
Ray Davies is really making it hard for us to get all of his best songs in one place, but by doing so, I'm sure he's making a heap of money from us all.
Hope this helps.
Darium
June 2007.


Don't Forget to Dance
Much later, the Don't Forget to Dance video really touched me for some reason. When I was in high school, I loved the hard-edged sound of the Kinks, the Who, etc.

I noticed that most Kinks collection lack this masterpiece. Now, it is my all-time favorite Kinks song. Although I still love the more hard-edged songs by them and Lola which defies description, I plan to buy this collection to have Don't Forget to Dance along with many other fine songs.


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