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A Kinks Kronology, 1964-1969 (2-CD Deluxe Edition)

Side A
Artist Song
The Kinks  You Really Got Me 
The Kinks  Stop Your Sobbing 
The Kinks  All Day & All Of The Night 
The Kinks  Tired Of Waiting 
The Kinks  Set Me Free 
The Kinks  I Need You 
The Kinks  See My Friends 
The Kinks  Til The End Of The Day 
The Kinks  Where Have All The Good Times Gone 
The Kinks  Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 
The Kinks  A Well Respected Man 
The Kinks  You're Looking Fine 
The Kinks  I'll Remember 
The Kinks  I'm Not Like Everybody Else 
The Kinks  She's Got Everything 
The Kinks  Dandy 
The Kinks  Party Line 
The Kinks  Too Much On My Mind 
The Kinks  Sunny Afternoon 
The Kinks  Fancy 
The Kinks  Dead End Street 
The Kinks  Big Black Smoke 
The Kinks  Mr. Pleasant 
The Kinks  This Is Where I Belong 
The Kinks  David Watts 
The Kinks  Harry Rag 
The Kinks  Waterloo Sunset 
The Kinks  Death Of A Clown 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
The Kinks  Lavender Hill 
The Kinks  Autumn Almanac 
The Kinks  Susannah's Still Alive 
The Kinks  Wonderboy 
The Kinks  Days 
The Kinks  Village Green Preservation Society 
The Kinks  Do You Remember Walter 
The Kinks  Picture Book 
The Kinks  Johnny Thunder 
The Kinks  Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains 
The Kinks  Big Sky 
The Kinks  Animal Farm 
The Kinks  Phenomenal Cat 
The Kinks  Til Death Us Do Part 
The Kinks  Where Did My Spring Go 
The Kinks  Mindless Child Of Motherhood 
The Kinks  This Man He Weeps Tonight 
The Kinks  Victoria 
The Kinks  Brainwashed 
The Kinks  Shangri-La 
The Kinks  Australia 
The Kinks  Mr. Churchill Says 
The Kinks  Nothing To Say 
The Kinks  Arthur 

Comment:

Part of a continuing effort to expand some old single artist mixes to do some real justice to the ol' back catalog. (As always, walking the line between a brief, near-perfect sampler that introduces someone to an artist, and a more comprehensive mix that allows me to stash my collection in boxes, with much more emphasis on the latter these days.)
Having divided my Kinks tunes into two 2-cd mixes, this is obviously the keeper of the bunch (though the early 70's had a wealth of strong and often under-appreciated material). This is primarily arranged chronologically by recording date, though with their two decade-closing masterpieces, Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur, I dropped that in order to keep the flow of the original albums. I lean fairly heavily on those two albums, as they're my favorites, but was able to do so without losing any of the key early singles or album tracks (with room for a couple rarities from the vinyl-only Great Lost Kinks Album.
Interestingly, I managed to rip everything I wanted and it miraculously fit perfectly onto 4 discs with a clean break from the 60s to the 70s. Sometimes the karma works out, I guess.
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mahdishain
Date: 11/25/2007
You are becoming my S.A.M hero. If you are not posting a delux 2 cd review of a hof career it's a single disc of highlights of someone new. thanks!
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anthony lombardi
Date: 11/25/2007
i have been listening to alot of kinks lately, so this finds me at a perfect time - ray davies is my all-time favorite songwriter, the kinks are the fourth greatest band in pop music history, & this music is simply beautifully transcendent & bittersweet in ways i can only thank the lord for bestowing upon us. i probably would have stretched this to at least lola vs..., but hey, i'm not complaining. way too many favorites here to name, so suffice it to say this is excellent.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 11/26/2007
Although you and I have had minor disagreements re: the merits of certain Kinks material in the past, I have to say that this is a pretty great double-disc sampler of this period. Personally, I'd lose "Arthur," "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," and "You're Looking Fine," replacing them with "Young and Innocent Days" (my 3rd-favorite Kinks tune),"Starstruck," and "Holiday in Waikiki," respectively, but to each his own....
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doowad
Date: 11/26/2007
Can't go wrong with the Kinks. Great band for all generations to discover and re-discover.
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Sean Lally
Date: 11/26/2007
FLAWLESS. GREATEST ... BAND .... EVER.
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jemelend
Date: 11/27/2007
pure excellence! they're one of my favorite bands, village green is also my favorite kinks album.
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G-Sphere
Date: 11/30/2007
one of my all time favorite bands. grea collection.