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| Released | 14 October 2014 | |||
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| Length | 158:54 | |||
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The Essential Kinks is a two disccompilation album by English rock bandthe Kinks, released on 14 October 2014, on Legacy Records, a division ofSony Music Entertainment.[1]
The album celebrates the Kinks' 50th anniversary[2][3] of their first release withRCA Records. The album includes all the Kinks' biggest hits from 1964 to 1993. It was released as part of Sony'sThe Essential series and contains 48 tracks.[2] The liner notes were written byDavid Bowie.[2][1][4]
The Davies brothers, who had not played together since 1996, revealed in early 2014 that they had met in person and put their animosity behind them. They were writing new compositions and discussing the possibility of playing together again.[4]
Sony has acquired exclusive licensing to the North American rights to albums made by the Kinks for both RCA Records andArista between 1971 and 1985. Hi-resolution digital downloads, includingMuswell Hillbillies from 1971,Preservation Act 1 from 1973,Preservation Act 2 from 1974, andState of Confusion were released on 9 September 2014.[1]
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| Source | Rating |
| Classic Rock Revisited | B+[5] |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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| 1. | "You Really Got Me" | Ray Davies | Kinks (1964) | 2:13 |
| 2. | "Stop Your Sobbing" | Ray Davies | Kinks | 2:05 |
| 3. | "All Day and All of the Night" | Ray Davies | Kinks-Size (1965) | 2:21 |
| 4. | "Tired of Waiting for You" | Ray Davies | Kinda Kinks (1965) | 2:30 |
| 5. | "Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl" | Ray Davies | Kinda Kinks | 2:43 |
| 6. | "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" | Ray Davies | Kinda Kinks | 2:15 |
| 7. | "A Well Respected Man" | Ray Davies | Kinkdom (1965) | 2:41 |
| 8. | "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" | Ray Davies | Kinkdom | 3:00 |
| 9. | "Who'll Be the Next in Line" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1965); later appeared onKinda Kinks as a bonus track | 2:01 |
| 10. | "Set Me Free" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1965); later appeared onKinda Kinks as a bonus track | 2:11 |
| 11. | "See My Friends" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1965); later appeared onKinda Kinks as a bonus track | 2:44 |
| 12. | "Sunny Afternoon" | Ray Davies | Face to Face (1966) | 3:35 |
| 13. | "Dead End Street" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1966); later appeared onFace to Face as a bonus track | 3:21 |
| 14. | "Death of a Clown" | Ray Davies,Dave Davies | Something Else by the Kinks (1967) | 3:12 |
| 15. | "Autumn Almanac" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1967) | 3:12 |
| 16. | "David Watts" | Ray Davies | Something Else by the Kinks | 2:37 |
| 17. | "Waterloo Sunset" | Ray Davies | Something Else by the Kinks | 3:17 |
| 18. | "Days" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1968); was part of early pressings ofThe Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) and later appeared as a bonus track | 2:52 |
| 19. | "The Village Green Preservation Society" | Ray Davies | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | 2:47 |
| 20. | "Do You Remember Walter?" | Ray Davies | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | 2:24 |
| 21. | "Picture Book" | Ray Davies | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | 2:35 |
| 22. | "Victoria" | Ray Davies | Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) | 3:38 |
| 23. | "Apeman" | Ray Davies | Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) | 3:51 |
| 24. | "Strangers" | Dave Davies | Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One | 3:18 |
| 25. | "20th Century Man" (US single version) | Ray Davies | Muswell Hillbillies (1971) | 4:01 |
| 26. | "Supersonic Rocket Ship" | Ray Davies | Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) | 3:30 |
| 27. | "Celluloid Heroes" (US single version) | Ray Davies | Everybody's in Show-Biz | 4:45 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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| 1. | "Here Comes Yet Another Day" | Ray Davies | Everybody's in Show-Biz | 3:54 |
| 2. | "You Don’t Know My Name" | Dave Davies | Everybody's in Show-Biz | 2:34 |
| 3. | "Till the End of the Day" (Live 1972) | Ray Davies | Everybody's in Show-Biz (Legacy Edition) (2016); originally fromThe Kink Kontroversy (1965) | 2:00 |
| 4. | "One of the Survivors" | Ray Davies | Preservation Act 1 (1973) | 4:03 |
| 5. | "Sweet Lady Genevieve" | Ray Davies | Preservation Act 1 | 3:27 |
| 6. | "Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)" | Ray Davies | Soap Opera (1975) | 2:59 |
| 7. | "Life on the Road" | Ray Davies | Sleepwalker (1977) | 5:01 |
| 8. | "Sleepwalker" | Ray Davies | Sleepwalker | 4:04 |
| 9. | "Life Goes On" | Ray Davies | Sleepwalker | 5:01 |
| 10. | "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" (Single version) | Ray Davies | Misfits (1978) | 4:00 |
| 11. | "Father Christmas" | Ray Davies | Non-album single (1977) | 3:41 |
| 12. | "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" | Ray Davies | Low Budget (1979) | 3:36 |
| 13. | "Lola" (Live 1979) | Ray Davies | One for the Road (1980); originally fromLola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One | 4:45 |
| 14. | "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (Live 1979) | Ray Davies | One for the Road; originally fromThe Kink Kontroversy | 2:17 |
| 15. | "Better Things" (Single version) | Ray Davies | Give the People What They Want (1981) | 2:59 |
| 16. | "Destroyer" | Ray Davies | Give the People What They Want | 3:47 |
| 17. | "Come Dancing" | Ray Davies | State of Confusion (1983) | 3:55 |
| 18. | "Don't Forget to Dance" | Ray Davies | State of Confusion | 4:39 |
| 19. | "Do It Again" | Ray Davies | Word of Mouth (1984) | 4:09 |
| 20. | "Living on a Thin Line" | Dave Davies | Word of Mouth | 4:14 |
| 21. | "Scattered" | Ray Davies | Phobia (1993) | 4:10 |
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| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 2014 | RCA Records, Legacy Records | CD,digital download | 88843066622 / 88843066622 |
