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Music CD - The Kinks: The Kink Kronikles
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Music CD: The Kink Kronikles
Artist: The Kinks
List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $12.38
Your Save: $ 7.60 ( 38% )
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Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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1. Victoria
2. The 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 Line
14. Did You See His Name?
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992745727
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: a few Kinks in the road
Comment: This two CD collection is not a Greatest Hits hurray of favorites, it's more like a hide and seek of forbidden fun.
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.
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?
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Summary: Briliiant four-sided case for a most brilliant band
Comment: Take that, shuffle-play. 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. 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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Summary: OK, It's finally time for a Kinks Re-issue CD Party!! Get With It!! Rhino?
Comment: It's time for the Kinks to get the respect they deserve. It is absolutely unbelievable that this is the best compilation release out there, and it is obviously brilliant!! It's time for Ray and the rest of the Kinks to get all their albums back in print where they belong, including the early ones. And, how about a box set of every recording they've ever made under the name of The Kinks? A 20 Disc Set! Now that would do justice to the greatest British Rock band of all time, and its greatest singer-songwriter, Ray Davies.
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Summary: Rulers Of The Sixties Kingdom
Comment: I grabbed this one from a Record Shop at Christmas Time, 1972. I had been a Fan of the Kinks since the first blast of: "You Really Got Me" was heard over a Crappy Transistor Radio, on a beach in 1964. I needed more Kinks, as at this time the only Record by the Band that I owned was: "Arthur".
Well, this Double LP: "The Kink Kronikles", was and still is One of the Greatest Records of Music from the 1960's, I was ever Lucky enough to Purchase {$5.99}, for me it's THE Greatest Hits of that Decade.
The Songs of Ray Davies are British Anthems: "Dead End Street", "This Is Where I Belong", "Waterloo Station", "Victoria" and "Days". A previously unissued track is here as well: "Did You See His Name?". I played these Two Records until they Melted. This Kollection opened a Huge Door of Music into my World, and I was buying a lot of Kinks Records after this.
This is the DEFINATE look into a period {1966-1971} of some of the Greatest Music to have come from England during those years. The Kinks have never Gotten Their Due. Without these Great Songs, The Sixties still would have gone on...BUT, There would have been a Huge Hole, Right in the Middle of that Decade, that where this Timeless Music, would have been.
If you wanna find out, what all the fuss was about, this Rock Music, we old-Timers, are still all worked-up over, more than Forty Years on, this will set it all in Place. This is The Sixties, some of the Greatest Music that you will ever listen to is on this CD.
FIVE STARS !!!
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Summary: great starter set for the new kinks fan
Comment: this set covers the period that is by general consensus the kinks most creative period although not their most commercially successful. beginning to end this two cd set goes from strength to strength. highlighing most of the standout tracks from the kinks mid to late sixties albums and singles. several of these songs were hits in britain while obscure here in the states. several reviewers have criticized the sound quality of this set, and they make a valid point as the sound is decidedly murky. the songs are so great and the selections so well representing the peak of the kinks work, that i can forgive the technical shortcomings of this package and still give it 5 stars. so start with this set then move on to arthur, village green preservation society, something else, and lola and you are on your way to joining the kinks preservation society.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This compilation from one of the most influential bands in rock history is, like Neil Young's Decade, one of those rare summation packages that stands on its own in the discography. Released at a time in the early '70s when the Kinks, led by songwriter/vocalist Ray Davies and his guitarist brother Dave, were attempting to reestablish themselves with America after being banned for years, The Kink Kronikles still makes a strong case for the band's high place in the Rock Hierarchy. Assembled by longtime Kronicler John Mendelssohn, this isn't exactly a hits package, although you'll find mid-period staples like "Lola"; it's a shoulda-been-hits package. With essential B-sides ("Big Black Smoke"--the best in a long line of portraits of a tired Britain), album tracks (lots from Arthur, the band's cult 1969 rock opera), and ageless singles ("Dead End Street," "Waterloo Sunset"), this makes for an unusually dense and highly concentrated set of period must-owns. --Don Harrison
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