GREATEST HITS

The Kinks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B0000071DA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809,224 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

These eighteen songs are indeed the great hits of The Kinks, along with some B-sides and EP selections. From "You Really Got Me" in 1964 to "Sunny Afternoon" which was released atthe beginning of the summer of 1966, these songs--all penned by Ray Davies--move easily from streamlined jackhammer rockers to cabaret-inflected character studies. Yet to come wasthe astounding SOMETHING ELSE of 1968, which perfectly realised Davies' vignettes celebrating the disappearing pleasures of English life, as well as his increasing distaste and distrust for contemporary business and politics. He moved easily between first-person plaints ("I'm Not Like Everybody Else") and scathing third person portraiture ("A Well RespectedMan"). There were plenty of high points after 1966, but thecompositions from those two years remains potent and exhilarating decades after their creation.