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| Artist: The Kinks
Label: Sanctuary UK
Category: Music
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 50217
Format: Extra Tracks, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766484196126
EAN: 0766484196126
ASIN: B0001XLXDY
Release Date: May 3, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Beautiful Delilah | | • | So Mystifying | | • | Just Can't Go To Sleep | | • | Long Tall Shorty | | • | I Took My Baby Home | | • | I'm A Lover Not A Fighter | | • | You Really Got Me | | • | Cadillac | | • | Bald Headed Woman | | • | Revenge | | • | Too Much Monkey Business | | • | I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain | | • | Stop Your Sobbin' | | • | Got Love If You Want It | | • | Long Tall Sally (Bonus Track) |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Reissue March 5, 2008
popmusicfan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Some of those early British Invasion albums were quite short, at least by the standards we have in the digital age. This reissue of the Kinks' debut album includes a full dozen bonus tracks. The song everyone knows from the original album is "You Really Got Me." On the reissue, you also get the Kinks' other early hit, "All Day and All of the Night," along with some other great choices. For example, sometimes it is interesting to compare officially released recordings against alternate takes. Such is the case with the cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business." While the version that was issued on the original album is not the most effective cover of the tune (personally, I prefer the humor of the Hollies' cover), compare it with the alternate take that's included here. The tune just does not lend itself to the Ramones-like, allegro-con-breaking-apart-at-the-seams tempo of the previously unreleased alternate take. Peter Doggett's booklet notes provide a nice set of insights into the original recording sessions, including confirmation that session musician Bobby Graham plays drums on almost all of the tracks. The rest of the recording and original release information is also quite good. And, of course, the Davies brothers make this a powerful debut.
 A Great Debut of Brit R&B September 1, 2006
Hobart Arms (Louisville, KY)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Kinks' explosive debut album is a great album but don't expect the legendary Davies tunesmithing. Instead, this album is far closer to something like the Rolling Stones' England's Newest Hitmakers album: a rollicking collection of R&B covers that comprised much of the Kinks' early stage/club sets. This was the M.O. for most of these groups like the Kinks, the Stones, the Animals, etc. where they would go into the studio with maybe a few originals proffered to the producer but ultimately they would choose the most explosive R&B covers of Chuck Berry and the Chess crew and other popular hits that had wound their way into stage routines; maybe a single would catch on as a minor hit. These albums and the groups were meant to be throwaways: make an exciting record that would sell until the next product went on the shelves. Kinks is no exception. It features the usual slew of Chuck Berry/Chicago R&B covers but what Shel Talmy hadn't counted on was Ray Davies. Davies brought "You Really Got Me" with him and this was to become the first of many trademark hits for the Kinks. Mind you the covers and the hit single were not all that was offered on this album. There was also the obligatory slow "dance" number "Stop Your Sobbin'". Overall, I would recommend this album based on its importance in the canon of one of the greatest rock bands from one of the greatest decades in popular music. Further more, this album showcases the creative powerhouse of the Brothers Davies with their cohorts Avery and Quaiff in their embryonic form, a year before they would begin to take the world on lyrical trips as perhaps the most British of the British invasion bands. My advice would be to snag this album and put it on a cd changer with England's Newest Hitmakers, an early Manfred Mann album, an early Animals album, and The Yardbird's For Your Love. This will take you back to the days in 1964 London when you had to go to the clubs to see the grit and soul of the British Invasion...the R&B bands that lacked much of the contrived polish of the pop bands.
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