The Kinks - Kinks (The Ultimate Collection)
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Free Music Review: One Of The Best Compilations Ever For Any Band
Hit: 5 Stars
This cd, which I have been looking for for ages, is a truly awesome collection of all The Kinks' best stuff. These two discs contain just about everything you need if you only want one Kinks cd in your collection. Everything from "You Reallly Got Me" to "Lola" to "Celluloid Heroes" to "Come Dancing" and so much more is included. There's a great wealth of lesser known tracks (including some Dave Davies solo material) that are just as good as their biggest hits, there's a great essay for the liner notes and the sound quality is pitch perfect.
Though neither disc fills the eight minute time limit, there really isn't any massive omissions ("Picture Book", "Father Christmas" and "Destroyer" immediately come to mind). The cd's one real flaw is that it's pretty hard to locate. It's best to seek it out at the internet. Trust me, it's worth every penny.
Free Music Review: I wanna be like Superman.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a 2 CD collection of songs by the Kinks. Disc One features every British hit song that the Kinks ever had (I looked it up). Disc Two features 20 other great songs by the Kinks, some of which were hits in America. The Kinks were a great band, and leader Ray Davies was(is) a brilliant songwriter. This is truly the "Ultimate Collection", even without "Father Christmas".Free Music Review: kinks ultimate collection
Hit: 5 Stars
The kinks are probably the most underrated of the british invasion bands. This is a great collection and worth owning, but it only represents a fraction of the great songs by the Kinks. They should have been so much bigger, probably the result of poor marketing. Among my favorites, which are not on this, are Maximum Consumption and Alcohol.They are funny songs.
The end of the song "See my friends" reminds me of Strawberry Fields, which came out 2 years later, I think.
Ray Davies is one of, if not, the best song writers ever!!
Free Music Review: Really Gets Me Going
Hit: 4 Stars
The Kinks' frontman Ray Davies was such a perfectionist. And although you can't tell from listening to the heavily punchured "You Really Got Me", or its sister rewrite "All Day And All Of The Night", he would spend days and days with his brother Dave, trying to get their sound like no other tune on the market. And that was hard in the early 60s, when the Beatles had started the biggest thing to hit music since "Heartbreak Hotel".
And through this perfection, the Davies brothers, along with drummer Mick Avory and bassist Peter Quaife, delivered the Britpop hungry world a string of hits. They are all including on this spectaculaur Best Of record, which shows the Kinks, with all their lovely melodies, sweet chords, as they constrast with rough guitar riffs and dance pop.
The music is really what this collection is about. The Kinks were a great band because they knew how to make a string of plastic hits, and this collection doesn't dissapoint, bringing on the pop head on.
It starts of with, surprise surprise, "You Really Got Me", and "All Day and All Of the Night". Disk 1 also features "Till The End of the Day", "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy", and the infecious "Wonderboy"
What I love about this record is that it shows the Kinks music through a new window. They had lots of influences, including some regge and dance chord experimentations. It's all here, from "Susannah's Still Alive" to "Set Me Free"
Disk 2 goes into the Kinks really twisting their sounds, without bluntly giving in to the phycadellic era. "David Watts" and "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" are both haunting.
If you're looking for a surefire way to start your Kinks collection, pick this baby up.
Free Music Review: How's that guy saying s**t about the Kinks?
Hit: 5 Stars
Ray Davies was the best lyricist the British Invasion gave us, period. What is "finulanu "See, what happened was..." " saying? Why can't Ray compare to any of what Townshend did. In fact I would say why can Pete be compared with Ray Davies? After all he constantly claims that it was Ray Davies one of his main inpirations for creating music for christ's sake!!! Dave wasn't the best guitarist but who claims he was? Was George Harrison the best? No. Was it Townshend? No. Maybe Clapton or Page oh and it soooo wasn't the guy from the Doors.
You just can't compare Davies songwriting with Dylan, Lennon or Morrison, cos' they did completely different styles. The Who and the beatles (my favourite bands along with the kinks) could only dream to write the ironic songs Ray managed to write.
This guy obviously has only heard the Kinks hits (after all he only mentions their hits) Get Something Else, the village green preservation society, arthur, muswell hillbillies, Lola versus Powerman and then will you be only allowed to talk about Ray's songwriting mate. That's why although I recommend this album I really don't think it¡'s the only one you should get.