The Kinks - Kinks (The Ultimate Collection)
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Free Music Review: Put the Kinks in your collection
Hit: 4 Stars
A definitive selection of tracks from a major league sixties group that has remained a part of the music scene ever since.
This is not great singing, nor startling musicianship, nor profound poetry. It is catchy tunes, pleasant sounds, and lyrics that are charming and fun. It is the very early, cellar disco sound, danceable and sometimes smoochable, with a hint of the heavy rock and punk that were to come.
The insert booklet is very attractive, but does not give release dates for the tracks and omits any mention of band members besides the Davies brothers. Also, very oddly, pages 2 and 3 are printed out of sequence.
You don't know sixties music, the golden age of groups and Brit Pop, unless you know the Kinks. This double CD, which sounds great and looks good, is your best introduction to their music.
Free Music Review: Almost Perfect
Hit: 4 Stars
I love the Kinks and this is an amazing compilation, but there are a few tracks that are missing. Some of the ones they do have on here seem kind of carelessly tossed in, so I think they should remove those and add in others, like "Picture Book" and a couple others from the Village Green album.Free Music Review: Supplants "Kinks Kronicles" and any early hits collection
Hit: 4 Stars
This compilation contains most of what's on "Kinks Kronicles" and most of what's on any CD compiling the Kink's early period (ie. 1964-1966). Coupled with the new remastering, this makes "The Ultimate Collection" the clear winner as the Kinks' 60's compilation to get.
However, there's only about half of the Kinks' best-known 70's and 80's material present. Among the absent: "Destroyer", "Catch Me Now I'm Falling", "Jukebox Music", "Sleepwalker", "Rock 'n Roll Fantasy".
So the two Kinks' collections to get would be this one and "Come Dancing With the Kinks". Then check out albums like "Village Green Preservation Society", "Arthur", and "Muswell Hillbillies".
Free Music Review: Great songs and great sound, but this collection is misleadingly incomplete
Hit: 3 Stars
I just had to comment on how heavily slanted this "ultimate" collection is. It purports to cover the Kinks' entire career, but practically all of the material here is from the very narrow period from "The Kink Kontroversy" (1966) through "Something Else by the Kinks" (1967). The remaining 30+ years of the band's career is covered by a few carelessly tacked-on tracks at the end. Prominent late-'60s albums like "Arthur" and "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" are glossed over, and the band's popular resurgence in the 1980s is almost totally ignored. Obscurities like "Sittin' on My Sofa" and "She's Got Everything" are great for devoted Kinks fans, but on a career overview album aimed at new or casual fans, why include them instead of later hits like "Destroyer" and "Sleepwalker," or even key peak-era album tracks like "Picture Book"? Why bother covering the later years at all if the collection is going to be so hopelessly lopsided?
However... You really can't argue with the remastered sound quality of the early tracks here. It's arguably the best source for this material-- "The Singles Collection" sounds a little more crisp, but it's hard to deny the buzzy immediacy of "Autumn Almanac" and "Set Me Free" as heard here.
So, for Kinks fanatics, I'd have to reluctantly recommend this album for the sound quality alone, and the inclusion of a couple of tracks that are hard to find on CD otherwise. Novices beware the misleading title though: this is hardly an "ultimate" representation of the Kinks.
Free Music Review: Essential CD for anyone who loves rock'n'roll
Hit: 5 Stars
The Kinks are one of the few 60s bands that have stood the test of time, and this is *the* great CD that brings them into the 21st century. If you like Cake, or Beck, or Wilco, or any of the other poetic/pop alternative bands of the 90's and 00's - check out the Kinks. They are the original grunge band. For all the boomers out there like me, this is an album you will love. Many of the songs on this CD I first heard on a tinny transistor radio as a middle school student. You Really Got Me ... All Day and All of the Night ... Tired of Waiting. These songs STILL ROCK!!