Yep. @DISKOJOE is right on the money. Based on the catalog number on the vinyl label, that is the US mono version of their first album Kinks, retitled in the US as You Really Got Me, and with 3 tracks removed. This 1964 US mono LP release has a unique alternate mono mix of “Bald Headed Woman” with Ray’s vocals single tracked. All other worldwide releases at the time had the regular mono mix with Ray’s vocals double tracked and yep, we covered this back when. The 2011 UK Deluxe 2 CD reissue set of Kinks includes both of these mono mixes so this obscure mix is more readily available now, but for almost 50 years this LP was the only source for this single tracked mix. Still, an original copy of the US debut LP is very nice to have.
Kompilations 1992 . The Kinks Story Volume 1 1964-1966. You Really Got Me All Day And All Of The Night Stop Your Sobbing Tired Of Waiting Everybody's Gonna Be Happy Set Me Free See My Friends I Need You Milk Cow Blues Till The End Of The Day Where Have All The Good Times Gone Who'll Be The Next In Line Rainy Day In June A Well Respected Man Dedicated Follower Of Fashion Sunny Afternoon I'm Not Like Everybody Else Dead End Street Big Black Smoke David Watts Kink-Size Kollektion - The Very Best Of The Kinks. You Really Got Me 2:14 Come On Now 1:45 All Day And All Of The Night 2:23 See My Friends 2:44 Tired Of Waiting For You 2:31 Dead End Street 3:21 Set Me Free 2:12 Louie Louie 2:56 Long Tall Shorty 2:49 Death Of A Clown 3:03 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 3:01 Sunny Afternoon 3:34 Dandy 2:09 Waterloo Sunset 3:14 Mr. Pleasant 2:56 Victoria 3:38 Apeman 3:51 Lola 4:01 Come Dancing 3:57 Days 2:53 A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy 5:00 Autumn Almanac 3:11 Beautiful Delilah 2:05 Susannahs Still Alive 2:21 This Man He Weeps Tonight 2:40 David Watts 2:35 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy 2:14 Dancing In The Street 2:17 Don't Ever Change 2:22 I'm Not Like Everybody Else 3:27 Think Visual 3:11 UK Jive 3:48 Lost & Found 5:17 Give The People What They Want 3:56 War Is Over 3:41 Don't Forget To Dance 4:40 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's interesting to me that around this time we start getting some of the later songs included on these compilations.... It's also interesting that so far it seems that the RCA years are avoided, and it makes me wonder if many of the opinions about the band's eras were set by the way many of these compilations came together... just speculating. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Kinks Story Volume 2 · 1967 - 1971 Waterloo Sunset 3:20 Autumn Almanac 3:12 Mr Pleasant 2:59 Death Of A Clown 3:13 Act Nice And Gentle 2:40 Wonderboy 2:50 Susannah's Still Alive 2:22 Days 2:54 She's Got Everything 3:10 Plastic Man 3:04 Village Green Preservation Society 2:09 Big Sky 2:51 Starstruck 2:22 Victoria 3:40 Shangri-La 5:22 Mindless Child Of Motherhood 3:15 Apeman 3:52 Drivin' 3:21 This Man He Weeps Tonight 2:42 Lola 4:11 This is a follow up to the Castle disc at the top of the page, and between them they seem to be pretty decent compilations of the Pye material.
Yes the YRGM is a very early US mono of the debut with original inner & The VGPS is a UK 1980 Pye Stereo copy that came in a mono Gatefold.
Kompilations 1992 pt2. The ★ Collection. Come Dancing 3:54 A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy 4:58 Misfits 4:19 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman 3:20 Lola (Live) 5:42 Better Things 2:44 Don't Forget To Dance 4:15 Good Day 4:33 Living On A Thin Line 4:12 Heart Of Gold 4:02 Celluloid Heroes (Live) 7:21 Full Moon 3:51 Low Budget 3:46 You Really Got Me (Live) 3:40 Interestingly this one was apparently distributed by Arista, and it is interesting to me that they would have put this out, in light of them having the Come Dancing compile already The Kinks Collection, Volume 1. 1 You Really Got Me 2:17 2 All Day And All Of The Night 2:26 3 Tired Of Waiting For You 2:32 4 Set Me Free 2:12 5 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy 2:17 6 Till The End Of The Day 2:23 7 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 3:05 8 Sunny Afternoon 3:37 9 Dead End Street 3:23 10 I'm On An Island 2:14 The Kinks Collection, Volume 2. 1 Lola 4:09 2 Waterloo Sunset 3:21 3 Apeman 3:55 4 A Well Respected Man 2:45 5 Death Of A Clown 3:16 6 Suzannah's Still Alive 2:26 7 Days 2:57 8 Victoria 3:42 9 Autumn Almanac 3:14 10 Powerman 4:17 The Kinks Collection, Volume 3. 1 Don't Ever Change 2:25 2 Dancing In The Street 2:22 3 It's Alright 2:37 4 Cadillac 2:46 5 I Needed You 2:25 6 Tin Soldier Man 2:51 7 Lazy Old Sun 2:49 8 Afternoon Tea 3:25 9 Come On Now 1:49 10 Something Better Beginning 2:25 These three come from Poly Tel Elite in Canada, and they are interesting, in so far as the songs they chose, but they seems to be hit and miss in terms of the sequencing, and it seems odd to just put ten tracks on each, particularly being compilations....
Many thanks for that info and this had an early Reprise Inner bag (I had not seen before) with large columned pictures of artists.
3 Originals Kinda Kinks 1-1 Look For Me Baby 1-2 Got My Feet On The Ground 1-3 Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl 1-4 Naggin' Woman 1-5 Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight 1-6 Tired Of Waiting For You 1-7 Dancing In The Street 1-8 Don't Ever Change 1-9 Come On Now 1-10 So Long 1-11 You Shouldn't Be Sad 1-12 Something Better Beginning Percy 2-1 God's Children 2-2 Lola 2-3 The Way Love Used To Be 2-4 Completely 2-5 Running Round Town 2-6 Moments 2-7 Animals In The Zoo 2-8 Just Friends 2-9 Whip Lady 2-10 Dreams 2-11 Helga 2-12 Willesden Green 2-13 God's Children - End Something Else 3-1 David Watts 3-2 Death Of A Clown 3-3 Two Sisters 3-4 No Return 3-5 Harry Rag 3-6 Tin Soldier Man 3-7 Situation Vacant 3-8 Love Me Till The Sunshines 3-9 Lazy Old Sun 3-10 Afternoon Tea 3-11 Funny Face 3-12 End Of The Season 3-13 Waterloo Sunset Then we have Castle putting out this set of three albums, and it is a good idea, but it seems odd the albums they chose, in some ways
Kompilations 1992 pt3. The Kinks Collection. 1 You Really Got Me 2 Tired Of Waiting For You 3 Sunny Afternoon 4 Autumn Almanac 5 Lola 6 Days 7 Plastic Man 8 Waterloo Sunset 9 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 10 All Day And All Of The Night 11 Victoria 12 See My Friends 13 Death Of A Clown 14 Where Have All The Good Times Gone? 15 Big Black Smoke 16 Powerman Anthologie 1964/1971 1-1 You Really Got Me 2:12 1-2 I Took My Baby Home 1:46 1-3 Cadillac 2:42 1-4 Got Love If You Want It 3:43 1-5 You Still Want Me 1:57 1-6 You Do Something To Me 2:23 1-7 All Day And All Of The Night 2:21 1-8 Tired Of Waiting For You 2:30 1-9 Something Better Beginning 2:21 1-10 Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy 2:15 1-11 Louie Louie 2:55 1-12 I've Got That Feeling 2:40 1-13 Set Me Free 2:11 1-14 I Need You 2:24 1-15 See My Friends 2:45 1-16 Never Met A Girl Like You Before 2:03 1-17 A Well Respected Man 2:41 1-18 Such A Shame 2:16 1-19 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 3:00 1-20 I'm Not Like Everybody Else 3:26 1-21 When I See That Girl Of Mine 2:08 1-22 Till The End Of The Day 2:18 1-23 The World Keeps Going Round 2:32 1-24 I'm On An Island 2:13 1-25 Where Have All The Good Times Gone 2:48 1-26 Most Exclusive Residence For Sale 2:50 1-27 Fancy 2:25 1-28 Little Miss Queen Of Darkness 3:13 1-29 I'll Remember 2:25 1-30 Sunny Afternoon 3:31 2-1 Party Line 2:32 2-2 Rosy Won't You Please Come Home 2:29 2-3 Dandy 2:08 2-4 Dead End Street 3:19 2-5 Big Black Smoke 2:31 2-6 Mr. Pleasant 2:55 2-7 David Watts 2:37 2-8 Two Sisters 1:59 2-9 Harry Rag 2:12 2-10 Tin Soldier Man 2:49 2-11 Waterloo Sunset 3:16 2-12 Death Of A Clown 3:09 2-13 Village Green 2:06 2-14 Village Green Preservation Society 2:47 2-15 Autumn Almanac 3:09 2-16 Days 2:51 2-17 Wonder Boy 2:47 2-18 Shangri-La 5:18 2-19 Victoria 3:37 2-20 Lola 3:58 2-21 Apeman 3:49 2-22 God's Children 3:13 2-23 Life On The Road 5:01 2-24 Come Dancing 3:54 Then we have this really interesting collection from a French distributor, and I wonder if either of our French avids have either had or seen this? It is a really good collection of tracks, but the really interesting thing to me is the inclusion of the two Arista tracks... I'm certainly not saying that's a bad thing at all, but on a 54 track compilation 2 Arista tracks seems a little odd
This was my intro the the Arista era. I presume Arista put it out for the budget/gas station market now their interest in The Kinks as a contemporary property had long vanished in the rear view mirror. It's not the most representative comp: look how light it goes on Sleepwalker and GTPWTW in particular.
Interesting point: this photo is a colour still from this early 1965 French TV performance of 'Come On Now'. which I wasn't able to post at the appropriate juncture in the thread as it was MIA from Youtube at the time. Well, it's back up, so better late than never:
Komp days… Looking at covers and track-lists, remembering those early 90’s days when, in my early twenties, I visited record stores on a daily basis, never missing to check the Kinks section, just in case… and looking at all those same covers and track-lists, more or less, in search for the elusive song I might not already know. And none of these had Look Through Any Doorway!! Back to that song, I think no one commented on the relation its lyrics has with the Graham Gouldman/Hollies tune Look Through Any Window. It's really the same idea (an opening to look at people's lives or, as Ray will put it fifteen years later, other people's lives), and in both songs, there's this interesting uncertainty : are we supposed to consider the window/doorway from the outside looking in or from the inside looking out ? It's the exact same idea. Is it possible Dave forgot (or didn't know) the Hollies hit ? Or was he deliberately influenced by it ? Has he commented on it anywhere (answer provided yesterday : not in his autobiographies) ? The Hollies in 1965, the Kinks half a century later… Two different ages of power pop. After reading all the posts this week, I feel there's an unsuspected thematic unity in this "hodgepodge" of an EP, as @Brian x noted yesterday : a tune discussing the sixties' debatable legacy, a rare live version of a song from the very first Kinks LP, a re-recording of a 1968 klassik commenting about the old Days, an experimental track about the changing of times and a (probable) deliberate throwback to an old hit by a band whose own Graham Nash had just inducted the Kinks in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few months before (albeit with a badly prepared speech). Can it all be coincidental ? Is there anything koincidental ever in the Kinks world ?
I don't remember seeing those. There must have been some legal stuff that prevented record companies to make Kinks compilations with songs from the RCA years.
I appreciate him greatly but essentially I'm not really a Mcartney startist at least as far as collecting goes.
Look Through Any Doorway Nice to hear the boys sing a song together and with such positive, thoughtful lyrics that I like. Yes as has been said Ray really should have helped Dave out on his songs at a few intervals over the years as even he would have been a beneficiary! Nice chiming guitars from Dave and from 2:16 on I can hear lead work hinting at Set Me Free though more To The Bone/Storyteller style than the Pye single of '65. I must say this is certainly an improvement over the demo although I find myself still critical of Dave's vocal straining. I like the song though must be missing something to not warmly embrace it here as so many have, could it be my Avid-ship is hanging by a thread?
Ray names The Hollies as a favourite near the end of this filmed 1966 interview although Dave looks kinda expressionless at their mention and mentions Simon and Garfunkel instead (I posted this previously on this thread when it appeared on the archive holders website some month back, but someone has now done us the favour of uploading it to Youtube). (also worth nothing how Ray can be seem beginning to bear down on Dave shaking his head as if about to say 'Simon and Garfunkel? Get real!' at the end!!)
“Drug songs!” ????ical” (comical! topical?…I’m not sure what Ray says. I think it’s “drug songs” initially but I might be wrong there, too. He turns his head and blocks his mouth with his hand.
At first I thought it was 'drug songs' but I'm now wondering if it's 'drag songs'. (drag as in 'a drag', not 'in drag').
