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The Kinks Greatest Hits! (also spelled The Kinks' Greatest Hits!) [a] is a compilation album by the English rock band the Kinks.Released in the United States in August 1966 by Reprise Records, the album mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966.
The Kinks, an English rock band, were active for over three decades, from 1963 to 1996, releasing 26 studio albums and four live albums. [1] The first two albums are differently released in the UK and the US, partly due to the difference in popularity of the extended play format (the UK market liked it, the US market did not, so US albums had the EP releases bundled onto them), and partly due ...
Released in 1965, The Kinks Greatest Hits! was certified gold for sales of 1,000,000 on 28 November 1968—this was six days after the release of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, which failed to chart worldwide. [87] The group did not receive another gold record award until 1979's Low Budget.
The Ultimate Collection is a compilation of singles by British rock band the Kinks. It was released on Sanctuary Records on 27 May 2002 in the UK and 23 September 2003 in the United States. In June 2002, it reached no. 32 on the UK Albums Chart , and in August 2007, no. 1 on the UK Indie albums chart.
The song appears on the band's live album One for the Road (1980) and was re-recorded for the 2009 album The Kinks Choral Collection. The song was also the title track of a 1976 collection featuring material originally released while recording for the RCA label, The Kinks' Greatest: Celluloid Heroes.
The single B-side, "It's All Right", was included on the UK EP Kinksize Hits (1964). [32] It was first issued on an album in the US, where it was included on the Kinks' third album Kinkdom (1965). [33] Music writers have called the song "shockingly different" from the Kinks' recorded work up to this point, and a "frenetic lost gem".
Financial Times reviewer Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gave the collection three stars, noting that it is one of more than 30 Kinks greatest-hit collections that have been released during the band's long history.
Well Respected Kinks is a compilation album by the English rock band the Kinks. It was released on 2 September 1966 in the United Kingdom on Pye Records's Marble Arch label. [3] The album consists of previously issued singles and EP tracks recorded in 1964 and 1965. [4] It was issued in both mono and simulated stereo formats. [3]