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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 ...
The Kinks expanded on their English sound throughout the remainder of the 1960s, incorporating elements of music hall, folk, and baroque music through use of harpsichord, acoustic guitar, Mellotron, and horns, in albums such as Face to Face, Something Else by the Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur (Or the ...
Reprise Records released The Kinks Greatest Hits! in the US on 10 August 1966. [b] The band's first greatest hits album, [5] it mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966, [6] ranging from "You Really Got Me" to "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", recorded in mid-July 1964 and February 1966, respectively.
Musically, Something Else features multiple different genres and stylistic influences, from the chamber pop of "Death of a Clown" [11] to the bossa nova of "No Return". [7] With the exception of the garage rock-style "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" [12] the album was a departure from the hard-edged rock and roll of the group's earlier material, instead featuring mellower, acoustic baroque pop ...
Kinks is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. It was released on 2 October 1964 in the United Kingdom by Pye Records . The original United States release, issued by Reprise Records on 25 November 1964 , omits three tracks and is instead titled You Really Got Me .
As the Kinks' debut album turns 60, SPIN surveys the highs and lows of their massive discography.
State of Confusion is the twentieth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks, released in 1983.The record features the single "Come Dancing", which hit number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was one of the band's biggest hit singles in the United States, equaling the 1965 peak of "Tired of Waiting for You".
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