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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 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.
Other unreleased songs from the Face to Face sessions reportedly include "Fallen Idol", about the rise and fall of a pop star, "Everybody Wants to Be a Personality", about celebrities, "Lilacs and Daffodils" (also known as "Sir Jasper"), which is reportedly about a schoolteacher (and is the only Kinks track with vocals by Mick Avory) and "A ...
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 described the song as "shockingly different" to the Kinks' recorded work up to this point, and a "frenetic lost gem".
"Living on a Thin Line" has been praised as one of Dave Davies's greatest songs. David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that "in 'Living on a Thin Line' – a dark variation on Ray's own death-of-England's-glory songs – brooding, goose-stepping chords and moping Pink Floyd synths underscore the desperate effectiveness of Dave's nervous croon."
The Kink Kontroversy is the third studio album by the English rock band the Kinks.It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 November 1965 by Pye Records. [5] Issued in the United States on 30 March 1966 by Reprise Records, it was the Kinks' first American album to feature an identical track listing to its British counterpart. [6]
"Autumn Almanac" was a non-album single [8] in between 1967's Something Else by the Kinks and 1968's The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. The song was a big success in the UK, reaching #3 on the singles chart, but not in the US, where it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
It contrasts heavily with some of the other tracks on the album, featuring heavy guitar chords and fast-paced vocals. "Rats" marks an end somewhat to Dave Davies' contributions to Kinks albums, as ones preceding Lola versus Powerman and beginning with Kinda Kinks usually included one or two songs credited to Davies.