The Great Lost Kinks Album
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| The Great Lost Kinks Album | ||
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| Compilation album by The Kinks | ||
| Released | 1973 | |
| Recorded | Various times | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 37:15 | |
| Label | Reprise Records | |
| Producer(s) | Various | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Kinks chronology | ||
| Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) |
The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973) |
Preservation: Acts 1 & 2 (1973) |
The Great Lost Kinks Album is a 1973 LP collection of unreleased material issued by Reprise Records, after The Kinks had moved to RCA. The tracks were recorded between 1966 and 1970, and master tapes were shipped to the US Reprise Label in the early 1970's to fulfill contractual obligations with that label. Kinks leader and songwriter Ray Davies intended the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Davies and the Kinks management were not forewarned of the album, and they learned of it from the US Billboard record chart. Davies instituted legal action against Reprise, which resulted in the Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item, and most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. Some are still available only on old LPs or unofficial bootleg albums. Several of these were released on the 1971 Reprise compilation Kink Kronikles.
The name is a reference to an album that was set to be released by Reprise in 1969 but was held back, eventually morphing into The Village Green Preservation Society. So many rumors circulated about the unissued record that "great lost Kinks album" became a catch phrase.
The songs include a number of unused album tracks, a British single (Plastic Man), a film theme (Till Death Do Us Part), songs written exclusively for British television (Where Did the Spring Go?, When I Turn Out the Living Room Light), and several Dave Davies recordings.
[edit] Track listing
- All songs by Ray Davies, except (*) by Dave Davies
- "Til Death Do Us Part" – 3:12
- "There Is No Life Without Love" – 1:55
- "Lavender Hill" – 2:53
- "Groovy Movies" – 2:30
- "Rosemary Rose" – 1:43
- "Misty Water" – 3:01
- "Mister Songbird" – 2:24
- "When I Turn off the Living Room Light" – 2:17
- "The Way Love Used to Be" – 3:29
- "Plastic Man" – 3:00
- "This Man He Weeps Tonight"* – 2:38
- "Pictures in the Sand" – 2:45
- "Where Did My Spring Go?" – 2:10
| The Kinks |
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| Ray Davies – Dave Davies – Bob Henrit – Pete Quaife – Ian Gibbons – Mick Avory – Jim Rodford |
| John Gosling – John Dalton – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards |
| Discography |
| Albums: The Kinks (1964) - Kinda Kinks (1965) - The Kink Kontroversy (1966) - Face to Face (1966) - Something Else by the Kinks (1967) - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) - Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) - Muswell Hillbillies (1971) - Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) - Sleepwalker (1977) - Misfits (1978) - Low Budget (1979) - Give the People What They Want (1981) - State of Confusion (1983) |
| Songs: "You Really Got Me" – "Waterloo Sunset" – "Lola" |
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