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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 ...
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 finally disbanded in 1996, and the Davies brothers have periodically both encouraged or dismissed the possibility of the band ever reuniting. The Kinks released their self-titled debut ...
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.
Scattered (The Kinks song) See My Friends; Set Me Free (The Kinks song) Shangri-La (The Kinks song) She Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina; She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina; She's Got Everything (song) Sitting by the Riverside; Sitting in My Hotel; Sitting in the Midday Sun; Sleepwalker (The Kinks song) So Mystifying; Starstruck (The ...
Face to Face is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released on 28 October 1966.The album marked a shift from the hard-driving style of beat music that had catapulted the group to international acclaim in 1964, instead drawing heavily from baroque pop and music hall.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Jack Rabid writing that "the early Kinks could be even rawer and more exciting in BBC halls than on their known Pye Records recordings" and emphasizing the early recordings by stating that "the first 19 tracks are indispensable". [1]
The band's first greatest hits album, it remained on the Billboard Top LPs chart for over a year, peaking at number 9, making it the Kinks' highest charting album in the US. The album was in print for decades and was the Kinks' only gold record in America until 1980.