Disco de The Kinks: “Kinks [26 Tracks]”

There are at least 3 versions of this album on Amazon. This is the one to get, because it has 12 bonus tracks. This is, in fact, the "UK Import". The one listed as the "UK Import" seems to be the US release which has only 2 bonus tracks. There's also a version available with no bonus tracks.

It is certainly not as essential as the later Kinks records ("Kontroversy", "Face to Face", "Something Else", "Village Green", and probably "Arthur" are musts)--but there's a lot of good stuff here. The 2 hits, plus "Louie Louie", "So Mystifying", "Revenge", "Stop Your Sobbing", and the unreleased version of "Monkey Business" come particularly to mind.

What else can I say? The kinks came bursting throught the door and completely redefined garage rock with blazing singles like "You Really Got Me" (a proto-punk anthem covered by practically every late 70's punk band)and Stop Your Sobbing (which gained real success in the 80's as a Pretender's cover. Plus we can't forget the stripped down R&B covers such as, "Beautiful Delilah" and "I've been driving on a bald headed mountain.

This album probably isn't worth 5-stars, but when you look back and compare it to other albums being released, you know that the Kinks were the best of their of their. The band would continue to grow and grow leaving us with legacy unlike no other.

The good old English invasion! I loved the CD! In great shape too.

This album -- their first album -- is, in my opinion, essential for any lover of 60's punk/rock and roll. The Kinks were a wonderful poprock band that had a bit more edge than The Beatles. Their music mainly consisted of slightly overdriven guitars, primitive drumming, fine adaptive bass lines, and vocals that are less confined than other bands of this era and more energetic. Yet I must warn you, this is not exclusively the "harder" material by The Kinks. While you'll get rockers like "All Day And All Of The Night", you will find that most of the songs are more melodic and even hillbilly-ish. The Kinks did a fine job at not only early hard rock/punk music, but also rockabilly and poprock music. Still, in the end, I find this album quite satisfying. Within time, there will be few songs you'll skip while jammin' out to these somehow missed 60's tunes by the band that was equally under rated, The Kinks.