The Great Lost Kinks Album

The Great Lost Kinks Album
The Great Lost Kinks Album
Compilation album by the Kinks
Released	25 January 1973
Recorded	1966–1970
Genre	Rock
Length	37:14
Label	Reprise
Producer	Ray Davies; Shel Talmy on "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	A–^[3]

The Great Lost Kinks Album is a 1973 LP of mostly 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 1970s to fulfil contractual obligations with that label. Kinks leader and songwriter, Ray Davies, intended most of the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Several other songs from these "collateral" recordings had been released on the 1972 Reprise compilation The Kink Kronikles.

Davies and the Kinks management first learned of the album's existence from the US Billboard record chart. Davies instituted legal action against Reprise, which resulted in Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item as most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. All of the tracks received legitimate release as bonus tracks on these UK Sanctuary reissue CDs: the 2001 , the 2004 three-CD deluxe edition of Village Green, and 2014's The Anthology 1964–1971.

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 Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.^[4]

The songs include a number of unused album tracks, a British single ("Plastic Man"), a B-side ("I'm Not Like Everybody Else"), a film theme ("Till Death Do Us Part"), songs written exclusively for British television ("Where Did the Spring Go?", "When I Turn Off the Living Room Light"). The Great Lost Kinks Album also included several Dave Davies recordings intended for his ill-fated solo album ("Groovy Movies", "There Is No Life Without Love", "This Man He Weeps Tonight"). The liner notes for the album were written by John Mendelsohn.^[1]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Ray Davies, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Til Death Do Us Part" (mono^{[Release 1]})		3:12
2.	"There Is No Life Without Love" (mono^{[Release 2]})	Dave Davies, Ray Davies	1:55
3.	"Lavender Hill" (mono^{[Release 3]})		2:53
4.	"Groovy Movies" (stereo^{[Release 3]})		2:30
5.	"Rosemary Rose" (mono^{[Release 3]})		1:43
6.	"Misty Water" (stereo^{[Release 3]})		3:01
7.	"Mister Songbird" (stereo^{[Release 3]})		2:24

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When I Turn Off the Living Room Light" (mono^{[Release 4]})		2:17
2.	"The Way Love Used to Be" (stereo^{[Release 5]})		2:11
3.	"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (mono^{[Release 2]})		3:29
4.	"Plastic Man" (mono^{[Release 6]})		3:00
5.	"This Man He Weeps Tonight" (stereo^{[Release 6]})	Dave Davies	2:38
6.	"Pictures in the Sand" (mono^{[Release 1]})		2:45
7.	"Where Did the Spring Go?" (mono^{[Release 3]})		2:10

All songs have been made officially available on CD.

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 2014 The Anthology 1964–1971 box set
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 1998 Essential Something Else reissue CD
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 2004 Sanctuary The Village Green Preservation Society 3-CD deluxe edition
^ 2001 Sanctuary BBC Sessions 1964–1977 CD
^ 1998 Essential Percy reissue CD
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 1998 Essential Arthur reissue CD

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Great Lost Kinks Album". Kindakinks.net. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Great Lost Kinks Album > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Kindakinks.net: "The Great Lost Kinks Album"

[Anth-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b 2014 The Anthology 1964–1971 box set

[SEBTK-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b 1998 Essential Something Else reissue CD

[TVGPS-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 2004 Sanctuary The Village Green Preservation Society 3-CD deluxe edition

[8] 2001 Sanctuary BBC Sessions 1964–1977 CD

[9] 1998 Essential Percy reissue CD

[Arthur-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b 1998 Essential Arthur reissue CD

[kindakinks-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Great Lost Kinks Album". Kindakinks.net. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

[2] Unterberger, Richie. "The Great Lost Kinks Album > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2011.

[CG-3] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[4] Kindakinks.net: "The Great Lost Kinks Album"

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Studio albums	Kinks (1964) Kinda Kinks (1965) The Kink Kontroversy (1965) Face to Face (1966) Something Else (1967) Village Green Preservation Society (1968) Arthur (1969) Lola Versus Powerman (1970) Percy (1971) Muswell Hillbillies (1971) Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) Preservation Act 1 (1973) Preservation Act 2 (1974) Soap Opera (1975) Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975) Sleepwalker (1977) Misfits (1978) Low Budget (1979) Give the People What They Want (1981) State of Confusion (1983) Word of Mouth (1984) Think Visual (1986) UK Jive (1989) Phobia (1993)
Live albums	Live at Kelvin Hall (1968) One for the Road (1980) Live: The Road (1988) To the Bone (1994/1996) (2001)
EPs	Kinksize Session (1964) Kwyet Kinks (1965)
Compilations	Kinks-Size (1965) Kinkdom (1965) Greatest Hits! (1966) Well Respected Kinks (1966) Sunny Afternoon (1967) The Kink Kronikles (1972) The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973) Come Dancing with The Kinks (1986) The Kinks Are Well Respected Men (1987) Lost & Found (1986–1989) (1991) The Ultimate Collection (2002) Picture Book (2008) Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies (2012) The Essential Kinks (2014)
Unreleased projects	Four More Respected Gentlemen A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)
Related articles	Discography Band members Session performers: Clem Cattini, Bobby Graham, Nicky Hopkins Konk The Kast Off Kinks Argent X-Ray Do It Again Give the People What We Want: Songs of The Kinks Sunny Afternoon (musical)
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