The Kink Kronikles

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If you only own one Kinks record, this should be the one. Victoria, Dead End Street, Autumn Almanac, Lola, Death of a Clown, Shangri-La, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, Days ... the list of great songs is endless. It's a long, long way from You Really Got Me.

John Mendelsohn did an outstanding job compiling and annotating this 1972 double-album review of … Read More

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Strictly speaking, the double-album compilation The Kink Kronikles isn't a greatest-hits collection. Covering the years 1966 through 1970, The Kink Kronikles may not be packed with hits -- out of the album's 28 tracks, only nine were hits in the U.K. or the U.S. -- yet it's a definitive overview of this era, which was one of Ray Davies ' most productive (and influential) periods. Apart from the hits -- the lazy, sardonic "Sunny Afternoon" and the gorgeous "Waterloo Sunset," and the 1970 comeback hits "Lola" and "Apeman" -- there is a wealth of music that ranks among their very best material that isn't available on any other album. First off, non-LP British hit singles like the music hall raver "Dead End Street" and the wry "Autumn Almanac" are included, as are Dave Davies ' two solo hits, "Death of a Clown" and "Suzannah's Still Alive." Then there are the wealth of non-LP singles and B-sides that didn't make the British charts, plus worthy unreleased songs, obscurities like "This Is Where I Belong" and "She's Got Everything," and album tracks that demonstrate another side of the Kinks' musical versatility and Davies ' abilities. The key to the success of The Kink Kronikles is how the singles and rarities complement each other and, taken together, present a full portrait. It's the rare compilation that is equally valuable to the collector and to the neophyte fan.

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For more than twenty years- longer than any rock group in history except the Rolling Stones- God's been saving The Kinks. From dedicated followers of fashion, From demon alcohol. From vengeful governments. And mostly from each other. Alternately marked by intramural brawling and inexplicable banishments, transcendent brillance and shameless pandering, emotional collapses, p
For more than twenty years- longer than any rock group in history except the Rolling Stones- God's been saving The Kinks. From dedicated followers of fashion, From demon alcohol. From vengeful governments. And mostly from each other. Alternately marked by intramural brawling and inexplicable banishments, transcendent brillance and shameless pandering, emotional collapses, punch-ups and sellouts, scandalous affairs and utter discretion, drunkenness and cruelty and failed attempts at fratricide, altruism, and greed, The Kinks' long history is among the most fascinating in rock.
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Published
November 1st 1984
by William Morrow & Co

(first published 1984)

0688029833
(ISBN13: 9780688029838 )

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The Kink Kronikles Was a funny and fascinating take on the Kinks. I know superfans might hate this because the writer is not fawning and is unafraid to take the band to task for their failings and mistakes. That's what I like about it, it's idiosyncratic, full of humour and celebrates their achievements while taking them to task for their missteps. Great biography, and while not up there in scope with the greats like 'revolution in the head', it has a smaller, more wistful appeal than that books,
The Kink Kronikles Was a funny and fascinating take on the Kinks. I know superfans might hate this because the writer is not fawning and is unafraid to take the band to task for their failings and mistakes. That's what I like about it, it's idiosyncratic, full of humour and celebrates their achievements while taking them to task for their missteps. Great biography, and while not up there in scope with the greats like 'revolution in the head', it has a smaller, more wistful appeal than that books, just as the band themselves do when compared with the beatles! Good quotes: seventeen year old white English boys just don't do very good vocal impersonations of of fifvy five year old black american members of chain gangs You can get the most sophisticated man in the world, and if he's hung up about his feet, nothing will change it. He'll go to university, he'll become a nuclear physicisit, he'll fly to the moon. But the moon men will say, 'you've got big feet,' and he'll be back at school because that's what they said to him there.' ' 'People just don't change that much.' To my ears, it's about a person coming to terms with the fact of solitude being that to which he's best suited, and learning both to find contentment in his firendlessness – no longer to resent others who aren't similarly predisposed to solitude – and, ultimately, to derive vicarious pleasure from those others' pleasure, from that of the Terries and Julies he so wistfully espies from his unseen window. It's really about losing touch with reality because of what you do. I don't want to get out of rock and roll, but I don't want to live in a bubble either. I want to be creative, but I can only be creative if I'm in touch with what being creative's about. The lampshade isn't going to read my book or listen to my music. People will.'
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May 11, 2020

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This was the first book ever on the Kinks, so i had to grab it when i saw it. It's a very enjoyable read, despite the fact that Mendelssohn slags off everything the band did after leaving Reprise in 1970. The author is clearly a fan of the Kinks' 60's works, and seems to have quite the man crush on head Kink Ray Davies. A lot of the book is taken up with reviews of their albums through the years, but there are also some eye opening interviews with Kinks producer Shel Talmy, manager Robert Wace,
This was the first book ever on the Kinks, so i had to grab it when i saw it. It's a very enjoyable read, despite the fact that Mendelssohn slags off everything the band did after leaving Reprise in 1970. The author is clearly a fan of the Kinks' 60's works, and seems to have quite the man crush on head Kink Ray Davies. A lot of the book is taken up with reviews of their albums through the years, but there are also some eye opening interviews with Kinks producer Shel Talmy, manager Robert Wace, longtime Kinks bassist John Dalton, and others. Despite the many ups and downs of the band, the book ends on an up note with the success of "Come Dancing", which introduced the band to the MTV crowd.
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