The other forum has been buzzing about this for a month, with hints from Andrew Sandoval. The info is kinda vague, but it looks like a 10 CD box set, check out the picture in the Spin CDs article:

http://www.spincds.com/blog/2011/09/18/ ... o-box-set/

The Kinks - The Kinks In Mono (Box Set) Posted by Alan Posted on September 18, 2011 and filed under Uncategorized, Rock, CDs, Box Sets

Released November 21st. Price Soon.

This box collects The Kinks first seven LPs, Their albums from 'Kinks' to 'Arthur' as well as 3 extra CD’s collecting the EP’s and remaining Mono material as well as a 32 page, pop annual style book with new notes, rare photos, memorabilia, discographical information and more. Each CD is housed in a digipak, encased in a rigid Dansette style box to hold all the digipaks and book. The Kinks first 7 studio albums in mono are: 'Kinks', 'Kinda Kinks', 'Kontroversy', 'Face To Face', 'Something Else', 'Village Green Preservation Society', and 'Arthur'. The other EP disc contains 'Kinksize Session', 'Kinksize Hits', 'Kweyt Kink's, 'Dedicated Kinks', the other Two discs entitled The Kinks mono Kollectables Kontain various singles from around the world. More soon including track listings.

Do any of our Kinks Eksperts know offhand if there are mono mixes missing from the recent Deluxe Edition series? This looks very nice, but it will be even more enticing if it includes otherwise unavailable versions.

WOW, that looks sweet. I hope there is enough of non-lapping mono tracks to warrant this. I love the new remaster series. Between the Kinks & the Queen catlg this year I am blown away.

Rick A.

Just inferring from the promotional copy, there might be some new material here. The mono versions of the first seven albums have indeed been included on the Deluxe Reissue series, and even the material on the "EP Disc" is likely to be among the various extra tracks on those same reissues. But there are also "Two discs entitled The Kinks mono Kollectables [which] Kontain [sic] various singles from around the world."

It wouldn't make sense to include two whole discs worth of singles from this era if they exactly matched various tracks on the other discs, would it? So perhaps these are different mixes that were made for various overseas markets. On the other hand, they could just be included to coincide with the the discographical info or the illustrations of various picture sleeves of which the compilers of these box sets seem so fond.

All in all, I'm not sure I'd be ready to spring for all this just to get two CDs containing vary minor variations on material I already have. I too wonder if there's anything really new here.

I also want to wait and see the track listings. If there's nothing new from the deluxe editions, I've been spending too much money.

Andrew Sandoval said on the Kinks listserver that the box will have a new mono mastering of Village Green Preservation Society.

(I'm guessing since VGPS isn't part of the new deluxe packages and didn't get the new remastering treatment of the other albums)

The tracklist is up. Except for some international versions of singles (which I have no idea how different they are), and the remaster of VGPS mentioned last post, there's not much new. I might have to pass on this.

http://www.spincds.com/the-kinks-in-mono-10cd-box-set

This box collects The Kinks first seven LPs, Their albums from Kinks to Arthur as well as 3 extra CD’s collecting the EP’s and remaining Mono material as well as a 32 page, pop annual style book with new notes, rare photos, memorabilia, discographical information and more.

Each CD is housed in a digipak, encased in a rigid Dansette style box to hold all the digipaks and book.

The Kinks first 7 studio albums in mono are: Kinks, Kinda Kinks, Kontroversy, Face To Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur . The other EP disc contains Kinksize Session, Kinksize Hits, Kweyt Kinks, Dedicated Kinks, the other Two discs entitled The Kinks mono Kollectables Kontain various singles from around the world.

Disc 1


1. Beautiful Delilah
2. So Mystifying
3. Just Can't Go To Sleep
4. Long Tall Shorty
5. I Took My Baby Home
6. I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
7. You Really Got Me
8. Cadillac
9. Bald Headed Woman
10. Revenge
11. Too Much Monkey Business
12. I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain
13. Stop Your Sobbing
14. Got Love If You Want It

Disc 2

1. Look For Me Baby
2. Got My Feet On The Ground
3. Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
4. Naggin' Woman
5. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
6. Tired Of Waiting For You
7. Dancing In The Street
8. Don't Ever Change
9. Come On Now
10. So Long
11. You Shouldn't Be Sad
12. Something Better Beginning

Disc 3

1. Milk Cow Blues
2. Ring The Bells
3. Gotta Get The First Plane Home
4. When I See That Girl Of Mine
5. I Am Free
6. Till The End Of The Day
7. The World Keeps Going Round
8. I'm On An Island
9. Where Have All The Good Times Gone
10. It's Too Late
11. What's In Store For Me
12. You Can't Win

Disc 4

1. Party Line
2. Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
3. Dandy
4. Too Much On My Mind
5. Session Man
6. Rainy Day In June
7. A House In The Country
8. Holiday In Waikiki
9. Most Exclusive Residence For Sale
10. Fancy
11. Little Miss Queen Of Darkness
12. You're Looking Fine
13. Sunny Afternoon
14. I'll Remember

Disc 5

1. David Watts
2. Death Of A Clown
3. Two Sisters
4. No Return Mono Album Version
5. Harry Rag Mono Album Version
6. Tin Soldier Man Mono Album Version
7. Situation Vacant Mono Album Version
8. Love Me Till The Sun Shines Mono Album Version
9. Lazy Old Sun Mono Album Version
10. Afternoon Tea Mono Album Version
11. Funny Face Mono Album Version
12. End Of The Season
13. Waterloo Sunset Mono Album Version

Disc 6

1. The Village Green Preservation Society
2. Do You Remember Walter Mono
3. Picture Book
4. Johnny Thunder
5. Last Of The Steam Powered Trains
6. Big Sky
7. Sitting By The Riverside
8. Animal Farm
9. Village Green
10. Starstruck
11. Phenomenal Cat
12. All Of My Friends Were There
13. Wicked Annabella
14. Monica
15. People Take Pictures Of Each Other

Disc 7

1. Victoria
2. Yes Sir, No Sir
3. Some Mother's Son
4. Drivin'
5. Brainwashed
6. Australia
7. Shangri-La
8. Mr Churchill Says
9. She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina
10. Young And Innocent Days
11. Nothing To Say
12. Arthur

Disc 8

1. Louie Louie
2. I Gotta Go Now
3. Things Are Getting Better
4. I've Got That Feeling
5. You Really Got Me
6. It's Alright
7. All Day And All Of The Night
8. I Gotta Move
9. Wait Till The Summer Comes Along
10. Such A Shame
11. A Well Respected Man
12. Don't You Fret
13. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
14. Till The End Of The Day
15. See My Friends
16. Set Me Free

Disc 9

1. Long Tall Sally
2. You Still Want Me
3. You Do Something To Me
4. Beautiful Delilah Alternate Mono Mix
5. I'm A Lover Not A Fighter Alternate Mono Mix
6. Bald Headed Woman US Mono Mix
7. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
8. Who'll Be The Next In Line
9. I Need You
10. Never Met A Girl Like You Before
11. Sittin' On My Sofa
12. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
13. Dead End Street
14. Big Black Smoke
15. Act Nice And Gentle
16. Autumn Almanac

Disc 10

1. Afternoon Tea Canadian Mono Mix
2. Susannah's Still Alive
3. Wonderboy
4. Polly
5. Lincoln County
6. There's No Life Without Love
7. Days
8. She's Got Everything
9. Hold My Hand
10. Creeping Jean
11. Plastic Man
12. King Kong
13. Mindless Child Of Motherhood
14. This Man He Weeps Tonight
15. Australia Australian Single Version
16. Lola
17. Berkeley Mews
18. Apeman
19. Rats
20. Apeman European Single Version

Available to preorder from your local AmazWAN.
UK prices is just over £77 inc shipping that I won't complain about as it's all this era of the Kinks I need in one box.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005R2DV02/?tag=imwan-21

It Might be even less expensive to order the seven 'Deluxe Edition' 2-disc sets of the albums released in this ear, and you'd be getting BOTH the mono and stereo editions plus all the singles and whole raft of bonus material to boot. You'd miss the rare Kazakhstan-only mono single mix of Autumn Almanac but most of us can live without that!

Have you seen the prices of those two-disc sets?

Yes, here they are (as of 10/05/2011, they fluctuate as frequently as oil futures) from AmazWAN UK:

1. Kinks - £9.99
2. Kinda Kinks - £9.99
3. The Kink Kontroversy - £13.97
4. Face To Face - £11.99
5. Something Else - £11.99
6. The Village Green Preservation Society (3 discs) - £9.99
7. Arthur - £11.99

The total is £79.91 and shipping adds another £9.02 for a total of £88.93. I think this price for 15 discs compares more than favorably to the 'just over £77' that the 10-disc mono set is going for. And, as I noted, the price changes from day to day. Yesterday, for example, the total - again including shipping - was several £'s less!! I'd advise checking frequently and then buying when it looks good.

Those Kinks mono/stereo two-fers are considerably more than that in the states.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? ... g=imwan-20

Actually, the Amazon UK prices I quoted are precisely those for airmail delivery to the US.

Cool, but some (like mine) credit card companies charge a conversion fee when you order from amazon UK.
Hell, it might still be cheaper than buying them here in the states, I don't know...

Alright, I'm sold based on this alone. Sandoval's work on the other albums has been amazing.

Yeah, they pretty much all do, but it's rarely more than 1% because of some antitrust litigation they underwent (see http://www.ccfsettlement.com/home/ if you want the grisly details.)

So if the £ to $ conversion rate is $1.5626, as it is this instant, it would cost you $1.5783 for each £ you 'bought'. I've found Amazon UK to be way cheaper than anyone in the states, including Amazon US.

Capital One credit cards do not charge a foreign conversion fee.
My other cards had been charging a 3% foreign conversion fee.
Check out the discussion:

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=75761

How about a new Village Green PS double LP reissue?
Unpack it, but keep your fingers off the vinyl !

I ordered 2 so I could finger one of them.

Sounds pervy!

Have you watched the youtube clip? Disgusting!