CD1
1. You Really Got Me
2. Stop Your Sobbing
3. All Day And All Of The Night
4. Tired Of Waiting For You
5. Nothin’ In This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ’Bout That Girl
6. Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy
7. A Well Respected Man
8. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
9. Who’ll Be The Next In Line
10. Set Me Free
11. See My Friends
12. Sunny Afternoon
13. Dead End Street
14. Death Of A Clown
15. Autumn Almanac
16. David Watts
17. Waterloo Sunset
18. Days
19. The Village Green Preservation Society
20. Do You Remember Walter?
21. Picture Book
22. Victoria
23. Apeman
24. Strangers
25. 20th Century Man
26. Supersonic Rocket Ship
27. Celluloid Heroes (U.S. Single Version)

CD2
1. Here Comes Yet Another Day
2. You Don’t Know My Name
3. Till The End Of The Day (Live 1972)
4. One Of The Survivors
5. Sweet Lady Genevieve
6. Everybody’s A Star (Starmaker)
7. Life On The Road
8. Sleepwalker
9. Life Goes On
10. A Rock ’N’ Roll Fantasy (Single Version)
11. Father Christmas
12. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
13. Lola (Live 1979)
14. Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Live 1979)
15. Better Things (Single Version)
16. Destroyer
17. Come Dancing
18. Don’t Forget To Dance
19. Do It Again
20. Living On A Thin Line
21. Scattered

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I'm not a huge Kinks fan, but the gold standard to me has to be the Ultimate Collection 2-CD set from the early 2000's. I was very pleased with that compilation. Not sure how Sony can improve upon that one, other than to make it more widely available to the public.

Jim

I suspect this will be limited to the RCA and Arista years, if Sony got the rights back. Plus Phobia which was on Columbia

I love the Kinks and have never found any comp that properly satisfies the US and UK in one setting.

To me the best is Come Dancing 1977-1986 which covers the Arista years rather well (although not perfectly).

I'd love to see a 2CD comp containing ALL their 60's-90's hit singles and radio hits but that will never happen.

I liked Kinks Kronikles, Greatest: Celluloid Heroes (RCA), and Come Dancing. There are others but these are the essential comps for me.

Kink Kronikles was the first Kinks album I ever had and one of the first albums I ever had. It's a good one.

From musictap:



The Kinks are a revered band of the old school. Begun way back in the early days of Rock and Roll. The Kinks, with two brothers (Ray, and Dave), along with Mick Avory, Pete Quaife, John Dalton, and John gosling, among some others as replacements forged a legacy that few bands have enjoyed, even to this day. Over the years, their songs have remained in the hearts of fans, as well as the albums they came on.
On October 14, Legacy will look back at the long run that the band had. Legacy has planned a 2CD, 48-track Essential series collection that revisits the Pye/Reprise, RCA, Arista, and Columbia Records years of the band. All of the tracks selected for this set were personally selected by Ray Davies, and approved for their inclusion by the band.

The 2CD The Essential Kinks set will include several live performance tracks, a few US single versions, and a huge selection of career-spanning tracks that measure their greatness from the years that include the ’60s through the ’90s.

The Essential Kinks will contain a booklet that will host new liner notes by David Bowie, vintage photos, and more. This career set will precede a Legacy Edition of Muswell Hilllbillies expected in the Fall.
Remember, The Essential Kinks will be released on October 14, to be followed later by Muswell Hillbillies.
CD1:
01) You Really Got Me
02) Stop Your Sobbing
03) All Day And All Of The Night
04) Tired Of Waiting For You
05) Nothin’ In This World Can
06) Stop Me Worryin’ ’Bout That Girl
07) Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy
08) A Well Respected Man
09) Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
10) Who’ll Be The Next In Line
11) Set Me Free
12) See My Friends
13) Sunny Afternoon
14) Dead End Street
15) Death Of A Clown
16) Autumn Almanac
17) David Watts
18) Waterloo Sunset
19) Days
20) The Village Green Preservation Society
21) Do You Remember Walter?
22) Picture Book
23) Victoria
24) Apeman
25) Strangers
26) 20th Century Man
27) Supersonic Rocket Ship
28) Celluloid Heroes (U.S. single version)
CD2:
01) Here Comes Yet Another Day
02) You Don’t Know My Name
03) Till The End Of The Day (live 1972)
04) One Of The Survivors
05) Sweet Lady Genevieve
06) Everybody’s A Star (Starmaker)
07) Life On The Road
08) Sleepwalker
09) Life Goes On
10) A Rock ’N’ Roll Fantasy (single version)
11) Father Christmas
12) (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
13) Lola (live 1979)
14) Where Have All The Good Times Gone (live 1979)
15) Better Things (single version)
16) Destroyer
17) Come Dancing
18) Don’t Forget To Dance
19) Do It Again
20) Living On A Thin Line
21) Scattered

Very nice collection, but the thing I wanted to see the most (remastered MCA tracks, although a few made the box set) did not happen as that era is totally ignored (probably due to label issues).

I hate when comps feel incomplete.

Also, the original version of "Lola" isn't here?

This is inexcusable. We can always nitpick about these kind of comps, but you can't leave that record off of any serious Kinks komp.
It's hard to find fault with anything on disc 1, although I think "I Need You" should be there, and the lame "Supersonic Rocket Ship" shouldn't.
Disc 2 could be stronger-maybe "Juke Box Music" instead of "Sleepwalker", for starters?

"Inexcusable" is right; Sony could certainly have afforded to license "Lola."

Leaving that aside, and barring being a Kinks diehard/completist, combining "Essential" and "Kink Kronikles" should cover all the bases.

"Sleepwalker" should be there-it was a hit and a great song with great guitar work. But yes, "Juke Box Music" should be there.

"Misfits", "Low Budget", "Catch Me Now I'm Falling", "Give The People What They Want" and the absent MCA tracks make this rather incomplete.

It's like-here ya go to 1984...and oh by the way, one song from 1993.

without the studio version of LOLA, i'm out.
i'll stick to the other 2 compilation discs i already own.

Till the End of the Day
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
MIA

Sanctuary is also releasing a single CD on September 16th



Track Listings
1. You Really Got Me
2. I Need You
3. Tired Of Waiting For You
4. See My Friends
5. Till The End Of The Day
6. Dedicated Follower of Fashion
7. Where Have All The Good Times Gone
8. Sunny Afternoon
9. David Watts
10. Wonderboy
11. Death Of A Clown
12. Days
13. Picture Book
14. Victoria
15. Lola
16. Strangers
17. God's Children

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LR1YP3Y/?tag=imwan-20

Yes folks............a best of from 1964-1971 that doesn't have "All Day And All Of The Night," "Well Respected Man," and "Waterloo Sunset."

This one makes no sense at all.
Some great stuff on here, but no rhyme or reason if they leave those cuts off.

I will be interested in hearing how this new "Essential" comp compares to "Ultimate". I have the old Rhino GH CD - and I don't know what I'm expecting with these recordings, but that one is difficult to listen to. I also recently bought a used copy of the Greatest Hits CD with the vaunted "ugly pink" booklet - that is highly praised at the SH forum. I found it to be....shall we say "lacking" ... a lot.

Are you picking this one up Linda?

Also, it seems like the MCA years are forever lost?

I believe we will be getting the (MCA - eventually) in that so much consolidation in the labels are and have been occurring Pete they will do so.

Plus the MCA were freak in great in my book. Would love to have re-masters with bonus for those titles.

Yes. I'm anxious to hear how they've remastered the RCA and Arista material. It could take years for all the Legacy Editions to come out.

Forgive my ignorance but which albums are the MCA years? Sleepwalker and that era?