Kinks-Size
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Kinks-Size is a studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released in the United States and Canada in MarchScript error: No such module "String".1965,Template:Efn it was their second album issued on Reprise Records.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard album chart in the third week of JuneScript error: No such module "String".1965,[1] the same week the Kinks began their first US tour.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It is the Kinks' fourth-highest-charting album on the Billboard album chart and the second-highest of their 1960s albums.[2]Template:Efn The album ranked number 78 on Billboard's year-end album chart for 1965.
Overview
Reprise issued the album to capitalise on the nation-wide publicity generated by the band's FebruaryScript error: No such module "String".1965 appearance on the musical variety programme Hullabaloo.[3] The album had no direct analogue outside of the US market, but instead collected songs from the UK EP Kinksize Session, two songs which had been left off of the US version of the band's debut LP ("Revenge" and "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter") and both the A- and B-sides of the "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You" singles.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". All of its songs were recorded at Pye Studios in London, between August and DecemberScript error: No such module "String".1964, though Dave Davies also overdubbed an electric guitar contribution to "Tired of Waiting for You" at IBC Studios in London.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Reception
The album has been critiqued as a clear cash-grab by Reprise, but the actual songs included have been praised as "the best parts of the group's work in England", with Bruce Eder of AllMusic writing, "this record rocks, showing off the better sides of the group's R&B output and early, formative, Beatles-influenced experiments as well."[4]
Track listing
All songs written by Ray Davies unless otherwise noted.
Side one
- "Tired of Waiting for You"Template:Snd2:30
- "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)Template:Snd2:57
- "I've Got that Feeling"Template:Snd2:45
- "Revenge" (Davies, Larry Page)Template:Snd1:28
- "I Gotta Move"Template:Snd2:24
Side two
- "Things are Getting Better"Template:Snd1:57
- "I Gotta Go Now"Template:Snd2:54
- "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J.D. Miller)Template:Snd2:20
- "Come on Now"Template:Snd1:45
- "All Day and All of the Night"Template:Snd2:02
Personnel
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The Kinks
- Ray DaviesTemplate:Sndlead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica; piano ("Louie Louie" and "I've Got That Feeling")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".; lead guitar ("Revenge")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Dave DaviesTemplate:Sndbacking vocals, lead guitar; lead vocals ("I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "Come on Now")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pete QuaifeTemplate:Sndbacking vocals, bass guitar
- Mick AvoryTemplate:Snddrums; tambourine ("All Day and All of the Night")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Additional musicians
- Perry FordTemplate:Sndpiano ("All Day and All of the Night")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Bobby GrahamTemplate:Snddrums ("Tired of Waiting for You", "Revenge", "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "All Day and All of the Night")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Johnny B. GreatTemplate:Snd backing vocals ("All Day and All of the Night")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Nicky HopkinsTemplate:Sndpiano ("Things Are Getting Better")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Jimmy PageTemplate:Sndtwelve-string acoustic guitar ("I Gotta Move" and "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Production
Charts
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Notes
References
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