The Kinks Greatest Hits!

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Release

Reprise Records released The Kinks Greatest Hits! in the US on 10 August 1966.Template:Efn The band's first greatest hits album,Template:Sfn it mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966,Template:Sfn ranging from "You Really Got Me" to "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", recorded in mid-JulyScript error: No such module "String".1964 and FebruaryScript error: No such module "String".1966, respectively. All the tracks were recorded at Pye or IBC Studios in London and were produced by Shel Talmy.Template:Sfn "Something Better Beginning" is the only non-single on the album, first issued on Kinda Kinks (1965).Template:Sfn

The album's liner notes include one of the earliest instances of Ray Davies, the Kinks' principal songwriter, being characterised as a genius.Template:Sfn Author Thomas. M. Kitts suggests the description of Davies as "a brooding-faced, long-haired genius"[1] was an attempt to connect him to the English poet Lord Byron.Template:Sfn Eder writes that Ed Thrasher's cover art for the album, depicting the band in several concert photographs, further added to its collectibility.[2][3]

Commercial performance and reception

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Like subsequent British compilations collecting the Kinks' mid-1960s hits, the album's sales surpassed those of the band's late 1960s studio albums.Template:SfnTemplate:Efn It remained on the Billboard Top LPs chart for 64 weeks, peaking in November 1966 at number 9,Template:Sfn making it the Kinks' highest charting album in the US.[4] It additionally reached number 13 and 8 on Cash Box and Record World's charts, respectively.[5] RIAA certified it gold in NovemberScript error: No such module "String".1968, indicating retail sales of US$1Script error: No such module "String".million (equivalent to US$Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". million in Template:Inflation/year).Template:Sfn The album remained in print for around 20 years and was the Kinks' only American gold record until Low Budget's (1979) certification in 1980.[2][6]

Crawdaddy magazine critic Sandy Pearlman contemporaneously described it as among the best greatest hits albums available.[7] Authors Steve Alleman and Bruce Eder each retrospectively write that the album's joining of various styles served to indicate the Kinks' earliest musical developments, though Eder suggests the album's shortcoming is its omission of the band's later 1966 songs, like "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dandy".[2]Template:Sfn Critic Robert Christgau included the album in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in his book Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).Template:Sfn

Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies.

Side one

  1. "You Really Got Me" – 2:20
  2. "Tired of Waiting for You" – 2:30
  3. "Set Me Free" – 2:10
  4. "Something Better Beginning" – 2:23
  5. "Who'll Be the Next in Line" – 1:59

Side two

  1. "Till the End of the Day" – 2:20
  2. "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" – 2:59
  3. "A Well Respected Man" – 2:38
  4. "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" – 2:15
  5. "All Day and All of the Night" – 2:20

Personnel

According to band researcher Doug Hinman,Template:Sfn except where noted:

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Charts and certifications

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Notes

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References

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External links

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