A box of ten 180g vinyls entitled ‘The Mono Collection‘ will offer up The Kinks‘ first eight albums and more later this year.
The set takes us from the band’s trailblazing early rock and roll, epitomised by the ‘You Really Got Me‘ single, through to the start of Ray Davies‘ for-better-or-worse conceptual, flamboyant songwriting progression, which was such a feature of the seventies, on ‘The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society’ and ‘Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire’, and the 1970 self-titled compilation, also known as The Black Album.
It’s all released on November 18th.
Disc One – ‘Kinks’ (1964):
Side A
Beautiful Delilah
So Mystifying
Just Can’t Go to Sleep
Long Tall Shorty
I Took My Baby Home
I’m a Lover Not a Fighter
You Really Got Me
Side B
Cadillac
Bald Headed Woman
Revenge
Too Much Monkey Business
I’ve Been Driving On Bald Mountain
Stop Your Sobbing
Got Love if You Want It
Disc Two – ‘Kinda Kinks’ (1965):
Side A
Look for Me Baby
Got My Feet On the Ground
Nothin’ In the World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl
Naggin’ Woman
Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
Tired of Waiting for You
Side B
Dancing in the Street
Don’t Ever Change
Come On Now
So Long
You Shouldn’t Be Sad
Something Better Beginning
Disc Three – ‘The Kink Kontroversy’ (1965):
Side A
Milk Cow Blues
Ring the Bells
Gotta Get the First Plane Home
When I See That Girl of Mine
I Am Free
Till the End of the Day
Side B
The World Keeps Going Round
I’m On an Island
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
It’s Too Late
What’s in Store for Me
You Can’t Win
Disc Four – ‘Face To Face’ (1966):
Side A
Party Line
Rosy Won’t You Please Come Home
Dandy
Too Much On My Mind
Session Man
Rainy Day in June
House in the Country
Side B
Holiday in Waikiki
Most Exclusive Residence for Sale
Fancy
Little Miss Queen of Darkness
You’re Looking Fine
Sunny Afternoon
I’ll Remember
Disc Five – ‘Something Else By The Kinks’ (1967):
Side A
David Watts
Death of a Clown
Two Sisters
No Return
Harry Rag
Tin Soldier Man
Situation Vacant
Side B
Love Me Till the Sun Shines
Lazy Old Sun
Afternoon Tea
Funny Face
End of the Season
Waterloo Sunset
Disc Six – ‘Live At Kelvin Hall’ (1967):
Side A
Till the End of the Day (Live)
A Well Respected Man (Live)
You’re Looking Fine (Live)
Sunny Afternoon (Live)
Dandy (Live)
Side B
I’m On an Island (Live)
Come On Now (Live)
You Really Got Me (Live)
Medley: Milk Cow Blues/ Batman Theme/ Tired of Waiting for You/ Milk Cow Blues (Live)
Disc Seven – ‘The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society’ (1968):
Side A
The Village Green Preservation Society
Do You Remember Walter?
Picture Book
Johnny Thunder
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
Big Sky
Sitting By the Riverside
Side B
Animal Farm
Village Green
Starstruck
Phenomenal Cat
All of My Friends Were There
Wicked Annabella
Monica
People Take Pictures of Each Other
Disc Eight – ‘Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire’ (1969):
Side A
Victoria
Yes Sir, No Sir
Some Mother’s Son
Drivin’
Brainwashed
Australia
Side B
Shangri-La
Mr. Churchill Says
She’s Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina
Young and Innocent Days
Nothing to Say
Arthur
Discs Nine and Ten – ‘The Kinks’ (a.k.a. “The Black Album”) (Compilation 1970):
Side A
You Really Got Me
Long Tall Shorty
All Day and All of the Night
Beautiful Delilah
Tired of Waiting for You
I’m a Lover Not a Fighter
Side B
A Well Respected Man
Till the End of the Day
See My Friends
Don’t You Fret
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Sunny Afternoon
Side C
Dead End Street
Death of a Clown
Two Sisters
Big Black Smoke
Susannah’s Still Alive
Autumn Almanac
Side D
Waterloo Sunset
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
Wonderboy
Do You Remember Walter?
Dandy
Animal Farm
Days