The Kink Kronikles

The Kink Kronikles
Compilation album by The Kinks
Released	25 March 1972
Genre	Rock
Length	82:35
Label	Reprise
The Kinks chronology
Muswell Hillbillies (1971) The Kink Kronikles (1972) Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A[2]
Rolling Stone	(favourable)[3]

The Kink Kronikles is a US compilation double album of singles, B-sides, album tracks and previously unreleased tracks recorded by The Kinks between 1966 and 1970. In the list of compilation albums, it follows Greatest Hits! which covered material from 1964 to early 1966.

Of the five Billboard charted tracks featured, two make their album debut in this compilation: "Dead End Street" and "Mr. Pleasant".

In 2003, the album was ranked number 232 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was compiled and released by Reprise Records (without creative input from the Kinks) after the band had moved to RCA Records in 1971.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Victoria" – 3:41 (From Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire))
2. "The Village Green Preservation Society" – 2:49 (From The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society')
3. "Berkeley Mews" – 2:40 (Previously unreleased in US)
4. "Holiday In Waikiki*" – 2:47 (From Face to Face)
5. "Willesden Green" – 2:28 (Previously unreleased in US)
6. "This Is Where I Belong" – 2:27 (Previously unreleased in US)
7. "Waterloo Sunset" – 3:21 (From Something Else by The Kinks)

Side 2

1. "David Watts" – 2:42 (From Something Else by The Kinks)
2. "Dead End Street" – 3:27 (Non-album single)
3. "Shangri-La" – 5:20 (From Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire))
4. "Autumn Almanac" – 3:16 (Non-album single)
5. "Sunny Afternoon" – 3:34 (From Face to Face)
6. "Get Back In Line" – 3:08 (From Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One)
7. "Did You See His Name?" – 1:56 (Previously unreleased)

Side 3

1. "Fancy" – 2:30 (From Face to Face)
2. "Wonderboy" – 2:50 (Non-album single)
3. "Apeman" – 3:57 (From Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One)
4. "King Kong" – 3:27 (Non-album single)
5. "Mr. Pleasant" – 3:02 (Non-album single)
6. "God's Children" – 3:19 (From Percy)
7. "Death of a Clown" – 3:14 (From Something Else by The Kinks)

Side 4

1. "Lola" – 4:05 (From Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One]')
2. "Mindless Child Of Motherhood" – 3:13 (Non-album B-side)
3. "Polly" – 2:51 (Non-album B-side)
4. "Big Black Smoke" – 2:37 (Non-album B-side)
5. "Susannah's Still Alive" – 2:22 (Dave Davies solo single)
6. "She's Got Everything" – 3:12 (Non-album B-side)
7. "Days" – 2:51 (Non-album single)

Notes:

• In his liner notes for the compilation, John Mendelsohn erroneously credits "Holiday in Waikiki" as being the first track of the album Face to Face. This mistake may arise from (at least) one re-release of Face to Face in which side two of the original record is accidentally placed at the beginning of the album, followed by side one. On the original album, "Holiday in Waikiki" is the eighth track; "Party Line" is the first track.

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. The Kink Kronikles at AllMusic
2. Robert Christgau review
3. Rolling Stone review

External links

• The Official Ray Davies Web Site
• The Official Ray Davies Forum - "The Old Grey Board"
• The Official Ray Davies Forum on YouTube