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The Great Lost Kinks Album

Compilation album by The Kinks

Released

January 25, 1973^[1]

Recorded

1966 - 1970

Genre

Rock and roll

Length

37:15

Label

Reprise

Producer

Various

The Kinks chronology

Everybody's in Show-Biz
(1972)

The Great Lost Kinks Album
(1973)

Preservation Act 1
(1973)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	A−^[3]

The Great Lost Kinks Album is a 1973 LP of unreleased material issued by Reprise Records after The Kinks had moved to RCA. The tracks were recorded between 1966 and 1970 and master tapes were shipped to the US Reprise Label in the early 1970s to fulfill contractual obligations with that label. Kinks leader and songwriter, Ray Davies, intended most of the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Several other songs from these "collateral" recordings had been released on the 1972 Reprise compilation The Kink Kronikles.

Davies and the Kinks management first learned of the album's existence from the US Billboard record chart. Davies instituted legal action against Reprise, which resulted in Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item and most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. Most of the tracks have finally received legitimate release on the 3-CD deluxe edition of Village Green and as bonus tracks on other UK Sanctuary CDs.

The name is a reference to an album that was set to be released by Reprise in 1969 but was held back, eventually morphing into The Village Green Preservation Society. So many rumours circulated about the unissued record that "great lost Kinks album" became a catch phrase.^{[citation needed]}

The songs include a number of unused album tracks, a British single ("Plastic Man"), a B-side ("I'm Not Like Everybody Else"), a film theme ("Till Death Do Us Part"), songs written exclusively for British television ("Where Did the Spring Go?", "When I Turn Out the Living Room Light"). The Great Lost Kinks Album also included several Dave Davies recordings intended for his ill-fated solo album ("Groovy Movies", "There Is No Life Without Love", "This Man He Weeps Tonight"). The liner notes for the album were written by John Mendelsohn.^[1]

1 Track listing
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

Track listing [edit]

All songs written and composed by Ray Davies, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Til Death Do Us Part^{[Release 1]}" (mono)		3:12
2.	"There Is No Life Without Love^{[Release 2]}" (mono)	Dave Davies/Ray Davies	1:55
3.	"Lavender Hill^{[Release 3]}" (mono)		2:53
4.	"Groovy Movies^{[Release 3]}" (stereo)		2:30
5.	"Rosemary Rose^{[Release 3]}" (mono)		1:43
6.	"Misty Water^{[Release 3]}" (stereo)		3:01
7.	"Mister Songbird^{[Release 3]}" (stereo)		2:24

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When I Turn off the Living Room Light^{[Release 4]}" (mono)		2:17
2.	"The Way Love Used to Be^{[Release 5]}" (stereo)		2:11
3.	"I'm Not Like Everybody Else^{[Release 2]}" (mono)		3:29
4.	"Plastic Man^{[Release 6]}" (mono)		3:00
5.	"This Man He Weeps Tonight^{[Release 6]}" (stereo)	Dave Davies	2:38
6.	"Pictures in the Sand^{[Release 1]}" (mono)		2:45
7.	"Where Did the Spring Go?^{[Release 3]}" (mono)		2:10

All but two songs have been made officially available on CD.

^ ^a ^b Never officially released on CD
^ ^a ^b 1998 Essential Something Else reissue CD
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 2004 Sanctuary The Village Green Preservation Society 3-CD deluxe edition
^ 2001 Sanctuary BBC Sessions 1964-1977 CD
^ 2004 Sanctuary Percy reissue CD bonus disc
^ ^a ^b 1998 Essential Arthur reissue CD

External links [edit]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b "The Great Lost Kinks Album". Kindakinks.net. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Great Lost Kinks Album > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
^ Christgau, Robert. "The Kinks". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

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Studio albums	Kinks Kinda Kinks The Kink Kontroversy Face to Face Something Else by The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One Muswell Hillbillies Everybody's in Show-Biz Preservation Act 1 Preservation Act 2 Soap Opera Schoolboys in Disgrace Sleepwalker Misfits Low Budget Give the People What They Want State of Confusion Word of Mouth Think Visual UK Jive Phobia

Live albums	Live at Kelvin Hall One for the Road Live: The Road To the Bone

EPs	Kinksize Session Kinksize Hits Kwyet Kinks Dedicated Kinks The Kinks

Compilations	Kinks-Size Kinkdom Greatest Hits! Well Respected Kinks Sunny Afternoon The Kink Kronikles The Great Lost Kinks Album Come Dancing with The Kinks The Kinks Are Well Respected Men Lost & Found (1986–1989) The Ultimate Collection Picture Book

Unreleased projects	Four More Respected Gentlemen A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)

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