The Kink Kronikles" (1972)
The Kinks are my favorite group on a lot of days.I can remember vividly, precisely where I was, age 8, with an earplug and a red transistor radio, turning up the volume the first time I heard "You Really Got Me". I was tuned to 93 KHJ AM, sitting on a branch up in a tree, next to my elementary school, around the corner from one of the houses I grew up in, #4 to be exact.
The moment I heard my first electric guitar riff.
I had the VeeJay Beatles album, but there was nothing on it like this.
It was all about the guitars and drums.
I liked the next few, and "Sunny Afternoon", but then the Kinks disappeared from hit radio until "Lola" in 1970* Both those songs are on "The Kink Kronikles".
I bought my first copy in a Two Guys department store the year it came out. If I can't decide which album to play from their incredible 1966-70 run, I put this one on.
A desert island selection for sure.
I bought this copy at my local record store, Spin That! for $20 back in 2023. It's a perfect replacement for the one I lost.
Ray's brother Dave almost went solo over this one:
*The brothers had a fight onstage in New York, during their first US tour in 1965. They were banned from coming back until 1969.
-BBJ
3 comments:
This was actually the first Kinks album I bought after reading a review of it in Creem Magazine in the late 70s
Cliche alert: That album changed my life. And I was already a huge Kinks fan.
Shouldn't you have been in class? It took a long time for me to come around (I had a resistance to his vocals) but I finally appreciated the Kinks this year. It's been a wild ride, since I didn't expect their country/Americana album to be one of my favorites! That's just for starters.
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