Kinks-Size
| Kinks-Size | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 24 or 31 March 1965[1] | |||
| Recorded | August–December 1964[2] | |||
| Studio | Pye & IBC, London | |||
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| Length | 23:02 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Shel Talmy | |||
| The Kinks US chronology | ||||
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Kinks-Size is the second US-only album by the English band the Kinks, released in 1965. It consists of songs that were left out of US presses of the Kinks' previous albums, as well as songs from UK-released EPs.
The album takes its name and all four tracks from the Kinksize Session EP, adding two tracks left off the US version of their debut LP ("I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "Revenge") and their two recent hit singles ("All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You") and their respective B-sides ("I Gotta Move" and "Come On Now").
This was the Kinks' second-most successful album of the 1960s in the US, reaching #13 (Greatest Hits!, a compilation album, reached #9).[4]
The album was issued in the US and Canada in mono and stereo versions.[5] It was reissued once on cassette in the US in 1988 and once on CD in Japan in 2018, but has otherwise remained out of print since 1988.[5] Selected tracks off the album are currently available on the extended CD version of Kinks.
Reception
The album has been critiqued as a clear cash-grab by Reprise, but the actual songs included have been praised as "the best parts of the group's work in England", with Bruce Eder of AllMusic writing, "this record rocks, showing off the better sides of the group's R&B output and early, formative, Beatles-influenced experiments as well."[3]
Track listing
All songs written by Ray Davies unless otherwise noted.
Side one
- "Tired of Waiting for You" – 2:30
- "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry) – 2:57
- "I've Got That Feeling" – 2:45
- "Revenge" (Davies, Larry Page) – 1:28
- "I Gotta Move" – 2:24
Side two
- "Things Are Getting Better" – 1:57
- "I Gotta Go Now" – 2:54
- "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J.D. Miller) – 2:20
- "Come On Now" – 1:45
- "All Day and All of the Night" – 2:02
References
- ^ Hinman 2004, pp. 51, 52.
- ^ Hinman 2004, pp. 37, 38, 41, 46.
- ^ a b Allmusic review
- ^ "The Kinks Chart History". Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ a b "The Kinks - Kinks-Size - Releases, Reviews, Credits". Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
Sources
- Hinman, Doug (2004). The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961–1996. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-765-3.
