The Kinks - The Journey, Part 2 (2 CD, 2023) [24-96]

BMG follow up this years The Kinks The Journey release (from March this year), and continue the 60th anniversary celebrations, with Part 2.

Compiled by the band, this collection is curated “according to themes inspired by the trials and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963”.

This release features music from Face To Face, The Kink Kontroversy, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody’s In Show-Biz, Preservation Acts 1 & 2 and A Soap Opera.

It includes singles, B-sides, album tracks and, notably, six new Ray Davies mixes, three of which are previously unreleased live performances from the New Victoria Theatre, London in 1975.

The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 1968 [5 CD, 2018/FLAC]

 

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks, released in November 1968. It was the last album by the original quartet (Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory), as bassist Quaife left the group in early 1969. A collection of vignettes of English life, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society was assembled from songs written and recorded over the previous two years.

Although the record is widely considered one of the most influential and important works by the Kinks, it failed to chart upon release, selling about 100,000 copies. In 2003 the album was ranked number 255 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

 

The Kinks - At The BBC: Radio & TV Sessions And Concerts: 1964-1994 [5 CD, 2013/FLAC/@320]

 

Limited box set from the British rockers. This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Kinks recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band: from the first steps on the Pye label, to the glory days as one of the greatest acts of all time. The BBC gave the band a platform and support at crucial stages in their career and The Kinks At The BBC could be seen essentially as an alternate Greatest Hits, a musical growing up in public. This incredible archive represents a great set of previously unreleased recordings in the Kinks catalog. The collection has been brought together by trawling the BBC archives, but also by inviting contributions from fans. This is a first for the band as these recordings have never been available in one place before. The Kinks At The BBC is a triumphant collection of the defining moments of a truly seminal British band, as witnessed, broadcast and archived by the voice of the nation, the BBC.

The Kinks - The Journey: Part 1 (2023) [24-96]

To mark their 60th anniversary The Kinks have collected tracks in a themed compilation called The Journey: Part 1.

The songs included are supposed to “reflect the trials and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963” and are split into four sections. These tracks included hits, key album tracks, band favourites and B-sides.

The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Part One [1970] (Limited Deluxe Edition 3 CD, 2020/FLAC)

“Lola” gave the Kinks an unexpected hit and its crisp, muscular sound, pitched halfway between acoustic folk and hard rock, provided a new style for the band. However, the song only hinted at what its accompanying album Lola Versus the Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One was all about.

The Kinks - Picture Book [6 CD, 2008/FLAC+320]

 

Picture Book is a six-disc box set of material by The Kinks. It was released in December 2008 and compiles previously unreleased demos and outtakes together with selections from the group's four decade-long career. The track listing for the collection, the first box set release for the band, is mostly in chronological order. The box set also comes with a 60-page booklet featuring a biography of the band, a timeline, and photos.

 

The Kinks - albums collection 1964-1984 (FLAC)

The Kinks -  Collection Albums 1964-1984 

 

Universal Music Japan 2010/2011/2012/2013

 

The Kinks - 1964 - Kinks (2CD)

The Kinks - 1965 - Kinda Kinks (2CD)

The Kinks - 1965 - The Kink Kontroversy (2CD)

The Kinks - 1966 - Face To Face (2CD)

The Kinks - 1967 - Something Else (2CD)

The Kinks - 1968 - Village Green Preservation Society (3CD)

The Kinks - 1969 - Arthur (2CD)

The Kinks - 1970 - Lola Versus Powerman

The Kinks - 1971 - Muswell Hillbillies (2CD)

The Kinks - 1973 - Preservation Act 1

The Kinks - 1974 - Preservation Act 2

The Kinks - 1975 - Schoolboys In Disgrace

The Kinks - 1975 - Soap Opera

The Kinks - 1977 - Sleepwalker

The Kinks - 1978 - Misfits

The Kinks - 1979 - Low Budget

The Kinks - 1981 - Give The People What They Want

The Kinks - 1983 - State Of Confusion

The Kinks - 1984 - Word Of Mouth

Dave Davies - The Anthology: Unfinished Business (2 CD, 1998/FLAC)

 

What George Harrison was to the Beatles and John Entwistle was to the Who, Dave Davies was to the Kinks -- a powerfully effective instrumentalist and a talented songwriter who often played second fiddle to another tunesmith whose work more readily connected with the band's audience. Although he took a largely subordinate role to his brother Ray Davies in the Kinks, Dave's fierce guitar work and hoarse but effective background (and occasional lead) vocals were key elements of the band's appeal. Dave also occasionally wrote songs for the Kinks that showed him to be a writer of considerable skill and wit, if not always up to the same level as Ray. 

 

The Kinks - The Pye Album Collection [10 CD, 2005/FLAC]

 

This box set delivers both a little more and a little less than it promises -- though the packaging is so cryptic that it's difficult to say precisely what it does promise. Billed as The Pye Album Collection, it contains ten nicely packaged mini-LP sleeves representing the group's ten original albums for Pye Records. Not that these haven't been available before in various incarnations on both sides of the Atlantic (including some extant audiophile editions) and loaded up with bonus tracks -- but the producers have correctly reckoned that for the fans, on some level, the Kinks are like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who, in that their albums carry some serious significance for a lot of people, standing up well on their own and also evoking a specific time and place in listeners' respective pasts.

The Kinks – The Kinks In Mono [10 CD, 2011] [FLAC]

 

UK-only 10 CD box set from the British Rock legends. This box includes The Kinks' first seven LPs (The Kinks, Kinda Kinks, Kontroversy, Face To Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur ) as well as three extra CD's collecting the EP's and remaining Mono material plus a 32 page, pop annual style book with new notes, rare photos, memorabilia, discographical information and more. The EP disc contains Kinksize Session, Kinksize Hits, Kweyt Kinks, and Dedicated Kinks while the final two discs contain various singles from around the world. Each CD is housed in a digipak, encased in a rigid Dansette style box to hold all the digipaks and book.

 

The Kinks- Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) [4 CD, 2019/FLAC/@320]

  

The Kinks‘ 1969 album Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) is to be reissued as a 50th anniversary super deluxe edition box set.


The first two CDs offer the album in newly remastered mono and stereo versions (both with seven bonus tracks) while the third disc features music from a ‘lost’ Dave Davies solo album. CD 4 offers a collection of demos, rehearsals, theatrical versions and remixes. In total there are 81 tracks – five previously unreleased and 28 previously unreleased ‘versions’.