The Kinks’ first three albums were typical early 60s makeweights, subsidiary to the singles. Though Ray’s wish to make Face ...

The Kinks proved themselves to be a band with massive commercial appeal. Their roots in the mod subculture and tendency to ...

The first disc (1963–66 ... which would later be collected on The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973). The only blemishes are an awful, lo-fi, alternate version of “Dead End Street”, instead ...

But once The Kinks’ concept albums started to become less and less commercial in the first half of the ‘70s, the band needed to retrench. They did so by plugging back in with more modern arena ...