The Kinks (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Kinks
Type = studio
Artist = The Kinks


Released = Original: 2 October 1964 (UK)
Re-released: 6 July 2004
Recorded =late August 1964, Pye Studios No.2
"I Took My Baby Home": 24 January, Pye Studios No.1
"You Really Got Me": July 1964, IBC Studios
Genre = Garage rock
Length = 32:55 (Original release)
59:13 (2004 reissue)
Label = Pye NPL 18096 (UK)
Reprise R-6143 (USA)
Producer = Shel Talmy
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2hdsa9ugr23s link]
*Blender Rating|2|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=3851 link]
Last album =
This album = "The Kinks"
(1964)
Next album = "Kinda Kinks"
(1965)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = USA packaging
Type = studio


Lower caption = "You Really Got Me" l.p. cover

"Kinks" is the self-titled debut album by the English rock band The Kinks, released in 1964. It was released with an altered track listing as "You Really Got Me" in the United States.

The album was re-released in 2004 with twelve bonus tracks on the Sanctuary label.

Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies except as noted

"Kinks" UK original track listing

ide 1

# "Beautiful Delilah" (Chuck Berry) – 2:07
# "So Mystifying" – 2:53
# "Just Can't Go to Sleep" – 1:58
# "Long Tall Shorty" (Herb Abramson, Don Covay) – 2:50
# "I Took My Baby Home" – 1:48
# "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J. Miller) – 2:03
# "You Really Got Me" – 2:13

ide 2

#

"Cadillac" (Bo Diddley) – 2:44
# "Bald Headed Woman" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy) – 2:41
# "Revenge" (R. Davies, Larry Page) – 1:29
# "Too Much Monkey Business" (Chuck Berry) – 2:16
# "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy) – 2:01
# "Stop Your Sobbing" – 2:06
# "Got Love If You Want It" (J. Moore) – 3:46

UK release: 2 October 1964 (Pye NPL 18096 mono: NSPL 83021 stereo)

2004 CD re-issue bonus tracks

#"Long Tall Sally" (Robert Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman) – 2:12
#"You Still Want Me" – 1:59
#"You Do Something to Me" – 2:24
#"It's Alright" – 2:37
#"All Day and All of the Night" – 2:23
#"I Gotta Move" – 2:22
#"Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry) – 2:57
#"I Gotta Go Now" – 2:53
#"Things Are Getting Better" – 1:52
#"I've Got That Feeling" – 2:43
#"Too Much Monkey Business" [Alternate Take] (C. Berry) – 2:10
#"I Don't Need You Any More" – 2:10

"You Really Got Me" (US, Reprise R-6143) track listing

ide 1

#"Beautiful Delilah" (Chuck Berry)
#"So Mystifying"
#"Just Can't Go To Sleep"
#"Long Tall Shorty" (Herb Abramson, Don Covay)
#"You Really Got Me"

ide 2

#

"Cadillac" (E. McDaniel)
#"Bald Headed Woman" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy)
#"Too Much Monkey Business" (Chuck Berry)
#"I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy)
#"Stop Your Sobbing"
#"Got Love If You Want It" (Harpo)

Personnel

*Ray Davies – guitar, harmonica, keyboards, vocals
*Dave Davies – guitar, vocals
*Peter Quaife – bass, vocals
*Mick Avory – tambourine, drums
*Jimmy Page – twelve string guitar, acoustic guitar
*Jon Lord – piano
*Bobby Graham – drums
*Simon Heyworth – remastering
*Klaus Schmalenbach – design, photography
*Brian Sommerville – liner notes
*Peter Doggett – liner notes

External links

*http://kinks.it.rit.edu/discography/showrelease.php?release=11 Discography listing