Kinda Kinks

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


Released = 5 March 1965 (UK)
11 August 1965 (USA)
Recorded = 17 December 1964 - 17 February 1965
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 34:55
Label = Pye NPL 18112; Reprise R-6173
Producer = Shel Talmy
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1e6fmpc39ffo link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5
Last album = "The Kinks"
(1964)
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"Kinks-Size"
(1965) (US)
This album = "Kinda Kinks"
(1965)
Next album = "The Kink Kontroversy"
(1965)
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"Kinks Kinkdom"
(1965) (US)

"Kinda Kinks" is a rock and roll album by the English band The Kinks, released in 1965. It was released in the United States as "Kinks Kinkdom" with a highly altered track list made up mostly from singles. All tracks from the U.S. release can be found on CD releases of "Kinda Kinks", "The Kink Kontroversy", and "Face to Face" as bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies, except as noted

UK release

ide 1

# "Look for Me Baby" – 2:17
# "Got My Feet on the Ground" (Davies/Davies) – 2:14
# "Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl" – 2:44
# "Naggin' Woman" (Anderson, West) – 2:36
# "Wonder Where My Baby Is" – 2:01
# "Tired of Waiting for You" – 2:31

ide 2

#

"Dancing in the Street" (Gaye, Stevenson, Hunter) – 2:20
# "Don't Ever Change" – 2:25
# "Come on Now" – 1:49
# "So Long" – 2:10
# "You Shouldn't Be Sad" – 2:03
# "Something Better Beginning" – 2:26

CD re-issue bonus tracks

#

"Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" – 2:16
# "Who'll Be the Next in Line" – 2:02
# "Set Me Free" – 2:12
# "I Need You" – 2:26
# "See My Friends" – 2:46
# "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" – 2:05
# "Wait Till the Summer Comes Along" (Dave Davies) – 2:07
# "Such a Shame" – 2:19
# "A Well Respected Man" – 2:43
# "Don't You Fret" – 2:45
# "I Go to Sleep" [demo version] – 2:42

U.S. release - R 6184 (Kinkdom)

ide 1

# "A Well Respected Man" (R. Davies)
# "Such a Shame" (R. Davies)
# "Wait Till the Summer Comes Along" (R. Davies)
# "Naggin' Woman" (Lazy Lester)
# "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" (R. Davies)
# "See My Friends" (R. Davies)

ide 2

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"Who'll Be the Next in Line" (R. Davies)
# "Don't You Fret" (R. Davies)
# "I Need You" (R. Davies)
# "It's Alright" (R. Davies)
# "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)

Cover versions

*"Something Better Beginning" was released by The Honeycombs as a single in 1965.
*"Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" was covered by Queens of the Stone Age on the limited edition version of their "Songs for the Deaf" album.
*Queens of the Stone Age also covered "Who'll Be the Next in Line" on their "Stone Age Complications" album.
*"Come on Now" was covered by The Pussywillows on their 12" EP, "Spring Fever!", and by The Plimsouls on their album "One Night in America."
*"I Go to Sleep" was released by Peggy Lee and The Applejacks in 1965 and was covered by Cher on her debut album, "All I Really Want to Do", and by The Pretenders on their album "Pretenders II".