The Great Lost Kinks Album

Infobox Album | Name = The Great Lost Kinks Album
Type = Compilation
Artist = The Kinks


Released = 1973
Recorded = 1966 - 1970
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 37:15
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Various
Reviews =
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Last album = "Everybody's in Show-Biz"
(1972)
This album = "The Great Lost Kinks Album"
(1973)
Next album = ""
(1973)

The Great Lost Kinks Album is a 1973 LP collection of unreleased material issued by Reprise Records after The Kinks had moved to RCA. The tracks were recorded between 1966 and 1970 and master tapes were shipped to the US Reprise Label in the early 1970's to fulfil contractual obligations with that label. Kinks leader and songwriter, Ray Davies, intended most of the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Several other songs from these "collateral" recordings had been released on the 1971 Reprise compilation The Kink Kronikles.

Davies and the Kinks management were not told about the album and they learned of its existence from the US Billboard record chart. Davies instituted legal action against Reprise, which resulted in Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item and most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. Some are still available only on old LPs or unofficial bootleg albums. The name is a reference to an album that was set to be released by Reprise in 1969, but was held back, eventually morphing into "The Village Green Preservation Society". So many rumours circulated about the unissued record that "great lost Kinks album" became a catch phrase.

The songs include a number of unused album tracks, a British single ("Plastic Man"), a Kinks b-side ("I'm Not Like Everybody Else"), a film theme ("Till Death Do Us Part"), songs written exclusively for British television ("Where Did the Spring Go?", "When I Turn Out the Living Room Light") and several Dave Davies recordings, released and unreleased.

Track listing

* All songs by Ray Davies, except (*) by Dave Davies

ide One

#"Til Death Do Us Part" – 3:12
#"There Is No Life Without Love"* – 1:55
#"Lavender Hill" – 2:53
#"Groovy Movies" – 2:30
#"Rosemary Rose" – 1:43
#"Misty Water" – 3:01
#"Mister Songbird" – 2:24

ide Two

#"When I Turn off the Living Room Light" – 2:17
#"The Way Love Used to Be" – 2:11
#"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" — 3:29
#"Plastic Man" – 3:00
#"This Man He Weeps Tonight"* – 2:38
#"Pictures in the Sand" – 2:45
#"Where Did My Spring Go?" – 2:10