The Kink Kronikles

Infobox Album |
Name = The Kink Kronikles
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Kinks


Released = 25 March 1972
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 82:35
Label = Reprise Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cefm964o3ep5 link]
*Robert Christgau (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=the+kinks link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favourable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thekinks/albums/album/189234/review/5944547/the_kink_kronikles link]
Last album = "Muswell Hillbillies"
(1971)
This album = "The Kink Kronikles"
(1972)
Next album = "Everybody's in Show-Biz"
(1972)

"The Kink Kronikles" is a USA compilation double album of singles, B-sides, album tracks and previously unreleased tracks recorded by The Kinks between 1966 and 1970. RS500|231 It was compiled and released by Reprise Records (without creative input from the Kinks) after the band had moved to RCA Records in 1971. The album remains a highly popular and representative collection of songs from the band's most creative period.

Track listing

ide A

#"Victoria" – 3:41
#"The Village Green Preservation Society" – 2:49
#"Berkeley Mews" – 2:40
#"Holiday In Waikiki*" – 2:47
#"Willesden Green" – 2:28
#"This Is Where I Belong" – 2:27
#"Waterloo Sunset" – 3:21

ide B

#"David Watts" – 2:42
#"Dead End Street" – 3:27
#"Shangri-La" – 5:20
#"Autumn Almanac" – 3:16
#"Sunny Afternoon" – 3:34
#"Get Back In Line" – 3:08
#"Did You See His Name?" – 1:56

ide C

#"Fancy" – 2:30
#"Wonderboy" – 2:50
#"Apeman" – 3:57
#"King Kong" – 3:27
#"Mr. Pleasant" – 3:02
#"God's Children" – 3:19
#"Death of a Clown" – 3:14

ide D

#"Lola" – 4:05
#"Mindless Child Of Motherhood" – 3:13
#"Polly" – 2:51
#"Big Black Smoke" – 2:37
#"Susannah's Still Alive" – 2:22
#"She's Got Everything" – 3:12
#"Days" – 2:51

* Note: In John Mendelssohn's 1972 liner notes for "The Kink Kronikles", "Holiday in Waikiki" is credited as being the first track of the album, "Face to Face". This mistake may arise from (at least) one re-release of "Face to Face" in which side two of the original record is accidentally placed at the beginning of the album, followed by side one. On the original album, "Holiday in Waikiki" is the eighth track; "Party Line" is the first track.