Kinksize Hits

by The Kinks

Kinksize Hits cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: January 1965
  • Label: Pye
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:06:42
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Shel Talmy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Consolidating the immense power of their earliest singles, this release captures a band aggressively reshaping the boundaries of rhythm and blues. The distorted, primitive guitar tones and raw vocal performances laid the essential groundwork for future generations of hard rock and punk bands.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, british, compilation, archival, demos

Tracklist

  1. Beautiful Delilah (2:06)
  2. So Mystifying (2:55)
  3. Just Can't Go to Sleep (1:57)
  4. Long Tall Shorty (2:51)
  5. I Took My Baby Home (1:47)
  6. I'm a Lover Not a Fighter (2:05)
  7. You Really Got Me (2:14)
  8. Cadillac (2:44)
  9. Bald Headed Woman (2:42)
  10. Revenge (1:30)
  11. Too Much Monkey Business (2:15)
  12. I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain (2:07)
  13. Stop Your Sobbing (2:05)
  14. Got Love If You Want It (3:45)
  15. I Believed You (Demo Version) (1:56)
  16. I'm a Hog for You Baby (Demo Version) (1:38)
  17. I Don't Need You Anymore (Demo Version) (2:12)
  18. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy (Demo Version) (2:21)
  19. Long Tall Sally (2:11)
  20. You Still Want Me (1:58)
  21. You Do Something to Me (2:23)
  22. It's All Right (2:36)
  23. All Day and All of the Night (2:22)
  24. I Gotta Move (2:23)
  25. Louie Louie (2:57)
  26. I've Got That Feeling (2:42)
  27. I Gotta Go Now (2:53)
  28. Things Are Getting Better (1:54)
  29. Beautiful Delilah (2:05)
  30. So Mystifying (2:53)
  31. Just Can't Go to Sleep (1:58)
  32. Long Tall Shorty (2:49)
  33. I Took My Baby Home (1:47)
  34. I'm a Lover Not a Fighter (2:03)
  35. You Really Got Me (2:13)
  36. Cadillac (2:44)
  37. Bald Headed Woman (2:41)
  38. Revenge (1:29)
  39. Too Much Monkey Business (2:15)
  40. I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain (2:02)
  41. Stop Your Sobbing (2:05)
  42. Got Love If You Want It (3:46)
  43. Don't Ever Let Me Go (2:17)
  44. I Don't Need You Anymore (2:08)
  45. Bald Headed Woman (2:39)
  46. Too Much Monkey Business (Alternate Take) (2:07)
  47. Got Love If You Want It (3:33)
  48. Meet the Kinks (BBC Interview) (0:33)
  49. Cadillac (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1964) (2:35)
  50. Meet the Kinks (BBC Interview: Ray Talks About 'You Really Got Me') (0:13)
  51. You Really Got Me (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1964) (2:08)
  52. Little Queenie (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1964) (1:48)
  53. I'm a Lover Not a Fighter (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1964) (2:11)
  54. All Day and All of the Night (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1964) (2:17)
  55. Meet the Kinks (BBC Interview: Ray Talks About the USA) (0:39)
  56. I've Got That Feeling (Live at Piccadilly Studios, 1964) (2:45)

Credits

  • The Kinks - primary artist
  • Ray Davies - written-by

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