The Essential Kinks

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  You Really Got Me
  2:13
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Stop Your Sobbing
  2:05
  3.0 ★
• 3
  All Day and All of the Night
  2:21
  4.3 ★
• 4
  Tired of Waiting for You
  2:30
• 5
  Nothin' In This World Can Stop Me From Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
  2:43
• 6
  Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
  2:15
• 7
  A Well Respected Man
  2:41
• 8
  Dedicated Follower of Fashion
  3:00
• 9
  Who'll Be the Next in Line
  2:01
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Set Me Free
  2:11
• 11
  See My Friends
  2:44
• 12
  Sunny Afternoon
  3:35
• 13
  Dead End Street
  3:21
• 14
  Death of a Clown
  3:12
• 15
  Autumn Almanac
  3:12
• 16
  David Watts
  2:37
• 17
  Waterloo Sunset
  3:17
• 18
  Days
  2:52
• 19
  The Village Green Preservation Society
  2:47
• 20
  Do You Remember Walter?
  2:24
• 21
  Picture Book
  2:35
• 22
  Victoria
  3:38
• 23
  Apeman
  3:51
• 24
  Strangers
  3:18
• 25
  20th Century Man
  4:01
• 26
  Supersonic Rocket Ship
  3:30
• 27
  Celluloid Heroes (U.S. single version)
  4:45
  5.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Here Comes Yet Another Day
  3:54
• 2
  You Don't Know My Name
  2:34
• 3
  Till the End of the Day (live 1972)
  2:00
• 4
  One of the Survivors
  4:03
• 5
  Sweet Lady Genevieve
  3:27
• 6
  Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)
  2:59
• 7
  Life on the Road
  5:01
• 8
  Sleepwalker
  4:04
• 9
  Life Goes On
  5:01
• 10
  A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy (single version)
  4:00
• 11
  Father Christmas
  3:41
  3.0 ★
• 12
  (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Lola (live 1979)
  4:45
• 14
  Where Have All the Good Times Gone (live 1979)
  2:17
• 15
  Better Things (single version)
  2:59
• 16
  Destroyer
  3:47
  4.5 ★
• 17
  Come Dancing
  3:55
• 18
  Don't Forget to Dance
  4:39
• 19
  Do It Again
  4:09
• 20
  Living on a Thin Line
  4:14
• 21
  Scattered
  4:10

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Release credits

• Alan McKenzie
  engineer [9]
• Bob Auger
  engineer [9]
• Bob Clearmountain
  mix [21]
• Bobby Graham
  drums (drum set) [1, 3]
• Dave Davies
  guitar [1-3, 9], vocal [2]
• Harry Fryer
  guitar [1]
• Johnny B. Great
  background vocals [3]
• Kevin Paul
  assistant [21]
• Mick Avory
  drums (drum set) [2, 9], membranophone [9], tambourine [2]
• Perry Ford
  additional [1], piano [1-3]
• Pete Quaife
  background vocals [9], bass guitar [1-3, 9], bass vocals [2]
• Rasa Didzpetris-Davies
  background vocals [2]
• Ray Davies
  guitar [1-2], harmonica [1], keyboard [1], lead vocals [1, 3, 9], producer [20], vocal [2]
• Richard Edwards
  recording [21]
• Shel Talmy
  producer [1-3, 9]
• Stan Loubières
  assistant [21]
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Issues

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  The Essential Kinks

  2x CD
  2014