Double Deluxe Kinks

For the first time, the packages for Kinks, Kinda Kinks and The Kink Kontroversy bring together the original LPs with contemporaneous EPs, BBC performances and alternate, mono, demo and single versions, all remastered from the original tapes.

Kinks - Deluxe Edition: The centerpiece of the 1964 debut album from lead singer/rhythm guitarist Ray Davies, lead guitarist and brother Dave Davies, bassist Pete Quaife and drummer Mick Avory is "You Really Got Me," with its riff to end all riffs. Yet the follow up single "All Day And All Of The Night" also charted #7 in the U.S. The Deluxe Edition adds an astonishing 42 more selections to the original U.K. release, including the entire album in mono and the Kinks-Size EP.

Kinda Kinks - Deluxe Edition: Unlike its predecessor which included numerous covers, this 1965 album was almost wholly penned by Ray Davies, including the melancholy "Tired Of Waiting For You," which at #6 was the band's highest-ever U.S. charter. The Deluxe Edition adds 23 more selections, among them the Kwyet Kinks EP (with "A Well Respected Man," the original Britpop number which also ushered in Davies as social commentator), the single "See My Friends" (the first example of Indian influence in rock music) and several songs The Kinks never released (notably a demo of "I Go To Sleep," recorded by Peggy Lee and later a hit for The Pretenders).