Biography

Although they weren't as boldly innovative as the Beatles or as popular as the Rolling Stones or the Who, the Kinks were one of the most influential bands of the British Invasion. Though they began as an R&B/blues outfit, they became the most staunchly English of all their contemporaries, drawing heavily from British music hall and traditional pop, as well as incorporating elements of country and folk. Despite a lack of commercial success, their public profile began to rise in the 1990s as they were hailed as an influence on several of the most popular British bands of the decade, including Blur and Oasis. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

• Click on the track to launch in Spotify

• (a) Face In The Crowd

• (wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

• 20th Century Man

• A Well Respected Man

• Act Nice And Gentle

• Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues

• Alcohol

• All Day And All Of The Night

• Animals In The Zoo

• Apeman

• Around The Dial

• Autumn Almanac

• Back To Front

• Beautiful Delilah

• Berkeley Mews

• Better Things

• Catch Me Now I'm Falling

• Celluloid Heroes

• Come Dancing

• Dandy

• David Watts

• Days

• Deadend Street

• Dear Margaret

• Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

• Demolition

• Destroyer

• Do It Again

• Don't Forget To Dance

• Ducks On The Wall

• Everybody's A Star (starmaker)

• Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

• Father Christmas

• Get Back In Line

• Give The People What They Want

• God's Children

• Good Day

• Got My Feet On The Ground

• Hatred (a Duet)

• Have Another Drink

• Headmaster

• Heart Of Gold

• Here Comes Yet Another Day

• Holiday

• Holiday In Waikiki

• How Do I Get Close?

• I'm In Disgrace

• I'm Not Like Everybody Else

• I'm On An Island

• Jack The Idiot Dunce

• Juke Box Music

• Lola

• Lost And Found

• Love Me 'til The Sun Shines

• Low Budget

• Medley: Milk Cow Blues/batman Theme/tired Of Waiting For You

• Mirror Of Love

• Misfits

• Morning Song

• Muswell Hillbilly

• Oklahoma U.s.a.

• One Of The Survivors

• Party Line

• People Take Pictures Of Each Other

• Phobia

• Picture Book

• Plastic Man

• Prince Of The Punks

• Rats

• Rock & Roll Cities

• Salvation Road

• Scattered

• Scrapheap City

• See My Friends

• Set Me Free

• Shangri-la

• She’s Got Everything

• Shepherds Of The Nation

• She's Got Everything

• Sitting In My Hotel

• Sitting In The Midday Sun

• Skin & Bone

• Skin And Bone

• Sleepwalker

• Slum Kids

• State Of Confusion

• Stop Your Sobbing

• Strangers

• Sunny Afternoon

• Susannah's Still Alive

• Sweet Lady Genevieve

• The Road

• The Village Green Preservation Society

• The Way Love Used To Be

• There Is No Life Without Love

• Think Visual

• This Man He Weeps Tonight

• Till The End Of The Day

• Tired Of Waiting For You

• Uk Jive

• Victoria

• Waterloo Sunset

• Well Respected Man

• Where Have All The Good Times Gone

• Willesden Green

• Wonderboy

• You Can't Stop The Music

• You Really Got Me

Discography

• Click on the album to launch in Spotify

• To the Bone

  EMI Music Distribution

  1994

• Phobia

  Columbia

  1993

• UK Jive

  MCA

  1989

• Road

  MCA

  1988

• Think Visual

  MCA

  1986

• Preservation: Act 2

  Velvel Records

  1974

• Preservation: Acts 1 & 2

  Rhino

  1974

• The Great Lost Kinks Album

  Reprise

  1973

• Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1

  Reprise

  1970

• Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

  Reprise

  1969

• The Village Green Preservation Society

  Essential Records / Castle Music Ltd.

  1968

• Live at Kelvin Hall

  Reprise

  1968

• Something Else by the Kinks

  Sanctuary / Universal Music

  1967

• You Really Got Me

  Rhino

  1965

• Kinkdom

  Rhino

  1965