What we have here, as Hughesy attempts to figure out why he never twigged to one of his favourite bands from the halcyon days of the mid-sixties as album artists, is essentially, an exercise in archaeology.
Not, in other words the sort of thing that can be just rushed through to have something that sits at the top of the discography. We need to have something there, though, and in the interval between the forensic examination of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, a similar exercise on Something Else By The Kinks, a cast backwards and forwards through the studio albums and a completed and reasonably concise potted biography, this will have to do.
Iconic. File under: Well Respected But Under Rated
An Introduction Discography: Studio albums 1964-1977 1978-93; US-only albums, Live and other albums
Compilation albums 1966-83 Compilation Albums 1984-Present
In the music library:
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The KinKs "Fillmore West 1969" (Live Audio)