The Great lost Kinks album?

[colb]

Read somewhere a while ago about "The Great lost Kinks" album but I know absolutely nothing about it.

Can anyone shed any light on it.  Was it an official release, like Dylan's "The Bootleg Series" or was it a bootleg.

If it a compliation or a proper album and most importantly, if it really is great is it readily available or would I have to

mortgage my house to buy one?

[martin53]

„The Great Lost Kinks Album“ is a 1973 LP of unreleased material issued by Reprise Records after The Kinks had moved to RCA. The tracks were recorded between 1966 and 1970 and master tapes were shipped to the US Reprise Label in the early 1970s. Ray intended most of the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Several other songs from these "collateral" recordings had been released on the 1972 Reprise compilation „The Kink Kronikles“.

Ray first learned of the album's existence from the US Billboard record chart. He instituted legal action against Reprise which resulted in Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item and most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. Most of them have finally been released on the deluxe editions of „The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society“ (2008 AND 2018) and as bonus tracks on other CDs.

„The Great Lost Kinks Album“, an impressive enjoyable compilation of unreleased studio material and A/B sides from The Kinks‘ Golden Era, exists only on vinyl and was never rereleased formally. The album cover is by the famous Belgian artist, illustrator, painter and sculptor Jean-Michel Folon who collaborated with Elton John and other well-known virtuosos too.

Tracklist:

01. Til Death Do Us Part
02. There Is No Life Without Love
03. Lavender Hill
04. Groovy Movies
05. Rosemary Rose
06. Misty Water
07. Mister Songbird
08. When I Turn Off The Living Room Light
09. The Way Love Used To Be
10. Plastic Man
11. This Man He Weeps Tonight
12. Pictures In The Sand
13. Where Did My Spring Go?

I hope that was helpful.

Colb, I certainly don’t think that you have to mortgage your house in order to buy a copy; it might be easily available on Amazon or Ebay.

[martin53]

I've been listening to the GLKA a lot lately. It's a fantastic compilation and the songs flow very nicely.

[colb]

Thanks Martin, think I had better have a look on Amazon and Ebay straight away

[martin53]

Have fun, Colb!

[martin53]

An official rerelease with additional goodies would be fun!

[colb]

I agree, hopefully one day

[martin53]

Time will tell.