Kinks-Size is a studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released in the United States and Canada in March1965, it was their second album issued on Reprise Records. It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard album chart in the third week of June1965, the same week the Kinks began their first US tour. It is the Kinks' fourth-highest-charting album on the Billboard album chart and the second-highest of their 1960s albums. The album ranked number 78 on Billboard year-end album chart for 1965.
Overview Reprise issued the album to capitalise on the nationwide publicity generated by the band's February1965 appearance on the musical variety programme Hullabaloo.; : (February1965). The album had no direct analogue outside of the US market, but instead collected songs from the UK EP Kinksize Session, two songs which had been left off of the US version of the band's debut LP ("Revenge" and "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter") and both the A- and B-sides of the "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You" singles. All of its songs were recorded at Pye Studios in London, between August and December1964, though Dave Davies also overdubbed an electric guitar contribution to "Tired of Waiting for You" at IBC Studios in London.
Reception
The album has been critiqued as a clear cash-grab by Reprise, but the actual songs included have been praised as "the best parts of the group's work in England", with Bruce Eder of AllMusic writing, "this record rocks, showing off the better sides of the group's R&B output and early, formative, Beatles-influenced experiments as well."
Track listing All songs written by Ray Davies unless otherwise noted.
Side one "Tired of Waiting for You"2:30 "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)2:57 "I've Got that Feeling"2:45 "Revenge" (Davies, Larry Page)1:28 "I Gotta Move"2:24
Side two "Things are Getting Better"1:57 "I Gotta Go Now"2:54 "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J.D. Miller)2:20 "Come on Now"1:45 "All Day and All of the Night"2:02
Personnel According to band researcher Doug Hinman:
The Kinks Ray Davieslead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica; piano ; lead guitar Dave Daviesbacking vocals, lead guitar; lead vocals Pete Quaifebacking vocals, bass guitar Mick Avorydrums; tambourine
Additional musicians Perry Fordpiano Bobby Grahamdrums Johnny B. Great backing vocals Nicky Hopkinspiano Jimmy Pagetwelve-string acoustic guitar
Production Bob Augerengineer Shel Talmyproducer
Charts
+Weekly chart performance Chart (1965) PeakpositionUS Billboard Top LPs13US Cash Box Top 100 Albums10US Record World 100 Top LPs12
+Year-end chart performance Chart (1965) RankingUS Billboard78US Cash Box51
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