Kinks

Juno Movie Soundtrack

11 recommendations

"A friend of mine recommended this to me...she saw the movie and right after ran home to use the itunes gift card she had to download the soundtrack! She loved it so much...i had to check it out...it's really good!"

Muswell Hillbillies: The Kinks: Music

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"This is a classic country rock album. If you like Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones, you should check it out"

The Kinks - Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986 [Koch 2004] [Audio CD]

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"Although it closely resembles the 1986 Arista collection (and even boasts the same cover and title), the 2000 release of Come Dancing With the Kinks is not quite that album -- it's a reinterpretation of that collection, spearheaded by Ray Davies. It restores "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," "Misfits," and "Sleepwalker" (the three songs dropped from the CD version of Arista's Come Dancing) and eliminate..."

The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks [Audio CD]

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"Face to Face was a remarkable record, but its follow-up, Something Else, expands its accomplishments, offering 13 classic British pop songs. As Ray Davies' songwriting becomes more refined, he becomes more nostalgic and sentimental, retreating from the psychedelic and mod posturings that had dominated the rock world. Indeed, Something Else sounds like nothing else from 1967. The Kinks never rock v..."

The Kinks - The Kinks Greatest 1970-1986 [Audio CD]

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"Instead of offering a brand-new compilation, the 2007 Kinks Greatest 1970-1986 repackages two previously released -- and quite good -- compilations in one slipcase: the 1976 set Celluloid Heroes, which covered their recordings for RCA in the early '70s, and the 1986 collection Come Dancing: The Best of the Kinks, which picked up where its predecessor left off and offered highlights from their Aris..."

The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles [Audio CD]

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"Strictly speaking, the double-album compilation The Kink Kronikles isn't a greatest-hits collection. Covering the years 1966 through 1970, The Kink Kronikles may not be packed with hits -- out of the album's 28 tracks, only nine were hits in the U.K. or the U.S. -- yet it's a definitive overview of this era, which was one of Ray Davies' most productive (and influential) periods. Apart from the hit..."

The Kinks - Well Respected Kinks [BMG Special Products] [Audio CD]

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"This is the CD version of the Marble Arch LP released in 1966, and consists of several of the Kinks' hits from 1964 and 1965. The expected tracks are here -- "A Well Respected Man," "Where Have All the Good Times Gone," "All Day and All of the Night," and "You Really Got Me" -- but so are a couple of lesser known gems: "Don't You Fret" and "Wait Till the Summer Comes Along." Given the Kinks' proli..."

The Kinks Choral Collection: Ray Davies & the Crouch End Festival Chorus

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"2009 release from legendary British Rock icon Ray Davies, who returns with all your favorite Kinks songs backed by the spectacular Crouch End Festival Chorus. Singer/songwriter Davies fronted The Kinks from their inception in the '60s until their dissolution three decades later in the early '90s (although there have been hints of a reunion in recent years). This must-have album includes brand new ..."

The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society [Audio CD]

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"Ray Davies' sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions. As the opening title song says, the Kinks -- meaning Ray himself, in this case -- were for preserving "draught beer and virginity," and throughout the rest of the album, he create..."

The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) [Audio CD]

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"Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) extends the British-oriented themes of Village Green Preservation Society, telling the story of a London man's decision to move to Australia during the aftermath of World War II. It's a detailed and loving song cycle, capturing the minutiae of suburban life, the numbing effect of bureaucracy, and the horrors of war. On paper, Arthur sounds lik..."

The Kinks - The Songs We Sang for Auntie: BBC Sessions 1964-1977 [Audio CD]

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"Is it possible that the early Kinks could be even rawer and more exciting in BBC halls than on their known Pye Records recordings? Sometimes yes, otherwise very nearly. A few of these -- notably a breathless rave-up of Bo Diddley's "Cadillac" -- are indeed even more spark-ridden than the LP versions. Most of the merely curious will delight in new looks at the punishing stomp of the original blockb..."

The Kinks - Give the People What They Want [Audio CD]

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"Riding high on the success of Low Budget, the Kinks turned out another collection of hard-driving, arena-ready rock & roll with Give the People What They Want -- in short, they delivered exactly what the title suggests. Throughout the record, the band kicks up a storm, rocking out with a surprising amount of precision, and although Ray Davies' writing isn't as strong as it was on the group's two p..."

Kinks (The Ultimate Collection)

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"Now I know I really don't need to tell you how great the Kinks are, that Ray Davies is one of the best songwriters, ever. Of course I don't need to tell you. If you want all their best songs in one handy dandy double-CD, this is it! Waterloo Sunset is one of my favorite songs, EVER! When I go to London someday, the first thing I'm doing is taking my ass to Waterloo Bridge, and seeing first hand a ..."

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Kinks: Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One

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"I'll be the first to admit, I had never heard this album until Wes Anderson decided to put three of its songs in The Darjeeling Limited. It peaked my interest, and I got the full album. I'll say this, the songs in the film are the best three on the album, the album as a whole is great though and not at all what you'd expect from the kinks. Strangers is the best song ever."

Picture Book: The Kinks

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"Attempting to sum up the Kinks' career is a preposterous idea, regardless. However, I like the idea of trying -- even though my appreciation of The Kinks mainly involves Lola vs, Powerman and the Money Go Round"

The Kinks - Misfits [Velvel Bonus Tracks] [Audio CD]

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"The Kinks became arena rockers with Sleepwalker, and its follow-up, Misfits, follows in the same vein, but it's a considerable improvement on its predecessor. Ray Davies has learned how to write within the confines of the arena rock formula, and Misfits is one of rock & roll's great mid-life crisis albums, finding Davies considering whether he should even go on performing. "Misfits," a classic out..."

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies [Bonus Tracks] [Audio CD]

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"How did the Kinks respond to the fresh start afforded by Lola? By delivering a skewed, distinctly British, cabaret take on Americana, all pinned down by Ray Davies' loose autobiography and intense yearning to be anywhere else but here -- or, as he says on the opening track, "I'm a 20th century man, but I don't want to be here." Unlike its predecessors, Muswell Hillbillies doesn't overtly seem like..."

The Kinks - The RCA Years [Audio CD]

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"The 2006 box set The RCA Years collects Velvel's expanded and remastered versions of the Kinks' six albums for RCA (Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation: Act 1, Preservation: Act 2, A Soap Opera, Schoolboys in Disgrace), originally released between 1971 and 1975 and originally reissued in 1998. No new material has been added to this set, so fans who already own these versions..."

The Kinks - Picture Book [Box Set] [Audio CD]

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"One problem with a long wait is that things happen in the interim. In the case of the highly anticipated Kinks box set, these things were a steady stream of reissues and repackages -- some of these were pulled from the shelves before the unveiling of the six-disc Picture Book in late 2008, but at that late date almost all of the Kinks vaults had been emptied on deluxe reissues of every album from ..."

The Kinks - Sleepwalker [Velvel Bonus Tracks] [Audio CD]

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"Arista had made it clear they would not accept any concept albums from the Kinks, and Sleepwalker, their first effort for the label, makes good on the band's promise. Comprised entirely of glossy arena-rockers and power ballads, the album is more of a stylistic exercise than a collection of first-rate songs. Davies contributed a handful of fairly strong songs, highlighted by the exceptional "Juke ..."

The Kinks - Low Budget [Bonus Tracks] [Audio CD]

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"Low Budget doesn't have a narrative like Preservation or Soap Opera, but Ray Davies cleverly designed the album as a sly satire of the recession and oil crisis that gripped America in the late '70s -- thereby satisfying his need to be a wry social commentator while giving American audiences a hook to identify with. It was a clever move that worked; not only did Low Budget become their highest-char..."

The Kinks - One for the Road [Audio CD]

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"The Kinks' scattershot U.S. career never fully flourished like that of their British Invasion peers. The most quintessentially British of British bands -- especially in the increasingly nostalgic songs of vocalist/rhythm guitarist Ray Davies -- the Kinks enjoyed a spike in popularity in America in the late '70s and early '80s. The gold-selling 1980 double-live album One for the Road is a fascinati..."

The Kinks: Albums, Songs, Bios, Photos

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"Formed in 1963 and they are known for some of my all time favorite songs: You Really Got Me and All Day and All of the Night. The Kinks deserve their own tribute page!"

Geox D Kink 7 (Black Leather) - Comfort Dress Boots

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"Moto-y black boots! Geox shoes breathe through the soles so your feet don't get all clamtastic in hot shoes or when you're walking a bunch. Their ads have these mildly unappealing-yet-effective pictures of steam clouds coming out of the bottom of their shoes. While you don't want to get close to one of those clouds, you probably don't want it trapped in your shoe either. Don't underestimate that f..."

Kinks Tailor-fitted Suit Jacket

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"Comes in black or either gray pinstripe..."

One for the Road: The Kinks

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"This live Kinks disc was my first taste of them. Really good live album, with great energy and some in between song banter. They play a lot of their hits, and seem pretty tight musically. Often I find that live albums aren't a good introduction to a new band, but in this case, the album is strong enough that it piqued my interest in the band."

Hellcats, Vixens, & Vicedolls: Women, Crime, and Kink of the Fifties

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"Ohhh, I'm going to loooove reading this! from amazon.com: Review "In Hellcats, Vixens, & Vice Dolls, David Jacobs, noted true crime author of The Mafia's Greatest Hits and Sex Sadists: From The Files Of True Detective Magazine, poses the question, "Which is the deadlier of the species, the female or the male?" in his new collection of true crime tales of mid-century mayhem, USA. "And what..."