Come Dancing with The Kinks
Come Dancing with The Kinks: The Best of 1977–1986 | ||||
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Compilation album by the Kinks | ||||
Released | 2 June 1986 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 80:48 (1986) 77:59 (2000) | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Producer | Dave Nives | |||
the Kinks chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | B– |
Come Dancing with The Kinks: The Best of 1977-1986 is a double album compilation by the Kinks, released on Arista Records in 1986. It contains thirteen tracks released as singles, only one of which did not also appear on album, and six album tracks. Every one of the band's seven albums released by Arista during the time period indicated is represented here. Designed specifically for the American market, it peaked at No. 159 on the Billboard 200 and failed to chart in the United Kingdom. A version for compact disc was issued in 2000 by Koch Records. Liner notes are by John Swenson, and the original recordings were produced by Ray Davies.
Content
This album comprises a survey of the band's output during their second period of commercial success after their early hits of the mid-1960s, this success predominantly in the United States. After four moderately successful concept albums for their previous label, RCA Records, their contract was not renewed. In 1976 they signed with a company recently launched by ex-Columbia Records head Clive Davis, Arista, making one live and six studio albums for the label during a stay of a decade. In an effort to reverse diminishing cash flow, the band jettisoned the horn players, back-up singers, and the theatricality of the mid-1970s work and embraced the arena rock styles of the period. Ray Davies decamped to New York and worked to write songs with the commercial American market in mind:
I started working with Clive. I think Sleepwalker was an attempt to make it more palatable to radio and that's why Clive wanted to get involved. I was working with him very closely in those days. I rented an apartment in New York, and I would take my demo tapes into his office, he'd play the songs and make comments, and I would go back and work on them.[2]
Of the songs on the album, "A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy", "Come Dancing", and "Don't Forget to Dance" made the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, with two just missing at number 41: "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" and "Do It Again". Six consecutive albums covered by this compilation—Sleepwalker, Misfits, Low Budget, One for the Road, Give the People What They Want, and State of Confusion—all placed in the top 15 on the Billboard 200. Their final studio album for the label, Word of Mouth is also represented in this collection. The band left the label by 1986 for their next album, Think Visual.
The original 1986 CD version varies from the original LP release, removing "Sleepwalker, "Catch Me Now I'm Falling", and "Misfits" entirely. This version also has the longer album version of "Don't Forget to Dance". Aside from the removal of those three tracks, the running order is maintained.[3] These changes result in a new runtime of 69:53. Good The 2000 reissue changes the album considerably. It replaces the singles versions of "Catch Me Now I'm Falling", "Sleepwalker", "Misfits", and "Don't Forget to Dance" with the longer album versions, replaces the single of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" with the 12" disco mix, deletes the intro to "Lola" and the live version of "Celluloid Heroes", deletes "Juke Box Music", "Long Distance", and "Heart of Gold," and adds "A Gallon of Gas", "Full Moon", and "Good Day". It also alters the running order.
All songs were written by Ray Davies, except for "Living on a Thin Line" by Dave Davies. First release as single or on album indicated by catalog number or title.
Track listing
Side one
No. | Title | Source album or single catalog number | Length |
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1. | "You Really Got Me" (live) | One for the Road | 3:40 |
2. | "Destroyer" | Give the People What They Want | 3:44 |
3. | "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" | Low Budget | 3:38 |
4. | "Juke Box Music" | Sleepwalker | 3:42 |
5. | "A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy" | Misfits | 4:58 |
Side two
No. | Title | Source album or single catalog number | Length |
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1. | "Come Dancing" | State of Confusion | 3:54 |
2. | "Sleepwalker" | Sleepwalker | 3:27 |
3. | "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" | Low Budget | 4:02 |
4. | "Do It Again" | Word of Mouth | 4:09 |
5. | "Better Things" | Give the People What They Want | 2:58 |
Side three
No. | Title | Source album or single catalog number | Length |
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1. | "Lola" (live) | One for the Road | 5:42 |
2. | "Low Budget" | Arist 240b | 3:46 |
3. | "Long Distance" | State of Confusion | 5:20 |
4. | "Heart of Gold" | State of Confusion | 4:02 |
5. | "Don't Forget to Dance" | State of Confusion | 4:15 |
Side four
No. | Title | Source album or single catalog number | Length |
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1. | "Misfits" | Misfits | 4:19 |
2. | "Living on a Thin Line" | Word of Mouth | 4:12 |
3. | "Father Christmas" | Arist 153 | 3:39 |
4. | "Celluloid Heroes" (live) | One for the Road | 7:21 |
2000 compact disc reissue
No. | Title | Source album or single catalog number | Length |
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1. | "Come Dancing" | Arist 502 | 3:56 |
2. | "Low Budget" | Arist 240b | 3:49 |
3. | "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" | Low Budget | 5:59 |
4. | "A Gallon of Gas" | Low Budget | 3:50 |
5. | "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" | Arist 12240 | 6:00 |
6. | "Sleepwalker" | Sleepwalker | 4:04 |
7. | "Full Moon" | Sleepwalker | 3:52 |
8. | "Misfits" | Misfits | 4:42 |
9. | "A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy" | Misfits | 5:01 |
10. | "Do It Again" | Word of Mouth | 4:11 |
11. | "Better Things" | Arist 415 | 2:59 |
12. | "Lola" (live) | One for the Road | 4:47 |
13. | "You Really Got Me" (live) | One for the Road | 3:40 |
14. | "Good Day" | Word of Mouth | 4:35 |
15. | "Living on a Thin Line" | Word of Mouth | 4:16 |
16. | "Destroyer" | Give the People What They Want | 3:47 |
17. | "Don't Forget to Dance" | State of Confusion | 4:39 |
18. | "Father Christmas" | Arist 153 | 3:42 |
References
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- Mick Avory
- Pete Quaife
- John Dalton
- John Gosling
- Andy Pyle
- Jim Rodford
- Ian Gibbons
- Bob Henrit
- Gordon John Edwards
- Mark Haley
- Kinks (1964)
- Kinks-Size (1965; US-only)
- Kinda Kinks (1965)
- Kinkdom (1965; US-only)
- The Kink Kontroversy (1965)
- Face to Face (1966)
- Something Else (1967)
- Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
- Arthur (1969)
- Lola Versus Powerman (1970)
- Percy (1971)
- Muswell Hillbillies (1971)
- Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972)
- Preservation Act 1 (1973)
- Preservation Act 2 (1974)
- Soap Opera (1975)
- Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975)
- Sleepwalker (1977)
- Misfits (1978)
- Low Budget (1979)
- Give the People What They Want (1981)
- State of Confusion (1983)
- Word of Mouth (1984)
- Think Visual (1986)
- UK Jive (1989)
- Phobia (1993)
- Live at Kelvin Hall (1968)
- One for the Road (1980)
- Live: The Road (1988)
- To the Bone (1994/1996)
- BBC Sessions: 1964–1977 (2001)
- Kinksize Session (1964)
- Kwyet Kinks (1965)
- The Kinks Greatest Hits! (1966)
- Well Respected Kinks (1966)
- Sunny Afternoon (1967)
- Then Now and Inbetween (1969)
- The Kink Kronikles (1972)
- The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973)
- Come Dancing with The Kinks (1986)
- The Kinks Are Well Respected Men (1987)
- The Ultimate Collection (2002)
- Picture Book (2008)
- Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies (2012)
- The Essential Kinks (2014)
- Four More Respected Gentlemen
- A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)
- Discography
- Band members
- Session performers: Clem Cattini, Bobby Graham, Nicky Hopkins
- Konk
- The Kast Off Kinks
- Argent
- X-Ray
- Do It Again
- Give the People What We Want: Songs of The Kinks
- Sunny Afternoon (musical)
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