Album · The Kinks
Kinks by The Kinks
Kinks is an album by The Kinks, released in 1964. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 65 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “You Really Got Me”, on 65 lists with a best position of #22.
Kinks, the debut long-player from the London band the Kinks, came out on Pye on 2 October 1964, with Shel Talmy producing. Americans got it that November on Reprise under another name, You Really Got Me, with three tracks lopped off. The lineup is the classic one: Ray Davies singing and on rhythm guitar, his brother Dave on lead, Pete Quaife on bass and Mick Avory on drums.
Everything here orbits "You Really Got Me", Ray's song and the group's third single, a brute of a record, all crunch and menace, that went to the top in Britain and cracked the Top 10 in the States. Around it the Kinks are still a young rhythm-and-blues outfit feeding on American R&B and rock and roll, beat-boom kids with sharper teeth than most of the pack.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Kinks on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Really Got Me#496 of all time | 65 | #22 | – | 1982–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.