You Really Got Me - The Best Of

The album is great; the songs make you smile and laugh (my favourite line on the whole album being in Lola – “Now I’m not the world’s most physical guy, but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine. Oh my Lola…”

If you have never had a Kinks album before then you will probably be surprised at how many songs you recognise too.

This is a real foot-tapping album for me which evokes all sorts of feeling including different seasons (e.g. when I listen to Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset I close my eyes and feel as though I’m basking in the sun listening to great tunes when really I’m huddled over my computer on a freezing day when the boiler has broken down!)

A highly recommended album and one which won’t disappoint.


Listening to it all day and all of the night   July 4, 2005
 9 out of 19 found this review helpful

Before i got this album for 6.99 euros (bout 9.50) I'd never heard a Kinks song in my life. Apart from You Really Got Me that is, but everybody's heard that. Anyway, i was really pleased cos at 6.99 it was a bargain and it's such a deadly album. Theres only 1 crappy thing about it: it doesnt have David Watts. I only heard that song through The Jam, then listened to kinks version on my friends kinks album. Its a good song, but the songs Lola, You Really Got Me, All Day And All Of The Night, Dedicated follower Of Fashion, Sunny Afternoon and especially Waterloo Sunset are all brilliant. Buy this album or go back to loserville.


Kinks all the way!!! They Really got me!!,   December 27, 2002
 19 out of 25 found this review helpful

I got this album when I was a wee lass, and I am delighted to find it on CD to give me the listening pleasure (sorry, I wore that puppy out!!) I have so missed.

This album was, at that time, all their biggest hits to date and that was a lot!!! From the first time I heard YOU REALLY GOT ME, Ray Davies and her brother Dave set themselves far apart from the rest of the British Rock Invasion. Their sound was pulsing, vital, gritty, raw and really got me!!!

So any Kink fan - THIS IS A MUST!!! And if you have not discovered the Kinks (what planet are you from again???) this is a great introduction.


It really is the best of...   July 4, 2002
 15 out of 16 found this review helpful

If you like the kinks, then you probably already have this album. If you don't, then buy it quick. It contains all their best (and most famous) songs.

If you don't think you know who the kinks are, or any of their works, your probably wrong. Their songs have been covered many times, and even the bad covers are normally quite good. Combine that with advert soundtracks, and you've probably heard all the songs on the album already.

As for the songs themselves, they are all classics. From the cheery happiness of Sunny Afternoon to the total gender bending ridiculousness of Lola, from the upbeat bounciness of Dedicated Follower of Fashion to the utter brilliance of Waterloo Sunset, the songs are all superb.

In a word, the kinks were great. To find a best of which actually contains a lot of good songs is rare. To find one from a band who influenced so many others is even rarer. Buy it now