Release date: 29-09-2005 (originally releasd in 1965)

2001 issue UK 14-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL a reissue of the very-hard-to-find 1965 Japanese version of 'The Kinks' featuring the original cover artwork and including the classic single 'You Really Got Me', presented in sticker-sealed PVC dust jacket. reprint in 2005

Tracks:
01. Beautiful Delilah
02. So Mystifying
03. Just Can't Go To Sleep
04. Long Tall Shorty
05. I Took My Baby Home
06. I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
07. You Really Got Me
08. Cadillac
09. Bald Headed Woman
10. Revenge
11. Too Much Monkey Business
12. I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain
13. Stop Your Sobbin'
14. Got Love If You Want It

Say it's early 1965, you're an American record company executive who's just seen two new singles by one of those British rock & roll bands on your label shoot up the charts, and there's no album to go with them; what do you do? Given the startling number of original pop masterpieces the Kinks are responsible for composing, it is ironic to think that they began life primarily as an R&B cover band. Their 1964 debut, in fact, featured several R&B classics, like Chuck Berry's "Beautiful Delilah" and Bo Diddley's "Cadillac," but it was the original material, like "You Really Got Me" and "So Mystifying" that made it a British pop classic and helped the Davies brothers take their first historic step in cementing their role as one of the most influential and innovative bands in pop history.