Face to Face

I'm not sure how many Kink's albums we have heard on this list, but by this point I'd say it's too many. Not because they are bad, but because they all sound the same. They have their own sound...kind of a UK rock type thing (super rare on this list), but that sound is the same on all albums. At a certain point, unless the albums themselves are very different, there shouldn't be that many multiples of the same group.

Woof. Our fourth, yes you heard that right, fourth album from the Kinks, a band that prior to this list I would've considered a one hit wonder. I just took the time to scroll through their single discography on Wikipedia, and I'll upgrade them to "two hit wonder" for "You Really Got Me" and "Lola." Here's my problem: are they a good band? Surely, and they deserve A place on this list. But do they deserve four places on this list? Well, considering that NONE of the albums featuring the two hits I described are among the four, absolutely not. My suggestion: whittle this down to a max of two albums from the Kinks, which has got to be Village Green Preservation Society and one other. The other two slots can be used to inject this list with some life to balance out what feels like a lot of repetition. Anyway this album is just fine. Favorite tracks: Rainy Day in June, Holiday in Waikiki. Album art: Really dig this one! Such a cool, colorful cover, really like the art style (is it watercolor?). A shame that my rant had to fall to this one because it just looks fantastic. 2.5/5

2.5

A great 'Day in the Life' album. A very progressive and influential album that is unfortunately overshadowed by the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, and for good reason. Although very enjoyable, it never reaches the heights that its competitors earned.

60-luku pop rock bändi. Beatles mainittu 123 kertaa. EI KUULOSTA OLLEENKAAN... niin paljon eroavaisuuksia ... ensinnäkin se, että ei harkinnassa ole mitään nelposia tai vitosia heheh kaukana KAUKANA siitä kinkkerit, kinkkuset. ykkösen ja kakkosen välisellä aidalla taiteillaan tämä matka heh.. aivo kuolma sunny afternoon

Decent to have on in the background, but like the other Kinks album I've had on the project, just not engaging enough for me. 2.5/5

Never got into the Kinks. After hearing this, still not into them.

Pretty sure the kinks just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Some of it does though.

I tried to find a great song, but it seemed a challenge on this sixties-sounding album. Sunny Afternoon was probably the only highlight for me. 2.4/5

Perfectly serviceable mid 1960s album. Nothing mind-blowing or anything but easy to listen to while doing other stuff. I would rather listen to some of their contemporaries before listening to this again.

This is the worst Beatles album I've ever heard

---REDACTED--- look, i know you never ought to bite the hand that feeds you, and here we worship at the altar of our glorious leader r o b e r t d i m e r y (praise be to the dime) who conceived this glorious list. however, does anyone actually care about this fucking album? the kinks my god - they could have picked lola vs moneygoround which has lola and apeman etc on it. or their debut. sunny afternoon is a classic obviously but the rest, ah. is anyone really touched by davies' repeated and robotic scathing satires on such badies as the dandy and the session man? now please do not let my heartfelt concern and love for the direction and stated purpose of this institution be confused for heretical or treasonous behav... (the rest of the page is illegible as it is covered with blood and bits of brain) ---REDACTED---

I thought this was ok but like thoroughly underwhelming and forgettable.

This was just ok. I kind of lost interest in it a few times over the course of my listen. Sounds like lots of other stuff from that era. Probably wouldn't choose to listen to again.

"baroque pop"...? British invasion pop has become less and less appealing to me as I grow older. There are some good songs on here but this Beatles-esqe, harmonizing pop isn't my favorite genre.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah it’s decent Favourite song: Track 13 - Sunny Afternoon

Is there a good kinks album? I think I’ve listened to 3 or 4 and this one finally features one of their singles.

This invokes no emotion in me. I could listen to it multiple times and still wouldn’t be able to give any details about any single song. 4/10

Not a fan of the Kinks

Oh, another Beatles clone from the 60's, cool.

not their best effort.

Very tame album considering what i usually expect from the kinks. Felt more like a beatles ripoff than anything else. Sunny Afternoon is good though

It’s alright I liked one song

Fantastic lyrics. Music more in the average

A different sound than the familiar hits from them…starts heavily anti-war and then becomes almost child-like later. “Australia” is hilarious propaganda that was worth listening to for the laugh.

hymn to the unknown session musician

Meh

Some good tracks but a sound I can't get immersed in.

This is one of those albums that seems to have been included just because of English bias in the process. I'm sure it may have been great at one time, but I'm calling it a has-been with an attractive song or two.

We've made it through our 4th and final album by the Kinks, and you've gotta give it up for their consistency. I was consistently underwhelmed by the Kinks for all four albums. Occasionally decent, but never great, the Kinks likely deserve inclusion the list but not four entries. "Face to Face" was almost the worst of them. The first four tracks almost chased me away, but I stuck around and was rewarded with "Rainy Day in June" and "House in the Country," where I started to see the Kinks' potential. The middle of the album continued to achieve those lofty heights of decency, but it tailed off again at the end. But I think "Dandy" and "Session Man" are enough to keep the album at a 2 rather than a 3.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person seeking to enjoy Kinks music, must be in want of a best-of album. Otherwise, said person will endure many a duds of a style that has aged badly. Even on a Sunday afternoon.

Kind of hard to believe this group who at the time was trying desperately to be the Beatles with hints of the Grateful Dead would go on to help shape and define punk rock.

hell naw

Lasts for only one sunny afternoon.

2 Not my thing. Sounds like British version of country songs

A little repetitive. Wouldn’t listen again.

Bit boring

It has that one nice track on it, otherwise its not super exciting

Trying too hard to sound like the Beatles (I previously thought sunny afternoon was the Beatles!). The 'baroque pop' elements are bizzare. Best songs were the more straightforward ones, enjoyed little miss queen of darkness.

Sounded like The Beatles but not as good.

eh, kinks came and went

I can see why it is a significant album given the time during which it was recorded and released. Not many of the tracks do all that much for me but that really is a matter of personal taste. This is a talented band.

was oke maar te lang

Viel me niet echt iets speciaals op

I find this kind music is only ok in short time frames kind of in the background. So to intently listen to this entire album where every song is like 7 minutes was quite a chore. I don't know how some people can just listen to these 7+ minute songs of like looping beats and patterns without being extremely bored. This would be a 1.5 if I could give it that.

Get The Beatles, and take away the production value and songwrighting abilities. You'll probably get this, a very mediocre 60s pop record. 2/5

This album sounds so damn dated. The styling and sound is peak 60s. so if thats your thing this probably a 10/10 record. and there are parts I like. Its just that there are more things I am not liking.

Assumed I would enjoy more

I think to appreciate this one I have to put it in 1966 context. It came out a couple months after Revolver. Nice inoffensive pop rock. But little to grab you, tweak your expectations, or surprise you. (prior listen)

Was unfamiliar with The Kinks but liked it more than I thought I would.

Third Kinks album, third time I didn't need to hear The Kinks. Third time I've considered giving the kinks a 1, but I still want to reserve those for real utter stinkers. 2/5.

Pure Ray Davies vocals. I liked some other Kinks albums better.

A little uninspiring. Consider that the Beatles released Revolver in the same year - that album blows Face to Face out of the water when it comes to production, pushing musical and lyrical limits, etc. I suppose it’s a little unfair to compare though. Some standout moments but altogether too forgettable.

It's inevitable that the Kinks would get compared to the Beatles because they both had a very similar Baroque pop sound in the mid 60s. However, when the Beatles were putting out Revolver in 1966, the Kinks released Face to Face. Apart from Sunny Afternoon and the pretty album cover nothing on this album really sticks out or catches my attention though.

Rainy Day in June Holiday in Waikiki

Un tanto monocorde. Mismo ritmo en casi todas las canciones. Fácil de escuchar, pero un poco facilón

I'm sure I would've listened to these guys if I was alive in 1966, but today I simply get nothing from this album. A few decent tracks and a lot of below average ones. It's all just a little too dated for my liking.

Hey Siri what does foppish mean?

Meh

Alright sound but too generic 60s for me

This is something of a timepiece. I'm not sure that I could give it repeat listens. It sounds like a work in progress and an indicator for what was to come. Sunny Afternoon stands out, but the rest wasn't the high standard of a Kinks Greatest Hits. At least I now know where The Coral lifted most of their ideas from.

Think the person who put this list together has just done something like 'oh The Kinks, put their entire back catalogue on the list', because Face to Face is obviously the work of a skilled band and enjoyable in places, but not outstanding anywhere.

Net iets te zweverig en te weinig stevig volgens ik verwachte

Zu viele Kinks-Alben, ich weiß nicht, was mit den Autoren dieses Buches los ist, ein Kinks- Album hätte gereicht. Insgesamt eher durchwachsenes Album, größtenteils gewöhnliche Sixties-Musik und damit langweilig. Dandy kannte ich sogar.

For those who wish Wes Anderson directed every movie. I'm a huge fan of The Kinks, but this is not their finest hour. I have to think "Sunny Afternoon" is the only reason it made the list. Sunny Afternoon aside, it's something of a snooze.

Sunday afternoon is a solid tune, but come on Kinks, you’re better than this.

Two Kinks albums in like a week? Felt like the other album was better. This doesn't do much for me.

Dull

I do not understand why this album is on the list. The Kinks (especially in the 60s) were a great singles band, but those best songs were usually not included on albums. And this album is a prime example of not containing singles; Sunny Afternoon is a bit of a classic, and A House in the Country got a bit of love during Britpop, but otherwise, these are not A-list songs from the Kinks. I have been reading pop music history for 40 years, and I don't think I have ever heard mention of this album. I rate the Kinks singles, but this album? Why the hell is this on the must-hear list? Someone has a fondness for 60s Kinks, and felt the need to include something, so they put this down. I honestly feel like it was a waste of time listening to this album. Not much to recommend. Get a Kinks singles compilation instead.

Sounds very dated, not much magic hidden here.

2/5 naaah

Rebuscado

Disappointing. There were a couple of songs I enjoyed.

Almost unlistenable.

Didn’t really enjoy it but glad for the listen.

Not the beatles

we'll see... ug. 2?

Was ok few good songs

All right I suppose.

Känner mig rätt likgiltig inför detta album, har verkligen ingen åsikt, varken bra eller dålig kritik att dela ut...

pretty pringle but doesn't really bingle my tingle

There's better Kinks albums than this one

liked this, but nothing spectacular

Meh, Sunny Afternoon has always been enjoyable to me but otherwise nothing really stands out here for me 🤷🏼‍♂️

Nothing stood out as exceptional or noteworthy. Decent album but it didn’t leave much of an impression on me

Nah. ⭐️⭐️

Viiiiele Tracks. Wenig für die Ewigkeit.

Overall enjoyable but needs more variation - blends into an indiscernible amalgam of Beatle-esque jangle pop after a while.

Just a bit rubbish

Okay

It was okay.

Questo disco non riesce ad arrivarmi, suona troppo distante nel tempo e monotono. Ho fatto molta fatica a finirlo.

Wasn’t very impressed by this album.

Not one of my top 100 bands

Didn't enjoy

couple of good tracks but quite samey and didn't really connect with the 'concept album' thing. 2.

Pretty fun baroque pop album, but not for me. (aaaaa too many mixes)

Didnt get much of a chance to listen but also dont want to go back and listen, so maybe a 3

This felt unremarkable.

gave up after a couple of songs. seemed fine. beatles esque

Decent, but would rather be listening to the beatles.

A few decent tracks, but generally not really my bag. Stand out tracks: Rainy Day in June Fancy Sunny Afternoon

Older beatles ? Dunno

Didn’t like this one as much as the other Kinks album. Idk

Äh decent

"A Well Respected Man" is repulsive.

Ugh one hit in the whole album.

Everything sounds bad. Bad recordings of stupid songs. Too much harpsichord. Annoying

I hate the sound of everything

The sixties....please let me out....please............

I am sick to death of 60s era British rock albums. Once you heard one you truly have heard them all. I don’t care if this is considered one of Rock music’s first concept albums it isn’t good.

sounds bland

Eh

Ugh... third day in a row of 60's British rock... Look, the algorithm can't be held accountable for what's on this questionable list, but it certainly can be blamed for the order it queues this shit up. Do better. Of these last three albums, this is easily the worst - so, I can confidently toss this dross a 1.

What a waste of an entry. Just give me another Beatles album that I can rate moderately high. That would cover this genre finely enough, and won’t be so offensive.

I actively dislike this. Satire with no poetry. The instrumentation is mechanical and the vocals are uninteresting. Too many vocal melodies sound the same. Bad record, desperately wanted it to be over by song nine. Village Green is *so* much better.

It had some nice vocal lines but it's not enough. It's just Beatles reloaded. The blessing for Beatles is the curse for most 60s same sounding bands, because they did it first. Also they did it a bit better.

Highly parochial and backwards looking sixties stuff. Nice enough melodies but nothing interesting.

Just really boring.

Zuviel 60s

Nightmare.

Not my cup of tea

Jako loše. Veselim se nekom dobrom albumu for a change. 1/5, 1/10

1.5

The Kinks? I thought this was the Beatles. Or the Monkees. Or any one of half a dozen crap British pop bands from the era. This does not belong on the list.

60's England, clearly, did not put out a lot of quality rock bands. I haven't forgotten about the Rolling Stones or the Who, but with competition like The Kinks, I completely understand why people latched onto The Beatles. Boring as shit. There are some decent vocal performances, but I can't stand The Kinks. "House in the Country" sounds like a Stones ripoff

taxes too high and shit music, they were ahead of their time

Mum: We have The Beatles at home

beatles parempi..

Brain fryer

I think I enjoyed one song. Not my cup of tea (get it? They're English...)

This sounds like value brand Beatles… Seeing how I don’t really enjoy the original flavor I’m surprisingly not into this either. I was going to say 2 stars since it didn’t actively annoy me but after 11 songs I had to move on so I’m dropping this one down to 1 star. I did go and listen to Face to Face the band afterwards so there is that.

I really wanted this to be less like the Beatles and more like their self-titled item (a little more garage rock). I did not like this album and I knew I wasn't gonna like it based on the album cover ----

Kinda shit, too old of music I couldn’t even really finish it. 1/5

I didn't think it was that incredible. The Kinks can write and record a good song but their albums are always lackluster.

Dated banal lyrics trying to be the beatles (no caps).

Not for me.

A bit like The Beatles. A bit like The Grateful Dead. Chill vibes. All that being said, this one just wasn’t my cup of tea.

Nothing to write home about

0.5/5 unlistenable

Pretty forgettable, tbh.

Album you hear 1001 milliseconds before you die. This shit is so bad it makes me want to commit sudoku. Genuinely the worst entry on this list by far (so far), I have absolutely no fucking clue why this is on the list.

I don’t think this has aged well. Not my thing.

This album is meh, didn't really like any of the songs, but I didn't hate them either. It was just kinda like noise going into my ear. Favorite song: Little queen of darkness Worst song: Session man

Glaube war nicht meins, eingeschlafen. Eher so school-indie/Pop punk

Ducking atrocious

(1.8) I like a few songs from The Kinks, unfortunately they are not on this album.

Not a fan. Seems vapid, at best

Didn't like it

The unsurprising boring, bland, generic sound of the 60's.

Meh..

Uff, schepperndes trallala, das Zeichen der swingin‘ sixties. Ich hab mich daran nie so recht laben wollen, selbst in UK affinen Phasen des Musik Konsums. Lichtblick „Sunny Afternoon“ kann da auch nicht viel rausholen Angestaubte 0.8

Typical 60's British invasion rock. I enjoy it sometimes but 20 tracks? Couldn't finish every song.

Well, looks like I still don't like 60's music. I'm sure this is great, but it's not my bag.

I'm really just not a fan of the British Invasion, with the exception of The Who

More fun than I was expecting, I thought that this would be more punk but it's more like the Beatles.

okay

3/5

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