I'm not a big fan of compilations: why watch a compilation random scenes from a director's movies instead of, you know, one of the actual movies? Same basic principle anyway.
But this collection's an exception, partially because it draws from a legitimate, well-defined era of the band, where there was a particular theme being approached from a variety of angles (broadly, defiance of modernity), and it just so happened to be an era PACKED with great music. Further, while all the era's albums were solid (Village Green and Arthur in particular) none of them had a really unassailable overall flow, and none of them were wall-to-wall with great songs. So cherry-picking doesn't necessarily put you behind. The fact that there's an unusually excellent selection of non-album tracks filling in the gaps seals the deal.
I'd still stick with the original albums in most cases, cause I'm a weirdo purist like that, but this is an undeniably rock solid collection of songs with an arc as good as any of its sources'. You could do a lot worse than this as a Kinks starting point, and shit, if you're exempt from my particular hangups, its a pretty good ending point, too 4.5/5
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