Kinda Kinks – THE KINKS***

Look For Me Baby/Got My Feet On The Ground/Nothin’ In The World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl/ Naggin’ Woman/Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight/Tired Of Waiting For You/Dancing In The Street/Don’t Ever Change/Come On Now/So Long/You Shouldn't Be Sad/Something Better Beginning

Kinda Kinks was the follow up album from London beat group The Kinks. Includes the chart topping hit single Tired Of Waiting For You. Compared with their first album this one contains more Ray Davies' originals. (UK:3)

"Tired Of Waiting For You had a nagging and addictive riff, but placed within a quiet, reflective song. A sudden change that revealed that yes, these Kinks fellows really did have something to offer after all."

"Not a great deal better in the way of things than their debut, but a breakthrough all the same. Major point in question: an absolute majority of the songs on this album are originals, something that wasn't yet quite the norm at the beginning of 1965. Not that Ray's attitude towards songwriting had changed all that much - he still views 'pop songs' as two and a half minutes of simplistic teenage love sentiment, a long way to go to reach his 'socially conscious' heights of the mid-sixties."

"The most striking songs on the Kinda Kinks album are unquestionably Tired Of Waiting For You (their third hit single) and Something Better Beginning. Still a bit under arranged and under produced, the most gorgeous thing about them is Ray's singing. Obviously untrained, obviously unprofessional, obviously a little shaky and uncertain, obviously so much in violation of the general unwritten rules for pop singing. The rest of the album doesn't look all that wonderful, but still most of the songs are an improvement over Kinks."

"The main problem with this album is that, while the Kinks' main strength was still in the area of straight rock, we're presented here with mostly ballads. Ray Davies simply wasn't up to scratch in the ballad department (not until later, anyway), and for me, this makes Kinda Kinks a notch or two lower than the first album."

"The sounds and words tell of a more innocent and creative time, where two very young brothers and their mates were beginning to evolve a poetic and distinctively English brand of pop-rock, less beholden to the American R & B and rock and roll beloved of The Beatles, Stones and The Who. More polished albums (and several masterpieces) were to come."