The Kink Kontroversy – THE KINKS***

Milk Cow Blues/Ring The Bells/Gotta Get The First Plane Home/When I See That Girl Of Mine/I Am Free/’Till The End Of The Day/The World Keeps Going Round/I’m On An Island/Where Have All The Good Times Gone/Its Too Late/What’s In Store For Me/You Can’t Win

The Kink Kontroversy was the last of The Kinks' heavier bluesy releases. Includes the UK No. 8 single Till The End Of The Day. Ray Davies would now move the band towards a softer, more reflective sound. (UK:9)

"The Kink Kontroversy is a transitional work, with elements of both the earlier Kinks' styles, heavily blues-influenced songs such as Milk Cow Blues and variations on the band's hits such as Till The End Of The Day and early indications of future direction in songwriting styles, The World Keeps Going Round and I'm On An Island."

"Kinks at the Krossroads. Most of the highlights on this one point to the future, while most of the low points lean on the past. Perhaps the most solid-sounding thing on the album is Till The End Of The Day, which simultaneously echoes the power-chord hits of their past and injects a more melodic edge."

"The Kinks, not surprisingly at this stage were very much a singles band, but this was their first noticeable studio album. Ring The Bells and I'm On An Island are especially impressive. At this time very few people would have taken a Kinks' album seriously, but this was thankfully about to change."

"The disparity in the quality of The Kinks singles, where a whole day would be given over to recording the one song, compared to recording an album's worth of songs in a mere matter of days, was always going to be noticed."

"Although The Kinks are most popularly associated with the riff-rock numbers of their early repertoire, and while aficionados endlessly praise the later albums, Kontroversy finds The Kinks in a fruitful mid-period, the emphasis on solidly constructed, folk influenced pop. In case we forget The Kinks are a rock band, they dish up plenty of sneering garage-punk on Till The End Of The Day and Where Have All The Good Times Gone."

"The album is mostly songs in the well known Kinks style. All songs except one are self-penned, and is a mixture of rockers and softer songs."