Talk:The Great Lost Kinks Album

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Tkbrett in topic GA Review

IP comment from 2007 edit

My (1973) LP version of this album includes "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" so it wasn't simply later added to the cassette version. Also your time for the previous song, "The Way Love Used to Be", was wrong, your "3:29" actually being the time for "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", while "The Way Love Used to Be" is actually 2:11 long. In other words, I suspect that someone had dropped a staggered line from the data you were relying on. IanHistor 16:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

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title edit

Can we have a definitive ruling from someone who possesses a copy of the album? Is the song titled "Where did the Spring Go?" or "Where did My Spring Go?" both of which are mentioned in the article. Harfarhs (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

"Where did the spring go" on my LP. I'll tweak the article accordingly. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Songwriter credits edit

The track "Groovy Movies" is a Dave Davies composition and should be noted as such, as it is in the main article. An absence of a credit implies it is a Ray Davies composition per the line "all songs written and composed by Ray Davies, except where noted." ShelbyMarion (talk) 00:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

GA Review edit

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Great Lost Kinks Album/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 20:43, 19 June 2022 (UTC)Reply


Infobox edit

  • Needs alt
  • Added.
  • Genre is not sourced on the in the body of the article
  • I couldn't find anything, so I'll just remove it.
  • I tweaked the studio one, but I'd rather not have them all laid out with "London" for each line when I could just keep it cleaner the way it is with one line. That's the way its done at a FA like Sgt. Pepper. Regarding the producer, this is how its credited on the record.
  • Credited or not like that on the record, you need to comply with the template. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:50, 25 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
  • Fixed.
You hav yet to fix the producer. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:27, 27 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, MarioSoulTruthFan, I hope I'm not seeming obtuse, I didn't understand what you meant and thought this one was sufficient. Is this good? Tkbrett (✉) 19:57, 27 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

  Done

Lead edit

  • Released in the United States in January 1973 →
  • I think you accidentally erased your suggestion.
  • The compilation served to satisfy Reprise Records → satisfy regarding what?
  • Reworded things to be clearer.
  • The Great Lost Kinks Album offered the debut release for many of its tracks → doesn't every album does this? Do you mean the unreleased tracks? be more specific
  • It's a compilation album, which typically have previously released tracks. I tweaked the wording to clarify.
  • No. → number
  • Unless I'm missing something, it's fine by MOS:NUMERO.
  • Template:Numero gives an abbreviation option, so I added it in. I didn't see anything specific at MOS:ABBR about whether the mouse-over tooltip should be used on first mention or for everything use, but I did the former since it lines-up with WP:OVERLINK. What do you think?
  • Mention there was a re-issue of most of these songs
  • Good point – added.
  • Add more detail to the critical reception sentence.
  • Added more.
  • After this split the second paragraph into two
  • Done.

  Done

Background edit

  • Reprise Records' offices, → Reprise Records's offices.
  • Fixed.
  • most of which were → Most of those were
  • Done.
  • LP → studio album
  • Done.
  • "spare tracks" and not assigned a master → "spare tracks" withouth a master
  • The point is that they weren't assigned a master number after he delivered them. I think the reword would make that less clear.
  • songs' → songs's
  • Due to the rejection, Reprise determined → I don't understand the "Due to the rejection" portion, maybe just remove it ad replaced it with "However" or something in that vein. RS's Rob Sheffield wrote, "When the band switched record companies, their old label punished them by rushing out this ragbag of unreleased treasures" → this was the cause then?
  • Because Reprise didn't release Percy in the US, the label's execs figured the Kinks still owed them one more album. I reworded it to make that clearer.

  Done

Song selection edit

  • of Kink Kronikles – a reference to → of Kink Kronikles. It was a reference to
  • Done.
  • In the early 1970s, compilation albums collecting previously unreleased material had become increasingly common among record labels seeking to undermine bootleg recordings; comparable contemporary examples include the Who's Odds and Sods (1974) and Jefferson Airplane's Early Flight (1974), though they differed in that the labels sought approval from the bands before their release → I can see the reasoning for this sentence until the ";" Afterwards you just lost me, its too much detail for something unrelated to the album.
  • Fair enough. Cut it.
  • from the aborted → from the unreleased
  • Done.
  • No. → number
  • See above.

  Done

Release and commercial performance edit

  • Is the catalog number essential information?
  • Not really. Cut it.
  • wrote liner notes for the album → which one? Is confusing because you mention another compilation album beforehead
  • Clarified.
  • Can note three be written in the text? As a form of comparison.
  • Sure, brought it into the body.
  • No. → number
  • See above.

  Done

Contemporary reviews edit

  • to Reprise' → to Reprise's
  • Fixed.
  • resolved → this is not an appropriate word for this article
  • Reworded.
  • "Waterloo Sunset" or "Lola", → year of release between brackets
  • Added.
  • In the Los Angeles Times, critic → Los Angeles Times's critic
  • Done.
  • mentioned the same songs → mentioned the latter two songs, he also mentioned "Victoria"
  • I reworded it as  ...mentioned the same songs and "Victoria" (1969) ...
  • of the underground newspaper → of the newspaper
  • Done.

  Done

Retrospective assessment edit

  • LP's → album's
  • Done.
  • as the LP's highlights. → as the highlights
  • Done.

  Done

Track listing edit

  • Couldn't the notes here be included on another section of the article?
  • The only comparable example I can think of is the FA for Aftermath, which includes a note regarding the different spelling of "Paint It Black" at each first linking. I tried consolidating it all in one note in the Release section, along with a mention in the body about the different spellings.
  • Writing credits are per Doug Hinman. → Don't you already have this on the body of the article?
  • I don't think so.

  Done

Personnel edit

  • Fine

Charts edit

  • Fine

Notes edit

  • See on other sections.

References edit

  • Source check: 5, 8, 11, 21, 32, 26, 40, 54, 55 and Gunton 1982
  • AllMusic is publisher
  • Fixed.

  Done

External links edit

  • Fine

Overall edit