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The Great Lost Kinks Album
Compilation album by The Kinks
Released	1973
Recorded	Various times
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	37:15
Label	Reprise Records
Producer(s)	Various
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The Kinks chronology
Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972)	The Great Lost Kinks Album (1973)	Preservation: Acts 1 & 2 (1973)

The Great Lost Kinks Album is a 1973 LP collection of unreleased material issued by Reprise Records, after The Kinks had moved to RCA. The tracks were recorded between 1966 and 1970, and master tapes were shipped to the US Reprise Label in the early 1970's to fulfill contractual obligations with that label. Kinks leader and songwriter Ray Davies intended the songs to remain unreleased "collateral" tracks for Reprise. Davies and the Kinks management were not forewarned of the album, and they learned of it from the US Billboard record chart. Davies instituted legal action against Reprise, which resulted in the Reprise discontinuing the album in 1975. It became an immediate collector's item, and most of the songs remained officially unreleased until the 1998 reissue of Kinks albums with bonus tracks. Some are still available only on old LPs or unofficial bootleg albums. Several of these were released on the 1971 Reprise compilation Kink Kronikles.

The name is a reference to an album that was set to be released by Reprise in 1969 but was held back, eventually morphing into The Village Green Preservation Society. So many rumors circulated about the unissued record that "great lost Kinks album" became a catch phrase.

The songs include a number of unused album tracks, a British single (Plastic Man), a film theme (Till Death Do Us Part), songs written exclusively for British television (Where Did the Spring Go?, When I Turn Out the Living Room Light), and several Dave Davies recordings.

• All songs by Ray Davies, except (*) by Dave Davies

1. "Til Death Do Us Part" – 3:12
2. "There Is No Life Without Love" – 1:55
3. "Lavender Hill" – 2:53
4. "Groovy Movies" – 2:30
5. "Rosemary Rose" – 1:43
6. "Misty Water" – 3:01
7. "Mister Songbird" – 2:24
8. "When I Turn off the Living Room Light" – 2:17
9. "The Way Love Used to Be" – 3:29
10. "Plastic Man" – 3:00
11. "This Man He Weeps Tonight"* – 2:38
12. "Pictures in the Sand" – 2:45
13. "Where Did My Spring Go?" – 2:10

(The cassette version also includes "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"

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