The Kinks Greatest: Celluloid Heroes

The Kinks Greatest: Celluloid Heroes was an interesting record hated by most over the years. It recieved such poor ratings because during the bands time at RCA records the Kinks wrote a series of concept records and towards the end they pieced together a "greatest hits" consisting of random picks from said concept albums. So more or less your listening to bits and pieces of various stories.

Any other band I would hate this. I hate...hate...hate "greatest hits" records because there almost always a poor example of the band tossing in a couple singles and maybe 1 or 2 B-sides to try to save a little dignity for the band and label. This on the other hand is a brilliant representation with nothing but catchy, sometimes deep, but overall excellent songs. Id say find this on vinyl if you have a record player for the full effect.

If you dig the individual tracks do a little research and get into the concept albums.

tracks to pay extra special attention to include...
-20th century man
-alcohol (later covered by the murder city devils....awesome...)
-everybody's a star

-Justin