Kinks to Release First Career Retrospective Box Set

The Kinks will release their first ever box set on December 8 when Picture Book becomes available from Sanctuary/Universal.

The 6-CD set contains 130 tracks ranging from their biggest hits to rarities, demos and live tracks. Included are a few tracks from the pre-Kinks band, the Ravens.

Accompanying the discs is a 60-page book with a biography, timeline and numerous previouly unpublished photos.

The track list:

• Disc 1
  • Brian Matthew Introduces the Kinks
  • You Really Got Me
  • I'm a Hog for You Baby
  • I Believed You
  • Long Tall Sally
  • I Don't Need You Anymore
  • Stop Your Sobbing
  • I Gotta Move
  • Don't Ever Let Me Go
  • All Day and All of the Night
  • Tired of Waiting for You
  • Come on Now (outtake with two false starts)
  • There Is a New World Opening for Me (Kassner publishing demo)
  • Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
  • Who'll Be the Next in Line
  • Time Will Tell
  • Set Me Free
  • I Need You
  • See My Friend
  • Wait Till the Summer Comes Along
  • I Go to Sleep
  • A Little Bit of Sunlight (Kassner publishing demo)
  • This I Know (demo)
  • A Well Respected Man
  • This Strange Effect (With Brian Matthew speaking over intro)
  • Milk Cow Blues
  • Ring the Bells
  • I'm on an Island
  • Till the End of the Day
  • Where Have All the Good Times Gone
  • All Night Stand (Demo)
  • And I Will Love You
  • Sittin' on My Sofa
• Disc 2
  • Dedicated Follower of Fashion (alternate stereo take)
  • She's Got Everything
  • Mr. Reporter (Ray vocal)
  • Sunny Afternoon
  • I'm Not Like Everybody Else
  • This Is Where I Belong
  • Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
  • Too Much on My Mind
  • Session Man
  • End of the Season
  • Dead End Street (first version)
  • Village Green
  • Two Sisters
  • David Watts
  • Mr. Pleasant
  • Waterloo Sunset (mono mix)
  • Death of a Clown
  • Lavender Hill
  • Good Luck Charm
  • Autumn Almanac
  • Susannah's Still Alive
  • Animal Farm
  • Rosemary Rose
  • Berkeley Mews
  • Lincoln County
  • Picture Book
  • Days
  • Misty Water
• Disc 3
  • Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Top Gear session with Brian Matthew intro and outro)
  • The Village Green Preservation Society
  • Big Sky
  • King Kong
  • Drivin'
  • Some Mother's Son
  • Victoria
  • Shangri-La
  • Arthur
  • Got to Be Free
  • Lola (mono single version)
  • Get Back in the Line
  • The Moneygoround
  • Strangers
  • Apeman
  • God's Children
  • The Way Love Used to Be
  • Moments
  • Muswell Hillbilly
  • Oklahoma USA
  • Twentieth Century Man
  • Here Come the People in Grey
• Disc 4
  • Skin and Bone
  • Alcohol Live
  • Celluloid Heroes
  • Sitting in My Hotel
  • Supersonic Rocket Ship
  • You Don't Know My Name
  • One of the Survivors
  • Sitting in the Midday Sun
  • Sweet Lady Genevieve
  • Daylight
  • Mirror of Love
  • Artificial Man
  • Preservation (U.S. single)
  • Slum Kids (live)
  • Holiday Romance
  • Face in the Crowd
  • No More Looking Back
  • Sleepwalker
  • The Poseur
• Disc 5
  • Sleepless Night
  • Father Christmas
  • Misfits
  • A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy
  • Little Bit of Emotion
  • Attitude
  • Hidden Quality
  • A Gallon of Gas
  • Catch Me Now I'm Falling
  • Nuclear Love (demo)
  • Duke (demo)
  • Maybe I Love You (demo)
  • Stolen Away Your Heart (demo)
  • Low Budget (live)
  • Better Things
  • Destroyer
  • Yo-Yo
  • Art Lover
  • Long Distance
• Disc 6
  • Heart of Gold
  • Come Dancing (demo remix)
  • State of Confusion
  • Do It Again
  • Living on a Thin Line
  • Summer's Gone
  • How Are You?
  • The Road (live)
  • The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
  • Down All the Days (To 1992)
  • The Informer
  • Phobia
  • Only a Dream
  • Drift Away
  • Scattered
  • Do You Remember Walter? (live)
  • To the Bone (demo)