David Bowie has already written the liner notes to The Kinks' 50th-anniversary collection The Essential Kinks.
The 48-track, two-CD set is due Oct. 14, and Bowie's website just posted a photo of him standing with Ray Davies above the caption, "I've never heard a Kinks song that I didn't like."
For the first time, an excerpt from Bowie's sleeve notes is available. It reads as follows:
"Of course, from their noisy and brash beginnings, the Kinks have come to stand for some of the most enduring and heart-clutching pop of all time," Bowie writes. "They are in the gut of every British song-writer who followed them and are indisputably a cornerstone of everything pop and rock. I love 'em. The world loves 'em."
The site notes that Bowie has released two Kinks covers in his lifetime, "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" (1973) and "Waterloo Sunset" (2003).
The Essential Kinks will be released via Legacy Recordings. Here are the included tracks:
DISC ONE:
01. You Really Got Me
02. Stop Your Sobbing
03. All Day and All of the Night
04. Tired of Waiting For You
05. Nothin' In This World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
06. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
07. A Well Respected Man
08. Dedicated Follower of Fashion
09. Who'll Be The Next In Line
10. Set Me Free
11. See My Friends
12. Sunny Afternoon
13. Dead End Street
14. Death of a Clown
15. Autumn Almanac
16. David Watts
17. Waterloo Sunset
18. Days
19. The Village Green Preservation Society
20. Do You Remember Walter?
21. Picture Book
22. Victoria
23. Apeman
24. Strangers
25. 20th Century Man
26. Supersonic Rocket Ship
27. Celluloid Heroes
DISC TWO:
01. Here Comes Yet Another Day
02. You Don't Know My Name
03. Till the End of the Day (Live)
04. One of the Survivors
05. Sweet Lady Genevieve
06. Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)
07. Life on the Road
08. Sleepwalker
09. Life Goes On
10. A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
11. Father Christmas
12. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
13. Lola (Live)
14. Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Live)
15. Better Things
16. Destroyer
17. Come Dancing
18. Don't Forget To Dance
19. Do It Again
20. Living On A Thin Line
21. Scattered
There will also be a re-release of Muswell Hillbillies and a DVD package. For more information, click here.
