The Kinks-Did Ya (1991)


 

Artist: The Kinks

Title: Did Ya

Label: Columbia

Format: CD EP

Catalog Number: 44K 74050

Year of Release: 1991

Country and Year of Edition: US 1991 

Sell Price: $7.59

Sell Date: 5/13/25

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 5/12/96 NM/NM $9.99

Low: $2.70 2/23/23 VG+/VG+

Median: $5.00

Average: $6.15

High: $19.95 9/16/22 NM/NM

Current low price: $5.86 VG/VG+ (Israel), $15.95 M/NM (US)

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 190/22

Where Sold: Austin, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years 

Where and When Bought:  Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Grade:  B-

Sad To See It Go: No

A new label, a new EP for The Kinks.  This 5-song EP opens with it's namesake "Did Ya."  Makes you think of the Jeff Lynne produced Traveling Willbury meets "Sunny Afternoon."  The Sunny refrain "in the summertime" reoccurs and of course Lynne had "Do Ya" with the Move & ELO.  Ray Davies himself produced this and the lyrics are this decades "Come Dancing" where this time Cadogan Square gets sold and classes revert to form.  What's more his heels hurt.  

New label, time for some classics: we get a live version of Dave's "Gotta Move" and a redone "Days" which made the B-side of the 7" vinyl.    After that a couple more new ones: "New World" with muted rhythm machine commentary on the evolution of the American city and "Look Through Any Doorway" is probably the best of the lot with it's anthemic chorus.    Neither of those got on the lone full length for Columbia,    Phobia, which came out in 1993, remains their last album of new material before Ray & Dave issued an unplugged live record then broke up for good.  "Did Ya" was tacked on to the end of Phobia as a bonus track. Shockingly, it actually charted the lower regions of Billboards Mainstream Rock Chart peaking at #48.  The modern rumination of days gone by has somehow itself become dated 35 years on even as Ray & Dave live on and occasionally threaten to reform.

All the reunion hope and nostalgia ignores the band in their final decade.


FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Greatest Hits! (1966)

The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

Preservation Act I (1973)

Celluloid Heroes-The Kinks Greatest (1976)

Sleepwalker (1977)

Word of Mouth (1984)



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