The Kink Kontroversy
by The Kinks
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The Kinks bestography
The Kink Kontroversy is ranked 8th best out of 62 albums by The Kinks on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Kinks is The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society which is ranked number 149 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,038.
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The Kink Kontroversy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Kink Kontroversy rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 37/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 41 Music Albums of 1965 | 34/41 | 1 |
| 2026 |  nitomano | Top 24 Music Albums of 1965 | 21/24 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 40 Music Albums of 1965 | 18/40 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Wanted 1960s | 25/25 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 30 Music Albums of 1965 | 19/30 | 2 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 79 Music Albums of 1965 | 58/79 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 97 Music Albums of the 1960s | 27/97 | 15 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 96/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 169 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 497 | |||
The Kink Kontroversy collection
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The Kink Kontroversy ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/19/2026 20:31 |  Larcx13 | 2,852 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/19/2026 13:36 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/17/2026 08:56 | Leginlists | 3,840 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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The Kink Kontroversy forum mentions
pedro1976 03/05/2025 09:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
neilgee 04/03/2023 16:39 in What album are you listening to right now?
dihansse 04/18/2018 19:30 in My discoveries per yearThe Kink Kontroversy comments
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Better than the first two albums and Til The End Of The Day, Set Me Free & Where Have All The Good Times Gone are classic early Kinks songs but better was to come. Not that this is a bad album. It's good when compared to other 1965 albums just not up to the brilliance of their later stuff (Edited)
Jboy56Better than "Kinks", liked it all the way through
This album has a few classic kinks songs and then the rest is just there to fill the rest of the time out. None of the other songs have those catchy, infectious choruses and just lack the usual kinks energy that will come on later albums. You can see the potential on the record though and so it is quite an important album to listen to as u can see the progression of the band. However, it won't challenge their greatest ever albums for the top spot and didn't really captivate me too much.
Much better album than the last two, although the second half lags a bit, bringing it down overall in quality.
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