up to standard and wanted to include a note explaining, "please, we're just fulfilling our contract, just put it in a vault somewhere." In 1971, the Kinks' seven-year contract with Reprise was set to expire. Disappointed with several clauses in the band's contract, Davies opted to instead sign the band with RCA Records. The same year, Reprise rejected the Percy soundtrack album for US release, finding it lacked commercial potential in the American market. Because they did not release Percy, executives at Reprise determined that the Kinks contractually owed the label one more album. Song selection In 1972, without Davies' knowledge or approval, Reprise began assembling a compilation album of mostly unreleased Kinks material. The label's working title for the project was Son of Kink Kronikles, a reference to the company's March1972 compilation The Kink Kronikles. In the early 1970s, compilation albums collecting previously unreleased material had become increasingly common among record labels seeking to undermine bootleg recordings. Reprise later re-titled the project The Great Lost Kinks Album, a reference to the Kinks' unreleased 1968 album, Four More Respected Gentlemen, though the content of the two was mostly unrelated. Of the twelve "spare tracks" delivered to Reprise in 1969, three – "This Is Where I Belong", "King Kong" and "Berkeley Mews" – were dropped after having been already included on The Kink Kronikles. The instrumental "Easy Come, There You Went" was also dropped. Songs added included "Misty Water", recorded in May1968 and originally planned for release on Four More Respected Gentlemen; "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", the non-album B-side to the 1966 single "Sunny Afternoon"; "The Way Love Used to Be", a ballad from the Percy soundtrack album; and "There Is No Life Without Love", "Groovy Movies" and "This Man He Weeps Tonight" from the unreleased Dave Davies solo album. The album's fourteen tracks range chronologically from "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" to "The Way Love Used to Be", recorded in May1966 and October1970, respectively. Most of the songs were recording during the sessions for the 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Almost all of the songs were recorded in the basement studios at Pye Records's London offices; "When I Turn Out the Living Room Light" was recorded at Riverside Studios, West London, and "The Way Love Used to Be" at Morgan Studios, North West London. Ray Davies produced every track, except for "I'm Not Like