Something better beginning

The Kinks 'Kinda Kinks' (1965)

The 2nd UK release from this fab 4 will have you dancing in the streets.
Some funny quotes from the liners:

"I'm a collection of loose ends. I don't want to be a pop star. I think that this is just a part of my life which will come to an end." - Ray Davies

"When Mick came to audition for The Kinks and saw me, he couldn't believe it. I was wearing a plastic raincoat buttoned to the neck, moccasins, and I had shoulder-length hair" - Dave Davies

"I was a terrible Boy Scout. I used to go down to the club to play pool. They had a skiffle group there and one evening the drummer was sick and they asked me to play. Tapping away on that old snare drum balanced on a chair was the beginning." - Mick Avory

"In the early days we didn't really have a name for the group. It depended on who secured the booking. If Ray got the date, the group was 'The Ray Davies Band.' If I got it, 'The Pete Quaife Band.'" - Peter Quaife

So mystifying

The Kinks 'You Really Got Me' (1964)
It's been said that Dave Davies created the distorted guitar sound for "You Really Got Me" by slicing his amp cone with a razor blade, and it's rumoured that the song's solo work was done by Jimmy Page (Page denies doing the solo). Despite being one of the finest rock songs ever, it's just one of several terrific songs on the Kinks debut album, a slam-bang trip of rhythm and blues proportion. These rips come from a 1988 vinyl reissue on Rhino which used the American cover, but the original UK tracklist.