Set Me Free | |
Cover: | Set Me Free Kinks cover.jpg |
Caption: | Dutch picture sleeve |
Type: | single |
Artist: | the Kinks |
Album: | Kinda Kinks (US edition) |
B-Side: | I Need You |
Released: | 21 May 1965 |
Recorded: | 13–14 April 1965 |
Studio: | Pye, London |
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Length: | 2:12 |
Label: | |
Producer: | Shel Talmy |
Chronology: | The Kinks UK |
Prev Title: | Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy |
Prev Year: | 1965 |
Next Title: | See My Friends |
Next Year: | 1965 |
"Set Me Free" is a song by Ray Davies, released first by the Kinks in 1965. Along with "Tired of Waiting for You", it is one of band's first attempts at a softer, more introspective sound. The song's B-side, "I Need You", makes prominent use of powerchords in the style of the Kinks' early, "raunchy" sound. "Set Me Free" was heard in the Ken Loach-directed Up the Junction, a BBC Wednesday Play which aired in November 1965; this marked the first appearance of a Kinks song on a film or TV soundtrack.
Billboard said of the single that "hot on the heels of [the Kinks'] 'Tired of Waiting for You' smash comes this down home blues rhythm material with a good teen lyric."[1] Cash Box described it as "a snappy tune that’s taken for an engaging disk ride."[2]
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According to band researcher Doug Hinman:
The Kinks
Additional musician
Chart (1965) | Peak position | |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 54 | |
France (IFOP)[4] | 29 | |
Sweden (Tio i Topp)[5] | 11 | |
US Cash Box Top 100[6] | 24 |