# The Best Kinks Guitar Solos

> The 16 best Kinks guitar solos, ranked. #1 is You Really Got Me (1964), then All Day and All of the Night and Till the End of the Day.

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Dave Davies slashed his amp's speaker cone with a razor blade and in doing so helped invent the distorted rock guitar sound, making The Kinks' early hits the template for hard rock and punk. His rough, urgent solos were short, but they changed what a lead guitar could sound like.

Informed by: [Wikipedia – The Kinks discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks_discography)

1. [You Really Got Me](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-you-really-got-me/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1964
2. [All Day and All of the Night](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-all-day-and-all-of-the-night/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1964
3. [Till the End of the Day](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-till-the-end-of-the-day/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1965
4. [Milk Cow Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-milk-cow-blues/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1965
5. [I'm Not Like Everybody Else](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-i-m-not-like-everybody-else/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1966
6. [Where Have All the Good Times Gone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-where-have-all-the-good-times-gone/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1965
7. [Australia](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-australia/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1969
8. [Lola](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-lola/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1970
9. [Beautiful Delilah](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-beautiful-delilah/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1964
10. [(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-wish-i-could-fly-like-superman/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1979
11. [Juke Box Music](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-juke-box-music/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1977
12. [Wicked Annabella](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-wicked-annabella/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1968
13. [Powerman](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-powerman/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1970
14. [Too Much Monkey Business](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-too-much-monkey-business/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1964
15. [David Watts](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-david-watts/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1967
16. [Destroyer](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-kinks-destroyer/) — The Kinks · solo by Dave Davies · 1981

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