Give the People What They Want is the nineteenth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. It was released in August 1981 in the US but not until January 1982 in Europe.
The initial release of the album in the UK was delayed because lead singer Ray Davies wanted to produce a full-length video for the album but financing fell through. Also scrapped were plans to remix the album for the European market. It was initially aimed to be a statement on the media.[citation needed]
Upon the reissue of the album on CD with the rest of the Kinks' six Arista studio albums, Give the People What They Want was the only one that did not contain bonus tracks, despite of the existence of non-album tracks: the single version of "Better Things" was slightly longer from the album version (previously included on the Come Dancing with The Kinks compilation) and the British b-side of "Better Things" was a non-album track, "Massive Reductions", which was different from the version from the band's 1984 album Word of Mouth.
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