Favourite Things (song) "OK" being a failure in Australia, "Favourite Things" returned the group to the top ten of the Australian singles chart, peaking at number three, matching the peak of the group's debut single "Nu Flow", and receiving a Gold certification. The song received positive reviews and one of the reasons for the song's relative success is the fact that it is based upon a popular song from the musical "The Sound of Music", "My Favourite Things". The single follows the same basic tune of the original song, and focuses on typically expensive and glamorous objects that the women of the group
Better Things (song) Tracks chart and #92 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, slightly lower than "Destroyer". In September 2010, Ray Davies released "See My Friends", an album of reworked classic Kinks songs, which contains a duet of "Better Things" with Bruce Springsteen. In 2011 "American Songwriter" named "Better Things" their Favorite Break Up Song. Better Things (song) "Better Things" is a song by The Kinks, released as a single in June 1981 in the UK and November 1981 in the US. A slightly shorter version was later released on their album "Give the People What They Want". Written about Ray Davies's failing marriage,