"Waterloo Sunset" just may be my favorite song written and recorded by any UK band. In it I hear the same sense of wistful melancholy as I do from Brian Wilson's "God Only Knows". Very distinguished company to keep.
I consider The Kinks' 4-album run of Face To Face, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur as the high water mark of British Pop music, far better to my musical taste and sensibilities than that of The Beatles during the same period.