Kinks Kompilations 1939-??-??
Various, Various, Various
Set 1
disc 1
1. Long Tall Sally
2. I Took My Baby Home
3. You Still Want Me
4. You Do Something To Me
5. Got Love If You Want It
6. Tell Me Now So I'll Know
7. A Little Bit Of Sunlight
8. I Go To Sleep
9. When I See That Girl Of Mine
10. There's A New World Just Opening For Me
11. Sitting On My Sofa
12. Lincoln County
13. Act Nice And Gentle
14. Hold My Hand
15. People Take Pictures of Each Other
16. Creepin' Jean
17. Apeman
18. Lola
19. Preservation
20. Scrapheap City
21. Mirror Of Love
22. Slum Kids
23. You Really Got Me
24. All Day And All Of The Night
25. No More Looking Back
____________________________
disc 2
26. Father Christmas
27. Prince Of The Punks
28. Artificial Light
29. Massive Reductions
30. Low Budget
31. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
32. Till Death Do Us Part
33. There Is No Life Without Love
34. Lavender Hill
35. Groovy Movies
36. Rosemary Rose
37. Misty Water
38. Mr. Songbird
39. When I Turn Off The Living Room Light
40. Pictures In The Sand
41. Where Did The Spring Go?
1. Long Tall Sally
2. I Took My Baby Home
3. You Still Want Me
4. You Do Something To Me
5. Got Love If You Want It
6. Tell Me Now So I'll Know
7. A Little Bit Of Sunlight
8. I Go To Sleep
9. When I See That Girl Of Mine
10. There's A New World Just Opening For Me
11. Sitting On My Sofa
12. Lincoln County
13. Act Nice And Gentle
14. Hold My Hand
15. People Take Pictures of Each Other
16. Creepin' Jean
17. Apeman
18. Lola
19. Preservation
20. Scrapheap City
21. Mirror Of Love
22. Slum Kids
23. You Really Got Me
24. All Day And All Of The Night
25. No More Looking Back
____________________________
disc 2
26. Father Christmas
27. Prince Of The Punks
28. Artificial Light
29. Massive Reductions
30. Low Budget
31. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
32. Till Death Do Us Part
33. There Is No Life Without Love
34. Lavender Hill
35. Groovy Movies
36. Rosemary Rose
37. Misty Water
38. Mr. Songbird
39. When I Turn Off The Living Room Light
40. Pictures In The Sand
41. Where Did The Spring Go?
Set 2
Set 3
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http://kinks.it.rit.edu/cgi-bin/MusicSearch.cgi?album=bootleg/album-kollektable
________
Kollektable Kinks
Produced by: Shel Talmy, Ray Davies
Type of release: Bootleg
Release information:
Date Label Number Country Format Comments
---- ----- ------ ------- ------ --------
1982? Reprieve Records RS-6309 ? 2 LP
1995 Reprieve Records RS-6309A/B ? 2 CD Same as LP but adds
all tracks from GLKA
Tracks:
Long Tall Sally
I Took My Baby Home
You Still Want Me
You Do Something To Me
Got Love If You Want It
Tell Me Now So I'll Know
A Little Bit Of Sunlight
I Go To Sleep
When I See That Girl Of Mine
There's A New World Just Opening For Me
Sitting On My Sofa
Lincoln County
Act Nice And Gentle
Hold My Hand
People Take Pictures of Each Other
Creepin' Jean
Apeman
Lola
Preservation
Scrapheap City
Mirror Of Love
Slum Kids
You Really Got Me
All Day And All Of The Night
No More Looking Back
Father Christmas
Prince Of The Punks
Artificial Light
Massive Reductions
Low Budget
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Till Death Do Us Part
There Is No Life Without Love
Lavender Hill
Groovy Movies
Rosemary Rose
Misty Water
Mr. Songbird
When I Turn Off The Living Room Light
Pictures In The Sand
Where Did The Spring Go?
Liner Notes:
Kongradulations. You've got your klaws on the most komprehensive kollektion of obskure and rare Kinksongs every kompiled. Spanning their long and fruitful kareer from the first singles to 1981. This package is representative of the many phases in the development of the group's sound. Krunching songs, kwiet songs, klassic songs: they're all here. At long last, the hard-kore Kinkophile has an opportunity to obtain, all on one disk, a kornukopia of hitherto-unreleased tracks and otherwise diffikult-to-obtain gems.
As their fans all realize, the Kinks are an astonishingly underrated group. Members of the original "English Invasion," the Kinks are among the few bands to have endured and thrived, yet they never really attained the superstar status of their kontemporaries, The Rolling Stones and The Who. But unlike those two dinosaur bands, who really should've retired long ago before their inspirational fatigue set in, the Kinks kontinue to produce fresh, vital music, with no signs of the ennui that plagues the output of the other surviving groups from the Sixties.
By the way, you'll be happy to note that henceforward, we are gonna kut the korny krap with the K's and kontinue these notes in a more mature fashion.
Side one starts at the logical point: the beginning. Namely, the group's first two singles. Long Tall Sally was the A-side to their first single, released in the U.S. in March 1964 on the Cameo label. Sounding a great deal like an imitation Beatles, this tune simply failed to click. The B-side, I Took My Baby Home, like the vast majority of Kinksongs to follow, was penned by Ray himself. The stereo version of this song is featured on this set.
The follow-up single, two originals by Ray, You Do Something To Me and You Still Want Me was greeted with even less enthusiasm by the record-buying public. To be blunt, it was a dismal failure. Though neither song was bad, they just seemed to lack that certain something special needed to capture the imagination of the public (or, at least, of radio programmers). Never released in America, the English pressing is said to have sold fewer than 200 copies upon its initial release, making that particular piece of plastic (Pye 15636) perhaps the rarest and most valuable Kinks disc in existence.
The group's third time up at bat, as it were, was truly a make-it-or-break-it situation, and they knew it. Their next studio outing produced their third single You Really Got Me. To trot out an old cliche: the rest was rock 'n' roll history. The Kinks had made their initial mark, and to this very day, through times good and bad, have remained survivors in a field littered with one-hit wonders, short-lived careers and life-in-the-fast-lane tragedies.
Most of the band's recorded output, up to and including the Fact To Face LP, was recorded in mono only. This forced their American record company during this period to issue what must go down in the annals of the record biz as one of the most abominable jobs of pseudo-stereoizing ever to be perpetrated. The particular brand of the dreaded reprocessed-stereo inflicted upon these discs consisted of what seemed to be no more than a heavy, ugly dose of echo applied to the original recordings -- the net result of which rendered the music a cacophonous mush. By all means, try to track down the original mono pressings of all the early Kinks albums (good luck, they're hard to find) or search the import bins in your friendly neighborhood record store for foreign pressings that have been reissued in mono. Nevertheless, the aforementioned I Took My Baby Home, as well as their first British LP (the American approximation of which is You Really Got Me R/RS 6143), were recorded in true stereo, though in the U.S. the LP was not issued that way. The current British stereo reissue of their first LP (Hallmark HMA 244) does not contain Got Love If You Want It, so we've included the rare stereo mix of that early song here for you.
The remainder of side one is made up of some real gems: five hitherto unreleased demo recordings from 1965. Only one of these songs was subsequently polished up and released by the group. Several others were covered by other groups. Tell Me Now So I'll Know exists here in its primitive form; a finished version was eventually recorded by the band but never released (sorry, we don't have that one for you). A Little Bit Of Sunlight was covered by a group called The Majority in October '65 (UK Decca F.12271). I Go To Sleep was covered by Peggy Lee, Adrian Price, Sonny & Cher and Truth. But the most famous version was, of course, performed by The Pretenders. The leader of that band, Chrissie Hynde, went on to become the Mrs. Ray Davies. When I See That Girl Of Mine eventually wound up in its finished form on The Kink Kontroversy. There's A New World Just Opening For Me transmutated into another song, Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worryin' About That Girl (from Kinda Kinks).
Side Two spans 1966-1970. The opener, Sittin' On My Sofa, was the original B-side of Sunny Afternoon, and appears here on an LP for the first time. Brother Dave's compositions are represented thrice on this side. His first entry is Lincoln County, which, like his other two songs on this side, were never released in America. Dave's songs were always intriguing in their subject matter (when you could understand the words!); this one concerns a young man's musings about the return to his hometown and friends and family after an involuntary vacation in jail.
Act Nice And Gentle (one of Ray's songs) appeared as the B-side of the UK release of the Kinks' undisputed masterpiece Waterloo Sunset. It appears on a U.S. waxing here for the first time.
Hold My Hand and Creeping Jean are both sides of another of Dave's singles. It debuted in Britain in January 1969. It didn't make the charts, so the nearly completed Dave Davies "solo" album from that period was never released.
People Take Pictures Of Each Other appears here in its rare mono mix, which features a curious 1930s-style dance-hall orchestra segue which fades after a few bars at the end of the song. Ray's explanation for this: "At art school I was prodded by the masters to add to what I felt was a completed work. I suppose this tendency followed me, much to my regret."
Apeman, as included here, is an entirely different recording than the familiar version. This edition was featured only as a single issued in Denmark, of all places. Those of you with no Danish friends can now hear this rare performance.
Lola: little needs to be said about this song. Generally regarded as the Kinks' "comeback" single back in '70, it's credited with saving the group from oblivion (as You Really Got Me did some years earlier). But this record nearly got burned. The reason? When first released in England, the BBC refused to air it due to what they felt to be a plug for a commercial product (Coca Cola). Ray, who was in New York at the time of this occurrence, made a quick trip back to the homeland and into the studio to re-sing a short portion of the song, replacing the offending phrase "Coca Cola" with the more generic term "cherry cola." The "Coca Cola" version wound up on Lola VS. Powerman And The Money Go Round, and the "cherry cola" version makes its first LP appearance here.
The third side of this set opens with material from 1974, the band's "Preservation" era. The title track to those Kinks' concept albums ironically never appeared on either of those LPs. Preservation (the single) is extremely rare. The song summarizes the basic plot of the story.
Next is Scrapheap City (RCA single 74-0940). This preceded the LP version and is a different "take" of the song, markedly different from the latter version. Here, the song features a solo vocal by Ray, a much slower tempo and a full minute- and-a-half longer running time. (As you may recall, Laurie Brown sings lead on the LP version.)
Mirror Of Love (the single version, included here) also differs greatly from the LP version. This version is more heavily produced, with added horn section and female back-up singers.
The Preservation stage shows contained one excellent song not to be found on any LP or single (although it was recorded by the band). that song was Slum Kids. The version featured here is not the studio recording (which, unfortunately, we could not obtain), but a live recording that was to have been included on what would have been the group's second live LP for RCA. That album was shelved, this song being the only one featured on it to have not been issued previously in a studio version. (This is also the only live track contained on Kollektable Kinks.)
We leave the Preservation era and venture a bit later into the Seventies with two rare studio recordings never before issued on disc. The closing songs on side three, the Medley of the Kinks' first two hit singles and No More Looking Back (the Schoolboys In Disgrace song) are studio recordings the band produced solely for the British music program Juke Box. The band lip-synced these two numbers on the show. The bit of audience noises that punctuates these tracks is canned.
The more-or-less current Kinks are covered on side four. The side kicks off with one or the band's classics. Father Christmas, their absolutely marvelous non-hit single that has never before appeared on an LP. Its B-side, Prince Of The Punks, follows. This song was written about Ray's then-protege' Tom Robinson. Robinson eventually went on to garner some degree of success with his political style of music and gay-rights proselytizing.
Artificial Light was never released in America. It was featured as the flipside of the UK Rock & Roll Fantasy single. Massive Reductions is another British B-side that never made it to these shores (it backed Better Things).
Our program closes with both sides of the 12-inch "disco" (?) single issued by the band, Low Budget and Superman. Each version is considerably longer than those that were issued on the Low Budget LP.
There you have it. 30 rare treats spanning the entire 18-year history of the phenomenal group. We salute Ray and the boys on the wonderful music they've given us, and look forward to the next 18 years of Kinksongs.
Liner notes by Kris Kowel
http://kinks.it.rit.edu/cgi-bin/MusicSearch.cgi?album=bootleg/album-kollektable
________
Kollektable Kinks
Produced by: Shel Talmy, Ray Davies
Type of release: Bootleg
Release information:
Date Label Number Country Format Comments
---- ----- ------ ------- ------ --------
1982? Reprieve Records RS-6309 ? 2 LP
1995 Reprieve Records RS-6309A/B ? 2 CD Same as LP but adds
all tracks from GLKA
Tracks:
Long Tall Sally
I Took My Baby Home
You Still Want Me
You Do Something To Me
Got Love If You Want It
Tell Me Now So I'll Know
A Little Bit Of Sunlight
I Go To Sleep
When I See That Girl Of Mine
There's A New World Just Opening For Me
Sitting On My Sofa
Lincoln County
Act Nice And Gentle
Hold My Hand
People Take Pictures of Each Other
Creepin' Jean
Apeman
Lola
Preservation
Scrapheap City
Mirror Of Love
Slum Kids
You Really Got Me
All Day And All Of The Night
No More Looking Back
Father Christmas
Prince Of The Punks
Artificial Light
Massive Reductions
Low Budget
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Till Death Do Us Part
There Is No Life Without Love
Lavender Hill
Groovy Movies
Rosemary Rose
Misty Water
Mr. Songbird
When I Turn Off The Living Room Light
Pictures In The Sand
Where Did The Spring Go?
Liner Notes:
Kongradulations. You've got your klaws on the most komprehensive kollektion of obskure and rare Kinksongs every kompiled. Spanning their long and fruitful kareer from the first singles to 1981. This package is representative of the many phases in the development of the group's sound. Krunching songs, kwiet songs, klassic songs: they're all here. At long last, the hard-kore Kinkophile has an opportunity to obtain, all on one disk, a kornukopia of hitherto-unreleased tracks and otherwise diffikult-to-obtain gems.
As their fans all realize, the Kinks are an astonishingly underrated group. Members of the original "English Invasion," the Kinks are among the few bands to have endured and thrived, yet they never really attained the superstar status of their kontemporaries, The Rolling Stones and The Who. But unlike those two dinosaur bands, who really should've retired long ago before their inspirational fatigue set in, the Kinks kontinue to produce fresh, vital music, with no signs of the ennui that plagues the output of the other surviving groups from the Sixties.
By the way, you'll be happy to note that henceforward, we are gonna kut the korny krap with the K's and kontinue these notes in a more mature fashion.
Side one starts at the logical point: the beginning. Namely, the group's first two singles. Long Tall Sally was the A-side to their first single, released in the U.S. in March 1964 on the Cameo label. Sounding a great deal like an imitation Beatles, this tune simply failed to click. The B-side, I Took My Baby Home, like the vast majority of Kinksongs to follow, was penned by Ray himself. The stereo version of this song is featured on this set.
The follow-up single, two originals by Ray, You Do Something To Me and You Still Want Me was greeted with even less enthusiasm by the record-buying public. To be blunt, it was a dismal failure. Though neither song was bad, they just seemed to lack that certain something special needed to capture the imagination of the public (or, at least, of radio programmers). Never released in America, the English pressing is said to have sold fewer than 200 copies upon its initial release, making that particular piece of plastic (Pye 15636) perhaps the rarest and most valuable Kinks disc in existence.
The group's third time up at bat, as it were, was truly a make-it-or-break-it situation, and they knew it. Their next studio outing produced their third single You Really Got Me. To trot out an old cliche: the rest was rock 'n' roll history. The Kinks had made their initial mark, and to this very day, through times good and bad, have remained survivors in a field littered with one-hit wonders, short-lived careers and life-in-the-fast-lane tragedies.
Most of the band's recorded output, up to and including the Fact To Face LP, was recorded in mono only. This forced their American record company during this period to issue what must go down in the annals of the record biz as one of the most abominable jobs of pseudo-stereoizing ever to be perpetrated. The particular brand of the dreaded reprocessed-stereo inflicted upon these discs consisted of what seemed to be no more than a heavy, ugly dose of echo applied to the original recordings -- the net result of which rendered the music a cacophonous mush. By all means, try to track down the original mono pressings of all the early Kinks albums (good luck, they're hard to find) or search the import bins in your friendly neighborhood record store for foreign pressings that have been reissued in mono. Nevertheless, the aforementioned I Took My Baby Home, as well as their first British LP (the American approximation of which is You Really Got Me R/RS 6143), were recorded in true stereo, though in the U.S. the LP was not issued that way. The current British stereo reissue of their first LP (Hallmark HMA 244) does not contain Got Love If You Want It, so we've included the rare stereo mix of that early song here for you.
The remainder of side one is made up of some real gems: five hitherto unreleased demo recordings from 1965. Only one of these songs was subsequently polished up and released by the group. Several others were covered by other groups. Tell Me Now So I'll Know exists here in its primitive form; a finished version was eventually recorded by the band but never released (sorry, we don't have that one for you). A Little Bit Of Sunlight was covered by a group called The Majority in October '65 (UK Decca F.12271). I Go To Sleep was covered by Peggy Lee, Adrian Price, Sonny & Cher and Truth. But the most famous version was, of course, performed by The Pretenders. The leader of that band, Chrissie Hynde, went on to become the Mrs. Ray Davies. When I See That Girl Of Mine eventually wound up in its finished form on The Kink Kontroversy. There's A New World Just Opening For Me transmutated into another song, Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worryin' About That Girl (from Kinda Kinks).
Side Two spans 1966-1970. The opener, Sittin' On My Sofa, was the original B-side of Sunny Afternoon, and appears here on an LP for the first time. Brother Dave's compositions are represented thrice on this side. His first entry is Lincoln County, which, like his other two songs on this side, were never released in America. Dave's songs were always intriguing in their subject matter (when you could understand the words!); this one concerns a young man's musings about the return to his hometown and friends and family after an involuntary vacation in jail.
Act Nice And Gentle (one of Ray's songs) appeared as the B-side of the UK release of the Kinks' undisputed masterpiece Waterloo Sunset. It appears on a U.S. waxing here for the first time.
Hold My Hand and Creeping Jean are both sides of another of Dave's singles. It debuted in Britain in January 1969. It didn't make the charts, so the nearly completed Dave Davies "solo" album from that period was never released.
People Take Pictures Of Each Other appears here in its rare mono mix, which features a curious 1930s-style dance-hall orchestra segue which fades after a few bars at the end of the song. Ray's explanation for this: "At art school I was prodded by the masters to add to what I felt was a completed work. I suppose this tendency followed me, much to my regret."
Apeman, as included here, is an entirely different recording than the familiar version. This edition was featured only as a single issued in Denmark, of all places. Those of you with no Danish friends can now hear this rare performance.
Lola: little needs to be said about this song. Generally regarded as the Kinks' "comeback" single back in '70, it's credited with saving the group from oblivion (as You Really Got Me did some years earlier). But this record nearly got burned. The reason? When first released in England, the BBC refused to air it due to what they felt to be a plug for a commercial product (Coca Cola). Ray, who was in New York at the time of this occurrence, made a quick trip back to the homeland and into the studio to re-sing a short portion of the song, replacing the offending phrase "Coca Cola" with the more generic term "cherry cola." The "Coca Cola" version wound up on Lola VS. Powerman And The Money Go Round, and the "cherry cola" version makes its first LP appearance here.
The third side of this set opens with material from 1974, the band's "Preservation" era. The title track to those Kinks' concept albums ironically never appeared on either of those LPs. Preservation (the single) is extremely rare. The song summarizes the basic plot of the story.
Next is Scrapheap City (RCA single 74-0940). This preceded the LP version and is a different "take" of the song, markedly different from the latter version. Here, the song features a solo vocal by Ray, a much slower tempo and a full minute- and-a-half longer running time. (As you may recall, Laurie Brown sings lead on the LP version.)
Mirror Of Love (the single version, included here) also differs greatly from the LP version. This version is more heavily produced, with added horn section and female back-up singers.
The Preservation stage shows contained one excellent song not to be found on any LP or single (although it was recorded by the band). that song was Slum Kids. The version featured here is not the studio recording (which, unfortunately, we could not obtain), but a live recording that was to have been included on what would have been the group's second live LP for RCA. That album was shelved, this song being the only one featured on it to have not been issued previously in a studio version. (This is also the only live track contained on Kollektable Kinks.)
We leave the Preservation era and venture a bit later into the Seventies with two rare studio recordings never before issued on disc. The closing songs on side three, the Medley of the Kinks' first two hit singles and No More Looking Back (the Schoolboys In Disgrace song) are studio recordings the band produced solely for the British music program Juke Box. The band lip-synced these two numbers on the show. The bit of audience noises that punctuates these tracks is canned.
The more-or-less current Kinks are covered on side four. The side kicks off with one or the band's classics. Father Christmas, their absolutely marvelous non-hit single that has never before appeared on an LP. Its B-side, Prince Of The Punks, follows. This song was written about Ray's then-protege' Tom Robinson. Robinson eventually went on to garner some degree of success with his political style of music and gay-rights proselytizing.
Artificial Light was never released in America. It was featured as the flipside of the UK Rock & Roll Fantasy single. Massive Reductions is another British B-side that never made it to these shores (it backed Better Things).
Our program closes with both sides of the 12-inch "disco" (?) single issued by the band, Low Budget and Superman. Each version is considerably longer than those that were issued on the Low Budget LP.
There you have it. 30 rare treats spanning the entire 18-year history of the phenomenal group. We salute Ray and the boys on the wonderful music they've given us, and look forward to the next 18 years of Kinksongs.
Liner notes by Kris Kowel
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