The Kinks - The Pye Album Collection (10 CD box set) - 2005
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The Kinks - The Pye Album Collection (10 CD box set) - 2005
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This box set delivers both a little more and a little less than it promises – though the packaging is so cryptic that it's difficult to say precisely what it does promise. Billed as The Pye Album Collection, it contains ten nicely packaged mini-LP sleeves (each with an appropriate inner sleeve to protect the CD – are you listening, Sony Classical, Rhino Handmade, and Hip-O Select?) representing the group's ten original albums for Pye Records. Not that these haven't been available before in various incarnations on both sides of the Atlantic (including some extant audiophile editions) and loaded up with bonus tracks – but the producers have correctly reckoned that for the fans, on some level, the Kinks are like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who, in that their albums carry some serious significance for a lot of people, standing up well on their own and also evoking a specific time and place in listeners' respective pasts. There are no bonus tracks anywhere here, and onlookers should also be reminded that the Kinks released a ton of important singles early in their history – including "All Day and All of the Night," "A Well Respected Man," "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," and "Till the End of the Day" – that were never part of any official LPs (except greatest-hits compilations) and, thus, are not represented here in any form. But that said, on the original Pye albums themselves, the spot-on, state-of-the-art, up-to-date mastering is so close that you feel like the Davies brothers' guitars are in the room with you on "So Mystifying" and "Just Can't Go to Sleep" (from their self-titled debut LP), and everything on the disc sounds that way.
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Kinks
1 You Really Got Me 2.16
2 Beautiful Delilah 2.08
3 So Mystifying 2.55
4 Just Can't Go To Sleep 1.59
5 Long Tall Shorty 2.51
6 I Took My Baby Home 1.49
7 I'm A Lover Not A Fighter 2.05
8 Too Much Monkey Business 2.17
9 Cadillac 2.17
10 Bald Headed Woman 2.46
11 Revenge 2.44
12 I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain 1.31
13 Stop Your Sobbin' 2.07
14 Got Love If You Want It 3.43
Kinda Kinks
1 Look For My Baby 2.17
2 Got My Feet On The Ground 2.14
3 Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' Bout That Girl 2.44
4 Naggin' Woman 2.36
5 Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight? 2.01
6 Tired Of Waiting For You 2.31
7 Dancing In The Street 2.20
8 Don't Ever Change 2.25
9 Come On Now 1.49
10 So Long 2.10
11 You Shouldn't Be Sad 2.03
12 Someting Better Beginning 2.23
The Kink Kontroversy
1 Milk Cow Blues 3.44
2 Ring The Bells 2.21
3 Gotta Get The First Plane Home 1.49
4 When I See That Girl Of Mine 2.12
5 I Am Free 2.32
6 Till The End Of The Day 2.21
7 The World Keeps Going Round 2.36
8 I'm On An Island 2.19
9 Where Have All The Good Times Gone 2.53
10 It's Too Late 2.37
11 What's In Store For Me 2.06
12 You Can't Win 2.37
Face to Face
1 Party Line 2.36
2 Rosy Won't You Please Come Home 2.32
3 Dandy 2.11
4 Too Much On My Mind 2.28
5 Session Man 2.11
6 Rainy Day In June 3.16
7 House In The Country 3.02
8 Holiday In Waikiki 2.46
9 Most Exclusive Residence For Sale 2.53
10 Fancy 2.29
11 Little Miss Queen Of Darkness 3.16
12 You're Looking Fine 2.47
13 Sunny Afternoon 3.37
14 I'll Remember 2.25
Something Else by The Kinks
1 David Watts 2.40
2 Death Of A Clown 3.15
3 Two Sisters 2.03
4 No Return 2.03
5 Harry Rag 2.19
6 Tin Soldier Man 2.53
7 Situation Vacant 2.43
8 Love Me Till The Sun Shines 3.23
9 Lazy Old Sun 2.49
10 Afternoon Tea 3.25
11 Funny Face 2.29
12 End Of The Season 3.00
13 Waterloo Sunset 3.16
Live at the Kelvin Hall
1 Till The End Of The Day 3.20
2 A Well Respected Man 3.11
3 You're Looking Fine 3.27
4 Sunny Afternoon 4.57
5 Dandy 2.06
6 I'm On An Island 2.53
7 Come On Now 3.01
8 You Really Got Me 2.13
9 Medley: Milk Cow Blues/Batman Theme/Tired Of Waiting/Milk Cow Blues 8.52
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
1 The Village Green Preservation Society 2.49
2 Do You Remember Walter 2.28
3 Picture Book 2.38
4 Johnny Thunder 2.33
5 Monica 2.15
6 People Take Pictures Of Each Other 2.26
7 Village Green 2.11
8 Mr. Songbird 2.27
9 Wicked Annabella 2.43
10 Starstruck 2.22
11 Phenominal Cat 2.37
12 Days 2.52
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
1 Victoria 3.44
2 Yes Sir, No Sir 3.50
3 Some Mother's Son 3.28
4 Drivin' 3.17
5 Brainwashed 2.38
6 Australia 6.46
7 Shangri-La 5.23
8 Mr. Churchill Says 4.45
9 She's Brought A Hat Like Princess Marina 3.10
10 Young And Innocent Days 3.24
11 Nothing To Say 3.11
12 Arthur 5.26
Part One. Lola Vs The Powerman and the Moneygoround
1 The Contenders 2.42
2 Strangers 3.19
3 Denmark Street 2.01
4 Get Back In Line 3.04
5 Lola 4.01
6 Top Of The Pops 3.39
7 The Moneyground 1.46
8 This Time Tomorrow 3.21
9 A Long Way From Home 2.26
10 Rats 2.39
11 Apeman 3.52
12 Powerman 4.17
13 Got To Be Free 2.59
Percy
1 God's Children 3.19
2 Lola (Instrumental) 4.45
3 The Way Love Used To Be 2.14
4 Completely 3.41
5 Running Around Town 1.05
6 Moments 2.58
7 Animals In The Zoo 2.22
8 Just Friends 2.37
9 Whip Lady 1.21
10 Dreams 3.44
11 Helga 1.55
12 Willesden Green 2.28
13 God's Children (End) 0.27
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