BMG follow up this years The Kinks The Journey release (from March this year), and continue the 60th anniversary celebrations, with Part 2.
Compiled by the band, this collection is curated “according to themes inspired by the trials and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963”.
This release features music from Face To Face, The Kink Kontroversy, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody’s In Show-Biz, Preservation Acts 1 & 2 and A Soap Opera.
It includes singles, B-sides, album tracks and, notably, six new Ray Davies mixes, three of which are previously unreleased live performances from the New Victoria Theatre, London in 1975.
CD 1
THE WORLD AROUND THE JOURNEYMAN STARTS TO CRUMBLE AS HIS LIFE IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
- TILL THE END OF THE DAY (1965)
- PRESERVATION (1974)
- DAVID WATTS (1967)
- THIS TIME TOMORROW (ALTERNATE TAKE, 2020 MIX) (1970)
- A WELL RESPECTED MAN (1965)
- MONICA (1968)
- SCRAPHEAP CITY (1974)
- HE’S EVIL (1974)
THE JOURNEYMAN IS LED ASTRAY BY GHOSTS AND A DARK ANGEL
- LOLA (1970)
- SUNNY AFTERNOON (1966)
- ANIMAL FARM (1968)
- CREEPING JEAN (1969) *
- TWO SISTERS (1967)
- SEE MY FRIENDS (1965)
- MONEY TALKS (2023 MIX) (1974) **
- NO RETURN (1967)
- DON’T YOU FRET (1965)
* BY DAVE DAVIES
** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSION
CD 2
OUR JOURNEYMAN IS SEDUCED BY THOSE GHOSTS AND DEMONS OF THE UNDERWORLD AND SEARCHES FOR HIS LOST INNOCENCE
- I NEED YOU (1965)
- RAINY DAY IN JUNE (1966)
- DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION (1966)
- WHERE ARE THEY NOW? (2023 MIX) (1974) **
- WICKED ANNABELLA (1968)
- ALCOHOL (1971)
- SUSANNAH’S STILL ALIVE (1967) *
- 20TH CENTURY MAN (1971)
- SITTING BY THE RIVERSIDE (1971)
- ARTIFICIAL MAN (2023 MIX) (1974) **
DESPAIR TURNS TO ELATION AS JOURNEYMAN OVERCOMES HIS FEAR. REUNITES WITH OLD FRIENDS
- NEW VICTORIA SUITE – EVERYBODY’S A STAR (STARMAKER) (LIVE, 2023 MIX) (1975) **
- NEW VICTORIA SUITE – SLUM KIDS (LIVE NEW VICTORIA THEATRE) (LIVE, 2023 MIX) (1975) **
- NEW VICTORIA SUITE – (A) FACE IN THE CROWD (LIVE NEW VICTORIA THEATRE) (LIVE, 2023 MIX) (1975) **
- HOLIDAY ROMANCE (1975)
- BIG SKY (1968)
- LINCOLN COUNTY (1968) *
- GOD’S CHILDREN (1971)
* BY DAVE DAVIES
** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSION
