1964-1977 Bbc Sessions: Kinks: Amazon.ca: Music

Disc: 1
1. Interview
2. You Really Got Me
3. Interview
4. Cadillac
5. All Day And All Of The Night
6. Tired of Waiting For You
7. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
8. See My Friends
9. This Strange Effect
10. Milk Cow Blues
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Mindless Child of Motherhood
2. Holiday
3. Demolition
4. Victoria
5. Here Comes Yet Another Day
6. Money Talks
7. Mirror of Love
8. Celluloid Heroes
9. Skin And Bone/Dry Bones
10. Get Back In The Line
See all 14 tracks on this disc

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As live Kinks albums go, BBC Sessions is about as fine a representation of the quartet's inimitable sense of showmanship as exists. Yes, there's Live at Kelvin Hall from the '60s, Everybody's in Show-Biz from the '70s, and One for the Road from the '80s, but this double-disc of broadcast performances captures the Davies brothers at the peak of their powers--from 1964, when they burst on the scene with "You Really Got Me" to 1977, when their career was on the upswing. A veritable greatest-hits collection, BBC Sessions benefits from plenty of raw, sometimes clumsy energy. Ray once insisted, "The day we become professional is the day we are ruined," and the Kinks never did turn pro during this 13-year span. There's great fun throughout these two discs, but of particular note are the woozy '70s recordings where the group worked with a horn section whose music-hall adornments prove to be delightfully complementary. One can't help but get the sense that they were plugged into what the Stones and the Band were doing at the time, but regardless of the setting and surroundings, the Kinks were true originals. --Steven Stolder

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Live Kinks From Their Prime Period!, Jan 27 2003

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J. E FELL "boogaloojef" (Carterville, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1964-1977 Bbc Sessions (Audio CD)

The BBC Sessions by the Kinks is an excellent live document of the band from this time period and contains many of their best tracks. Fans of the band will especially be excited with the inclusion of three rare cuts "This Strange Effect", "When I Turn Off The Living Room Lights" and "Good Luck Charm". These cuts are as good as the Kink's other material from this period especially "This Strange Effect". The material ranges from raucous versions of well-known tracks like "You Really Got Me", "All Day And All Night", Dave's "Love Me 'Til The Sun Shines" and a cover of "Milk Cow Blues" to Ray's more introspective material like "See My Friend", "Waterloo Sunset", and "Days". I am also glad favorites like "Tired Of Waiting For You", "Where Have All The Good Times Gone?", "The Village Green Preservation Society", "Victoria" and Dave's "Death Of A Clown" were included. The second disk contains later era favorites like "Here Comes Yet Another Day" and "Celluloid Heroes" with the later tracks augmented by a horn section. The booklet is excellent and contains detailed information about the history of the Kink's BBC sessions.

There are a couple of drawbacks to the set. Occasionally the host of the show talks over the beginning and ending of songs which can become annoying after a while. In addition the songs "Skin And Bone" and "Money Talks" appear twice on the second disk (each version is from a different session). The disks themselves are only about 50 minutes each so more material could have been added. The detailed booklet mentions that songs like the previously unissued Chuck Berry cover "Little Queenie" along with great tracks like "David Watts", "Autumn Almanac", "Suzannah's Still Alive", "King Kong", "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion", "A Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon" and even "Lola" were performed at some of these sessions but none of these is included here. Perhaps the tapes were too bad to use or lost.

Despite these omissions this is still a worthwile set and would prove to be a valuable purchase. The rarities and differences from the studio versions will please the avid fans while set provides a sort of anthology of great songs for the new Kink's fan. Now that this is finally out when will they get around to issuing the Rolling Stones BBC sessions!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Kinks at the BBC should be the last cd you buy, April 4 2002

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1964-1977 Bbc Sessions (Audio CD)

"When I Turn Off The Living Room Light" is brilliant. The rest of this CD features vastly inferior versions of tunes from the Kinks 60s and 70s catalog. I would avoid this one and buy a nice Kinks reissue with bonus tracks from the 6-Ts period.

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5.0 out of 5 stars the Kinetic Kinds at their blistering best, Jun 19 2001

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This review is from: 1964-1977 Bbc Sessions (Audio CD)

This is a great collection. A generous two-disc set of the Kinks at the BEEB (BBC). Whether roaring through their early hits or rendering a rare Davies composition (the great Strange Effect, a British hit for Dave Berry), this is Killer Kinks! Many of these tracks are superior to there studio releases - the Kinks show that they were great live.

Overall, the sound quality is great, and the band gives uniformly fine, spriited performances. Not to be missed if your a Kinks fan, and, actually, not a bad place to start for the neophyte.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Future Collector's Item?
BBC Sessions is an album that future fans will certainly deem a "collector's item" or an "interesting historical document" and probably nothing more. Read more

Published on Feb 24 2002 by Moldyoldie

5.0 out of 5 stars Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy With This One
What a fun listen. The two discs are loaded with pure pop songwriting genius. The looseness of the recordings adds a certain charm that no studio kinks lp achieved. Read more

Published on May 21 2001 by lou