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Kinks - Picture Book (2008)

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It's a story oft told, but it bears repeating. The tale of how two brothers from North London, after taking their first steps into popular music during the beat boom, were joined by Pete Quaife and Mick Avory to become the Kinks. How older brother Ray Davies aided by Dave's proto-metal guitar rapidly progressed from writing brilliant brutish rave-up-style hits to exquisite vignettes of the tiny wheels and cogs that kept English lower middle class society ticking along in the post-war years. And how, after inter-sibling fighting (often on stage), numerous breakdowns, forays into country rock (on the wonderful Muswell Hillbillies album), Vaudevillian musical theatre and concept albums they finally found fame in the States and lost their souls to stadium rock. Picture Book has it all. In pretty much chronological order this huge box tells the story again. Brian Matthew's introduction on disc one describing them as part of the 'shaggy set'' may hold true for about half of that cd, but by See My Friend, with its sexual ambivalence and raga-influenced lilt it becomes clear how quickly Ray was developing as a writer. From this point on the subject matter became satirical (Sunny Afternoon, Dedicated Follower Of Fashion: here in a rare mix) and increasingly obsessed with the trivia of daily life including daytrips (Drivin'), the changing seasons (Autumn Almanac) or suburbia (Shangri-La) as well as the death of imperialism (Victoria, Arthur). And this isn't to mention cross-dressing (Lola) or just plain old romanticism (Waterloo Sunset, Days). While the brothers' onstage sparring might well have led to them getting their US work permits refused at the crucial point at which their peers were conquering that most lucrative of markets, it also ensured that Ray could really get to grips with his number one muse - England. Now hailed as their zenith, ...Are The Village Green Preservation Society sold squat on its release in 1968; its parochial slant (as well as a rather sub-standard production job) putting it out of step with the times. No matter, anything from these sessions (and albums on both sides) is ace. Despite increasing anguish surrounding creative pressure and marital strife (leading to his suicide attempt in the early 70s) Ray always remained both nostalgic and affectionate in his view of the world which gave birth to him, even when it came in the voguish garb of downhome Americana on the aforementioned ...Hillbillies album. The selection from the hefty (some would say bloated) Preservation Act albums is judicious in removing flab and cherry-picking the very best cuts, though little can rescue the last two cds-worth of slicker, USA-centric college rock. Still, Come Dancing remains a gem in any guise. While Picture Book unashamedly addresses all the highs and lows, it's perplexing to work out who this 6 cd set is aimed at. For Kinks kompletists the smattering of demos, BBC sessions alternative mixes, early rarities (by their Bo Weevils incarnation) or live versions seems somewhat thin on the ground, and for the novice or day tripper surely a greatest hits collection and maybe a copy of Village Green would suffice, avoiding the dodgy (if commercially successful) arena rock of their post Pye/RCA years and the fascinating, if rudimentary, rhythm and blues of the early 60s. Yet Picture Book holds a wealth of songwriting treasures. On the cusp of a reconciliation between Ray and Dave it's a timely reminder of one of the greatest bands, not just of the 60s but of any period.

This is the digitally remastered, first ever Kinks box set, chronicling the bands 40 year career on six CDs and one 60-page, full color booklet. Each disc deals with a particular chapter in the bands history, from their 1964 breakthrough onwards, while the booklet features a full retelling of The Kinks story penned by esteemed rock critic Peter Doggett. Beautifully packaged in a classic, lift-lid style box, PICTURE BOOK features well over a hundred tracks - a third of which are previously unreleased or new to CD

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Volume 1
01 Brian Matthews Introduces The Kinks
02 You Really Got Me
03 I'm A Hog For You, Baby
04 I Believed You
05 Long Tall Sally
06 I Don't Need You Anymore
07 Stop Your Sobbin'
08 I Gotta Move
09 Don't Ever Let Me Go
10 All Day And All Of The Night
11 Tired Of Waiting For You
12 Come On Now
13 There Is A New World Opening For Me
14 Ev'ry Body's Gonna Be Happy
15 Who'll Be The Next In Line
16 Time Will Tell
17 Set Me Free
18 I Need You
19 See My Friend
20 Wait Till The Summer Comes Along
21 I Go To Sleep
22 A Little Bit Of Sunlight
23 This I Know
24 A Well Respected Man
25 This Strange Effect
26 Milk Cow Blues
27 Ring The Bells
28 I'm On A Island
29 Till The End Of The Day
30 Where Have All The Good Times Gone
31 All Night Stand
32 And I Will Love You
33 Sittin' On My Sofa

Volume 2
01 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
02 She's Got Everything
03 Mr. Reporter
04 Sunny Afternoon
05 I'm Not Like Everybody Else
06 This Is Where I Belong
07 Rosy Won't You Please Come Home
08 Too Much On My Mind
09 Session Man
10 End Of The Season
11 Dead End Street
12 Village Green
13 Two Sisters
14 David Watts
15 Mr. Pleasant
16 Waterloo Sunset
17 Death Of A Clown
18 Lavender Hill
19 Good Luck Charm
20 Autumn Almanac
21 Susannah's Still Alive
22 Animal Farm
23 Rosemary Rose
24 Berkeley Mews
25 Lincoln County
26 Picture Book
27 Days
28 Misty Water

Volume 3
01 Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Top Gear session with Brian Matthew intro and ou...
02 The Village Green Preservation Society
03 Big Sky
04 King Kong
05 Drivin’
06 Some Mother’s Son
07 Victoria
08 Shangri-La
09 Arthur
10 Got to Be Free
11 Lola (mono single version)
12 Get Back in the Line
13 The Moneygoround
14 Strangers
15 Apeman
16 God’s Children
17 The Way Love Used to Be
18 Moments
19 Muswell Hillbilly
20 Oklahoma USA
21 Twentieth Century Man
22 Here Come the People in Grey

Volume 4
01 Skin And Bone
02 Alcohol (live)
03 Celluloid Heroes
04 Sitting In My Hotel
05 Supersonic Rocketship
06 You Don't Know My Name
07 One Of The Survivors
08 Sitting In The Midday Sun
09 Sweet Lady Genevieve
10 Daylight
11 Mirror Of Love
12 Artificial Man
13 Preservation
14 Slum Kids (live)
15 Holiday Romance
16 (A) Face In The Crowd
17 No More Looking Back
18 Sleepwalker
19 The Poseur

Volume 5
01 Sleepless Night
02 Father Christmas
03 Misfits
04 A Rock ‘N Roll Fantasy
05 Little Bit of Emotion
06 Attitude
07 Hidden Quality
08 A Gallon of Gas
09 Catch Me Now I’m Falling
10 Nuclear Love (demo)
11 Duke (demo)
12 Maybe I Love You (demo)
13 Stolen Away Your Heart (demo)
14 Low Budget (live)
15 Better Things
16 Destroyer
17 Yo-Yo
18 Art Lover
19 Long Distance

Volume 6
01 Heart of Gold
02 Come Dancing (demo remix)
03 State of Confusion
04 Do It Again
05 Living on a Thin Line
06 Summer’s Gone
07 How Are You
08 The Road (live)
09 The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
10 Down All the Days (To 1992)
11 The Informer
12 Phobia
13 Only a Dream
14 Drift Away
15 Scattered
16 Do You Remember Walter (live)
17 To the Bone (demo)