The Kinks
BBC Sessions 1964-1977
Label:  Sanctuary 
Date:  3/20/2001
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Pop
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      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.  
      		 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy    
      8.  
      		 See My Friends    
      9.  
      		 This Strange Effect    
      10.  
      		 Milk Cow Blues    
      11.  
      		 Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight    
      12.  
      		 Till the End of the Day    
      13.  
      		 Where Have All the Good Times Gone?    
      14.  
      		 Death of a Clown    
      15.  
      		 Love Me 'Til the Sun Shines    
      16.  
      		 Harry Rag    
      17.  
      		 Good Luck Charm    
      18.  
      		 Waterloo Sunset    
      19.  
      		 Monica    
      20.  
      		 Days    
      21.  
      		 Village Green Preservation Society    
      22.  
      		 Mindless Child of Motherhood    
      23.  
      		 Holiday    
      24.  
      		 Demolition    
      25.  
      		 Victoria    
      26.  
      		 Here Comes Yet Another Day    
      27.  
      		 Money Talks    
      28.  
      		 Mirror of Love    
      29.  
      		 Celluloid Heroes    
      30.  
      		 Skin and Bone/Dry Bones    
      31.  
      		 Get Back in the Line    
      32.  
      		 Did You See His Name    
      33.  
      		 When I Turn off the Living Room Lights    
      34.  
      		 Skin and Bone    
      35.  
      		 Money Talks    
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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