As I've expressed forcefully before, my main beef with the official box set is how the BBC DJs have a tendency of talking over the start and finish to some songs. That was the case here also, so I have fixed all such instances.
Additionally, I found five unreleased performances that were worthy of inclusion. One of them is actually just from a concert, a 1971 version of "Mr. Pleasant." But I found it the only worthy performance from an otherwise middling sounding concert recording, so I've added it here. It's unusual to begin with because it was a song that the Kinks probably never performed in concert except for this one time. And the reason for that is the complicated piano part that was essential to the song. But somehow, some random person befriended the Kinks before the show, convinced them they were a talented piano player who knew how to play the song well, and then proceeded to do a flawless job on stage with the band, with no rehearsal time at all.
So that's pretty cool. (As usual, I cut out the audience noise as best I could.) On the downside, the band also tried to play "Autumn Almanac" at the same show with that piano player. And while the pianist did fine, Ray Davies obviously hadn't sung the song in a long while and badly mangled the vocals to the musically complicated song, so I didn't include that here as well.
I added three songs from the Beat Club, a German TV show. Those are tracks seven through nine. Although this is a collection of BBC performances, I don't see why I shouldn't include something from another TV show, if it's of the same sound quality. Additionally, "Have a Cuppa Tea" is from the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test." They actually played "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues" on the same episode of the show, but I didn't include that since I have a different version of that from a BBC studio session on this same album.
This album is 43 minutes long.
UPDATE: On October 22, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. I removed a few songs, because I moved them to a new "Volume 4" consisting of a 1973 BBC concert. But I largely replaced them by adding in the Beat Club songs mentioned above. So this is only one song shorter than in the previous version.
01 Lola [Recorded Version with New Vocals] (Kinks)
02 Mindless Child of Motherhood [Edit] (Kinks)
03 Days [Recorded Version with New Vocals] [Edit] (Kinks)
04 Apeman [Edit] (Kinks)
05 Mr. Pleasant (Kinks)
06 Have a Cuppa Tea (Kinks)
07 Top of the Pops (Kinks)
08 Brainwashed (Kinks)
09 You're Looking Fine (Kinks)
10 Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Kinks)
11 Holiday (Kinks)
12 Skin and Bone (Kinks)
13 Supersonic Rocket Ship (Kinks)
14 Here Comes Yet Another Day (Kinks)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/fBd7y4Tu
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/qK9sjoihHsi9iQO/file
Like the other albums in this series, I used the basic design of the
cover of the "At the BBC" box set, but changed the picture of the Kinks
to match the years of the music. Then I added a photo of the group from Roskilde, Denmark, in 1972. (Note that the
band became a five-piece in the middle of 1970). I also changed the
background colors so each volume in the series can be easily
distinguished from each other.
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