The Kinks - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1964-1965

You know what I really, really hate? BBC recordings where the DJ talks all over the start and/or the end of the song! UGH! It's bad enough to not be able to really hear the music due to the talking, but I especially hate how smarmy and insincere the DJs of the 1960s sound. It's like they tried so hard to sound "hip" but came off instead sounding like an insincere and pushy used car salesman.

I especially dislike Brian Matthew, whose voice is all over the Kinks' box set. He sounds especially insincere with his forced enthusiasm.

Most of the Kinks' performances for the BBC have been released on a box set called "At the BBC," which is great, except for those damn annoying  DJs talking over the music. I've broken the BBC box set into album-sized chunks, and also added songs they'd missed whenever I could. For this first album, covering 1964 and 1965, I was only able to add two songs - "Got Love If You Want It" (live, but done on the BBC), and "I Am Free."

I was able to use audio editing programs to wipe out the DJ talking while keeping the underlying music. Generally speaking, those are the songs with "[Edit]" in their names.

If you're like me and you just want to hear the Kinks without the hype of the smarmy DJ, this is for you. And if you like this, I've got a lot more BBC recordings without the DJ talk, not just of the Kinks but of many other bands. I plan on posting that here bit by bit.

01 Cadillac (Kinks)
02 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
03 Little Queenie [Edit] (Kinks)
04 Got Love If You Want It (Kinks)
05 I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter [Edit] (Kinks)
06 I've Got that Feeling (Kinks)
07 All Day and All of the Night [Edit] (Kinks)
08 You Shouldn't Be Sad [Edit] (Kinks)
09 Tired of Waiting for You (Kinks)
10 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy [Edit] (Kinks)
11 This Strange Effect [Edit] (Kinks)
12 See My Friends (Kinks)
13 Hide and Seek [Edit] (Kinks)
14 Milk Cow Blues (Kinks)
15 Got My Feet on the Ground (Kinks)
16 Never Met a Girl like You Before (Kinks)
17 Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (Kinks)
18 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
19 A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
20 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
21 I Am Free (Kinks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376786/TKNKS1964-1965BBSssonsVlum1_atse.zip.html

Like the other albums in this series, I used the basic design of the cover of the "At the BBC" box set, But I changed the picture of the Kinks so I could use one in full color. The photo comes from 1964. I also changed the background colors so each volume in the series can be easily distinguished from each other.