The Kinks had a ton of songs around 1977 that didn't make any album. The band regularly released one album a year for all of the entire 1970s, but they didn't release any album in 1976, so it makes sense they would have two albums' worth of songs in 1977.
The highlight of the album has to be the 1977 A- and B-sides "Father Christmas" and "Prince of the Punks." There also are some bonus tracks from the 1977 "Sleepwalker" album, plus one song ("Elevator Man") that was released on an obscure 1994 EP but actually dates from 1977. Two songs, written and sung by Dave Davies, comes from the archival album "Decade." There's one more Dave Davies demo, "Violet Dreams," which was released on the 2016 archival album "Fragile."
There actually still are a bunch of Kinks songs from this time that continue to be unreleased and unbootlegged, such as "Child Bride," "Power of Gold," "Stagefright," "Restless," "Back to 64 - Decade" (which is NOT on the new "Decade" album), "Lazy Day," "Everything Is Alright," and "One Woman Man." So eventually there may be another album's worth of stray tracks, if and when all those songs become public.
This album is 38 minutes long.
01 Father Christmas (Kinks)
02 Prince of the Punks (Kinks)
03 Violet Dreams (Dave Davies)
04 Artificial Light (Kinks)
05 Elevator Man (Kinks)
06 Same Old Blues (Dave Davies)
07 The Poseur (Kinks)
08 On the Outside (Kinks)
09 Give You All My Love (Dave Davies)
10 Islands (Dave Davies)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15484798/TKnks_1977-1978_ArtificialLght_atse.zip.html
The cover is from a bootleg. I changed the title text.
Your Kinks "stray" compilations are particular favorites of mine, some as strong as the official albums being released at the time. Thank you for the work you put into these!
ReplyDeleteThanks. As I've mentioned somewhere here, the Kinks are one of my favorite groups, maybe number 2 behind the Beatles. I'll be posting more stuff from them soon.
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