The Kinks - Love Gets You - Non-Album Tracks (1982-1984)

In the early 19702, the Kinks had a commercial resurgence, helped by the hit song "Come Dancing." This stray tracks album comes from the peak of that time.

This album starts out with "Entertainment," a song found on their 1989 "UK Jive" album. But the song actually dates from much earlier. I don't know if the "UK Jive" version is from 1989 or the early 1980s. But I found a high quality live version from the 1982 US Festival, so I used that and removed the audience noise.

Four of the songs here come from Dave Davies' 1983 solo album "Chosen People." I'm not a big fan of his three early 1980s solo albums, but I think these songs are among the best of them. "Love Gets You" is a particularly good song, in my opinion, so I've made it the album title here.

Three other songs are outtakes from the 1983 Kinks album "State of Confusion." In addition, there are two 1984 songs from the Ray Davies/ Kinks compilation "The Singles Collection - Waterloo Sunset." All of those and "Entertainment" are Ray Davies songs, giving him a six to four edge song count over his brother Dave on this album.

By the way, although the last two songs are credited as "Ray Davies" songs, it's highly likely it was the Kinks backing him. In this time period, Ray Davies, didn't work with anyone else. In 1985, he would put out the "solo" album "Return to Waterloo," but it was just the other Kinks on the other instruments for that album.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Entertainment (Kinks)
02 Take One More Chance (Dave Davies)
03 Noise (Kinks)
04 Mean Disposition (Dave Davies)
05 Once a Thief (Kinks)
06 Long Distance (Kinks)
07 Love Gets You (Dave Davies)
08 Is It Any Wonder (Dave Davies)
09 My Diary (Ray Davies)
10 The Shirt (Ray Davies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15485564/TKnks_1982-1984_LoveGtsYou_atse.zip.html

The cover art is from Peter of the Albums I Wish Existed blog. I don't know what year it's from, but it seems to be the right band members for the time period.