The Kinks - Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, 11-23-1984

It's always a good day when I get to post some music from the Kinks that's worthy of being posted here. Today is one of those days. :) This is a Kinks concert from 1984.

The Kinks album "Word of Mouth" has a special place in my heart, because I bought that album as a kid in 1984, and went to see the Kinks in concert that year. So I've looked for ages for a good concert from that tour, but none of them sounded good enough for my ears, or had other problems. I finally found one, here.

I had come across a soundboard recording from this very concert. But the problem was this recording only includes the last 45 minutes of the concert. I found it too frustrating to keep a recording of just half of a concert. But the other day, I randomly came across a professionally recorded video of the entire concert. So I converted that to audio, and chopped up the first half into mp3s. Then I used the soundboard recording of the second half. The sound quality is so similar that I don't think you'll notice the transition point.

So that all went well. The sound quality is excellent overall. There was only one minor snag: at the start of the recording, the volume of the voice of one of the backing vocalists was unusually loud. It was really annoying. Luckily, it was just a problem for the first song or two, then adjustments were made. I tried to make further adjustments, going through line by line in those first two songs to bring the backing vocals down to a more reasonable level. But there was only so much I could do, due to different vocals overlapping. Still, it should be close enough for horseshoes now, and the rest of the concert sounds fine.

By the way, I still think "Word of Mouth" is an underrated album in the Kinks' discography. Unfortunately though, only four songs from that album were performed here: "Do It Again," "Word of Mouth," "Living on a Thin Line," and "Good Day." I would have liked to hear more. 

This album is an hour and 26 minutes long.

01 Around the Dial (Kinks)
02 Definite Maybe [Instrumental] (Kinks)
03 State of Confusion (Kinks)
04 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
05 The Hard Way (Kinks)
06 Don't Forget to Dance (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Come Dancing (Kinks)
09 Low Budget (Kinks)
10 talk (Kinks)
11 Do It Again (Kinks)
12 talk (Kinks)
13 Word of Mouth (Kinks)
14 Lola (Kinks)
15 David Watts (Kinks)
16 Dead End Street (Kinks)
17 Living on a Thin Line (Kinks)
18 Good Day (Kinks)
19 talk (Kinks)
20 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
21 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
22 talk (Kinks)
23 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
24 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
25 talk (Kinks)
26 I Gotta Move (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9QaDHoJM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/NcgXgXKTSsZ3Upw/file

The cover photo shows band leader Ray Davies. I took it from a screenshot of a YouTube video of this concert.