The Kinks Bootlegs Collection :: Radio Shows
Soap Opera Live (no label)
1. Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) 2. Ordinary People 3. Rush Hour Blues/Nine To Five/When Work Is Over 4. Have Another Drink 5. Underneath The Neon Sign 6. You Make It All Worthwhile 7. Ducks On the Wall 8. (A) Face In The Crowd 9. You Can't Stop The Music |
10. Ordinary people Blues; 11. You make It All Worthwhile (instr.) 12. When Work Is Over 13. Ordinary People Blues 14. Rush Hour Blues 15. Medley: You Make It All Worthwhile/Ordinary people Blues/Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) |
Sound Quality : Very good recording
Notes : Tracks 1-5 and 7-8 are recorded in New Victoria Theatre, Londen, 6/14/75 (broadcast recording). Tracks 6,10-12 are recorded in Philadelphia, 4/20/75 (audience recording. Track 13 is recorded in St. Petersburg 5/3/75 (audience recording). Tracks 14 and 15 are recorded in Winterland, SF 2/19/77 (soundboard recording)
Couch Potatoes (Tendor TDR-026)
1. Sleepwalker 2. Life Goes On 3. Stormy Sky 4. Celluloid Heroes 5. Muswell Hillbilly 6. Full Moon 7. Life On The Road 8. Jukebox Music |
9. Lola 10. Do It Again 11. Word Of Mouth 12. Destroyer 13. Art Lover 14. Hatred 15. Celluloid Heroes |
Sound Quality : Track1-8 "OGWT 1977" good soundboard. Track9-11"Saturday Night Live" 1984 very good soundboard. Track12-13 "Fridays" 10/10/81 good soundboard. Track14-15 "Tonight Show" 1993 good soundboard.
Notes : Nice compilation. Especially, the "Old Grey Whistle Test" show. I recommend the video if you can get.
Dancing With Sleepwalker (BSR-013/014) *2CD
Disc 1: 1.You Really Got Me (intro.) * 2.One Of the Survivors 3.Sleepwalker 4.Rush Hour Blues 5.You Make It All Worthwhile / Ordinary People / Everybody's A Star(Starmaker) 6.Lola (singalong)/Banana Boat Song 7.A Well Respected Man 8.Sunny Afternoon 9.Waterloo Sunset 10.Celluloid Heroes |
11.Schooldays 12.Schooldays (reprise, instr.) The Hard Way 13.EducationDisc 2: 1.Brother 2.Stormy Skys 3.Life Goes On 4.Full Moon 5.Lola 6.Alcohol 7.You Really Got Me/ All Day and All Of the Night 8.Life on the Road 9.Victoria |
Sound Quality : Super Excellent Soundboard recording!! You must get it!!
Notes : Winterland: San Francisco, CA February 19th, 1977
Another One For The Road (no label)
1. Opening 2. Hard Way 3. Where Have All The Good Times Gone 4. Catch Me Now I'm Falling 5. Bird Dog / New York Blues 6. Lola 7. Dead End Street 8. Till The End Of The Day 9. Low Budget |
10. Imagination's Real 11. Nothing More To Lose 12. You Really Got Me 13. Give The People What They Want 14. A Gallon Of Gas 15. Celluloid Heroes 16. All Day And All Of The Night |
Sound Quality : Broadcastd excellent recording
Notes : Live at Palladium, New York City 12/31/80
Similer Bootlegs: New Year's Eve / Missing Links
New Year's Eve (CD-W-12)
1. Opening 2. Hard Way 3. Where Have All The Good Times Gone 4. Tired of Waiting For You 5. Catch Me Now I'm Falling 6. Bird Dog / New York Blues 7. Lola 8. Dead End Street |
9. Till The End Of The Day 10. Low Budget 11. Imagination's Real 12. Nothing More To Lose 13. I'm Not Like Everybody Else 14. Come On Now 15. Give The People What They Want 16. You Really Got Me |
Sound Quality : Excellent broadcast recording.
Notes : Live at the Palladium, New York City 12/31/80. The bootleg is famous since the vinyl era. And the other same show bootleg is "Another One For The Road".
Chicago Gig (Golden Concerts GC 003CD)
1. Do It Again 2. Low Budget 3. Come Dancin' 4. Working In The Factory 5. Think Visual 6. State Of Confusion 7. All Day And All Of The Night 8. Celluloid Heroes 9. You Really Got Me |
Sound Quality : Broadcast excellent recording Notes : Live at the Riviera Nightclub, Chicago, IL 3/8/87. (omitted some songs) Same show bootleg :Chicago Really Got Me / My Favorite Kinks |
Chicago Really Got Me (American Concert Series ACS 39)
1. Do It Again 2. Low Budget 3. Come Dancin' 4. Lola 5. State Of Confusion 6. All Day And All Of The Night |
7. Working In The Factory 8. Think Visual 9. I Gotta Move 10. Celluloid Heroes 11. You Really Got Me |
Sound Quality : Broadcastd excellent recording
Notes : Live at Riviera Nightclub, Chicago, IL 3/8/87. (omitted some songs)
Similer Bootlegs:Chicago Gig / My Favorite Kinks
My Favorite Kinks (Element of Crime elements-015)
1. Intro 2. Do It Again 3. Low Budget 4. Working In The Factory 5. Lost And Found 6. Welcome To Sleazy Town 7. Think Visual 8. Lola 9. All Day And All Of The Night |
10. Celluloid Heroes 11. State Of Confusion 12. Till The End Of The Day 13. Come Dancin' 14. Living On A Thin Line 15. Guilty 16. I Gotte Move 17. 20th Century Man 18. You Really Got Me |
Sound Quality : Broadcastd excellent recording
Notes : Live at Riviera Nightclub, Chicago, IL 3/8/87. The best version in ever bootlegs. But omitted some songs yet...
Similer Bootlegs: Chicago Really Got Me / Chicago Gig
Komment:By Bob Gill
This show was taped for the King Biscuit Flour Hour, which eventually broadcast 17 of the 21 songs played that night. But the show was also simulcast on a Chicago station, and the tape of the whole thing is an improvement on the King Biscuit show.
For one thing, the sound is better. It's in stereo, and the King Biscuit tapes I've heard are more or less in mono. Also, and possibly as a result of better stereo separation, Dave's guitar is much more prominent, which is another improvement. And there's much more chit-chat between the songs, some of it pretty amusing.
The Riviera is apparently a small place, and perhaps as a result, Ray drops some of his "arena" routines. (He doesn't shout "huh" at all, for instance.) The playing is really good -- to my ears, they're more energetic than they were in 1985, at least in the August-September tour. The one drawback is that several of the "standards" -- Do It Again, Low Budget, State of Confusion, a few others -- are played a bit too fast for my taste.
Three of the five new songs from Think Visual sound very good: Lost and Found, Working at the Factory, and Video Shop. And while we're on the subject, Video Shop is one of the four songs omitted from the King Biscuit broadcast; the others are Misfits, The Hard Way, and A Gallon of Gas.
If you already have the King Biscuit show on tape, it's a tossup whether you'll want the whole show. It really is an improvement, but whether it's worth the trouble is your call.
Isle of Dream Festival Vol.3 (VA001-004)
1. Low Budget 2. You Really Got Me 3. Lola 4. All Day And All Of The Night |
Sound Quality : Broadcast excellent recording Notes : Live at the Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisonsin 4/8/88 Same show bootleg : U.S. Jive |
U.S. Jive (MOD MOD003 ZA 74)
1. Low Budget 2. Apeman 3. Sleepwalker 4. Come Dancing 5. Lost And Found 6. Think Visual 7. Too Much On My Mind 8. Living On A Thin Line |
9. Well Respected Man 10. All Day And All Of The Night 11. The Road 12. You Really Got Me 13. Art lover 14. Welcome to sleazy town 15. Guilty 16. Celluloid heroes |
Sound Quality : Broadcastd excellent recording
Notes : Track 1-12 : Riverside theatre, Milwaukee, Wisonsin 4/8/88. Track 13-16 : St.Fox Theatre, St.Louis, Missouri 4/14/88
Similer Bootlegs:Isle of Dream Festival Vol.3 / Paranoia and Destroyer
Komment:byJohn Tattom
Era: 1988 Packaging : Fair
• Accurate track listing and two color photos.
Originality : Good
• The tracks on this CD are from two live shows on "The Road" tour, despite the allusion in the title. The two shows are Milwaukee (4/8/88) and St. Louis (4/14/88). Features Dave singing "Sleepwalker".
Sound Quality : Very Good
• This is a soundboard recording. The music is clear, but not very prominent -- the vocals are dominant.
Performance : Good
• It's hard to tell the response of the audience to Ray's comments and to the songs themselves (because of the soundboard source), but the selections seem to be pretty well-received. The boys seem to be a little under-inspired.
Overall : Good
• These tracks are certainly worth listening to, but the sound mixing and song selection (there are only a handful of "classics") will probably disappoint some. However, if finding live versions of their then-current songs is the goal, then this is an obvious choice.
Paranoia and Destroyer (HB 001)
1. Destroyer 2. Low Budget 3. Apeman 4. Sleepwalker 5. Art Lover 6. Come Dancing 7. Welcome To Sleazy Town 8. Think Visual |
9. Living On A Thin Line 10. Well Respected Man 11. It 12. Guilty 13. All Day And All Of The Night 14. You Really Got Me 15. Celluloid Heroes 16. Lola |
Sound Quality : Broadcastd excellent recording
Notes : Live at the Fox Theatre, St.Louis 4/14/88. The other bootleg "U.S. Jive" has some songs from the show.
ELL, Live NY,May 12,93 "No Hatred" (Kwiet Kinks Kollector ltd 001)
1. Destroyer 2. Phobia 3. Drift Away 4. Only A Dream 5. Apeman 6. Harry Rag 7. Hatred 8. Come Dancin' 9. Somebody Stole My Car 10. Low Budget |
Sound Quality : Broadcast excellent recording Notes : Live at the Electric Ladyland, New York 5/12/93 |