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Just got an email alert from a Kinks site that mentioned this info on The Kinks facebook site, actually buried in a sub page about a new Kinks kompetition:

https://www.facebook.com/TheKinksOffici ... 1350439587

As one of the most influential rock acts of the 1960's and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Kinks are releasing 'The Kinks Live at the BBC' box set, which features a raft of sessions, live recordings and unreleased recordings from throughout the band's career.

They are also releasing the 44-track 'Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best Of The Kinks & Ray Davies’ celebrating the band's six decade career in the music industry.

In celebration of these releases, they are inviting musicians around the world to submit an interpretation of a track from The Kinks' catalogue of albums that expresses the musician's creativity and originality. Ray Davies', lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks will select one winner who will be invited to spend a day with the band at the famous London 'Konk Studios' to have their track fully produced.

http://apps.facebook.com/talenthouse-ap ... 500059423/

They are also releasing the 44-track 'Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best Of The Kinks & Ray Davies’ celebrating the band's six decade career in the music industry.

About 'Best Of'

The 2-CD, 44-track ‘Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best Of The Kinks & Ray Davies’ (also out August 13th) is a new retrospective celebrating a career spanning six decades of music. Disc One rounds up all the chart smashes and best-loved classics, including ‘Days’ (a cover by Kirsty MacColl was a UK Top 10 hit) and ‘David Watts’ (famously covered by The Jam in 1978) while Disc Two, personally curated by Ray, gathers together for the first time 21 Kinks and solo songs about London, from the Carnaby-Street-lampooning ‘Dedicated Follower Of Fashion’ to that glorious paean to London’s post-War dancehall culture ‘Come Dancing’.

I'm interested to see the tracklist.....but if there's no new/unreleased material, I'll probably pass.

I have every regular Kinks album, and both of Ray's solos.....my being a completist usually stops at "best of" albums with nothing new.

For anyone who didn't buy for the UK edition of the Khoral album, Postcard From London will likely be a new song......(I'm sure it will be on the London themed disc)

Disc 1-
1. Waterloo Sunset
2. You Really Got Me
3. Tired Of Waiting For You
4. Sunny Afternoon
5. All Day And All Of The Night
6. Till The End Of The Day
7. Autumn Almanac
8. Days
9. Lola
10. Set Me Free
11. See My Friends - Ray Davies, The Crouch End Festival Chorus
12. Death Of A Clown
13. Apeman
14. Dead End Street
15. This Time Tomorrow
16. Strangers
17. You Don't Know My Name
18. Wonderboy
19. Plastic Man
20. Supersonic Rocket Ship
21. Better Things
22. Don't Forget To Dance
23. David Watts

Disc 2-
1. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
2. Come Dancing
3. Where Have All The Good Times Gone
4. Victoria
5. Big Black Smoke
6. Yours Truly, Confused N10 - Ray Davies, Jools Holland
7. Working Man's Café - Ray Davies
8. London Song - Ray Davies
9. Fortis Green - Dave Davies
10. Postcard From London - Ray Davies, Chrissie Hynde, The Crouch End Festival Chorus
11. Muswell Hillbilly
12. Denmark Street
13. Berkeley Mews
14. Holloway Jail
15. Lavender Hill
16. Willesden Green
17. Life On The Road
18. End Of The Season
19. Next Door Neighbour - Ray Davies
20. Did Ya
21. Most Exclusive Residence For Sale
22. Waterloo Sunset - Ray Davies, The Crouch End Festival Chorus

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LA8EAO/?tag=imwan-21

US
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LA8EAO/?tag=imwan-20

Is any of this unreleased or not released in US?

Postcard From London - Ray Davies, Chrissie Hynde, The Crouch End Festival Chorus ??? Is this a non-US track.

Postcard From London was a bonus track on the UK version of the Khoral Kinks album
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002S0OBNW/?tag=imwan-21

Yours Truly, Confused N10 is from a Jools Holland compilation or Ray's Thanksgiving Day EP
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BTJCPY/?tag=imwan-20

(I have both of these)

Fortis Green is from a Dave Davies solo album - BUG - which I don't have yet

The rest are available on the various Kinks albums, and both of Ray's solo albums (Other People's Lives and Workingman's Cafe),

(Willesden Green is on Percy, which some people probably didn't end up buying)

Willesden Green is also Kinks Kronikles.

Forgot that too......with the Kinks, I only buy the regular albums.

Finally, a Kinks compilation album!!! Now, if the Who would only release one..... Perhaps the Doors too?

Be nice. It's been weeks since we've gotten new collections from those groups.

Really, really weird comp.
There's some stuff on there that I don't think is even any good, much less "The Very Best..."
I have no idea who would buy this.

Point well taken. What was I thinking.

although I do like the "A Hard Day's Night" cover knock off...

A best of without "A Well Respected Man"?