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The Kinks Finally Ready a Box Set Retrospective

The Kinks have announced the December 8 release of Picture Book, a six-disc box set that tacks rarities, live cuts and demos onto the typical array of classic singles and fan favorites. More than 130 tracks made the final tracklisting, which is backed by a 60-page booklet of previously unseen photos and liner notes.

In related news, Ray Davies recently hinted at a Kinks reunion, telling the BBC News, "We've started a little bit of this and that. It depends if there's good music. We want good new music. I'd like to do it as a more collaborative thing than we used to do."

Amen. The details for now, including solo Davies dates with Locksley as his backing/opening band...

Picture Book:

Disc 1:
1. Brian Matthew Introduces the Kinks
2. You Really Got Me
3. I'm a Hog for You Baby
4. I Believed You
5. Long Tall Sally
6. I Don't Need You Anymore
7. Stop Your Sobbing
8. I Gotta Move
9. Don't Ever Let Me Go
10. All Day and All of the Night
11. Tired of Waiting for You
12. Come on Now (outtake with two false starts)
13. There Is a New World Opening for Me (Kassner publishing demo)
14. Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
15. Who'll Be the Next in Line
16. Time Will Tell
17. Set Me Free
18. I Need You
19. See My Friend
20. Wait Till the Summer Comes Along
21. I Go to Sleep
22. A Little Bit of Sunlight (Kassner publishing demo)
23. This I Know (demo)
24. A Well Respected Man
25. This Strange Effect (With Brian Matthew speaking over intro)
26. Milk Cow Blues
27. Ring the Bells
28. I'm on an Island
29. Till the End of the Day
30. Where Have All the Good Times Gone
31. All Night Stand (Demo)
32. And I Will Love You
33. Sittin' on My Sofa

Disc 2:
1. Dedicated Follower of Fashion (alternate stereo take)
2. She's Got Everything
3. Mr. Reporter (Ray vocal)
4. Sunny Afternoon
5. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
6. This Is Where I Belong
7. Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
8. Too Much on My Mind
9. Session Man
10. End of the Season
11. Dead End Street (first version)
12. Village Green
13. Two Sisters
14. David Watts
15. Mr. Pleasant
16. Waterloo Sunset (mono mix)
17. Death of a Clown
18. Lavender Hill
19. Good Luck Charm
20. Autumn Almanac
21. Susannah's Still Alive
22. Animal Farm
23. Rosemary Rose
24. Berkeley Mews
25. Lincoln County
26. Picture Book
27. Days
28. Misty Water

Disc 3:
1. Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Top Gear session with Brian Matthew intro and outro)
2. The Village Green Preservation Society
3. Big Sky
4. King Kong
5. Drivin'
6. Some Mother's Son
7. Victoria
8. Shangri-La
9. Arthur
10. Got to Be Free
11. Lola (mono single version)
12. Get Back in the Line
13. The Moneygoround
14. Strangers
15. Apeman
16. God's Children
17. The Way Love Used to Be
18. Moments
19. Muswell Hillbilly
20. Oklahoma USA
21. Twentieth Century Man
22. Here Come the People in Grey

Disc 4:
1. Skin and Bone
2. Alcohol Live
3. Celluloid Heroes
4. Sitting in My Hotel
5. Supersonic Rocket Ship
6. You Don't Know My Name
7. One of the Survivors
8. Sitting in the Midday Sun
9. Sweet Lady Genevieve
10. Daylight
11. Mirror of Love
12. Artificial Man
13. Preservation (U.S. single)
14. Slum Kids (live)
15. Holiday Romance
16. Face in the Crowd
17. No More Looking Back
18. Sleepwalker
19. The Poseur

Disc 5:
1. Sleepless Night
2. Father Christmas
3. Misfits
4. A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy
5. Little Bit of Emotion
6. Attitude
7. Hidden Quality
8. A Gallon of Gas
9. Catch Me Now I'm Falling
10. Nuclear Love (demo)
11. Duke (demo)
12. Maybe I Love You (demo)
13. Stolen Away Your Heart (demo)
14. Low Budget (live)
15. Better Things
16. Destroyer
17. Yo-Yo
18 Art Lover
19. Long Distance

Disc 6:
1. Heart of Gold
2. Come Dancing (demo remix)
3. State of Confusion
4. Do It Again
5. Living on a Thin Line
6. Summer's Gone
7. How Are You?
8. The Road (live)
9. The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
10. Down All the Days (To 1992)
11. The Informer
12. Phobia
13. Only a Dream
14. Drift Away
15. Scattered
16. Do You Remember Walter? (live)
17. To the Bone (demo)

Ray Davies (all dates with Locksley):
11/28 Tampa, FL - Tampa Theatre
11/29 Miami, FL - Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
11/30 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
12/2 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
12/3 Nashville, TN - Wildhorse Saloon
12/5 Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Music Box
12/6 Poughkeepsie, NY - Bardavon 1869 Opera House
12/8 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
12/10 Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
12/11 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
12/12 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
12/13 Asbury Park, NJ - Paramount Theatre

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
11.24.08