The Journey, Pt. 2 (Remastered) The Kinks

• 1 Till the End of the Day (2023 Remaster) 02:19
• 2 Preservation (2023 Remaster) 03:36
• 3 David Watts (2023 Remaster) 02:29
• 4 This Time Tomorrow (Alternate Take, 2020 Mix) [2020 - Remaster] (Alternate Take, 2020 Mix;2020 - Remaster) 03:13
• 5 A Well Respected Man (2023 Remaster) 02:41
• 6 Monica (2018 Stereo Remaster) 48kHz 02:18
• 7 Scrapheap City (2023 Remaster) 03:16
• 8 He's Evil (2023 Remaster) 03:22
• 9 Lola (2020 Stereo Remaster) 04:01
• 10 Sunny Afternoon (2023 Remaster) 03:32
• 11 Animal Farm (2018 Stereo Remaster) 48kHz 03:01
• 12 Creeping Jean (2023 Remaster) 03:13
• 13 Two Sisters (2023 Remaster) 02:00
• 14 See My Friends (2023 Remaster) 02:43
• 15 Money Talks (2023 Mix) 03:51
• 16 No Return (2023 Remaster) 02:00
• 17 Don't You Fret (2023 Remaster) 02:43
• 18 I Need You (2023 Remaster) 02:23
• 19 Rainy Day in June (2023 Remaster) 03:06
• 20 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (2023 Remaster) 03:00
• 21 Where Are They Now? (2023 Mix) 03:31
• 22 Wicked Annabella (2018 Stereo Remaster) 48kHz 02:45
• 23 Alcohol (2022 Remaster) 03:37
• 24 Susannah's Still Alive (2023 Remaster) 02:18
• 25 20th Century Man (2022 Remaster) 05:39
• 26 Sitting By the Riverside (2018 Stereo Remaster) 48kHz 02:26
• 27 Artificial Man (2023 Mix) 05:29
• 28 New Victoria Suite - Everybody's a Star (Starmaker) [Live 1975] [2023 Mix] (Live 1975; 2023 Mix) 03:28
• 29 New Victoria Suite - Slum Kids (Live 1975) [2023 Mix] (Live 1975; 2023 Mix) 04:25
• 30 New Victoria Suite - (A) Face in the Crowd [Live 1975] [2023 Mix] (Live 1975; 2023 Mix) 02:52
• 31 Holiday Romance (2023 Remaster) 03:11
• 32 Big Sky (2018 Stereo Remaster) 48kHz 02:52
• 33 Lincoln County 03:19
• 34 God's Children (2023 Remaster) 03:17
• Total Runtime 01:47:56

Info for The Journey, Pt. 2 (Remastered)

The Kinks continue to celebrate their 60th Anniversary this year with the upcoming release of the second part of their career-spanning anthology series The Journey.

The Journey is a collection of tracks chosen by The Kinks' Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory that reflect the trials and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963. The albums are split into themed sections created by The Kinks.

The Journey – Part 2 includes singles, B-sides, album tracks and, notably, six new Ray Davies mixes, three of which are previously unreleased live performances from the New Victoria Theatre, London in 1975. ‘Everybody’s a Star (Starmaker) (Live, 2023 Mix).

Among the other enduring Kinks hits featured on this release include “Lola,” “Sunny Afternoon,” “20th Century Man,” “Dedicated Follower Of Fashion,” “Till The End Of The Day,” “A Well Respected Man,” “See My Friends” and “Big Sky” just to name a few. The inclusion of deeper cuts like “Animal Farm,” “Scrapheap City” and “Wicked Annabella” indicates that, like it’s predecessor, this collection is far from being just another greatest hits cash grab.

“I thought I knew everything about my songs until I was given the opportunity to put this record together,” Ray Davies said in a statement. “The new sequencing has enabled us to show the ‘big picture’ and give a more insightful back story about how our music evolved. I learned a lot about myself in putting this together.”

“Another chance to listen to some of my favourite Kinks releases over the years,” adds brother Dave. “A perfect example of our diverse and creative musical legacy.”

“A strong selection of Kinks songs across the years that should give the listener some nice surprises,” promises Avory.

The songs featured on The Journey – Part 2 were selected from the following Kinks albums: Face To Face, The Kink Kontroversy, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody’s In Show-Biz, Preservation Acts 1 & 2 and A Soap Opera (which we hope gets a separate reissue soon).

All tracks have been carefully remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Studios in LA, overseen by Andrew Sandoval.

The Kinks

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The Kinks
are recognised as one of the most important and influential British groups of all time, with millions of record sales and countless awards and accolades to their name. From their explosive beginnings as part of the British Beat movement to forays into concept albums, stadium rock and acoustic balladeering, The Kinks have left an unimpeachable legacy of classic songs, many of which form the building blocks of popular music as we know it today.

Hailing from Muswell Hill in north London, The Kinks were formed by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Calling themselves The Ravens, an early line-up saw them playing a combination of skiffle and rock and roll with friend Peter Quaife on bass. A self-produced demo tape reached record producer Shel Talmy who helped the band land a contract with Pye Records in 1964. Before signing, the group replaced their drummer with Mick Avory and renamed themselves The Kinks.

With the classic line-up in place, music history was about to be written and, after two failed singles (including a cover of Little Richard's Long Tall Sally), the group's third, You Really Got Me, stormed to the top of the UK charts. Written by Ray and Dave in their parents' front room, the song has since been cited as the inspiration for garage rock, punk, heavy metal and on contempories The Who. An album, The Kinks, was hastily assembled in the aftermath of the monster hit and was, in turn, swiftly followed by a second Top 10 single, All Day and All Of the Night.

Between 1965-1967, The Kinks enjoyed their first commercial peak, scoring nine British and seven US chart hits. 1965's Tired Of Waiting For You displayed Ray's world-weary vocal style while Dave came up with a then innovatory Indian style drone guitar on See My Friends. As Ray's songwriting developed, he emerged as a witty, compassionate social commentator, chronicling the absurdities and aspirations of English life. He took stabs at fashion victims with Dedicated Follower Of Fashion and his fellow nouveau rich pop star peers on Sunny Afternoon. He even created a hymn to the Thames on the peerless Waterloo Sunset.

Despite the Kinks' commercial success at home, an unresolved dispute with the American Federation of Musicians during a 1965 tour, led to a ban on US appearances which lasted until 1969. These problems coupled with the pressures of recording and touring caused Ray to collapse from nervous exhaustion in 1966. So, with most UK bands looking to America's burgeoning flower power revolution for inspiration, Ray looked no further than his back garden for his own concept album, 1968's Village Green Preservation Society. On the album Ray developed the major themes of his work, a lament for the traditions of a near-mythical England lost among modernity. Despite flirting with the de rigeur psychedelia sound, the album was overlooked by the British record-buying public and one of the Kinks' most artistically successful albums slipped away. Fortunately, subsequent years have seen it grow in stature and it’s now recognised as one of the most important British albums ever released.

The loftily named follow up, Arthur - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, addressed similar themes, portraying an English family looking back over their experiences before emigrating to Australia featuring the oft-covered Victoria. The mood lightened a little with the monster 1970 hit single Lola. 1971's Muswell Hillbillies album echoed Village Green's collection of storybook vignettes and the single Supersonic Rocketship from Everybody’s In Showbiz went Top 20 in 1972 while Celluloid Heroes from the same album became a live favourite . The remainder of the '70s found our heroes tackling a dazzling array of real-life themes and situations with the bands four concept albums, Preservation Act 1, Preservation Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace. While the UK hits dried up, their sizeable following in the US brought them commercial rewards and, in 1977, a Top 30 album in the form of Sleepwalker.

Two years later the band released the hard rock Low Budget album and became belated rock stars in America, gaining a sizeable chunk of the stadium rock circuit, selling out Madison Square Gardens. The Americans also lapped up early 80's albums Give The People What they Want and State Of Confusion which featured the hit singles Better Things and Destroyer. The Kinks even found themselves back in the UK charts with 1983’s, Come Dancing. For many years The Kinks had been receiving reverential nods from the rock fraternity, all of which increased their cachet with wave after wave of new bands and musicians. In 1978 The Jam had covered David Watts while The Pretenders had their first UK hit with a version of Stop Your Sobbing. Biggest of all was Kirsty McColl’s breathtaking take on ‘Days’.

Through the 90s, The Kinks garnered a whole new generation of fans as yet another wave of British musicians paid tribute to the band. Blur’s Damon Albarn in particular acknowledged Davies as a key influence: the classic Kinks sound and sensibilities underpin the Brit Pop-ers’ classic triptych of ‘London albums’, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape. With The Kinks on hiatus since 1996 Ray Davies continued to record and tour acclaimed albums like 2006’s Other People’s Life and 2007’s Working Man’s Café. In 2009 he released The Kinks Choral Collection, an album of Kinks compositions in collaboration with the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Despite intermittent rumours to the contrary throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, ill-health scuppered plans for a reunion of the original line-up. Sadly, Peter Quaife, who had been receiving kidney dialysis for more than ten years, died on 23rd June 2010. Ray Davies dedicated his June 27th performance at the Glastonbury festival to his honour, telling the crowd, “I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him”.

This album contains no booklet.