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Claire Hamill - Alive In America (Live) (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 28, 2020
Claire Hamill - Alive In America (Live) (2020)

Claire Hamill - Alive In America (Live) (2020)
FLAC tracks | 47:33 | 215 Mb
Genre: Folk, Rock / Label: Rdeg

Josephine Claire Hamill (born 4 August 1954) is a British singer-songwriter. As well as her solo career, she has collaborated with Wishbone Ash and Yes’s Steve Howe.

Ray Davies - See My Friends (2010)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 27, 2023
Ray Davies - See My Friends (2010)

Ray Davies - See My Friends (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 427 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 165 Mb
Full Scans | 00:52:41 | RAR 5% Recovery
Rock | Universal Music #2754817

See My Friends is a studio album released by Ray Davies with the collaboration of various other artists on 1 November 2010 in Europe and in early 2011 in the US. The album features new studio collaborations of Ray Davies' compositions, which were originally recorded by his band The Kinks. The album was recorded in Oslo, New York, New Jersey, Chicago and London. Davies stated: "This project came about almost by accident, with some tracks I had to appreciate the style of the other artists, otherwise it would have sounded unbalanced. And I wanted the album to work as an entire listening experience but each track had a life of its own". The album featured the last studio recording by Alex Chilton. See My Friends was released seven months after his death. He previously covered "Till The End of The Day" on Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers. See My Friends reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart.

The Kinks - Photographs and Souvenirs (Live 1972) (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 29, 2023
The Kinks - Photographs and Souvenirs (Live 1972) (2023)

The Kinks - Photographs and Souvenirs (Live 1972) (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:04:42 | 359 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock

The Kinks One of the great bands of the rock & roll era, the Kinks pioneered hard rock with such wild early ravers as "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night," singles that inspired such peers as the Who and David Bowie while also pointing the way forward for punk and metal. That turned out to be the first act in a career that ran into the 1990s, making them the only British Invasion band outside of the Rolling Stones to last that long. Where the Stones always occupied center stage, the Kinks operated on the margins, both by accident and design. Lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies fashioned himself as an observer of human behavior, developing a gift for character and commentary that flourished on such mid-'60s singles as "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" and "Sunny Afternoon."
Ray Davies & Crouch End Festival Chorus - The Kinks Choral Collection (2009) {Special Edition}

Ray Davies & Crouch End Festival Chorus - The Kinks Choral Collection (2009) {Special Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 339 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 136 Mb
Full Scans ~ 116 Mb | 00:56:39 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Pop, Choral | Universal Music #2724050

Orchestral and choral arrangements of rock songs have been a curious subgenre ever since the mid-'60s when Andrew Loog Oldham arranged The Rolling Stones Songbook for syrupy strings, but The Kinks Choral Collection stands apart from the pack for the simple reason that it's not the project of some associate or admirer, but rather chief Kink Ray Davies. His very presence as arranger and lead vocal means The Kinks Choral Collection isn't nearly as stuffy and middlebrow as so many of these orchestral rock albums; he manages to inject some semblance of rock & roll by pushing the songs forward with guitar, and letting the rhythms swing instead of plod.

The Kinks - Federal Capital Paranoia Blues (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 29, 2023
The Kinks - Federal Capital Paranoia Blues (2023)

The Kinks - Federal Capital Paranoia Blues (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 53:09 | 286 / 122 Mb
Genre: Rock / Label: Wicker Man

DYNAMIC BROADCAST RECORDING FROM THE KINKS’ 1972 US TOUR • By the end of 1972, The Kinks were going through a serious transition. It marked the end of the group as a 1960s British Invasion pop band, to them becoming a vehicle for Ray Davies' increasingly introspective rock 'n' roll poetry and his over-the-top performances, which borrowed heavily from the vaudevillian style of stage charisma.

The Kinks - Slum Kids (1990) {Oh Boy} **[RE-UP]**  Music

Posted by TestTickles at Nov. 18, 2020
The Kinks - Slum Kids (1990) {Oh Boy} **[RE-UP]**

The Kinks - Slum Kids (1990) {Oh Boy}
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 107 mb
Genre: rock'n'roll

Slum Kids is a 1990 bootleg album by British group The Kinks. Released in 1990 via Oh Boy, most of this is taken from a 1974 soundboard recording at the Hippodrome while the rest is from a 1977 show at the Rainbow Theare, both from London.
The Kinks - Come Dancing With The Kinks: The Best Of The Kinks 1977-1986 (1986)

The Kinks - Come Dancing With The Kinks: The Best Of The Kinks 1977-1986 (1986)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 479 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 198 Mb
Full Scans | 01:09:50 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock | Arista #A2CD 8428

Originally released as a double-album set in 1986, just after the Kinks had their last run at chart success, Come Dancing With the Kinks (The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986) does an excellent job of summarizing their stadium rock and AOR radio favorites on Arista. It leaves no single or radio favorite behind, while adding such terrific obscurities as "Long Distance" (originally only released as a bonus track on the State of Confusion cassette; the early '80s were a completely different world than the late '80s), the non-LP single "Father Christmas," the wonderfully sentimental album track "Better Things" (a close, upbeat cousin to Dylan's "Forever Young"), and the charming "Heart of Gold."

The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection [Recorded 1964-1984] (2002)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 21, 2022
The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection [Recorded 1964-1984] (2002)

The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection [Recorded 1964-1984] (2002)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 810 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 334 MB | Covers - 128 MB
Genre: Garage Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary/Rajon Music (RTV0023)

The Ultimate Collection spans the group's career in two discs, including the hits, B-sides, and key album tracks.
Although generally not as highly regarded by the critics as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, or the Who, the Kinks may well have influenced far more musicians. The three-chord sledgehammer proto-metal burst of teenage lust called "You Really Got Me," the Kinks' third single and first hit, touched off a garage band explosion, which in turn influenced the rise of punk a decade later. Blessed with an astute songwriter in Ray Davies, the Kinks followed the template of "You Really Got Me" for a couple years, racking up hits with "All Day and All of the Night," "Tired of Waiting for You," and "Till the End of the Day." But Davies had more than one card in his pocket, and he blossomed into a sharp social satirist ("Dedicated Follower of Fashion")…

The Kinks - To The Bone (1994) [US 2CD Edition 1996]  Music

Posted by Designol at July 6, 2023
The Kinks - To The Bone (1994) [US 2CD Edition 1996]

The Kinks - To The Bone (1994) [US 2CD Edition 1996]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 734 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 248 Mb | Scans included | 01:41:28
Rock, Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll, British Invasion | Label: Guardian/Konk | # 7243 8 56572 2 1

This two-disc set is a live retrospective featuring 29 mostly (though not entirely) acoustic renditions of Kinks classics and obscurities, and possesses a poignancy and generosity of spirit that raises it several notches above standard Unplugged-style fare. The band's gracefully low-key reinterpretations of relative obscurities like "Picture Book," "Days," "Do You Remember Walter," and "Death of A Clown" are enough to blow a decade and a half's worth of arena-rock dust off the band's reputation. The group's updating of their early punk anthem "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" carries new levels of resonance that the band could scarcely have dreamed of in 1964. The two new studio recordings are a bit slight, but they sport an unfussed sweetness that's hard to argue with.