The Kinks' Dave Davies Talks About ‘The Journey
The Kinks / The Journey Part 2 LP Cover / IVOX RADIO Music Collection
Out recently is the Kinks' The Journey -- Part 2. It's the next installment of a new retrospective series personally curated by the band's Ray and Dave Davies and Mick Avory; its 34 songs, several a remixed by Ray Davies, are organized in thematic groupings. "The Journey -- Part 2" also includes hits, B-sides, deep album tracks and three previously unreleased live performances from 1975.
Dave Davies tells us "The Journey" series came out of a desire to do something than the traditional best-of retrospective:
"I think the record company wanted to schedule some re-releases and Ray played with the idea and we mulled it over to try and do something a little bit different and a little bit more personalized and a couple of new mixes or remixes. It came out of a joint mutual desire to get something a bit different but in the same time plum the old stuff."
Some of the biggest Kinks hits on "The Journey -- Part 2" include "'Till the End of the Day," "A Well Respected Man," "Lola," "Sunny Afternoon" and "Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)."
Davies and Avery also penned liner notes for the album with their personal memories of the songs.
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The CD track list for "The Journey -- Part 2" includes:
CD1 - The World Around The Journeyman Starts To Crumble As His Life Is Turned Upside Down
1. Till The End Of The Day (1965)
2. Preservation (1973)
3. David Watts (1967)
4. This Time Tomorrow (Alternate Take, 2020 Mix) (1970)
5. A Well Respected Man (1965)
6. Monica (1968)
7. Scrapheap City (1974)
8. He's Evil (1974) The Journeyman Is Led Astray By Ghosts And A Dark Angel
9. Lola (1970)
10. Sunny Afternoon (1966)
11. Animal Farm (1968)
12. Creeping Jean (1969)
13. Two Sisters (1967)
14. See My Friends (1965)
15. Money Talks (2023 Mix) (1974)
16. No Return (1967)
17. Don't You Fret (1965)
CD2 - Our Journeyman Is Seduced By Those Ghosts And Demons Of The Underworld And Searches For His Lost Innocence
1. I Need You (1965)
2. Rainy Day In June (1966)
3. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion (1966)
4. Where Are They Now? (2023 Mix) (1973)
5. Wicked Annabella (1968)
6. Alcohol (1971)
7. Susannah's Still Alive (1967)
8. 20th Century Man (1971)
9. Sitting By The Riverside (1968)
10. Artificial Man (2023 Mix) (1974) Despair Turns To Elation As Journeyman Overcomes His Fear. Reunites With Old Friends
11. New Victoria Suite - Everybody’s A Star (Starmaker) (Live, 2023 Mix) (1975)
12. New Victoria Suite - Slum Kids (Live New Victoria Theatre) (Live, 2023 Mix) (1975)
13. New Victoria Suite - (A) Face In The Crowd (Live New Victoria Theatre) (Live, 2023 Mix) (1975)
14. Holiday Romance (1975)
15. Big Sky (1968)
16. Lincoln County (1968) *
17. God's Children (1971)