ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST : Ray Davies - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Electric Proms, The Roundhouse, UK 2007

 

Ray Davies - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Electric Proms, The Roundhouse, London, Britain, 10-28-2007

Paul he says: Here's a great full-length Ray Davies BBC concert from 2007. I hope I don't need to remind anyone that Davies is the main singer and songwriter for the Kinks. (And, by the way, his last name is pronounced like "Davis.")

I'm reorganizing what I have for Davies' solo career and the BBC. I had previously posted two BBC concerts he did, but I didn't mention that in the album titles. So those are getting renamed at the same time I'm posting this. Here are the links to those, with new cover art, mp3 tags, and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/ray-davies-sold-on-song-bbc-studios.html 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/12/ray-davies-glastonbury-festival-worthy.html

I also just found a fourth one, from 2017, and I plan on posting that soon. 

Getting to this concert, Davies put out a solo studio album earlier in the month, "Working Man's Cafe." He'd just put out another one the year before ("Other People's Lives"), so he was on a creative hot streak after not releasing any solo albums for ages. However, only five of the songs here were from those new albums. 

Faced with this high-profile concert, and its BBC broadcast, he mostly stuck to performing Kinks classics. However, he mixed things up a bit by having Johnny Borrell share the singing of "Sunny Afternoon." Borrell is the lead singer of Razorlight, and they had a really big hit album in Britain in 2006, including a Number One song, "America." He also had the Crouch End Festival Chorus help out for four songs late in the set, giving those songs a different flavor than usual. He seemed to like that a lot, because he went on to do more with chorus groups over the next couple of years, including putting out a studio album in that style ("The Kinks Choral Collection").

This concert is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 I'm Not like Everybody Else
02 Where Have All the Good Times Gone
03 talk 
04 Till the End of the Day 
05 talk 
06 A Well Respected Man
07 talk 
08 The Tourist 
09 talk
10 Sunny Afternoon (Ray Davies & Johnny Borrell)
11 talk 
12 Working Man's Cafe 
13 talk
14 Morphine Song 
15 talk 
16 One More Time 
17 talk
18 Come Dancing 
19 talk 
20 20th Century Man 
21 talk 
22 Celluloid Heroes 
23 talk 
24 Tired of Waiting for You 
25 talk
26 All Day and All of the Night 
27 talk
28 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Ray Davies with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
29 talk
30 Days (Ray Davies with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
31 talk
32 Waterloo Sunset (Ray Davies with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
33 talk 
34 Shangri-La (Ray Davies with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
35 talk 
36 Lola 
37 talk
38 Imaginary Man 
39 You Really Got Me [Blues Version]
40 You Really Got Me

Ray Davies and the Crouch End Festival Chorus, Waterloo Sunset - BBC Electric Proms, The Roundhouse