Rob and Mike - which live album are you referencing?  

The arena-era "One For The Road" (1980) or the 'sort-of unplugged' "To The Bone" (1994)?

Wasn't sure which one you meant.  Maybe I'm kooky, but I'm partial to "To The Bone" - great fun.

Michael

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From: rob@splitsville.com 

> Can't agree more about the live CD still being a gem. It really is a 'must 
> have'. Great versions of the studio tracks- in fact, they pack much more of a 
> punch in the live setting. And Ray's interactions with the crowds are fun. 
> 
> Interesting to note that in this period he was resurrecting older songs that had 
> recently been covered by the Pretenders, the Jam, and the Fall (Stop Your 
> Sobbing, David Watts and Victoria). 
> Best of all is the great put down of Tom Robinson, "Prince of the Punks". 
> 
> The new upgraded CD sounds excellent, and it now includes '20th Century Man' 
> which had been deleted from the original CD (that's for all you Muswell 
> Hillbillies fans) 
> 
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> >From: :audities@smoe.org 
> >To: audities@smoe.org 
> >Sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:53:11 
> > 
> >I need to get the RCA albums -- I have Muswell, but 
> >don't have Schoolboys, 
> >Soap Opera and some of the others. As for the 
> >Arista years -- I agree with 
> >Rob 100% about Low Budget and Give the People What 
> >They Want. Sleepwalker 
> >and Misfits are pretty nice too. However, State Of 
> >Confusion and Word Of 
> >Mouth are a bit more blustery and just don't have 
> >as many good songs. The 
> >live album is still a gem. 
> > 
> >Both the RCA and Arista years are, thanks to Koch, 
> >sold in bargain priced 
> >(about $9.50 per disc) box sets. 
> > 
> >Mike Bennett 
> > 
> > 
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> >>From: rob@splitsville.com 
> >>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org 
> >>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org, 
> >audities@smoe.org 
> >>Subject: RE: Re: Kinks post Muswell Hillbililies 
> >>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:35:44 -0500 
> >> 
> >>Schoolboys in Disgrace was a great album, as was 
> >Low Budget, which really 
> >>kick-started their arena come back in America. 
> >>Sheeyit, I also love Give the People What They 
> >Want. A lot of people got 
> >>sick of Destroyer, but Killer's Eyes, A Little Bit 
> >of Abuse, Art Lover, all 
> >>fantastic. And the best of the lot is the lead 
> >track, Around the Dial. 
> >> 
> >>Of course, a lot of Kinks fans hate this era, as 
> >they got away from their 
> >>quaint 'Britishness'. But I was about 13 when Low 
> >Budget came out and saw 
> >>the Kinks three times at the Providence Civic 
> >Center during this late 
> >>70's/early 80's period, and gobbled up everything 
> >they put out. 
> >> 
> >> >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- 
> >> >From: :audities@smoe.org 
> >> >To: audities@smoe.org 
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> >> >If you like Something Else and Village Green I 
> >> >reckon you'd like Arthur. 
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> >> >Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:53 AM 
> >> >Subject: Re: Kinks post Muswell Hillbililies 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> >> Aaron .... I am a fan of the Kinks, but apart 
> >> >from the odd single, I have 
> >> >> no great need to hear anything they did after 
> >> >Village Green. I have 
> >> >> Muswell Hillbillies but can't recall listening 
> >to 
> >> >it more than once. Their 
> >> >> stellar earlier output more than makes up for 
> >it 
> >> >though. 
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