Kinks, The - Percy (Deluxe) '1971/2004

Tracks list

Ray Davies and company had already participated in one failed television musical
when the movie Percy came along -- it wasn't as original as Arthur, nor did
Davies have nearly as much to do with its creation, but he still outdid himself
given the material at hand. Directed and co-produced by Ralph Thomas, who had
been responsible for some brilliant thrillers (The Clouded Yellow, Above Us the
Waves) and very popular comedies (Doctor in the House) in past decades, Percy
was the story of the world's first penis transplant (it was probably inspired,
or at least justified, by big-budget efforts of the period like Myra
Breckinridge). Although virtually unseen in the United States, it was still
popular enough to yield a sequel (Percy's Progress), but its real impact came
from its soundtrack. Davies wrote some hauntingly beautiful ballads and some
solid blues and country as well -- "God's Children" and "Animals in the Zoo"
have turned up on some career anthologies, but there's a lot more to Percy than
those two tracks. "Completely" is as fine a slow blues as the band ever
recorded, with a sizzling performance by Dave Davies, and "Dreams" is a pretty
solid rocker, even up alongside "Animals in the Zoo." To this day the album has
never appeared in the U.S. catalog -- recorded at the tail end of their contract
with Pye Records in England and Warner/Reprise in America, and connected with a
movie that was never going to see much exposure in the U.S.A., Reprise passed on
it at the time.

Tracklist:
1.01 - The Kinks - God's Children (3:17) 
1.02 - The Kinks - Lola (Instrumental) (4:42) 
1.03 - The Kinks - The Way Love Used to Be (2:12) 
1.04 - The Kinks - Completely (3:39) 
1.05 - The Kinks - Running Round Town (1:03) 
1.06 - The Kinks - Moments (2:56) 
1.07 - The Kinks - Animals In the Zoo (2:19) 
1.08 - The Kinks - Just Friends (2:35) 
1.09 - The Kinks - Whip Lady (1:19) 
1.10 - The Kinks - Dreams (3:43) 
1.11 - The Kinks - Helga (1:53) 
1.12 - The Kinks - Willesden Green (2:25) 
1.13 - The Kinks - God's Children (End) (0:28) 
1.14 - The Kinks - Dreams (Film Version) (1:39) 
1.15 - The Kinks - Moments (Film Instrumental Version) (0:42) 
1.16 - The Kinks - The Way Love Used to Be (Film Instrumental Version 1) (0:55) 
1.17 - The Kinks - The Way Love Used to Be (Film Version) (2:04) 
1.18 - The Kinks - The Way Love Used to Be (Film Instrumental Version 2) (1:03)

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