The Kinks - Scattered (acoustic)

By the early 1990s, the Kinks were a decade away from their last hit, "Come Dancing." Phobia, the band's last studio album, was released in 1993.

The arena rock era of the band began in 1979, and it gave the British Invasion legends newfound popularity.

But by Phobia, the Kinks were all about "the sound," but not music that sounded good. 

But standing out on Phobia is the closing track, "Scattered."

Ray Davies, the principal songwriter, and his brother, Dave Davies, produced this swan song, and by 1993, the Kinks were in need of an intervention. They should have hired a star producer, such as T-Bone Burnett, Rick Rubin, or Chris Thomas. 

They would have dumped the multi-track vocals of "Scattered" and used an Americana approach--although that term hadn't been coined yet.

Here are the Davies brothers with an acoustic take of "Scattered," which is much better than the studio take.