The Original Recordings 1983–1984 is a compilation album by British-American rock band Katrina and the Waves, released on 14 October 2003 by Canadian label Bongo Beat.

The album contains 24 pages of liner notes, including exclusive interviews with singer Katrina Leskanich, guitarist Kimberley Rew, drummer Alex Cooper, and producer Pat Collier.

It was taped for promotional use by IDS/Geoff Hannington and Chris Tookey Productions in front of an invited audience of 200, the idea being to shop the band to a record label and maybe get part of it shown on TV.

[1] In his Artist Biography on AllMusic, Bruce Eder said that "the existence of the [bonus DVD] makes up, in part, for the fact that the band never released a live album.

Songwriter-guitarist Kimberley Rew has an unerring knack for up-to-the-minute Sixties-style hooks and writes rock-outsider lyrics that never get obtrusively specific; singer-guitarist Katrina Leskanich has a voice so big and enthusiastic she could make Barry Manilow's songs sound like Holland-Dozier-Holland.

He noted that the band, on most of the best tracks, revisit "classic Motown-era soul and R&B", updated with "1980s production nuances", occasionally with a negative result.