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Track Listings
| 1. The Village Green Preservation Society |
| 2. Do You Remember Walter? |
| 3. Picture Book |
| 4. Johnny Thunder |
| 5. Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains |
| 6. Big Sky |
| 7. Sitting By The Riverside |
| 8. Animal Farm |
| 9. Village Green |
| 10. Starstruck |
| 11. Phenomenal Cat |
| 12. All Of My Friends Were There |
| 13. Wicked Annabella |
| 14. Monica |
| 15. People Take Pictures Of Each Other |
Product Description
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Sensing that the Beatles, Stones, and Who were radically transforming rock music by turning it literate and conceptual, Ray Davies decided the Kinks should be his vehicle to explore his unusual longing for a simpler time when the English empire was not in decline. A reliance on English music hall tradition and sentiments indicated in titles such as "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," "Picture Book," and "Village Green" clearly show Davies's nostalgia streak. Davies's singing has always been rough and non-Kinks fans may have trouble getting past his sloppy pitch. But for those listening closely, the tales are one of a kind. --Rob O'Connor
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Band Ever?,
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This review is from: The Village Green Preservation Society (Audio CD)
Are they? This album is a strong argument; sound exploding with full awareness of which page in history they are sitting on, The Kinks step into "the whole west coast long name thing" you know "Fred's Incredible Shrinking Grapell Aeroplane","The Peanut Butter Conspiracy", "Chicago Transit Authority", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The Notorious Byrd Brothers", right into Village Green Preservation Society, a perfect name impervious to all erosion with ingrained thematics and then a tour of life around you, the pictures we take to document our experience, the sky above us, animals, different people who have wandered in and vanished out from our life like Walter and Monica, Wicked Annabella, songs like "All of my Friends Were There" that leave you stupefied, intimate storytelling interweaved with a gripping band that just stepped out of a garden circus party. Maypoles and smiling Brits are abound give it a spin and you'll be sucked into the Village Green
5.0 out of 5 stars
Minstrels in your Garden,
By Sonicboy (Greenwood, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Village Green Preservation Society (Audio CD)
Ray Davies wrote this album with his creative processes flowing totally against the prevailing musical climate in 1968. At that time most bands were dropping acid,letting their hair grow longer and turning up the volume. Yet Ray seemed to promise himself that he would write songs from his soul; songs that provide indelible images of an England gone more than a little off-track.He looks unhappy on the CD cover and was probably wondering why his good music was not selling better. Anyway, let me say this is one of the BEST musical experiences of my life. The songs are at turns nostalgic,witty,literate and expansive. If you are unfamiliar with this music as I was until several months ago,this is the apex, but Face to Face, Something Else or Arthur will treat you wonderfully as well.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incomparable,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Village Green Preservation Society (Audio CD)
Born and raised a Beatles fan, I stumbled into Kinkdom only after High School graduation (1978) with the newly released "Misfits". I suddenly realized what a deprived childhood I had.I worked backwards from "Misfits", stopping along the way to be initially disappointed by "Something Else" (which I outgrew) and blown away by "Arthur". But nothing prepared me for.....this. "The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society" (VGPS from here on in) is quite simply the best disc I have ever heard. Period. Better than Rubber Soul, Revolver, and the vastly overrated Sgt Pepper. Better than anything by the Who, Stones, Zeppelin, yada, yada, yada. And yet, it sold along the lines of 40,000 copies in the LP years (1968-1980 or so) and never cracked the TOP 200. Incredible; it's as if somebody built Disney World on the moon. The songs? From rock to pure pop to folksy stuff to calypso. All songs run only about 3 minutes or so each (except for 'Last of the Steam Powered Trains', and that weighs in at about 4:11), but almost all are overflowing alternately with wit, charm, brilliance, warmth, regret, longing, loving. If there are better songs than 'Animal Farm' and 'Big Sky', please show them to me (outside of the Kinks catalogue, of course). 'Johnny Thunder', 'Picture Book', and one of the sweetest pieces of ear candy you'll ever hear, 'People Take Pictures of Each Other', which can best be described as a 2 minute, 15-odd second audio smile. If there is a "weak" song on this album, I would have to nominate 'Sitting by the Riverside', but that's like criticizing Joe Louis for being slow on his feet. Recommendation: Get the version of the CD with the 28 tracks, which includes 'Days' and a song that it is hard to believe was written by the same man who gave us "All Day and All of the Night": 'Mr. Songbird'. I give this CD a rating of a constellation of stars.
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