The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
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Artist: The KinksEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Music Label: Universal Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Village Green Preservation Society
- Do You Remember Walter
- Picture Book
- Johnny Thunder
- Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
- Big Sky
- Sitting by the Riverside
- Animal Farm
- Village Green
- Starstruck
- Phenomenal Cat
- All of My Friends Were There
- Wicked Annabella
- Monica
- People Take Pictures of Each Other
- Village Green Preservation Society
- Do You Remember Walter
- Picture Book
- Johnny Thunder
- Monica
- Days
- Village Green
- Mr. Songbird
- Wicked Annabella
- Starstruck
- Phenomenal Cat
- People Take Pictures of Each Other
- Days
Free Music Notes for The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Free Music Review: Preserving the old ways from being abused...
Hit: 5 Stars
Like many great artists, Ray Davies was a slave to his muse in the late Sixties and this muse commanded him to follow his own heart and commercial rock music be damned! This particular obsession was the bucolic, ideal English countryside first introduced in verse in a late 1966 recording "Village Green", with its beautiful use of harpsichord and gentle though slightly melancholic melody. Almost two years later, in the late fall of 1968, Davies and the Kinks completed what is generally considered to be their magnum opus, 'The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society' and it was a flop. A collection of quaint, vaguely related songs which rhapsodize on the nostalgia of a simple time, 'Village Green' represented a major shift in fortunes for the band and it was also the end of an era of sorts as orignal bassist Peter Qualife left the band soon after the LP's release. Critics loved the record, especially in Britain, but the record buyers on both sides of the Atlantic couldn't care less! The album kicks off with the title track which is instantly memorable and ranks right up there with any of the Kinks finest. The song was one of the last recorded and served as a narrative overview of the major themes presented on vinyl. Wicked witches and phenominal cats, old friends and photo albums, steam trains and returning pop stars all help recreate an England which didn't really ever exist. This Castle release includes both the final 15 song LP in mono and the 12 song stereo version that was intended to be the orignal release but was pulled back by Pye at the request of the young producer whose first solo production chore this was. Ray Davies wasn't fully satisfied until close to the album's release as his obsessions with the themes presented still had not been hammered out to his full approval. It is amazing the response this LP has provoked almost forty years later and how it is still seen as the apex of the genius of Raymond Douglas Davies.
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Digitally remastered 1998 reissue on Castle's Essentiallabel of their 1968 album '(The Kinks Are) The Village GreenPreservation Society', founder Ray Davies' homage toEngland. Also contains 13 bonus tracks: 'Days' (Mono Single)and the 12 track stereo album released overseas (outside ofthe U.K.: 'The Village Green Preservation Society', 'Do YouRemember Walter', 'Picture Book', 'Johnny Thunder', 'Days','Monica', 'Village Green', 'Mr. Songbird', 'Starstruck','Wicked Annabella', 'Phenomenal Cat' & 'People Take PicturesOf Each Other'. 28 tracks total. Also includes original art.Pop Music CDs
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