The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
This nugget of information was posted on 28/01/09 at 2:02 pm by Simon and is filed under Album, Reviews.
Some months ago I wrote on this very website about those albums you buy, that you listen to once or twice
through, don’t really get, and then discard telling everyone who’ll listen that they are terrible. Later though, you are forced to eat your words over a massive six course banquet that you can barely consume, leaving you resting your hands on your overstuffed gut of foolishness. This Album was on my list. It’s also, seemingly, the fate that befell it on its initial release in 1968. It was virtually ignored but has since found a place amongst the classic albums of the period.
It is a wonderful record, whimsical and melodic with Ray Davies mining his imagination to write about an old England of Village Greens, corner shops and Characters playing cricket in the thunder and the rain whilst also inventing Early nineties blur circa Modern life is rubbish into the bargain.
The music contained within is so redolent of the period but came just as Led Zeppelin were waiting over the crest of the hill, ready to shift the musical goalposts of the era. Davies it seems missed the portents but with songs as good and gorgeous as Last of the steam powered trains and Big Sky included here (although not on the original release) along with two further discs of b-sides and rarities , Village Green is well worth you investigation.
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