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.
Had a listen? What did you think?
(3 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Tags: [ratings]
Loading ...
January 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
It doesn’t ger any better than this, unless it is another Kinks album, like Arhtur, Lola vs Powerman, Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody’s inshow Biz,Preservation, Sopa Opera, Schoolboys in Disgrace, Sleepwalker, Misfits, Low budget, and so on and son on, you get the idea. God save the Kinks and all their fans who have supported them through the years fromthe 60’s right through the solo careers of Ray and Dave, they reamin 2nd to none!, and I remain Dan the Fan, aka Frank Lima, The Montvale, New Jersey Hillbilly Boy