The Village Green Preservation Society (Import)
The Kinks - CD
- Artist: The Kinks
- Format: CD
- Year: 1998
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 4988005635860
- Item Number: PID635860
- Release date: 12/07/2010
- 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
- 16. The Village Green Preservation Society [Bonus Track]
- 17. Do You Remember Walter [Alternate Stereo Mix] [Alternate Take][Bonus Track]
- 18. Picture Book [Bonus Track]
- 19. Johnny Thunder [Bonus Track]
- 20. Monica [Bonus Track]
- 21. Days [Bonus Track]
- 22. Village Green [Bonus Track]
- 23. Mr. Songbird [Bonus Track]
- 24. Wicked Annabella [Alternate Stereo Mix] [Alternate Take][Bonus Track]
- 25. Starstruck [Alternate Stereo Mix] [Alternate Take][Bonus Track]
- 26. Phenomenal Cat [Bonus Track]
- 27. People Take Pictures of Each Other [Alternate Stereo Mix] [Alternate Ta
- 28. Days [Mono Single] [Bonus Track]
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The Village Green Preservation Society (Import) by The Kinks on CD
Ray Davies' sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions. As the opening title song says, the Kinks -- meaning Ray himself, in this case -- were for preserving "draught beer and virginity," and throughout the rest of the album, he creates a series of stories, sketches, and characters about a picturesque England that never really was. It's a lovely, gentle album, evoking a small British country town, and drawing the listener into its lazy rhythms and sensibilities. Although there is an undercurrent of regret running throughout the album, Davies' fondness for the past is warm, making the album feel like a sweet, hazy dream. And considering the subdued performances and the detailed instrumentations, it's not surprising that the record feels more like a Ray Davies solo project than a Kinks album. The bluesy shuffle of "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" is the closest the album comes to rock & roll, and Dave Davies' cameo on the menacing "Wicked Annabella" comes as surprise, since the album is so calm. But calm doesn't mean tame or bland -- there are endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation on The Village Green Preservation Society, and its defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
- Artist: The Kinks
- Format: CD
- Year: 1998
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 4988005635860
- Item Number: PID635860
- Release date: 12/07/2010
- Label: Castle Communications
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Style: British Invasion, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, AM Pop
- Album Time: 73:21
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (Import)
- Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986 [Koch 2004]
- Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986 [Koch 2004]
- EP Collection, Vol. 1 [Box Set]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz
- Everybody's in Show-Biz (Import)
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Bonus Tracks]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Bonus Tracks]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Everybody's in Show-Biz [Original Master Recording]
- Face to Face
- Face to Face (Import)
- Give the People What They Want
- Give the People What They Want
- Give the People What They Want
- Give the People What They Want (Import)
- Give the People What They Want [Japan]
- Kinda Kinks
- Kinda Kinks [16 Tracks]
- Kinda Kinks [2007 Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Kinda Kinks [Deluxe Edition]
- Kinda Kinks [Japan]
- Kink Kontroversy [Deluxe Edition]
- Kinks
- Kinks (Import)
- KINKS : PRESERVATION ACT 2 (BONUS TRACKS) (JP
- Kinks : Videobiography (2pc) (w/book) / (sub
- Kinks [Deluxe Edition]
- Kinks Kronikles
- Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace [Japan]
- Live at Kelvin Hall
- Live at Kelvin Hall (Import)
- Live in London: 1973/1977 (Import)
- Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
- Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
- Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 (Import)
- Lost & Found (1986-89)
- Low Budget
- Low Budget
- Low Budget (Import)
- Low Budget [Bonus Tracks]
- Low Budget [Bonus Tracks]
- Low Budget [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Low Budget [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Marble Arch Years (Import)
- Misfits
- Misfits
- Misfits (Import)
- Misfits [JVC Bonus Tracks]
- Misfits [JVC Bonus Tracks]
- Misfits [Velvel Bonus Tracks]
- Muswell Hillbillies
- Muswell Hillbillies
- Muswell Hillbillies
- Muswell Hillbillies (Import)
- Muswell Hillbillies (Import)
- Muswell Hillbillies [Bonus Tracks]
- Muswell Hillbillies [Bonus Tracks]
- One for the Road
- One For the Road
- One for the Road
- One for the Road (Import)
- One for the Road (Import)
- One for the Road (Import)
- One for the Road [Japan
- Percy
- Percy (Import)
- Phobia
- Picture Book - Box Set (6CD) (Import)
- Picture Book [Box Set]
- Preservation Act 2
- Preservation: Act 1
- Preservation: Act 1
- Preservation: Act 1
- Preservation: Act 1 (Import)
- Preservation: Act 1 [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Preservation: Act 1 [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Preservation: Act 2
- Preservation: Act 2 (Import)
- Preservation: Act 2 (Import)
- Preservation: Act 2 [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Salisbury
- Sleepwalker
- Sleepwalker (Import)
- Sleepwalker (Import)
- Sleepwalker [JVC Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Sleepwalker [Velvel Bonus Tracks]
- Sleepwalker [Velvel Bonus Tracks]
- Something Else by the Kinks
- Something Else by the Kinks
- Something Else by the Kinks
- Something Else by the Kinks (Import)
- Something Else by the Kinks [Deluxe Edition][Record Store Day Exclusive] (Import)
- State of Confusion
- State of Confusion
- State of Confusion (Import)
- State of Confusion (Import)
- State of Confusion [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- State of Confusion [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- The Arista Years
- The Kink Kontroversy
- The Kink Kontroversy
- The Kink Kontroversy (Import)
- The Kinks [26 Tracks] (Import)
- The Kinks Greatest 1970-1986
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera (Import)
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera [Velvel Bonus Tracks]
- The Kinks Present a Soap Opera [Velvel Bonus Tracks]
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace (Import)
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace (Import)
- The Kinks' Greatest: Celluloid Heroes [Expanded]
- The Kinks: In Their Own Words [With Book]
- The RCA Years
- The Singles Collection (Import)
- The Singles Collection [Japan Bonus Track]
- The Singles Collection [Japan Bonus Track]
- The Songs We Sang for Auntie: BBC Sessions 1964-1977
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Village Green Preservation Society (Import)
- The Village Green Preservation Society [3-CD Special Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- The Village Green Preservation Society [Bonus Tracks]
- The Village Green Preservation Society [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- To the Bone [US 2-CD]
- Ultimate Collection [Sanctuary]
- Ultimate Collection [Sanctuary] (Import)
- Village Green Preservation Society [Deluxe Edition]
- Waterloo Sunset/Act Nice and Gentle/Holiday in Waikiki
- Well Respected Kinks [BMG Special Products]
- Word of Mouth (Import)
- Word of Mouth [Bonus Tracks]
- Word of Mouth [Bonus Tracks]
- Word of Mouth [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Word of Mouth [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Word of Mouth [Japan]
- You Really Got Me: The Best of the Kinks (Import)
- Introspective
- Kinda Kinks (Import)
- Kinks : Phobia (Jpn) (Ltd) (Mlps)
- Kinks : Give the People What They Want (Jpn)
- Kinks : Ultimate Collection (Jpn) (Shm)
- Kinks (Import)
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (Import)
- Muswell Hillbillies: Deluxe Edition (Shm-CD)
- Preservation Act 1 (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Preservation Act 2 (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Soap Opera (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Misfits (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Low Budget (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Give the People What They Want (Shm-CD) (Import)
- State of Confusion (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Word of Mouth (Shm-CD) (Import)
- KINKS : LOLA V POWERMAN & THE MONEYGOROUND
- The Pye Album Collection (Import)
- The Kinks at the BBC (Import)
- Live in London: 1973/1977 (Import)
- The Kink Kontroversy (Import)
- The Singles Collection (Import)
- Kinks : Kinks (+12 Bonus Tracks) (Jpn LP Slee
- The Kinks at the BBC (Import)
- Face to Face [Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- Something Else [Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- The Village Green Preservation Society (Import)
- Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
- Kinks : It's the Kinks
- Kinks Kollekted: Complete History 1964-1994 (Import)
- Something Else [2011 Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- Arthur [Bonus CD] [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) [Deluxe Edition][Record Store Da (Import)
- Face to Face - Deluxe Edition (2 CD) (Import)
- Kinks in Mono (Import)
- Face to Face [Deluxe Edition][Record Store Day Exclusive] (Import)
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Performers:
- Peter Quaife - Vocals (Background), Guitar (Bass)
- Rasa Davies - Vocals (Background)
- Alexander Greenlaw Quaife - Bass
- Dave Davies - Vocals, Guitar
- David Russell Gordon Davies - Vocals, Guitar
- Michael Charles Avory - Drums
- Mick Avory - Drums
- Nicky Hopkins - Keyboards
- Ray Davies - Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
- Raymond Douglas Davies - Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
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Credits:
- Gary Forsyth - Memorabilia
- Andrew Sandoval - Research
- Doug Hinman - Research
- Russell Smith - Memorabilia, Research
- Klaus Schmalenbach - Memorabilia, Photography
- Mario Hallhuber - Photography
- Peter Doggett - Liner Notes
- Simon Heyworth - Remastering
- Takeo Komatsuzaki - Liner Notes
- Alan McKenzie - Engineer
- Brian Humphries - Engineer
- Ray Davies - Producer
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