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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 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 | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Village Green | |||
| 2. Misty Water | |||
| 3. Berkeley Mews | |||
| 4. Easy Come, There You Went | |||
| 5. Polly | |||
| 6. Animal Farm | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 nostalgic streak. Davies' 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
Description
It's easy to imagine the confusion with which this manifesto for the defence of the status quo was received on its release in 1968. The world was in turmoil and the pose of the Street Fighting Man, turned on, rebellious and politically aware, was far sexier than the quaint homebody image the Kinks present here. The title track finds Ray Davies proudly declaring himself a preservationist of custard pies, vaudeville, and such comic book characters as Desperate Dan. However, these slices of suburban life have weathered a lot better thanmost of their contemporaries.
The Kinks were working in their own homey little world, as evidenced by songs such as the album's title track, "Picture Book", about family snapshot albums, and "All of My Friends Were There" whose very un-rebellious subject is public embarrassment. To compound the weirdness there's also "Big Sky", a classic Kinks song aboutGod that's not remotely religious, and a rocker about a steam engine. The overarching theme of VILLAGE GREEN is that ofunalloyed nostalgia--it's only today, now that many of the things Davies feared would disappear have actually vanished,that the truth and clarity of his vision is apparent.
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 nostalgic streak. Davies' 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
Description
It's easy to imagine the confusion with which this manifesto for the defence of the status quo was received on its release in 1968. The world was in turmoil and the pose of the Street Fighting Man, turned on, rebellious and politically aware, was far sexier than the quaint homebody image the Kinks present here. The title track finds Ray Davies proudly declaring himself a preservationist of custard pies, vaudeville, and such comic book characters as Desperate Dan. However, these slices of suburban life have weathered a lot better thanmost of their contemporaries.
The Kinks were working in their own homey little world, as evidenced by songs such as the album's title track, "Picture Book", about family snapshot albums, and "All of My Friends Were There" whose very un-rebellious subject is public embarrassment. To compound the weirdness there's also "Big Sky", a classic Kinks song aboutGod that's not remotely religious, and a rocker about a steam engine. The overarching theme of VILLAGE GREEN is that ofunalloyed nostalgia--it's only today, now that many of the things Davies feared would disappear have actually vanished,that the truth and clarity of his vision is apparent.