Album • 1968

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Deluxe Edition)

The Kinks • 62 songs • 2 hr 44 min

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released on 22 November 1968, Village Green was a modest seller, but it was lauded by contemporary critics for its songwriting and has subsequently been regarded by commentators as an early concept album. The album was the band's first which failed to chart in either the United Kingdom or United States, and its embrace by America's new underground rock press completed the Kinks' transformation from mid-1960s pop hitmakers to critically favoured cult band. Ray Davies, the Kinks' frontman, loosely conceptualised the album as a collection of character studies, an idea he based on Dylan Thomas's 1954 radio drama Under Milk Wood. Centring on themes of nostalgia, memory and preservation, the album reflects Davies's concerns about the increasing modernisation and encroaching influence of America and Europe on English society. Musically an example of pop or rock music, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including music hall, folk, blues, psychedelia and calypso. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

1

The Village Green Preservation Society (Stereo Mix)

2:49

2

Do You Remember Walter? (Stereo Mix)

2:26

3

Picture Book (Stereo Mix)

2:36

4

Johnny Thunder (Stereo Mix)

2:31

5

Last of the Steam-Powered Trains (Stereo Mix)

4:11

6

Big Sky (Stereo Mix)

2:49

7

Sitting By the Riverside (Stereo Mix)

2:22

8

Animal Farm (Stereo Mix)

2:59

9

Village Green (Stereo Mix)

2:08

10

Starstruck (Stereo Mix)

2:21

11

Phenomenal Cat (Stereo Mix)

2:37

12

All of My Friends Were There (Stereo Mix)

2:25

13

Wicked Annabella (Stereo Mix)

2:42

14

Monica (Stereo Mix)

2:16

15

People Take Pictures of Each Other (Stereo Mix)

2:13

16

Mr. Songbird (Stereo Mix)

2:25

17

Days (Stereo Mix)

2:52

18

Do You Remember Walter? (Stereo Mix;12-track VGPS version)

2:25

19

People Take Pictures of Each Other (Stereo Mix;12-track VGPS version)

2:25

20

The Village Green Preservation Society

2:53

21

Do You Remember Walter?

2:28

22

Picture Book

2:36

23

Johnny Thunder

2:31

24

Last of the Steam-Powered Trains

4:11

25

Big Sky

2:51

26

Sitting by the Riverside

2:23

27

Animal Farm

3:01

28

Village Green

2:11

29

Starstruck

2:27

30

Phenomenal Cat

2:39

31

All of My Friends Were There

2:25

32

Wicked Annabella

2:43

33

Monica

2:20

34

People Take Pictures of Each Other

2:18

35

Days

2:56

36

Mr. Songbird (Mono Mix)

2:26

37

Polly

2:51

38

Wonderboy

2:49

39

Berkeley Mews (Mono Mix)

2:38

40

Village Green (Mono Mix;No Strings Version)

2:13

41

Village Green (Stereo Mix;Orchestra Overdub)

2:21

42

Misty Water (Stereo Mix)

3:10

43

Berkeley Mews (Stereo Mix)

2:38

44

Easy Come, There You Went (Stereo Mix)

2:24

45

Polly (Stereo Mix)

2:50

46

Animal Farm (Alternate Stereo Mix)

3:01

47

Phenomenal Cat (Mono Instrumental Version)

2:50

48

Johnny Thunder (Stereo Remix)

2:34

49

Did You See His Name (Mono Alternate Version)

1:58

50

Mick Avory's Underpants (Mono Mix)

2:18

51

Lavender Hill (Mono Mix)

2:56

52

Rosemary Rose (Mono Mix)

1:45

53

Wonderboy

2:50

54

Spotty Grotty Anna (Stereo Mix)

2:05

55

Where Did My Spring Go (Mono Mix)

2:10

56

Groovy Movies

2:33

57

Creeping Jean (Stereo Mix)

3:11

58

King Kong (Mono Mix)

3:24

59

Misty Water (Mono Mix)

3:10

60

Do You Remember Walter? (Live at the BBC)

2:17

61

Animal Farm (Live at the BBC)

2:57

62

Days (Live at the BBC - Edit)

3:03

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