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Product Identifiers

Record LabelSact, Sanctuary UK

UPC0602527046792

eBay Product ID (ePID)21046039792

Product Key Features

Release Year2009

FormatCD

GenreRock

ArtistThe Kinks

Release TitleThe Village Green Preservation Society

Dimensions

Item Height0.40 in

Item Weight0.31 lb

Item Length5.60 in

Item Width4.90 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks62

Number of Discs2

TracksThe Village Green Preservation Society, Do You Remember Walter, Picture Book, Johnny Thunder, Last of the Steam Powered Trains, Big Sky, Sitting By the Riverside, Animal Farm, Village Green, Starstruck, Phenomenal Cat, All of My Friends Were There, Wicked Annabella, Monica, People Take Pictures of Each Other, Mr. Songbird, Days, Do You Remember Walter, People Take Pictures of Each Other, The Village Green Preservation Society, Do You Remember Walter, Picture Book, Johnny Thunder, Last of the Steam Powered Trains, Big Sky, Sitting By the Riverside, Animal Farm, Village Green, Starstruck, Phenomenal Cat, All of My Friends Were There, Wicked Annabella, Monica, People Take Pictures of Each Other, Days, Mr. Songbird, Polly, Wonderboy, Berkeley Mews, Village Green, Village Green, Misty Water, Berkeley Mews, Easy Come There You Went, Polly, Animal Farm, Phenomenal Cat, Johnny Thunder, Did You See His Name, Mick Avory's Underpants, Lavender Hill, Rosemary Rose, Wonderboy, Spotty Grotty Anna, Where Did My Spring Go, Groovy Movies, Creeping Jean, King Kong, Misty Water, Do You Remember Walter, Animal Farm, Days

Sub-GenreBritish

NotesDigitally remastered and expanded deluxe three CD edition of their 1968 masterpiece includes a plethora of bonus material featuring original stereo mixes, mono versions, demos, Euro editions, instrumentals BBC sessions and more. It's easy to imagine the confusion with which this manifesto for the defense of the status quo was received on it's 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. To compound the weirdness there's also "Big Sky", a classic Kinks song about God that's not remotely religious, and a rocker about a steam engine. The overarching theme of Village Green... is 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. Sanctuary.