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The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by The Kinks, released in 1968.A loosely connected Concept Album, it grew out of leader Ray Davies' reading of Georgian poets like A. E. Housman and memories of his own life. During the sessions for the band's previous studio album, Something Else by the Kinks, Davies had dismissed their producer Shel Talmy and produced the song "Waterloo Sunset" himself. Now, he envisioned an entire album of songs he would produce in a lush-yet-unfussy style. To say that the immediate results were disappointing is an understatement; reviews were mixed, and sales, by the standards of the time, were abysmal. However, in the ensuing decades, it has come to be regarded by many as the band's masterpiece.This album was the band's last with Pete Quaife; he left the band in early 1969 and was replaced by John Dalton, who had previously filled in for Quaife after a 1966 car accident. |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: The four band members appear on the cover, bathed in concentric circles of light. |
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Arcadia |
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Arcadia: Songs like "Animal Farm" and "Village Green" extol a version of this. |
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Concept Album |
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Concept Album: Loosely built around the themes of memory, nostalgia, and rural or small-town life. While born and raised in London, Ray always considered himself something of a rustic. |
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Small Town Boredom |
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Small Town Boredom: The narrator of "Village Green" regrets that boredom and the desire for fame caused him to leave his small town, and the changes that have taken place in it since. |
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Step Up to the Microphone |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Dave Davies takes the lead vocal on "Wicked Annabella" and provides the cat's sped-up voice in "Phenomenal Cat". |
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Call to Agriculture |
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Call to Agriculture: "Animal Farm", where the protagonist longs to be taken back to "Animal Farm, my animal home". |
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Growing Up Sucks |
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Growing Up Sucks: In "Do You Remember Walter?", growing up causes friendships to dissolve and dreams to die. |
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Cats Are Lazy |
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Cats Are Lazy: The “Phenomenal Cat” is described as such. Also well-travelled. |
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Religion Rant Song |
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Religion Rant Song: "Big Sky" is a third-person perspective about "Big Sky looks down on all the people who look up to the Big Sky". The song, especially the later choral version is partly sarcastic and sincere about the idea of religious belief, featuring lines like: |
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"I Am" Song |
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"I Am" Song: "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". "The Village Green Preservation Society" is a "We Are" Song. |
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Eagleland: Picture-snapping American tourists don't come off well in "Village Green". |
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Humiliation Conga |
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Humiliation Conga: "All of My Friends Were There", about a real-life account of Ray Davies playing a gig while drunk, and all his friends — who brought their own friends along — turned up to watch him bomb spectacularly. The ordeal was so embarrassing that he ended up having to wear a Paper-Thin Disguise in public for a while. |
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Questioning Title?: "Do You Remember Walter?" |
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One-Man Song |
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One-Man Song: "Do You Remember Walter?", "Johnny Thunder". |
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The One Who Made It Out |
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The One Who Made It Out: What "Do You Remember Walter?" deals with someone who has made it out, singing about Walter, who hasn't and the huge gulf that separates the two: |
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The Future Will Be Better |
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The Future Will Be Better: "Big Sky" promises this in a way; that is, someday, we'll adopt the indifference of nature, symbolized by the titular sky. |
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Celebrity Is Overrated |
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Celebrity Is Overrated: "Starstruck" is a warning about the trappings of life in the city. |
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One-Woman Song |
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One-Woman Song: "Wicked Annabella", "Monica" |
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Shout-Out: "The Village Green Preservation Society" bestows blessings on, among other things, Donald Duck and the beloved music hall character Old Mother Riley. "Johnny Thunder" is partly inspired by Marlon Brando's character in The Wild One. |
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Train Song |
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Train Song: “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains” about an antique train preserved in a museum. |
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One-Word Title: "Starstruck", "Monica" |
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Precious Photo |
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Precious Photo: "Picture Book" presents a sentimental view of how people preserve the past with photographs. "People Take Pictures of Each Other" is more cynical and hard-headed about the same subject, ending with the request "Don't show me no more please". |
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Album Title Drop: "The Village Green Preservation Society". |
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Wicked Witch |
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Wicked Witch: "Wicked Annabella" |
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