Advantages: Cleverly written and beautifully crafted songs Disadvantages: Not everyone's cup of tea, but then, what is?
...album 'The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society'. So why didn't I recollect it? Well, it's the forgotten album, it got trampled underfoot in the rush to buy other albums from the autumn of that year, such as the Beatles' White Album, The Stones' 'Beggars Banquet', and Jimi Hendrix' 'Electric Ladyland'. The music was changing at the time, the flowers that grew so incredibly high were being crushed by the Street Fighting Man, Revolution ... ...~1 The Village Green Preservation Society Not the strongest of openers but it's pleasant enough and sets the tone for the rest of the album. A medium-paced pop song with a kind of summer groove. Harmonies throughout, lead singer Ray Davies misses the old values:
" We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society
God save the Mrs Mops and dear Old Mother Riley"
~2 Do You Remember Walter?
A bouncing piano chord intro soon cascades into a Kinks-style ...
Neselrode 21.03.2005
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