1968 TWO-TONE ● THE KINKS ● VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY = LEGEND

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• Original = RARE 1968 (ORIGINAL TWO-TONE)
  
  = FINAL COLLECTION COPY =
  
  MINT BEAUTY! LOOKS and PLAYS OUTSTANDING! ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..

1. If you've been waiting for your copy of this lost gem, 
2. you may have found the one you've been waiting for:
3. A spare ---> they come NO better than this 
4. Final Collection Copy!

• RARE...ORIGINAL...(November of ) 1968 ORIGINAL release on the old two-tone Reprise Records label... 
• the ULTIMATE unsung gem by the mighty KINKS ... 
• thick gatefold cover!

1. The KINKS released "VILLAGE GREEN"
2. in 1968 then it went sadly ignored - or went unnoticed by record fans at the time. So many years later, the public finally caught up with the greatness within.
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4. It takes a Village Green Preservation Society to love 
5. The Kinks
   
   The problem facing The Kinks when they released The Village Green Preservation Society in late November 1968 wasn't merely the competition-- Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Led Zeppelin's debut, and the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet offered plenty-- but that this subtle, funny, surreal, and at times almost tender record could have been recorded on another planet. During the summer of 1968, stateside fans were hooked on a high-intensity diet that had them jonesing for aggressive, overstated fare like "Street Fighting Man" and "You Shook Me" and "Communication Breakdown". The disconnect between The Kinks and the rock world's rapidly narrowing palette could hardly have been more pronounced. Compare the Stones' bombastic, urban "Sympathy for the Devil" with understated work like "Village Green", bouncing along like a horse and buggy as Ray Davies paints the landscape: "Out in the country, far from all the soot and noise of the city..."
   
   Critics praised the album, the public ignored it, and Davies-- surveying the scene-- asserted that it wasn't created for public consumption. Intricately sketched and brimming with unusual arrangements, The Village Green Preservation Society was the first clear look at an iconoclastic, imaginative and sometimes brilliant artist as he came into his own. Audiences used to sizing up work on a scale created for rock gods and counter-culture icons were forced to consider this album as a piece of conceptual art. The Lennon-McCartney/Jagger-Richards duos towered over and shaped the sensibilities of a vast army; Davies explored a deeply personal world that confounded fans even as it provoked their curiosity.
   
   There's a clue to who he was in the song "Animal Farm", which opens with a cascade of chords played on a warm, acoustic 12-string guitar. "This world is big and wild and half insane/ Take me where the animals are playing," he sings, while looking back through the chaos of the day to find a simpler, safer world. It's also interesting to consider Village Green as a carefully sculpted product of Ray Davies' singular artistic vision. The album is commonly regarded as having the feel of solo work, but, The Kinks' playing here always serves the songs, and Davies' vocals in particular.
   
   The album-opening title cut begins with a simple groove built around acoustic guitars, over which Davies offers a bend pledge of allegiance to the mundane curiosities of modern life; in "Do You Remember Walter", he reminisces, perhaps as a geriatric adult; and on "Last of the Steam Powered Trains", he borrows and bends the first few bars of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful"-- an ode to the miseries of heroin.
   
   The Village Green Preservation Society has been declared the band's masterwork in some quarters, built around "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You".
6.    A:
       The Village Green Preservation Society
   Do You Remember Walter?
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   Picture Book
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   Johnny Thunder
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   Last of the Steam Powered Trains
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    Big Sky
11. 
    Sitting by the Riverside
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    B:
    Animal Farm
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    Village Green
14. 
    Starstruck
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    Phenomenal Cat
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    All of My Friends Were There
17. 
    Wicked Annabella Monica
18. 
    People Take Pictures of Each Other

1. CONDITION:
2. The cover: rated: (!) near "M-" here is the best copy anyone will hope to find. There is a micro bit of rub-wear at top center back cover, hardly anything, otherwise no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, no problems ... a highly wear prone survivor
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1. The vinyl: Rated: near "M-" very clean, try to find better, well maybe, yet doubtful ...looks and plays clean. Both two-tone Repise labels are clean