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	Village green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The green is traditionally at a central location and provides an open-air meeting place for the people of a village, for example at times of celebration, or for public ceremonies.
		Greens are increasingly rare and are mainly to be found in the older villages of mainland Europe, and the United Kingdom.
		A notable example of a village green is that in the village of Finchingfield in the English county of Essex, which is said to be "the most photographed village in England." The green dominates the village, and slopes down to a duck pond, and is occasionally flooded when it has been raining too much.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Village_green (669 words)

	Village green -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Traditionally, such an area was often common (Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay) grass land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events.
		The green is traditionally at a central location and provides an open-air meeting place for the people of a (A settlement smaller than a town) village, for example at times of celebration, or for public ceremonies.
		The Open Spaces Society is the present-day (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) UK national campaigning body which continues this movement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Village_green.htm (595 words)

	village voice > home > Kink Fu by B. Kite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by Andy Miller
		The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) is an album almost as gentle and evanescent as its subject matter.
		The songs here are certainly among the best, ringed around an image—the village green, the little fragment of a pastoral past (real or imagined) surviving even in the heart of urban environments—loosely enough to avoid the stranglehold of "concept."
	www.villagevoice.com /home/180,kite,47758,21.html (429 words)

	(british invasion) The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society - Musician Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This was further evidence that the Kinks were in a big decline, and as a result 1968s The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society was by Kinks standards commercially unsucessful.
		The Village Green Preservation Society is described as "a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions".
		"Village Green" presents a slightly different feel, relying on a minor chord progression which gives the song a bit of a darker feel to it, and the lyrics of "I miss the village green" throughout fit the mood perfectly.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=286796 (1450 words)

	The Kinks: The Village Green Preservation Society: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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.
		The Village Green Preservation Society has been declared the band's masterwork in some quarters, and I'll agree-- if only because my favorite Kinks album, built around "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You", has never been released.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/k/kinks/village-green-preservation-society.shtml (715 words)

	BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - The Kinks, ...Are The Village Green Preservation Society
		The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society flopped big-time.
		Village Green had a tortuous history from recording to release - all brilliantly explained in the extensive sleeve notes and the book of the album (published by Continuum), both by Kinks scholar Andy Miller.
		"Village Green" is full of moments like that, and it (and Ray Davies) should be cherished for that.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/classicpop/reviews/kinks_village.shtml (1284 words)

	The Kinks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kinks recovered somewhat with the classic "Days", a modest U.K. hit in the summer of 1968, but the group's commercial decline was made evident by the failure of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
		Released in the late autumn of 1968, this concept album was the culmination of Davies' nostalgic tendencies.
		Their early incarnation as rebellious three-chord rockers provided a template for both punk and heavy metal, and their best albums (Face to Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola, and Muswell Hillbillies) remain unique examples of literate, creative pop music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Kinks (5027 words)

	The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - On Second Thought - Stylus Magazine
		I bought Village Green Preservation Society back in 1996 while I was on Thanksgiving break from college at a record store somewhere in the Akron/Canton, Ohio area, I can’t recall exactly which one (though it was probably Quonset Hut in Canton).
		Village Green Preservation Society was recorded during the absolute lowest commercial point in The Kinks’ career.
		The album opens with "Village Green Preservation Society", a mission statement of sorts, singing the praises of Vaudeville, tudor houses, little shops, china cups, and virginity.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=482 (479 words)

	The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society \| Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If one defines success exclusively in record sales, then THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY was a decided failure, registering the poorest sales of any of their albums to date, but on critical grounds it is in the opinion of many the finest album they ever released.
		The sales failure of VILLAGE GREEN partly lies in the fact that the Kinks could not for some undiscovered reason obtain visas to tour the United States during several years in the sixties.
		VILLAGE GREEN was one of the last albums they released before the ban was lifted and the album's failure in the states definitely hurt.
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	The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		As the opening title song says, the Kinks [+] -- meaning Ray himself, in this case -- were for preserving "draft beer and virginity," and throughout the rest of the album, he creates a series of stories, sketches and characters about a picturesque England that never really was.
		But calm doesn't mean tame or bland -- there are endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation on The Village Green Preservation Society [+], and its defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar-pop.
		[Castle's 1998 CD reissue of Village Green Preservation contained both the original 15-track mono version of the album, plus the 12-track stereo album that was initially planned for release in September 1968, but scrapped.
	www.music.com /release/the_village_green_preservation_society/1 (436 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Village Green Preservation Society (Reprise) - The Kinks at Epinions.com
		Although the Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society was only released in 1968, its entire thematic premise (detailing the joys of suburbia, early days, British and middle American values, and happiness contained therein) seemed light years away from what the music scene was into at the moment.
		Village Green also proves to be a great inspiration on the Brit Pop, that dominated the rock world in the mid 90s, as "All of My Friends Were There" highlights.
		Note: their is a relatively newer--although more obscure where I'm from--remastered version of this album that is significant for the inclusion of "Days", another one of the finest examples of a popular single in rock and roll history.
	www.epinions.com /content_50849418884 (1237 words)

	Comments for Kinks, the, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - WWW Music Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But if you study the album carefully, it is nowhere close to the personal memoir of Muswell Hillbillies, nowehere close to the hard edge of their early recordings, nowhere close to the intellectual complexity of Arthur, and not even near the commercial success of Lola.
		Village Green might be compared to the White Album of the Beatles, except that I would consider the White Album far superior.
		Village Green was composed during that time when the Kinks appeared near their career's end.
	www.roadkill.com /MDB/comments.phtml/5561 (2116 words)

	The Tufts Observer Online - Arts - Revisiting a Kinks Masterpiece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What makes Village Green so charming is, despite its being a concept album that collectively tells a story, each song could nevertheless stand alone as a perfectly crafted tune.
		The album opens with the song Village Green Preservation Society, which presents a preview of what is to follow, with lines such as “We are the Village Green Preservation Society.
		The moving “Village Green,” probably one of the finest songs of the album, perhaps best demonstrates the album’s theme as the narrator wistfully reflects back on the village, and the thought of returning one day.
	www.tuftsobserver.org /arts/20040206/revisiting_a_kinks_master.html (1914 words)

	Making Time- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was one of those albums that did not really perform in commercial sales terms at the time but, with the benefit of hindsight, The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the major album releases of the 1960s.
		This was a golden age for British albums and this may have meant that The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society was released around the same time as Electric Ladyland, The White Album and Beggar's Banquet.
		This is particularly evident in The Village Green Preservation Society and Last of the Steam Powered Trains (1968 was the year that the last steam-powered locomotives were in regular service in the UK).
	www.makingtime.co.uk /cdrev72004.html (734 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes
		Originally released in 1968, The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society was a commercial failure.
		An odd album for its time, The Village Green Preservation Society has thankfully survived and is now rightfully regarded as a '60s classic, if not a timeless one.
		A unique accomplishment for any era, it's no wonder that The Village Green Preservation Society is not just viewed by many as a good album, it's viewed as an essential album, and rightfully so.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/k/kinks.htm (260 words)

	The Kinks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society ---Ink Blot Magazine
		At opposite ends of the album sit "The Village Green Preservation Society" and "People Take Pictures of Each Other," the latter concluding that the former's backward glance is either too poisonous or too painful to suffer: "Pictures of things how they used to be / Don't show me no more please.
		There was not to be an easy answer for us or for him, and his determined exploration of these feelings fuelled, remarkably, three more classic albums.
		It wasn't a conventional path towards a place in rock's canon, but their refusal to be conventional defined The Kinks' greatness.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Kinks_Village_Green.htm (795 words)

	The-Kinks - The Kinks [prefixmag feature]
		The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, possibly the only album to emerge from the decade unscathed by that aborted revolution, is an untapped source for dealing with the frustration we have encountered on the downward slant.
		The future in The Village Green Preservation Society is the unknown, a cold and frightening place; the past is obscured through time as a bliss-filled Eden that only the naive would desire.
		The piano on “The Village Green Preservation Society” slides and punches, the deep guitar riff on “Big Sky” booms from above, and the string-based swirl on “Sitting by the Riverside” brings a revelation: This may be the best song on the album.
	www.prefixmag.com /features.php?p=0&t=interviewnoqa&f=Kinks_Feature_Essay (2304 words)

	FFWD Weekly - July 22, 2004
		Upon its release in 1968, The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society marked the beginning of an era during which the group released note-perfect album after album to the almost total indifference of audiences on either side of the globe.
		A loving mash note by Ray Davis to the England of his birth, Village Green concerns the maintenance of old-town tradition and the loss of the fairy-tale Empire.
		Killing with kindness, Village Green paints a perfect satire of England in the late-’60s, offering up, in turn, some of the finest pop music ever penned.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/0722/cd7.htm (245 words)

	The Kinks / The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society album review [plus 'Picture Book' song lyrics] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This album, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, was the second, and it succeeds brilliantly in continuing the trend.
		The title track to Village Green is typical of the style: sweet, chorused vocals; foot-tapping rhythm; and a smooth, lilting melody.
		The Kinks would have more phases to their career after this one, but this was the best, and The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is a prime example of what fine music it produced.
	www.grinningplanet.com /review-lyrics/kinks-the-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-review.htm (426 words)

	BBC - Nottingham Music - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society review
		Just as Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds was never fully appreciated commercially until years after its release, so Ray Davies's Village Green Preservation Society flopped upon its release in 1968.
		It was out of step with the pop mood of the time - The Stones and the Beatles were all for smashing it up and expanding their minds with various substances.
		Village Green certainly stands out as an album which creates that perfect picture of middle England, with enough dark undertones to act as a warning.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/music/2004/07/kinks.shtml (275 words)

	Preservation Act 1, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		Cutting down from a double album to a single LP left significant gaps in the structure and story line, with the plot coming across as virtually indecipherable, though the work still manages to capture a good deal of the nostalgic charm and caustic conservatism that marks much of Davies' most notable work.
		Although widely remembered as one of the Kinks' most resounding failures, Preservation Act 1, when viewed apart from the pretensions of Ray Davies, is really not that weak.
		This may have been the first slip on a long and steady decline for the Kinks, but if Preservation Act 1 is, indeed, one of their worst albums, it speaks volumes about how prolific a run they had.
	www.emusic.com /album/10594/10594293.html (417 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| The Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society
		I've never been a fan of Ray Davies's preoccupations with the quaint minutiae of English life, but Sanctuary's update of this revered nugget from the Kinks' catalogue has left no cobwebby corner unswept in its hunt for outtakes and rarities.
		Village Green was released in 1968 at the dawn of the concept album, but bears little relation to the Who's Tommy or the Pretty Things' chaotic SF Sorrow.
		Davies concentrated on characterisation and detail and omitted the cosmic pretensions, and hence the mood is mellow, nostalgic and sentimental.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1277042,00.html (117 words)

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		Subject: k/kinks/the_village_green_preservation_society.crd THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY- The Kinks [lyrics removed -- see diet-olga policy] C G F G riff 1 C G F C riff 1 C G F G riff 1 We are the the Village...
		D A G D riff 2 D A G A riff 2 D A G D riff 2 D A G A riff 2 D A G D riff 2 CHORUS: D A G D riff 2 Preserving the...
		D A G A G D REPEAT VERSE ONE (in the new key) D A G D riff 2 We are the Village...
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	Amazon.ca: Music: The Village Green Preservation Society [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Buy The Village Green Preservation Society [Import] with Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Emp...
		Like it's contemporary "Sgt. Peppper's", which it was undoubtedly influenced by (as were so many others at the time), this album opens with a title track finding the band in the guise of staunch upholders of a nostalgic tradition.
		To me - and ok, I could be wrong - Village Green is about childhood, loss of innocence, about being in that transitional phase between childhood and adulthood.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002KOI (903 words)

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