THE KINKS - VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY- 1969 LP

$

211

Important General Information

This and upcoming auctions of vintage LPs, EPs and select 45s are a continuation of my earlier offerings of  2001.  Most of the pieces are from my personal collection of over 45 years of accumulation.  The music genres are largely rock, psych, garage, blues and progressive material. Some albums retain their original shrink wrap.  Most contain any and all inserts that were used in packaging and have their original inner sleeves.

The material is graded conservatively using Jerry Osborn’s grading criteria, with one exception.  I  play grade each piece ( except 45s ) in addition to visually grading the items under proper lighting.  Each album offered has been converted to digital format and put into my library.  That is why I’ve play graded each one.  I use high end audio equipment while doing the conversions.  The amplifier is a Nakamichi Receiver 3,  the turntable is a Denon DP-45F and the cartridge used is a Audiotecnica Dual Moving Magnetic unit.  It tracks at .75 grams of pressure to the vinyl.

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ARTIST:  The Kinks

TITLE:  The Village Green Preservation Society

LABEL:  Reprise RS-6327

RELEASE DATE:  1969

COMMENTS: 

The Kinks were an English pop and rock group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. Despite being less commercially successful than their contemporaries, the Kinks are sometimes cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time.  The band's early hard-driving singles set a standard in the mid-1960s for rock and roll, while albums such as Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, and Muswell Hillbillies are highly regarded by fans, critics, and peers, and are considered amongst the most influential recordings of the era.  "You Really Got Me", entered the charts at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and made the top 10 in the United States.  The distorted guitar riff — achieved by Dave's slicing of the speaker cones in his Elpico amplifier (referred to by the band as the "little green amp") — gave the song its signature, grittier guitar sound. "You Really Got Me" provided a blueprint for hard rock, and served as template for heavy metal. “Kinks Sized” produced the group's fourth single, "All Day and All of the Night", another hard rock tune, was released in late 1964. It rose to No. 2 in the United Kingdom, and hit No. 7 in the United States. In 1965, The Kinks recorded "Set Me Free" from “Kinda Kinks” and "Tired of Waiting for You" also on Kinks Sized, which both featured a repeated bass guitar riff.  The group released three albums in the next two years. They also performed and toured relentlessly, which caused tension within the band.  The band's stylistic changes were first evident in late 1965, with the appearance of singles like "A Well Respected Man", "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", and their third album The Kink Kontroversy. These demonstrated the progression in Davies's songwriting, from hard-driving rock numbers towards social commentary, observation, and idiosyncratic character study, all with a uniquely English flavour. The satiric single "Sunny Afternoon" was the biggest U.K. hit of summer 1966, topping the charts.  "Sunny Afternoon" was a dry run for the band's “Face to Face”, which displayed Davies' growing skill at crafting gentle yet cutting narrative songs about everyday life and people. One of the songs from the album, "Session Man", was written about notable session musician Nicky Hopkins, who often joined the band in the studio playing keyboards, mellotron, and harpsichord.  The songs on their enduring 1967 album “Something Else By The Kink”s expanded the musical progressions of Face to Face, adding English music hall influences to the band's sound. Dave Davies scored a major chart success with "Death of a Clown", co-written with Ray and recorded by The Kinks, but released as a Davies solo single.  Their next album, released in the autumn of 1968, is now widely regarded as a masterpiece, but at the time “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society” failed to sell strongly. A collection of thematic vignettes of town life, it was assembled from songs written and recorded over the previous two years, but the album's deliberately understated production contrasted with the extravagant style then in vogue, and it did not have a popular single  Although it was commercially unsuccessful, Village Green was embraced by the new underground rock press, particularly in the United States, where The Kinks' status as a cult band began to grow. Village Green is now widely considered one of the best rock records of the era.

“Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire”). As with the previous two albums, Arthur was soaked with British lyrical and musical hooks, having been conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised television drama. It was a modest commercial success and was particularly well received by music critics in America, where it was favourably compared to the rock opera Tommy by The Who. The album “Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One” was their most successful since the mid-1960s. The album included “Lola“, but it also featured the group's final U.K. Top 10 hit, "Apeman."

CONDITION: 

Near mint in every respect!  From the pristine gatefold cover to the vinyl, this is a very choice set!  NM/NM