Pros: a perfect marriage of pop and concept Cons: will probably never escape the shadow of its peers
Quick, think of a British invasion era band. Got it in your head? Okay, now think of a famous concept album from back in the sixties. Well, now, I'll go out on a limb and guess that you picked either The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or The Who as ...
Pros: The music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cons: Music can't be everything about life.
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Pros: God save the Kinks? Cons: The Kinks save God!
Kinks leader Ray Davies has said of the group’s 1968 album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society that it might be the “most successful flop of all time.” Such a claim is bold but not unreasonable, predicated on the fact that ...
Pros: Stunning, multidimensional songcraft Cons: Production values aren't the greatest, but with tunes like these, who cares
The Village Green Preservation Society is Exhibit A in the case for Ray Davies as the finest pop/rock songwriter ever to emerge from the British Isles. While Davies typically gets credit for his skills in wry, bemused social observation -- and...
Pros: Amazing, in my top 5 of all-time greatest albums!! Cons: The "laziest" the Kinks ever sounded, a far cry from "You Really Got Me"
The line above sums up this album perfectly. 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...
What would later become the title to a Blur album was already known to Ray Davies back in 1968: modern life is rubbish . And so, at the height of Psychedelica, Ray and the guys set out to make an album full of vintage British instrumentation and...
Ray Davies is way over-looked in today's society. Growing up (I'm pretty young), all I remember about the Kinks was that song "Come Dancing." Needless to say, I didn't like that song, so I never really gave them much of a chance. A couple of...
Pros: wonderful, just get this album Cons: may dredge up bittersweet memories
Although not exactly a concept album, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" is suffused with a wistfulness and series of backward glances that indicate dissatisfaction with the emptiness at the core of the modern world. ...
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