The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio al… Read Full Bio ↴The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock group The Kinks, released in November 1968. It was the last album by the original quartet, as bassist Pete Quaife left the group in early 1969. A collection of thematic vignettes of English town and hamlet life, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society was assembled from songs written and recorded over the previous two years. Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Village Green as a "concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions.
The record is widely considered one of the most influential and important works by The Kinks, and of the period as a whole. Although it failed to chart upon release, with estimated worldwide sales at 100,000 copies. The Village Green Preservation Society has become one of the band's best selling and most popular records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 255 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Original stereo album. Released in the UK as Pye NSPL 18233, 27 Sept. 1968
"The Village Green Preservation Society" - 2:54
"Do You Remember Walter?" - 2:28
"Picture Book" - 2:36
"Johnny Thunder" - 2:32
"Last of the Steam Powered Trains" - 4:11
"Big Sky" - 2:52
"Sitting by the Riverside" - 2:24
"Animal Farm" - 3:02
"Village Green" - 2:12
"Starstruck" - 2:27
"Phenomenal Cat" - 2:39
"All of My Friends Were There" - 2:26
"Wicked Annabella" - 2:44
"Monica" - 2:21
"People Take Pictures of Each Other" - 2:20
The record is widely considered one of the most influential and important works by The Kinks, and of the period as a whole. Although it failed to chart upon release, with estimated worldwide sales at 100,000 copies. The Village Green Preservation Society has become one of the band's best selling and most popular records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 255 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Original stereo album. Released in the UK as Pye NSPL 18233, 27 Sept. 1968
"The Village Green Preservation Society" - 2:54
"Do You Remember Walter?" - 2:28
"Picture Book" - 2:36
"Johnny Thunder" - 2:32
"Last of the Steam Powered Trains" - 4:11
"Big Sky" - 2:52
"Sitting by the Riverside" - 2:24
"Animal Farm" - 3:02
"Village Green" - 2:12
"Starstruck" - 2:27
"Phenomenal Cat" - 2:39
"All of My Friends Were There" - 2:26
"Wicked Annabella" - 2:44
"Monica" - 2:21
"People Take Pictures of Each Other" - 2:20
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The Kinks Lyrics
All of My Friends Were There Thank you for the days, Those endless days, those sacred day…
Animal Farm This world is big and wild and half insane. Take me…
Big Sky People take pictures of the Summer, Just in case someone…
Do You Remember Walter Walter, remember when the world was young And all the girls…
Johnny Thunder Johnny Thunder lives on water, feeds on lightning. Johnny T…
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains Under a lamp light Monica stands at midnight, And every gu…
Monica Under a lamp light Monica stands at midnight And every guy t…
People Take Pictures of Each Other People take pictures of the Summer, Just in case someone…
Phenomenal Cat A long, long time ago, In the land of idiot boys, There…
Picture Book Picture yourself when you're getting old You're sat by the f…
Sitting by the Riverside Out in the country, Far from all the soot and noise…
Starstruck Baby, you don't know what you're saying, Because you're a vi…
The Village Green Preservation Society We are the Village Green Preservation Society God save Donal…
Wicked Annabella In a dark and misty house, Where no Christian man…
David Chedgey
on Do It Again
Great song but also a memorable music video. Why is it unavailable?