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The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks - Books - by Andy Miller
(2003)
Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here, Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation, and celebrates the timeless, perfectly crafted songs pieced together by a band who were on the verge of disintegration and who refused to follow fashion.
EXCERPT
'Big Sky' contains
some of the most beautiful, thunderous music The Kinks ever recorded,
aligned to a vulnerability and warmth no other group - and I mean no
other group - could ever hope to equal. It is a perfectly balanced
production. On the one hand, the mesh of clattering drums and electric
guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other, the
gossamer-light harmonies, Ray and Dave's vocal line traced by Rasa
Davies' wordless falsetto, are bursting with emotion. When most of the
instruments drop away at 1.20, the effect is effortlessly vivid - two
lines where Davies' performance is both nonchalant and impassioned. The
result is wonderfully, enchantingly sad, made more so perhaps by the
knowledge that The Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.
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