The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

If it's the original pressing, you're getting some good cash out from that.

Ryan, upon its initial release in November of 1968, the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society was immediately commercial blockbuster topping the UK album charts.

True or false? I'm

going to go with

Yeah, it's you, Adam.

But he asks, I note that having reached the Village Green Preservation Society album, you seem to have bypassed the Live at Kevin Hall album.

Is this deliberate? Well, we did miss out Live at Kevin

Hall.

Right.

So yeah, last series towards the end, you were telling me there was increasing tension between the record company and Ray Davies.

Ray Davies wanted to make albums like Village Green Preservation Society, and the record label just wanted them to be hitmakers like they used to be.

He really didn't mind alienating the mainstream to pursue his own peculiar interests.

You know, there's, like, an innocence.

It makes me think also of Ray Davies with, with the Kinks and Village Green Preservation Society.

You know, when they put that record out, it was, it was at the height of psychedelia, and, you know, the Haight Ashbury situation and, you know, free love and sexual revolution, flower power, you know, the acid-soaked, um, complications of that time.

And Ray was just like, you know, "Why can't we just sit in the, in, in the garden and, and go to Sunday school?" And, and, and there's sort of that thing of, like, the...

Yeah.

It's a very hard question, isn't it, really? But, um, I think something like, um, Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks.

I mean, I just, just, uh, just think The Kinks, um, they were, um, they're just brilliant, brilliant songs, really amazing songs, uh, lyrically and musically, and, you know, a great band as well.

And something like that.

How about you, number five.

From 19, and I think it's '68, The Kinks of the Village Green Preservation Society, produced by Ray Davies.

Mm.

We are the Village Green Preservation Society.

God save Donald Duck, Barnaby and Rarity.

We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society.

Yeah, Kinks.

You started off with The Kinks.

A lot of people know them.

But they did a song that was real popular in England called called the Village Green Preservation Society.

Let's take care of the village green.

Let's don't let people build it all up.

Let's take care of it so we'll always have something to enjoy and appreciate.

But it's a song from the 60s called the Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks.

Can we run that one next, Java?

Yeah, we go into our break and we can get that on for sure.

Let's do a little known album track now.

It's called the Village Green Preservation Society.

We are the Village Green Preservation Society God save Donald Duck for the little lamb variety We are the Desperate Death Appreciation Society

God save Strawberry Jam and all the different varieties Preserve in the old ways from the interviews Thank you.

Thank you.