Download The Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (33 1/3 Series) AudioBook Free
Ignored by nearly everyone after its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks WILL BE THE Village Green Preservation Contemporary society' is now seen as one of the better British albums ever before noted. Here, Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation, and celebrates the classic, perfectly crafted tunes pieced together by a band who had been 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 before noted, aligned to a vulnerability and friendliness no other group - and After all no other group - could ever before hope to equal. It really is a perfectly well balanced production. On the one hands, the mesh of clattering drums and guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other, the gossamer-light harmonies, Ray and Dave's vocal line tracked by Rasa Davies' wordless falsetto, are bursting with sentiment. When almost all of the tools drop away at 1.20, the result is effortlessly vivid - two lines where Davies' performance is both nonchalant and impassioned. The effect is wonderfully, enchantingly unfortunate, made more so perhaps by the data how the Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.
