The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Now Confirmed!

Who do we contact?

 

[email protected]

 

Can I purchase the Vinyl LPs separately without buying the box set? thanks in advance

 

Just the stereo

 

Although it's only a reproduction of an autographed photo.

 

Yeah i may not even bother

 

Obviously. Still nice to have, especially if advertised as part of the package.

 

Finally got my mitts on the SDE as my wife commandeered it when it was delivered as a Birthday present. Oh my! This really is quite a lovely set. The book looks like I'm going to need an hour or so set aside with some peace & quiet and some good coffee. The vinyl, posters and photos are high quality reproductions (can't play the vinyl but both the gatefold and the Swedish sleeve are lovely physical pieces to hold and have). Just ripping the CDs to lossless for the NAS for streaming around the house.

 

It couldn't happen to a nicer album!

I'm just starting a thorough listen to the new set and I'm blown away - yet again - by just how much top flight material was recorded for the album: two very full albums' worth of first rate material. I also realised that I've never found the sequencing of the original album especially compelling. It jumps around various pockets of greatness without much of a sense of build or development for me. It might be a fool's errand, but has anybody come up with a great double album sequence utilising all, or most of, the tracks from these sessions? I'm also inclined to include Dave's 'Lincoln County' and 'There Is No Life Without Love', which belong to the same period and seem to me to fit the Village Green vibe very well.

 

I finally got mine today as a birthday gift. Hooray! Damn, what a set! This is probably right up there with my Beach Boys' SMiLe box as a very classy set. Thye really outdid themselves. As far as packaging I like it better than TWA SDE and the Electric Ladyland 50th (duh!). So, The Kinks wins out of this year's anniversary sets.

Now, on to the music...which won't be tonight. It's too late in the evening, but I feel that I'll have a blast with this one.

 

Congratulations!

 

Sounds promising - I may pick up a copy myself if that is the case...anyone else bought and listened to the standalone stereo vinyl?

 

ITV report.. VGPS awarded a gold disc!

The Kinks awarded gold disc for classic Village Green Preservation Society album

Bad news is Ray continues his recent trend of looking very frail and old in this interview. Also, the 'Once More with Felix' clip is mis-labeled as being from 'Colour Me Pop'.

 

I’m still in love with this set. Maybe I over saturated myself, but I’ve already come back to it after the White Album release. I think this may finally show me that I do indeed rate TVGPS higher than TWA. The horror! The material here is just too good and unique. And as of this remaster, sounds so good!

 

He has looked bad in all the appearances for this release that I've seen. He is getting old, aren't we all, but that doesn't seem to be the cause of the way he looks. He looks a little unsteady on his feet, and just seems much more fragile that his years should make him look. His speech even sounds a little off. Hope he is ok.

 

Hey, the way you edited my quote made it look like I was scolding Ray for daring to get old!

The channel 4 interview with Ray earlier this year was pretty good I thought... he started off pretty frail but he warmed up soon given a more in depth platform... I don’t think Ray was ever comfortable doing the quick soundbite, and age only makes this more obvious.

 

Didn't mean it that way at all. I couldn't get the emoji to disappear.

 

Sorry, I’m not really being totally serious, however for the record I’d like it to be known that my waggy finger emoji was meant to comment (largely self mockingly given how anal the complaint is) on ITV captioning a clip wrongly rather to chastise Ray for the crime of getting older.

 

(Could It Be) Ray’s Getting Old

 

Here's mine. Have I omitted anything obvious?

Village Green (stereo)
The Village Green Preservation Society

Do You Remember Walter?

Picture Book

Johnny Thunder

Last of the Steam-Powered Trains

Big Sky

Sitting By the Riverside

Animal Farm

Village Green

Starstruck

Phenomenal Cat

All of My Friends Were There

Wicked Annabella

Monica

People Take Pictures of Each Other

Misty Water

Mr. Songbird

Rosemary Rose

Days

Four More Respected Gentlemen (stereo)
Hold My Hand

Plastic Man

This Man He Weeps Tonight

Did You See His Name?

Polly

Berkeley Mews

Mindless Child Of Motherhood

Lincoln County

Mr Reporter

Mr Shoemaker’s Daughter

Big Black Smoke

This Is Where I Belong

Act Nice And Gentle

Mr Pleasant

Berkeley Mews

Groovy Movies

Creepin’ Jean

There Is No Life Without Love

Bonus Tracks (mono)

Till Death Do Us Part

Lavender Hill

King Kong

Wonderboy

When I Turn Off The Living Room Light

Pictures In The Sand

Where Did My Spring Go?

There Is No Life Without Love

 

Kinks Village Green 20 track album

 

Thanks. I'll definitely give that line-up a crack (though it does seem a little skimpy to me: side three is only 13 minutes long!)

 

There's this guy who has a blog online where he reconstructs albums. I can't find his blog right now. That was the link I was originally going to post. He does a fairly exhaustive research into his track listings, at least as far as his rationale.

I'll try again and look for it.

 

Has anyone here bought this KG and compared to an original?

 

Happy Birthday