The Kinks are my favourite band of all time. I've listened to their music for decades and never got sick of them. It all started with a cheap Kinks compilation I picked up in K-Mart in the early seventies probably around 1970. It had the song Waterloo Sunset on it and I was sold. Then I found a copy of Golden Hour of the Kinks.
Gradually I began buying as many Kinks albums as I could lay my hands on but the more I read about them the more Village green became my holy grail. I couldn't find it anywhere. I had the singles Picture Book and Starstruck.
Then one day I was going through the records at Monash Uni and found it. The American version with thick cardboard and fold out cover. Got it home . Magical. Listened to it for days. months, years. A truly brilliant album.
It begins with Village Green Preservation Society (the song) and suddenly we are now in Ray Davies world. And it's a place I always come back to.
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