The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation SocietyThe Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Created in difficult circumstances by a band who refused to follow fashion, it is an album of timeless, perfectly crafted songs about growing up and growing old, and the decline of national culture and traditional ways. Enduring and unsurpassed, with its wit, sadness, quiet anger, regret and charm, it is generally considered the high point

unassuming and painfully honest: the sound of thin

slow-burning funk (‘Velvet 4 Sale’ and ‘L-Over’) and earnest synth anthems ‘Rosebud’ and ‘Poem’

producers Flood and John Parish

Based on several linked stories by James Franco

and melodic hooks

which feature Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio on drums

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 Brooks is a stalwart of the Ghost Box label and an extraordinarily prolific artist

Morrissey's career as a writer reaches new lyrical heights but maintains his signature humor

And for 'The Catastrophist

in Studio Litho

The album saw release on the Canadian Stony Plain label in 1984 but has been out of print until now