The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (Official Audio)
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The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The Kinks' music drew from a wide range of influences, including American R&B and rock and roll initially and later adopting British music hall, folk, and country. The band gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies' wittily observational writing style. The Kinks and the songs of Ray Davies are now rightfully established as a great British institution. From the opening riff of You Really Got Me, The Kinks’ influence as pioneers in heavy metal, power pop, conceptual albums, and theatrical shows can be detected in much modern music.
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making 'vernacular' & 'dracula' rhyme is pretty spectacular.
very funny... a character.
My personal favorite is consortium and awarded em. Thats legendary wordplay
Ray Davies is an amazing song-writer. You can tell Damon Albarn and Jeff Lynne really owe a lot to him.
I see what you did there.
Both are perculiar
We must deal with those who decide to thumbs this video down... For the greater good.
The greater good!
SHUT IT!!!!!
Narp.
Chuck Kilgore The greater good...
Yarp
"What's the matter Danny? Never taken a shortcut before?"
Ray is by far the most imaginative songwriters of all time! The rest of 60s pop were extremely jealous.
The Kinks really packed a lot into a 3 minute pop song.
‘Cuz Ray is so brilliant!!
One off the best songwriters ever ❤
Alot of people talk about the Vernacular/Dracula rhyme (and it is lovely) but I've always had a soft spot for Consortium/awarded em.
God save the Kinks!
Ray Davies..bloody genius.❤
For the greater good
DAVE DAVIES
'The swans escaped
Where from
The castle
What's your name?
Peter Ian Staker
P I Staker, piss taker come on!'
Jac Lewis "so what does the Swan look like?"
Swan!!!
@@personmcpersonface8415 it has a slender neck....a long billl.....its a swan...."cuts to danny honking"
Piss taker!
@@personmcpersonface8415 it's about 2 foot tall, long slender neck, an orange and black bill
Anything else?
Well, it's a swan
This album as a whole is a masterpiece
Those of us listening in 2018, we are the "village green preservation society" preservation society.
Cool man we are at that peace
I think it just makes us the village green preservation society.
Well said.
Jajaja
2019 pal
The Number One ever band not to get the deserved recognition they earned! The Kinks!!!
Ray for Prime Minister. More integrity than the 659 current imposters in the House.
"We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium
God save the George Cross and all those who were awarded'em"
Every rhyming couplet in this song is a work of art.
If you like sentences like this, try KMFDM's "Megalomaniac." Musically, as far from the Kinks as you get. But some fun turns of phrase.
@@hannahf.1293 Sucks is another great KMFDM song dripping with sarcasm
This song is amzing I have never heard it till I was watching Clarksen farm season 2
@@Dankelheit Who says Davies is being sarcastic? He's spoken out in favor of English village life many times over the years.
@@zippymufo9765He's yearning for a return to this life
Ray unapologetically restoring a slice of Britannia lost on so many at the time. When Stones were signing about sympathy and Beatles signing about revolution. Ray gifted you Village Green.
That is beautifully observed C Synch. Sympathy, Revolution and the Village Green... let's all watch out for the demon bowler!
Whilst also agreeing that this is a wonderful slice of British nostalgia, I'd have to dissent from your observation in some areas and suggest that things were much less clear cut at that time. 'Revolution' in particular is specifically and overtly about questioning the concept of revolutions, especially of the violent, personality cult, and psychedelic kinds. It has far more in common with this song than at first might appear. And for all that they hankered for the sounds of blues and soul, and cultivated an image of disreputableness, I don't think that either the Stones or any other product of the mod culture of that era every truly abandoned or escaped a distinct sense of nostalgic Britishness. Historically for a few decades, people tended to massively overplay the counter-cultural aspect of that era, in popular recollection and their own telling. Ironically, we now start to see people who were there at the time begin to underplay the zest for change and new ways of doing things within that traditional culture. Some go so far today as to imply that they somehow should inherit the honour deserving of the work of their own parents in fighting the Second World War, whilst having in fact spend their youth scandalising that generation. Whilst it has lots of sincere love for the things of the past mentioned, the 'village green' of the Kinks is not exactly the same village green that their parents and grandparents would have known or wanted. Similar combinations of nostalgia mixed with notions of change are common, and it is not always clear in which direction the emphasis truly lies. If you go looking for it, for an example, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd were as prone to describing scenes of English tranquillity, for all their psychedelism. TV shows such as The Prisoner employ quintessential traditional locations and iconography whilst positing challenging questions about the status quo of the time.
There is a hint of irony but ultimately it is a huge celebration. ☺️
@@baxtronicxavier the self-aware irony and subtle witty sarcasm is just as much part of Britannia as the rest of the song to be militant with it would be Americana
i think he's taking the piss
Ray Davies, a modern day Gilbert and Sullivan. A+
Pure British Gold. Thanks!
This band is forever engraved on the history of rock music
And the history of England
"Lock me up.
What?
I'm a slasher and I must be stopped!"
"Of prices"
I'm sure if we bashed your head in, all sorts of secrets would come tumbling out...
catch me later!
+That Guy Danny sissy skinner
what a gaylord
+Dhairya Khale dis weawy huuut
I honestly think that if more people listened to music like this in this day and age, the world would look a bit better
A very astute point. I'm glad there is at least 1 person out there that sees it that way.
Probably the most quintessentially English band of all time. It’s a huge indictment on the modern ‘music’ industry that if these guys were around today they probably wouldn’t get a record deal. Such is the sad, unimaginative , unbelievably gay times we live in.
Long live the Kinks.
1968: an ironic song.
2023: a sincere song.
It was sincere back then two. Its both.
They really meant it
Check out their song "Shepherds of the Nation", it's this with all subtext removed
No, it's still ironic, you just got old and lost touch
@@aidanrock8719 I think you've likely never been in touch and the first commenters were probably correct.
Nobody comes close to the Genius of Ray and the KINKS.
talent
RIDICULOUS !!
like ian dury, ray davies had a talent for compiling lists of things he liked - in this case enshrining all the endangered ingredients of a vanishing england.
See also “Living On A Thin Line”
'God save the George Cross and all those awarded them.' I always find that line very touching and agree with it wholeheartedly.
😌🤝
☺️
🙌
All their songs were also a little sarcastic and cynical or ironic. - even though yes, people who suffered in war is not ok.
@@asgard5968George Cross is a civilian award for bravery - Victoria Cross is for military actions.
Probably the most english sounding english band ever. One of the greatest bands ever. Muswell Hill Legends. Finchley boy myself, but no legend
Completely, utterly and totally agree.
Cuz they were banned from the USA, so they lived in their homeland for the rest of the 60's. That's why it sounds very British.
'The village green preservation society' and 'penny Lane' are the most British songs ever
The good ole muswell hillbilly boys
@@zackzallie8735 Banned from the USA? What did they do, insult Jesus?
I dunno why but for the last year I've been obsessed with Hot Fuzz, I can't stop watching it lol
Been there. Every time I watch it I catch something I didn't before. It's packed.
Wonderful, under-rated, unknown, underappreciated,, British classic. Fantastic casting. Love finding new things and throw away lines.
Great movie
Yarp!
“What more can we do?” This line makes the song.
Wait I read this just in time they said that while scrolling through the comment section
This song sums up the Sandford town in Hot Fuzz perfectly.
NO DOUBT!🎉🎉🎉
Anyone who can’t appreciate this gem of a song… well, has my condolences. 😊
I started liking this song after Watching Hot Fuzz so many times.
"Morning Angel"
When all the rest were donning kaftans and weaving flowers in their hair, Ray and the boys were doing stuff about the concerns of Middle England. It didn't go down too well at the time, but with hindsight (and the glory of RUclips) we can re-assess the '60s decade and place the Kinks where they deserve to be placed: at the top table. Britpop starts right here! ❤
Good save this country 2023
50 years later and this song still sums up a strong element of the English mindset, for good and for ill.
there's no ill here.
That feeling when London is no longer British.
@@nillynush4899 Wait what
Of course it's British
You mean for the greater good
@@afriendofepicproportions its not proper british.
Probably some of the best lyrics ever, rhyming "consortium" with "awarded them".... and my personal favourite line "office block persecution affinity"
Never mind JERUSALEM. This should be the English national anthem
The way I see it, this song was about 50 years ahead of its time.
I love the kinks they were truly a British band
God save the Kinks!!!
This song means more now than ever...
I found this, thanks to my 33 year old son. I can't believe he's really into The Kinks! That's 1 for the Over 60 side!
You have a very cool son! 😎
@@alabhaois I wish! If he was cool he'd return my phone calls and emails! The lousy, dirty, stinking rat!
@@ogredad55 Lol, Savage dad.
@@aimang.t.r.m1270 Ha-ha-ha! Righto!
The nut fall not far from the shrub
A breath of fresh air in our world that is now nutty than a bag of almonds. PEACE and LOVE
The Kinks must be regarded as one if the best rock groups ever. Even today half a century after their musical climax.
There will never ever be another band like the Kinks, God Save the Kinks !!!!
I forgot to say (KEEP THE FAITH ✊). AT OUR WAY OF LIFE 💚 GOD BLESS 🙏😇
we need the sentiments of this song more than ever now
What more can we do? Spend your Life for The Kinks. Für mich eine großartige Band. Für immer.
Few artists have enriched popular music with tales such as Ray tells. He lifted aside the front-room curtains just an inch or two and gazed far into the very heart of what made so many people proud of living in England.
God save the Kinks, Ive loved this song for years
Criminal how the Kinks didnt acheive the success of the Stones or the Who. Equally as good if not better in terms of songwriting.
Ray was a genious. Totally cutting edge. Fucking brilliant 😎.
This song kind of explains why it's ok that that they didn't achieve corporate, mass-media fame.
Actually, The Kinks had more success than The Who, scoring 3 number one hit singles, something The Who never managed to achieve.
They did surpass those bands though, prehaps and probably not in monetary value but in everything else - kinks are king
Absolutely.
Easily better
I am American but I love all things English. We are not so different. Great song about keeping traditions alive and resistance to modernisation.
Morning sergeant...
This album is the hidden gem of the sixties.
Ray is the greatest song writer of all time. The Poet Laureate of music.
Zimmerman.
Ray Davies lyrics make me almost homesick for England... Being living in Australia for the past 15 years and will never move back but now I have rosed tinted glasses for the 70s and 80s. This album transcends decades and you need to be to be English to fully understand.
What's funny to me, is that I think this was poking fun, in a way, of the quaint English way of life. Listening to it today, it's truly making one nostalgic.
Andy Coates@ unfortunately the England being sung about here is dead and gone. Sharia Law rules OK?
You need to be English to understand England. Radical.
"We are the Sherlock Holmes English-speaking vernacular, help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula"
Anyone who rhymes 'vernacular' and 'Dracula' is okay in my books. God save The Kinks and all those who believe in them.
J McArdle And anyone who references Sax Rohmer's Lord of strange deaths too!
Best couplet in all of song lyrics J McArdle
"Affiliates" and "Billiards" ranks up there too
Yes. God Save The Kinks.
It was too early to rhyme it with Quantum Leap's Scott Bakula! =D
The Kinks are the thinking man's group of the Big 4 British Invasion bands.
Don't forget the Clash and Zeppelin is kind of ehh
@@Pete_S they're both great bands but they weren't british invasion, that was the beatles, stones, kinks and the who (also the animals)
Who cam because hotfuzz got it in your brain still all these years later ❤
Just came here from Google after checking out the playlist for the Nth time.
Though I wasn't born in their country, I adore George Orwell and I feel The Kinks and Orwell are in the same line.
1984 hasn't happened yet. It's only 1968 (A leap Year). Incidentally did you know 1984 was also a leap year.
Listen to Sherlock Holmes audiobooks by Greg Wagland (Magpie Audio)
George Orwell was born in India funnily enough!
So? @@rohitsubramanian8962
favourite drumming ever
God save Mick Avory.
Something beautifully reactionary about these lyrics...
I cant tell if its ragging on conservative old farts or celebrating them lmao, it skirts that line between sounding ironic or sincere so hard
@@Mae_Dastardly I don't think so. I think Ray Davies has genuine affection for those traditional old English things, possibly without realising. After all the kinks were a large part of the beginning of the change in the 60s. You can hear similar sentiment in 'last of the old steam powered trains'
The Kinks are the greatest English band of all time, no doubt about it. They should build a gold statue of Ray Davis and declare him ultra master of the universe and beyond.
Stefan Sidoli Dave would just get pissed that he didn't get a statue
He would probably piss on the statue itself.
Stefan Sidoli the jam are the best British band of all time
Stefan Sidoli pity he was such a bollox to his brother Dave who came up with the riff for All day and all of the night,ray Davis is a prick,hugely talented but still a prick.
Stefan Sidoli extremely underrated and overlooked I love the kinks
I love the song from the Bottom of my heart ❤ The Kinks are the best Band ever
Best Album ever made.
I can't think of a greater ENGLISH record. It's fantastic!
Would it be considered raciss being English as might offend a namby pamby or even worse a foreigner
@@hermanthetosser4219 Ray Davies would hate you😊
"Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliates" boy that is a handful that speaks volumes
We are The Kinks, preservation society.
God save The Kinks for writing the line "God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties".
I listened to this again for the greater good, *the greater good*
This song just makes me happy :)
God is not interested in saving little shops but YOU can!
So Very apt for today the 11 July 2021. Win or lose there will always be an England 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Such a cheerful song, I was here 2020 during the covid-19 sat in the bath listing to these greats
Next time sit in water, just sitting in your bath is weird l
@@GrayDogNowIDKShh, it's a covid-free zone
"We are the Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliate" XD
Sarianna Saberwolf I felt that one
- What was it like being stabbed?
"It was single most painful experience of my life."
- What was the 2nd most painful?
Kinks are pure class....as good if not better than beatles and stones put together.....Greetings from Dublin
Ray Davies had some hits and misses but his on target hits outweighed his misses so much you can forgive the misses. Great lyricist and so clever and literal. His top lyrics are up there with any artist in rock and roll. Probably why they have been covered so often. FM radio often would do Beatle, Zep , Stones, WHO weekend sets. The Kinks deserve to be right there as well.
A classic album. The KInks are on the British Mount Rushmore, along with the Beatles, Stones and Who.
fab cd... The Kinks have to be the most under rated band ........ Poets. love them
Coz they got banned from America in 65. If not for that they’d have went down as one of the big bands.
Real American Hero why were they banned? Oh, I'll just Google it...
@@caesar3311 Not sure where you're from, but they are definitely "one of the big bands."
Sarianna Saberwolf they’re not embedded in the public consciousness like the Beatles or the stones is what I meant
Ray rarely if ever wrote lyrics as brilliant and clever than this song. And he composed a boatload of others. Genius lyricist. Literal and sharp as a tack.
Agreed 100%
"What made you want to become a Policeman?"
"Officer."
What made you want to become a Policemanofficer?"
“I don’t ever remember not wanting to be a police officer, except for the summer of 1979 when I wanted to be Kermit the frog”
Shame
I think you would've made a great muppet
Danny-Have you ever fired 2 guns whilst in a chase?nick- no! Danny-Have you ever fired one gun whilst in a chase? me-on the floor with my ribs hurting.
What is this from?
Stephanie Woods Hot Fuzz
On 13th November 2018, Ray Davies was presented with a gold disc to mark 100,000 sales of TVGPS. Finally.
Brilliant band, brilliant song, brilliant album.
Ich liebe die kinks👍
One of the best songs of the 60s, easily
such fab harmonies on this song ,,,the kinks were complete genius guys ,,they brought lots of happiness to millions of fans ...lol xx
only Davies could write a song like this as he gets nostalgic reflection on cultural English. i could listen to the first 10 seconds over and over. thank you Ray for songs like The Village Green, Waterloo Set, Art Lover, Days and Lola.
Except that Dracula is an Irish creation
And Apeman, although for political correctness reasons some people now object to the association of a pretend West Indian accent with apes. But a good song still.
@@OscarOSullivan what does that have to do with the price of tea in china. He is not saying that all these things that are written down in the song are English. Ray Davies namechecks various fictional characters that bring back childhood memories.
@@whitepanties2751 what does apeman have to do with song. I think your comment would be that are posted on the apeman video
@@jimcatalfamo8034 I am quite pedantic
God save the Village Green!
I never understood this album and all the praise it got, but one day something just clicked in my head and I realised... Ray really was the absolute best. That’s the thing with the kinks, it takes a second listen to realise the true greatness of Ray’s writing. I will also say, Kinks>Beatles and I think as time goes on, more people will realise that.
no way...beatles>the kinks. so far away
The Kinks are incredible and one of the best bands ever, but no one has or probably ever will come close to The Beatles, they are the undisputed greatest of all time
Beatles are most of time overrated, that's sad but true. Kinks and Who should be better known nowadays.
Noooooo.. both bands are good
The beatles🤝The Kinks
@@virgilecrespin4173 How can the Beatles, Kinks and Who be even better known. They are all HUGE! Then don't forget the Stones, etc etc. Beatles over rated.... by who? To denigrate the Beatles is a bit sad in this context.
Phenomenal. Such an amazing band!
My top 2 wake up/morning songs
Mr Blue Sky
This absolute masterpiece
"Village Green Preservation Society" from the most creative and beautifully melodic albumnes composed within the world of Pop and extending it with the wonderful Operetas "Preservation Act 1", and giving way to the musical jewel to the pure style Broadway "Preservation Act 2". Here we obtain the holy bible of the 3 best groups Of contemporary music.
lennon _#9dream - “Act 1” HAS to be the most underrated album ever made. Some of my favorite Kinks songs, and even the outtake (a rockin’ jam called “Preservation”) is a amazing!!
I used to think this song was ironic but I think its more lightly tongue in cheek. As in "bro trust us, we know better than you do", if you want to save donald duck and Sherlock holmes you also have to trust our taste in strawberry jams.
The greater good
The greater good
The greater good.
@@aestheticaltwat SHUT IT!!
The Greater Good
The song was used as the theme for TV comedy Jam and Jerusalem, sung by Kate Rusby.
🌟GOD SAVE THE KINKS 🌟💕💞
Quintessentially British and poetical realism
Sir Ray Davies.. and why not.. he has wrote and performed some fabulous songs.
The Kinks represented all the other varieties, musically- if you don’t believe me have a listen to this album, which I”d presented to my daughter for her understanding of our heritage. Thanks Ray & Kinks for giving us pride in ALL things British - via musicality. L&P. JaneR
Simon Skinner was correct on being a slasher.
“of prices.”
My absolute favorite album
“Ohhhhhh, drive safe 😂👌... you know that were the bloke we done for speeding earlier?”