The enduring influence of THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY | Sir Ray Davies

[@LuvIsSuchAGame]

Ray Davies - Lola [Live] | AVO Session 2010: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3WreqahrJppirc

[@ElenaTheMenace]

"Do you remember Walter" is my favourite song of all time. I'm a 46-year-old woman and it still makes me cry.

[@michaelward9880]

It almost made Dave cry just talking about it.

[@Scranton0]

Walter you were just echo of a world I knew long ago

[@gaignum792]

People often change, but memories of people can remain.

[@ustheserfs]

ray is/was an old soul. i feel he wrote for the people who were touched by a sense of tradition, custom and remembrance. it may have taken some 50 years for listeners to appreciate just how precious village green has become but it was always there and thankfully it's being discovered while ray's with us still.

[@ustheserfs]

Whether you're conscious or not Ray and Kinks envelopes all that you loved in Jam, XTC, Oasis, Blur, Madness. Ray is a treasure to be adored.

[@jackiewallace6475]

Finally Andy partridge gives the highest honor to the best songwriter of all time Ray Davies!

[@dh7314]

Andy Partridge is one of the great underrated songwriters

[@scottandrewbrass]

Absolutely.

[@multipipi1234]

By who? You are kidding!!!underated. Bollocks. Overlooked.. perhaps.

[@philiphomemorrell5656]

I've lived in New Zealand for most of my life, but Waterloo Sunset can still make me long for my home town.

[@vincentm4717]

Ray Davis has got to be one of the greatest pop music songwriters of the 60s.

[@robdean704]

*all time

[@lennon_9dream133]

@@robdean704 of all times

[@EyeLean5280]

There's an unabashed sentimentality about the Kinks that's so earnest and honest, it manages never to descend into kitsch. It just is.

[@charleswalker3781]

Love that thread that Andy points out... the line that runs from the Kinks, through bands like XTC and continues through Blur. Quintessentially English music.

[@jonathanhadley2555]

"The thing about those bands is they're not ashamed of sounding British, singing in their own accents & writing about subject matter where they grew up"

[@notmark6944]

As a huge non-brit Kinks fan, I feel like I can never truly appreciate their very British music, but I still love it

[@jonathanhadley2555]

I think that there are some Brits that dont get it:-(

[@abeparsons7914]

Sitting by the riverside is just magic

[@Issaaay260]

Isn't it?

[@EyeLean5280]

Definitely an underappreciated band, not only in terms of quality but also influence. I think they were much better known and embraced by other musicians than by the public.

[@MattmanLovesMusic]

Thank you to whomever posted this!

[@slaugmromni6743]

As much as I love Village Green, I think Arthur is the The Kinks' masterpiece.

[@markoslaguna2625]

it comes second to Lola

[@tomrobinson5776]

Arthur is the Kinks masterpiece.

[@Giselle62]

I'm gonna play this album around my granddaughters. One of them seems super into music already.

[@matthewdelaney3466]

I just heard this album for the first time yesterday and caught this before bed by chance. thanks for uploading!

[@jasonmcgary]

Something else is an amazing album in the same time peroid

[@matthewdelaney3466]

@@jasonmcgary Listened to it in full yesterday. Thanks for the rec

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

Something else is my personal favorite

[@formercanadiancitizen4756]

I grew up in a working class neighbourhood of second gen Mic’s and Mac’s in Canada and so the Kinks were on the top of our playlist indeed and for some reason we all knew about the Village green society despite the American ban on the band. I had it and still love it and yeah, bands like the Jam and XTC also became a big influence on me, I saw the Kinks low budget tour in Detroit and also saw the Jam in their early days in Toronto so thanks Ray for spawning another generation of great music which I still see in music today!

[@clumsiii]

Waterloo Sunset won me so many pool games - I put that on the jukebox and my game was on Don't fret XTC guy! I love Dear God too! truly great song as well 9:51

[@Giselle62]

this album is like therapy for me.

[@barrycross2585]

Many thanks for this, its really great to see the Davies brothers Ray and Dave singing happily together.

[@lennon_9dream133]

The complete and sublime work of Ray Davies is "The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society + Preservation Act 1 + Preservation Act 2". It is the jewel in the crown of Ray Davies' most ambitious work of his entire musical career.

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

I’ll add face to face, something else, Arthur, Muswell and Lola.

[@markc5771]

The Kinks gave us enduring music because of the classic nature of it.

[@calvinguile1315]

Side one is a flawless run of genius, then side two reminds me of a mini-“White Album” if you will, really varied and prolific, I always loved it ❤

[@dramamine6199]

its great to see so many bands i love mentioned in this. helps me understand why i like what the music i do.

[@bernardfinch7046]

God Bless Ray Davies!

[@PedroCucuchucho]

In Mexico this album was released better than in England and the US. The first song on side A brings Days and the first song on side B is She's got everything. With this album The Kinks displaced The Rolling Stones as my favorite group.

[@Rufus2005f1]

There voices just sound AMAZING together

[@iconicshrubbery]

Beautifully made, filmed, edited, and produced- as befitting the album could deserve. Personally, I loved the inclusion of the song-inspired artworks by the very musicians.

[@brownbenplumm9027]

I love this record. Glad I found it since it was released 27 years before I was born haha

[@mattandersonmusic]

I'm so thankful for all this great music we have. This album is amazing. I know every word when I put it on

[@dannycapra]

I still think of all these faces here as being as forever young.

[@eduardoc6441]

What a great video! Thank you for posting it’

[@buddydyer9244]

There is Nota bad kinks record, even the early flops are awesome

[@troygaspard6732]

Just as good as a rock album could ever be.

[@rundoetx]

What a great video. Thanks so much for posting.

[@Luckipete]

This may sound ridiculous to some but listen to "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by the Monkee's , it's so Kinks in observation and downbeat style, I hate to say it but it's also a great song.

[@mjlotus]

Don’t hate to say it. Carol King and Jerry Goffin wrote it, and it is a masterpiece. Check out her demo of it on KZbin.

[@Giselle62]

I agree with Andy Partridge when he committed sacrilege by saying that some of their songs, YIKES, are better than the Beatles.

[@andyf2837]

It's an Andy and Swindon thing - both myself and Mr Partridge! And he's right

[@leestephenson7042]

It’s for people who really like music.

[@joshbolton5624]

I fuckin love this album! Actually this and Arthur I kind of consider a double album⚡

[@ijeff2005]

Great video. Really happy I found it!

[@JohnGalbraith1961]

Oh Ray, and the Kinks............the very best ever. Wont add more.

[@paulrawes]

Absolutely wonderful!

[@MuzacMark1960]

When I started buying kinks records it was when sleepwalker came out first I got my hands on the kink kronachles wow but by the time I bought villagegreen I had no way of knowing it did not sell well I loved it saw them twice and Ray with another guitarist another time 🎉🎉

[@MaquiladoraIII]

On listening to the late 60s golden period, I'd add Pulp to the long list of bands heavily influenced by The Kinks.

[@sjaakmcd1804]

Timeless, Perfect, English, Forever, Perfect, alive

[@cigsindoors]

the village green by the kinks and SMiLE are incredibly similar in status, musics content, thematic content, significance for the band, and just being the overall culmination of brian wilson and ray davies best musical talents

[@bobsbigboy_]

SMILE is a divine masterpiece

[@shanebreheny5091]

i bought it and the reissue, just wonderful!

[@soyhan]

Picture Book should’ve been released as a single. Regardless, it’s a masterpiece!

[@stp1649]

The Village Green Preservation Society is a record that you would have if you were stranded on an island all great songs can't pick a favorite it's too great Picture Book Wicked Annabella Monica Animal FARM and more definitely one of the best albums ever made

[@nonsuch]

The MOST important KINKS record, period

[@lennon_9dream133]

The Kinks had great and diverse musical periods, they all had their importance and relevance!!!!! . let's see if we found out once, the KINKS DIDN'T HAVE BAD PERIODS!!!

[@johannesvictorious8861]

Love this album. For me it's one of the only albums that can drink on the same bar as Sgt. Peppers. It's marvelous. The only sad part is that here in my country, Brazil, The Kinks are little well known. Here everyone loves The Beatles. Maybe it's because of the Beatle's aura that it's equal to a religion.

[@theshrubberer]

I live in São Paulo , am american, but have been sharing this album with my Brasileiro friends recently

[@pedromelo9572]

Sadly true, no one knows Ray Davies here in Brazil.

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

Much better than sergeant Pepper. Half of that album is lacking

[@warrenermish1454]

They are up there with the clash, the jam the Beatles

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

The jam don't deserve to be there😅

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

Better then all of them.

[@thomasandersen6719]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Paul Weller is superior to Ray I love Ray by the way....Paul Weller wrote songs at 19-20 that Ray never could

[@randalclarke5487]

What happened??? This entire documentary used to be on KZbin not too long ago... damn it

[@warrenermish1454]

Still on KZbin, I’m watching it right now

[@Charlosduncan]

Noel Gallagher accusing someone else from stealing... now I have seen everything

[@michaelmulhall5007]

He gets alot shit for that. But there are hardly many genuinely original artists/songwriters out there? Surely if it was as easy as stealing a few riffs/lyrics we could all do it?

[@sebastianfitzptraick7395]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6SziWyLoa56pJI

[@Charlosduncan]

@@michaelmulhall5007 Well, I never said that was a bad thing per sé nor that anyone can do it and be succesful (I'm looking at you, Carlos Mencía) I was just stating a simple fact: a thief is calling somebody else a thief, wich is kind of hypocritical if you ask me. Speaking of that, I actually like oasis, haha

[@Charlosduncan]

@@sebastianfitzptraick7395 thank you, yes, everybody steals I guess, cheers mate.

[@kJ922-h3j]

He is one of the few who admits it though, wouldn’t have been at all surprising if he went on to say the same about Oasis and The Beatles

[@jimplummer4879]

The Kinks were in their own mold.

[@joesimpson4473]

When I first listened to picture book I immediately heard Green day - warning

[@Giselle62]

when i heard that Green Day song i thought thy must ve been listening to the Kinks.

[@Giselle62]

When i first heard that Green Day song--- uses the riff from one of my favorite Kinks songs.

[@jonnylambertmusic]

Watched this great documentary last night. Does anyone know if the Ray and Dave acoustic performance is available in its entirety. (Where they are in a living room) They sound so good and it's a shame that we only get snippets of it. Cheers.

[@Ella-om4nx]

This might not be super helpful but I just remember from the original documentary when they were showing clips from that performance, it said ‘previously unreleased’ meaning it may not be public currently. Big shame if true because it’s such a fab bit of film. Hope that can help.

[@JohnnySeven]

That acoustic performance is included (along with other gems) on The Kinks' 1996 album To The Bone.

[@theshrubberer]

Had same question

[@christull6572]

Truly a Wonderful Album

[@laikapupkino1767]

An eclectic masterpiece. There's not a song on this album I don't love. SOMETHING ELSE thru PRESERVATION ACT was an incredible run of perfect or near perfect albums. And some of their last albums that I didn't like so much? Going back and listening to them again, they're much better than I recall thinking they were when they came out...

[@robdean704]

Do you remember Walter.. goat song

[@susankapur4364]

God save the Kinks! ❤️

[@garyrawlinson1647]

Thank you The Kinks .

[@allisonlangford9798]

Sir Ray!!!

[@pauljackson2473]

This is so English just like the Kinks. “People would buy a caravan as a status symbol and leave it in their garden all year except for one week a year when they’d go on holiday”. American translation: people would buy an RV, leave in their back yard all year except for one week a year when they’d go on Vacation. Love the Kinks

[@steveowens7006]

Oasis took a lot of influence from the kinks. The importance of being idle / the kinks , Dead end street.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

That's one song mate. More of a rip off. Blur were influenced by the kinks but didn't judt copy a riff.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Seems like Ray Davies' Wikipedia article was written by an American if this was the extent of Davies' influence on popular music.

[@Jo111Ware]

Ray IS “Waterloo Sunset.”

[@Jo111Ware]

M’kay. Wrong album, but the other is my favorite song and I believe in him.

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

If you haven’t already heard it you all need to check out Ray’s demo recordings for the musical 80 days. It’s phenomenal

[@calvinguile1315]

I’ve always loved Rays social commentary and vignettes better than (gasp!) McCartney ❤

[@TheDavewatts]

Ray Davies is the best English song writer of all time for me, his songs are purely English in sound.

[@nessy9022]

Yes, most of McCartney's vignettes feel cartoonish by comparison, his social commentery more sterile.

[@calvinguile1315]

Also ,Ray puts a slight, underlying, sinister slant

[@nessy9022]

@@calvinguile1315 excellent observation, reminds me that my favourite line (both lyrically and delivery) from him is "Tellin' tales of drunkenness and cruelty"

[@Tommydat1952]

Ray Davies is the British version of Bob Dylan

[@HughMorristheJoker]

The Kinks are rock and roll

[@McGrogansSchool]

I like it a lot:)

[@lennon_9dream133]

Con los The Beatles, los The Kinks fueron la banda mas influyente y mas creativa del mundo del pop y del rock.

[@hermanthetosser4219]

3:56 - will from the inbetweeners In 20 years

[@friendlier]

Good to see Natalie in there among all the men. So many female musicians are Kinks fans, where are they in this documentary?

[@iwvks]

this is the sort of stuff that makes me wish i was british

[@onawal931]

ANDY!!!

[@dondraper2488]

Paul Weller definitely looks like an old lesbian....

[@JoeChrisMorris]

Marble Arch lp!

[@timm4930]

When Paul Weller is commenting about this I can’t help but think wouldn’t it be great for him to get back on stage with Bruce and Rick but I guess that is just wishful thinking

[@sratus]

Why bother, they're in their 60s, it would never be anywhere as good and would only tarnish the legacy.

[@hammill444]

But why? By wishing for this, aren’t you really just saying- I wish I were young again?

[@timm4930]

@@hammill444 Sure would love to turn the clock back a few years who wouldn't but for me it's all about the music and the rawness of Weller and The Jam in their prime that's what I would really like back but likewise they can also never emulate that period as they are all getting on in years too , young bands inspired by The Jam like Slaves ( UK) are what I enjoy at this moment in time and until a time machine comes along I'll settle for that

[@richalderson6069]

I adore this album and though I somewhat agree with Noel's sentiment of it being the equal to Sgt Pepper I think that honor should go to Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) as it's a grander more powerful statement and song for song equals anything that Paul and John wrote at the time.

[@tom-ht3ju]

I agree. Is their album with Waterloo Sunsent on it any good?

[@richalderson6069]

@@tom-ht3ju Any good? It's a total classic!!

[@tom-ht3ju]

@@richalderson6069 haha! thanks, dog. ill buy it off amazon now

[@richalderson6069]

@@tom-ht3ju Great! Enjoy.

[@tom-ht3ju]

@@richalderson6069 before you go, could you recommend a stones album to me pls, thanks

[@Lomedae]

Awesome stuff, but when they talk about "him" they really are not acknowledging the influence of Dave in the band...

[@adolforodolfo6929]

If you see the whole documentary they give Dave full credit - the whole thing is on KZbin now, if you search for it.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Dave wrote like 4 songs😂 most of these people are more interested in Ray as a songwriter.

[@miguelgeorgiogutierrez.8129]

Obra maestra.

[@lennon_9dream133]

Los The Kinks tuvieron muchisimas obras maestras y, en los diversos períodos diferente que musicalmente registraron. Un legado maravilloso y a vez de los mas bonito que se pueda tener de un enorme grupo de culto.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

Does anyone else get the sense that Noel Gallagher realised some time ago if he wanted to be taken seriously as a senior figure of music he needed to be seen to appreciate cult bands like the Kinks, and also recognise massive influences on popular music like Bob Dylan, but I’m not sure he actually particularly likes any of them.

[@jimboc669]

I wouldn't be surprised if he he only owns Oasis records and only listens to his own music. He probably kisses a poster of himself before he goes to sleep every night.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

@@jimboc669 he seems very unable and uninterested in really changing. Maybe musically. But he’s not articulate and has nothing to say.

[@cowpalacedave]

The Kinks ARE NOT a cult band. Educate yourself dummy!!!

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@cowpalacedavemuch if their work is. Most people only know the hits.

[@cowpalacedave]

​@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek That doesn't make them a cult band silly! 😂

[@katoness]

Suggs mention of Lily Allen and a comparison to The Kinks did make me cringe. I don't see that at all.

[@tomjones5301]

did you catch what davies found admirable about the artists in the kinks’ lineage? at 7.32 - the unabashed Britishness; singing in their own accents; writing about things that happened where they grew up - that’s def there on her debut record

[@katoness]

@@tomjones5301 Yeah, I get that, but what a naff fucking comparison. I think she is fucking horrendous. I don't know Squeeze, Billy Bragg, John Lydon.......

[@just4music687]

9:48 - 10:19 Facts, truth, Yes!!

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

@Chris Gavito Talk about Beatles fanatics, god they're awful... -Me who's loved the Beatles for most of my lifetime

[@Charlosduncan]

@@Urlocallordandsavior I love the Beatles too, I love the Kinks, and I fucking love XTC, but I don't like it whenever somebody's says oh this is better than that thing, is like... what's the point? Just enjoy the music, if it were the conrary, for instance to say: The kinks never made a sgt pepper album type... so fucking what? The more extraordinary thing to do, is to CREATE something of your own, and the Kinks did that! in the middle of all the psychedelia movement, they decided to talk about the english scenery, melancholic village green, the shityness of a big city, vs the calmed beauty of the country, and it was so brilliant. So, again, is like, what's the point of comparing everything? What's the fucking point? Kind of lame on Andy's behalf really, (again I LOVE Xtc, underrated as hell) but that's just my silly opinion anyways

[@milk_cow_blues]

Does anyone know where can I find this documentary?

[@steveweed3488]

I will forward 7578229979

[@adolforodolfo6929]

It is on KZbin now, was posted a couple of weeks ago - search "Kinks Echoes of a World".

[@jcee]

Noel Gallagher doesn't go into much depth here about this album unlike the rest of the musicians interviewed here!

[@sratus]

It's because he's not a man of much depth

[@theselector4733]

@@sratus Best songwriter in the last 25 yrs.

[@theselector4733]

Saying that it's just as important as Sgt Peppers says it all. No need to elaborate.

[@willevans3422]

@@theselector4733 The man who wrote Live Forever has some pretty deep depth!

[@theselector4733]

@@willevans3422 Deeper than the Deep blue sea & wider than Niagara Gorge. His songwriting not only DELVES THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF DESPAIR but also DECIPHERS DUALITY DISCERNINGLY.......

[@matthewotooleis]

Brilliant video. What is this documentary that it was taken from?

[@patrickdruhan6143]

Echoes of a World. I saw it on PBS this year during a fundraiser

[@hugovermeulen9596]

@@patrickdruhan6143 the best documentary i've ever seen

[@hatesitrick]

Mac Demarco 100% ripped off "Picture Book" - check out his song Salad Days - think he might even have admitted it. Both songs are fantastic.

[@cridox]

You, Mister, is absolutly right

[@CeeJayDee94]

"Warning" by Green Day took the entire riff from Picture Book

[@peterbroome3216]

I love this song and the kinks but hate it when songwriters ignore the value of the band in the writing process....unless you came up with the lead and the bass and drums and all the harmonies, it is not solo written...the lead on Waterloo Sunset alone deserves writing credit, but Dave gets none...same thing with many famous songs and bands...

[@victormanoeldebrito7629]

Paul McCartney has said recently that now, decades later, he resents not giving George Harrison composer's credit on "And I Love Her", since it was Harrison who wrote the signature acoustic guitar riff, already in studio. It's the most famous part of the song.

[@scottandrewbrass]

Arrangement and song writing are two different things.

[@scottandrewbrass]

@Victor It's only a shame Sir Macca didn't start trotting that tale til long after George's death. He also forgets to mention John writing the middle section.

[@garybreeze3020]

I agree with this, but it has to be said that Dave Davies' guitar part, brilliant as it is, and amazing as he is a guitarist, is actually just the melody line

[@donbuck8110]

Ray wrote most of the stuff and Dave Mick and Pete helped out a lot but Dave wrotre his own songs that were on Kinks records in th 60s 70s and 80s The Stones ripped off Brian Jones who wrote a few of thier early riffs that were ctedited to 2 Keith and he got any writhig credit 4 them

[@Michael-hw5wk]

"God bless Donald Duck..."

[@n.oneimportant5]

*save*

[@bernardbaker6803]

Exactly - what has Donald Duck got to do with a village green?

[@davidstobie2751]

The Band vs the Kinks?

[@nathank6468]

The Band are as American (I know most are Canadian) as The Kinks are British. Both wrote songs with uniquely American or English scenes that are both beautiful.

[@lennon_9dream133]

@@nathank6468 The Kinks with a lot of difference !!!

[@noursarhan8695]

4:23 Damon got rekt

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

At least blur make original material with their influence. Noel would have a career if he couldn't copy others.

[@bellinghammond]

English culture is dead....Long live the Kinks

[@bobsbigboy_]

bellend

[@bellinghammond]

@@bobsbigboy_ drill rap fan eh? nonce

[@bobsbigboy_]

@@bellinghammond dumb tory loser

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@bobsbigboy_All british hip hop apart from Trip hop is terrible.

[@bobsbigboy_]

IM NOT A HIP HOP FAN DUMBASS@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek

[@TheErik249]

If only Ray could've controlled his temper around his brother Dave, they could've been making more money in one tour right now than all of their past tours combined.

[@rogeredmunds5806]

I think they get on much better than they ever wanted people to know. Dave suffered a debilitating stroke some years ago. It's probably the major reason they never toured again.

[@MickBokulich-gg1ro]

Dave didn’t get along with Mick either. Maybe he was the problem