The Kinks - "Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society" (1968)

Now I had actually listened to all of this record for and I absolutely love it. I find it exhilarating, heartbreaking, and just damn pleasant to listen to. I do a terrible, terrible cover of the title track, but it's very difficult to play by yourself on acoustic guitar and have sound right. Every single cut on this album is stellar. This may be Ray and Dave at their best. The drum sound is so tight and warm, it's like a blanket I want to wrap myself up in.

I will say that I hate Hewlett Packard for using "Picture Book" in that horrid fucking morphingpicturesintopicturesthatyoupulloutoftheairwithamagicpictureframe commerical. I find it curious that the guitar part for "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" sounds VERY similar to CCR's "Green River", but much better.

It makes sense that this record is the first step toward the Davies' ultimate move toward giagantic stage productions shrunk down to pop records.
- posted by Mason @ 3:29 PM