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Post by guye on Feb 2, 2019 8:06:09 GMT
I just recently read the credits on the Village Green deluxe reissue. I didn't realized that the song, Village Green was recorded in late-66 at the beginning of the sessions for Something Else By The Kinks... the strings were added a few months later. But Davies recognized the thematic potential of the song and put it to the side for his next project.
The "no strings" version sounds pretty natural alongside the mono Something Else (I couldn't find that on YouTube). He sure was cranking out the classics.
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Post by dipstick on Feb 2, 2019 14:24:16 GMT
Ah didn't know he set it aside for a thematic work. Village Green Preservation Society has some common themes but "Monica", "Phenomenal Cat", "Starstruck" etc don't really match that.
On one of the earlier reissues had the originally planned 12 track album but I can't recall the differences. Not sure of Village Green made that one too.
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Post by dipstick on Feb 2, 2019 15:16:08 GMT
Here we go, from Wikipedia. It was released in European markets earlier than the 15 track version appeared in the UK and US. Only half of it hits the themes just like the other one.
Original European 12-song version
Side one "The Village Green Preservation Society" "Do You Remember Walter?" "Picture Book" "Johnny Thunder" "Monica" "Days"
Side two "Village Green" "Mr. Songbird" "Wicked Annabella" "Starstruck" "Phenomenal Cat" "People Take Pictures Of Each Other"
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Post by phenomenalcat on Feb 2, 2019 15:57:04 GMT
It is jarring when you hear these things, like The Who having written "Magic Bus" in '65, or George Harrison allegedly having written "Isn't It a Pity" around the time of Revolver. "Songs That Just Weren't Right At the Time", I guess.
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Post by dipstick on Feb 2, 2019 18:01:40 GMT
Yeah you get this kind of things with bouts of creative focus. Neil Young was big on this; writing a bunch of stuff and then stockpiling it for later. The problem there is that the older compositions outshine the newer ones and/or show a completely different style.
The Rishikesh visit(s) also caused this. There's the lingering compositions making it to Abbey Road and solo Beatle albums of course, but the Beach Boys and Donovan also held onto songs and trotted them out as new material years later.
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Post by loveless on Feb 2, 2019 19:59:04 GMT
I've left fully recorded and mixed songs off of records due to a surplus of material and some sense that "THESE seem like the ones that go together." Years later, it's easy to look back and say "That song I left off is actually pretty special, and now it goes HERE!"
The longer I'm at it, the easier it becomes not to be precious about it. A good song will find its way home in due time. VG would have been "the other 'Two Sisters'" had it landed on Something Else...definitely for the best that it ended up where it did.
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 3, 2019 2:23:09 GMT
I actually thought "Village Green" was from the Face To Face sessions! I know "End Of The Season" (on Something Else) was a Face To Face off-cut.
Ray does seem like the sort that would do that.
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Post by guye on Feb 3, 2019 15:13:26 GMT
I actually thought "Village Green" was from the Face To Face sessions! I know "End Of The Season" (on Something Else) was a Face To Face off-cut. Ray does seem like the sort that would do that. A lot of songs that didn't make the cut for albums were resurrected as B-Sides. I'm Not Like Everybody Else graced the Sunny Afternoon 45, but was recorded concurrent with The Kink Kontroversy. She's Got Everything was from '66, but came out in '68 as the B-Side to Days. Berkeley Mews graced the B-Side of Lola, but was recorded with Arthur.
I've enjoyed bouncing tracks to sit alongside earlier albums. End of the Season sounds perfectly of apiece with Face to Face, which is when it was recorded.
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