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''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society'' is the sixth studio album by Music/TheKinks, released in 1968. A loosely connected ConceptAlbum, it grew out of leader Ray Davies' reading of Georgian poets like Creator/AEHousman and memories of his own life. During the sessions for the band's previous studio album, ''Music/SomethingElseByTheKinks'', Davies had dismissed their producer Shel Talmy and produced the song "Waterloo Sunset" himself. Now he envisioned an entire album of songs he would produce in a lush-yet-unfussy style. To say that the immediate results were disappointing is an {{understatement}}. Reviews were mixed. Sales, by the standards of the time, were abysmal. However, in the ensuing decades it has come to be regarded by many as the band's masterpiece.

This album was their last with Pete Quaife; he left the band in early 1969 and was replaced by John Dalton, who had previously filled in for Quaife after a 1966 car accident.

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''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society'' is the sixth studio album by Music/TheKinks, released in 1968. 1968.

A loosely connected ConceptAlbum, it grew out of leader Ray Davies' reading of Georgian poets like Creator/AEHousman and memories of his own life. During the sessions for the band's previous studio album, ''Music/SomethingElseByTheKinks'', Davies had dismissed their producer Shel Talmy and produced the song "Waterloo Sunset" himself. Now Now, he envisioned an entire album of songs he would produce in a lush-yet-unfussy style. To say that the immediate results were disappointing is an {{understatement}}. Reviews {{understatement}}; reviews were mixed. Sales, mixed, and sales, by the standards of the time, were abysmal. However, in the ensuing decades decades, [[VindicatedByHistory it has come to be regarded by many as the band's masterpiece.

masterpiece]].

This album was their the band's last with Pete Quaife; he left the band in early 1969 and was replaced by John Dalton, who had previously filled in for Quaife after a 1966 car accident.
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* HumiliationConga: "All of My Friends Were There", [[BasedOnATrueStory about a real-life account]] of Ray Davies playing a gig while drunk, and all his friends--who brought their own friends along--turned up to watch him bomb spectacularly. The ordeal was so embarrassing that he ended up having to wear a PaperThinDisguise in public for a while.

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* HumiliationConga: "All of My Friends Were There", [[BasedOnATrueStory about a real-life account]] of Ray Davies playing a gig while drunk, and all his friends--who friends -- who brought their own friends along--turned along -- turned up to watch him bomb spectacularly. The ordeal was so embarrassing that he ended up having to wear a PaperThinDisguise in public for a while.
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* HumiliationConga: "All of My Friends Were There", [[BasedOnATrueStory about a real-life account]] of Ray Davies playing a gig while drunk, and all his friends - who brought their own friends along - turned up to watch him bomb spectacularly. The ordeal was so embarrassing that he ended up having to wear a PaperThinDisguise in public for a while.

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* HumiliationConga: "All of My Friends Were There", [[BasedOnATrueStory about a real-life account]] of Ray Davies playing a gig while drunk, and all his friends - who friends--who brought their own friends along - turned along--turned up to watch him bomb spectacularly. The ordeal was so embarrassing that he ended up having to wear a PaperThinDisguise in public for a while.

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