The Village Green Preservation Society

Aardig.

Sounds like the beatles kinda. Wanna listen to it more

Easy listening, great riffs. Recognized a few samples. Rusted from the rain

Short & sweet nummertjes

3 The inspiration for trex i swear

fun and jangly, though it starts feeling a little same-y halfway through.

Pretty good! I did think it was a little samey. 3/5

Pretty good old-school British rock with some clear parallels to The Beatles. The overly poppy tracks here like Picture Book don't really work for me, but the more spacy, psych-influenced songs like Sitting By The Riverside are great. Highlights: Do You Remember Walter?, Sitting By The Riverside, Wicked Annabella

Not a bad album, a little to hippie for me but I'd probably listen to it again

A strong 3 stars, pretty fun

Like the Beatles, but harder and more knowing.

good record

Voici ce que j'en ai déjà dit: "J'ai découvert tard les Kinks. Je trouve qu'ils ont fait un rock tellement efficace et accrocheur. J'aime beaucoup leurs harmonies vocales. Cet album n'est pas leur meilleur, mais c'est un album concept qui marque l'accentuation des sujets Britanniques, encore présent sur l'album subséquent qu'est Arthur (Or The Decline and Fall Of The British Empire), album que je préfère à Village. Pour remettre cet album en perspective, il est sorti le même jour que le White Album des Beatles. Pièces préférées: Picture Book, The Village Green Preservation Society, Last of the Steam-Powered Train, Village Green, Wicked Annabella"

Easy listening classic 60's vibing tunes Liked the big bass sound with driving grooves Lyrics hard to swallow sometimes Poor Walter

2.8⭐️

Pretty listenable and enjoyable, but nothing stand out.

At least as good as some of the more well known albums of the time; and it doesn’t seem as self-important.

3.5

Alright, Kinks.

Decent album, a little dated

Nicely crafted. Great musicianship and lyrics, but also a bit anonymous, without any stand out hit songs

This album was just solid! British airways rock from this period never really wows me but it is a solid listen from The Kinks

This was more 'Kitsh' than cool, I'm sure if I spent more time with it I would grow to love it. And although I enjoyed some of the lyrics found the music a little slow and floaty for My taste.

All a bit samey and dated sounding to these uneducated ears, though it wasn't unpleasant by any means

Good album, enjoyable.

This was so/so for me.

fun pesni

Favorite songs: Picture book Last of the steam powered trains Animal Farm Star struck Worst Track: Phenomenal Cat 3/5 did not enjoy second half as much as the first

Made me realise that the Kinks' Englishness and Ray Davies' nostalgia for all things English was entirely unironic.

4th July 2022 Listened throughout the day while working from home. Got pizza and went to the butchers arms with Seb. I’ve written a lot about the whimsy that made up a lot of 60s British pop/rock and it is not more prevalent than on this album.

What a strange work this is. Blues inspired pop-rock meets occasional bursts of flamenco, folk, country, surf, and more, spliced with a healthy dose of Monty Pythonesque sense of absurdity and quirkiness that the British love so. Best songs are title track and Wicked Annabella. 2.5/5 rounded up cause it's a Sunday.

It's a pretty good album. Quirky, revelling in Englishness. If it wasn't for Ray's voice then The Kinks might have been up there with the Stones, Beatles and Who in Worldwide fame... A high 3.

Nice

I thought I really should like this but it just didn't do it for me- it's quaint and quirky and very British but doesn't have any bite although it does get better with repeat listens. Full of strange lines and odd instruments without any descernable theme or hits.

I don't think 60s rock is for me in general. Ok Picture Book is good. You really got me! I didn't realize that was them. Nice. All Day and All of the Night is also a banger. And Lola! Granted their main hits aren't on this album so I can't rate this current album too high

Lil dated but not bad

Great Band, liked its music.

This is a band referent. I like.

Shows the genius of Ray Davies even if you don’t remember the songs after.

Extremely Kinks. For a record that has very few Kinks songs on it that I know, this is very Kinks. Very listenable, very few generic songs here. No huge standouts, just Kinks-level Kinksdom, which is good enough for me.

british rock mixed with old timey english folk in a way that did not spark joy

Yeah, okay, should probably re-listen too one day

Most of the tracks here are interesting enough, just wish this LP could maintain a single plot thread – veers all over the place genre-wise, from straight 60s' rock to Beach Boys-esque ballads.

Quirky and fun

The Kinks are another band I someday need to do a deep dive into. So many people are obsessed with them and although I like several of their songs I never saw the great allure.

3 stars. Definitely didn’t get this one

Rockin

I have been wanting to listen to more kinks. This album had some highs but end to end wasn’t that amazing. 2.5/5

seems over rated

Random, men upplyftande.

I can see the influence this band has had in a lot of indie bands. However, I do not enjoy the upbeat 60s vibe personally.

J'ai découvert tard les Kinks. Je trouve qu'ils ont fait un rock tellement efficace et accrocheur. J'aime beaucoup leurs harmonies vocales. Cet album n'est pas leur meilleur, mais c'est un album concept qui marque l'accentuation des sujets Britanniques, encore présent sur l'album subséquent qu'est Arthur (Or The Decline and Fall Of The British Empire), album que je préfère à Village. Pour remettre cet album en perspective, il est sorti le même jour que le White Album des Beatles. Pièces préférées: Picture Book, The Village Green Preservation Society, Last of the Steam-Powered Train, Village Green, Wicked Annabella

Ihan vitun mahtavia sanoituksia! Oon oikeestaan aikaisemmin kuunnellut vaan the Kinksin ekaa levyy mutta tää kyllä kutsuu tutustumaan bändiin enemmänkin. Täs on aika paljon tälläst Cläpä- ja Velvet Underground -soundia, mistä kyllä sinäänsä ihan diggailen. Toki se ekan levyn eläimenä paahdettu garagehelvetti on aika ihanaa silti. 3/5

One to revisit I think

I’ve got this. I like it, but I don’t LIKE it.

Totally not what I was expecting. Much more poppy and less punk than I thought it would be.

My 2nd Kinks album on this list, the first one caught me off guard as it was much more folksy than I was expecting. This album continues that trend, it has a bit of a whimsical and psychedelic slant to the tunes. Didn't add anything to the playlist but it was a fine listen.

A fun, chill, upbeat album. Zero recognized songs

Short, snacky songs. Has some mild psychedelic tones to it, reminding me of a lighter Sgt. Pepper's. The songs are pleasant enough but I didn't walk away from this one changed, or anything. Strong songwriting throughout. Favorite tracks: "Picture Book", "Wicked Annabella"

Beatles wanna-bes

Not bad , sounds like the Kinks attempted to mimic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

This is much better by The Kinks. Picture Book goes hard but it’s the rest of the album that’s only okay. Springy ‘60s Brit-pop that’s well made.

I think this is probably the best-known Kinks record, right? I think it's probably the fullest realization of their records that satirize/celebrate British life. There are some excellent songs here ("Picture Book" and "All of my Friends were There" are my faves). That being said, I prefer the record before ("Something Else by...") and after ("Arthur..."). This is a great record, but assuming both of those records will be on this list, I have to make room for them, so 3/5. But a very strong 3.

Love the sound but not really into it. Will keep in rotation.

Not bad

Ok, wasn't in the mood. Very distinctive sound to the album. No doubt its the kinks. Enjoyed it mostly.

3.5

6/10

Pleasant pop rock. The quintessential Englishness is a bit twee and wears a bit thin by the second half. 3/5

Lekker oud albumpje van een legend band

Solid album! Although none of the songs were very memorable, it was a good listen.

I don’t know, maybe I’m resistant to getting the kinks or something, but sgt pepper just demolishes this album IMO. Not a bad work of art, it’s just you can’t compete with the Beatles at this time.

Vor meiner Kinks-Zeit - kenne nicht 1 Song. Typischer Kinks-Sound. Nett. Wiederhören nicht nötig.

7/10

This was ok, I kind of expected more. It sounds pretty generic for the time it came out.

ну чот битлы какие-то

More Kinks sounding like the Beatles. Not bad

Should probably relisten to it but nothing really stuck with me

It's interesting to hear the Kinks do psychedelic stuff, lots of Beatles & late Beach Boys influences on this record.

Enjoyed this more than previous kinks records we've had. Still has large elements of Psychedelia which isn't really my bag but it has a real 70's rock vibe to it too which i enjoy hugely. Plenty of filler but the hits hit. 3/5

Ok

Decent.

As I listened to the Kinks, I wondered which came first, the Beatle or the Kink? Well, bugs and sexual fetishes have probably always existed, maybe since before life crawled out of the ocean. But as for British Invasion bands, which came first and which followed? Apparently the Beatles came first, and their quick success may have caused them to look down on or be dismissive of the Kinks, which may have left a chip on Ray Davies' shoulder. But four years after the Kinks first opened for the Beatles, "The Village Green..." comes out and proves that the Kinks were still just a Beatles wanna-be. Poppy, hooky riffs create a few memorable songs and earworms, but there's not enough here to make a lasting impact. There's some of the same weirdness typical of late-stage Beatles too - they just don't seem to stand out or develop their own sound enough. Months ago, the list delivered the Kinks' "Arthur...," and I listened through it once and then never remembered to go back and write a review. Now memory of that album has faded somewhat, and "Village Green..." didn't do enough to make me go back for one more try. In researching the Beatles/Kinks timeline, I discovered that some consider the Kinks pioneers or influencers of punk or proto-punk. At least from "Village Green...," I'm not really seeing it. "Wicked Annabella" was the only song on the album that provided any kinds of hints of punk. Maybe on another album? But as with "Arthur...," I'm just not feeling it quite enough to go digging for more. Another research find was an article titled "Between The Beatles and The Stones, I'll Take The Kinks." Not for me, thanks.

It’s hard to reconcile this music with The Kinks having a reputation for being rowdy, which lead to them being banned from touring in the US for 4 years. The drummer hit one of the brothers Davies over the head with his hi-hat stand after Davies insulted him and kicked over his drum set mid-concert. Davies went unconscious and the drummer fled the scene fearing Davies was dead. Again, mid-concert. This album contains highly consumable rock music. The juxtaposition with the story above is stark. There’s nothing particularly wrong with the music, but it feels a bit sterile. I want some knock you over the head grit.

Prior to listening I was only familiar with “Picture Book” (hmm... Green Day sure made that riff familiar). But as I listened I felt like I knew the songs. Not from hearing them before (maybe in passing) but because of the Beatles-esque familiarity they possessed. If I’m in the vibe for something Beatleesque though I’ll probably throw on Abbey Road Fave tracks: “Picture Book” “Johnny Thunder” “Do You Remember Walter”

Toque Beatles. Pop sin estridencias. Acordes sencillos.

I don't know how to feel about this album. On one hand I liked majority of tracks, on the other hand I felt it prolonged quite quick.

English rock, Fav songs Do You Remember Walter?, Sitting by the Riverside, Starstruck

Very pleasant listen, reminds me a lot of Rubber Soul in a lot of ways but maybe without some of the catchier melodies. A little too soft and poppy for my taste Saved: The Village Green Preservation Society, Picture Book, Sitting by the Riverside, Village Green*

Saved Prior: Picture Book Off Rip: The Village Green Preservation Society, Do You Remember Walter?, Sitting by the Riverside, Village Green, Starstruck Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Love these brits and their little character pieces. Some work really well, others less so. Fun all around. I can see Damon Albarn listening to this and taking all of the queues. 3.5 rounded down (just barely)

3/5 i don't think so, it had potential though

Surprisingly blah. I love Arthur and Something Else, and Village Green is sandwiched between the two. Not enough standout tracks, but it is pleasant kinks.

Godkendt pop-rock album. Fri for psychedelia med masser af vellyd! Klassisk Brit-rock charme og sound.

60’er rock, sprødt, ligetil, folkeligt

Bien

It was fine. Good background music. Sounds like what you would expect from the Kinks. Interesting Album. Probably wouldn't listen again.

Just okay

shrug

5/10

I dig most of the stuff they’ve come out with

A bit nondescript

Love the concept, quite hit and miss due to the sheer quantity of short tracks. In some ways seems like a lesser version of the Beatles.

Napoleon would have liked this. Leuke sessie

Ok, but not my cup of tea

Pretty good, everything from this era kind of sounds similar.

Un nouvel album à placer aux oubliettes, écouté comme fond sonore, pas dérangeant mais pas surprenant non plus, un album taille patron pour la liste de Robert Demery, qui s'apparente de plus en plus a la liste des 1001 albums qu'il faut écouter sans y prêter la moindre attention. C'est ce que j'aurai dit si j'avais stoppé l'album avant la 7eme piste, a partir de laquelle les Kinks (une sorte de mix entre Kiss et Kings of Leon) se reveillent enfin pour nous proposer quelques sons très sympatiques. Il faudra veiller à régler son reveil correctement la prochaine fois, attention a vous les Kicekafesa.

It was an OK album. definitely took inspiration from bands like the Beatles and the who. If you really like the music of this era, then this is a great album. Some of the songs were weird.

Best oké, beetje eng blij

Achtergrondalbum, zonder uitschieters.

too slow

I consider myself a Kinks fan but the only album I remember having is the double live album they released in 1980. Having that as my  reference point influences my comments. The 1980 live performance, and particularly Ray Davies' performance is very high energy and I picture him leaping into the mosh pit. On The Village Green . . .  I picture Ray Davies singing while he sits on a stool at the back of the stage. The songs are quite good but Ray's vocals don't grab your attention the way they do when he plays live. I don't know if this is a result of the mixing. It may just be that the Kinks have a hard time getting charged up to play the 17th take on their 14th  hour in the studio that day. I remember John Entwistle said "Playing live is like making love with a beautiful woman while playing in the studio is like wanking"

Kinks - meh. I love some stuff - never really liked this album.

I liked what I heard though it wasnt what I expected at all. They seem to have moved on from their original sound and I would say have been influenced by The Yardbirds. The songwriting has really evolved in both lyrics and composition. I'm not sure I would listen to this often, though I suspect it would grow on me if I did.

Solide alte mukke

Loved The Kinks when I was young but I only really enjoyed a couple of these tracks, the rest was listenable therefore the obligatory 3***

Alright.

A decent classic. Many movie classics so some nostalgic vibes going on if you're born in the 90's.

Grew on me over the course of the day.

Not bad. Very sixties vibe, a good mixture of songs but none I recognised. Entertaining enough to listen to but not one I'll keep going back to.

Very good but all sounds very very similar

I've always heard the Kinks mentioned but never listened to them. I really enjoyed this album but more so as background music. I like their style. It reminds me of those other soft rock folksy but psychedelic bands of that time. None of the songs really stood out to me but this felt like a great album to have playing in the backyard while playing outside or hanging by the pool. It would also be good for a lot of those 70's movies soundtracks. Kind of cool album cover but once you've seen one band staring at you with some distortion, you've seen em all.

good old sixties sound

I love the Kinks, but this is not my favorite.

Good oldie vibes

picture book only 2 songs over 3 min

Rock clásico. Bastante bien. Estuve a punto de darle un cuatro. Tiene temas interesantes.

Bandname holt mich auf jeden Fall ab. Musik lässt mich von besseren Zeiten im Hofgarten träumen. Schön ein Bierchen in der Hand, auf einer Decke sitzend. Die Sonne strahlt mir auf meinen wohlgenährten Bauch. Ich habe am Abend Sonnenbrand, aber ich bin selig, weils gar so schön war. Das Leben ist ein Spiel, alles ist schön. Ich fühle mich high, obwohl ichs nicht bin. Glückstrunken. Wuhuuuuuuuuuuuu. Ok, alles klar, aber ansonsten halt auch mal wieder austauschbar. Würds mir als Hintergrundmusik wieder anhören. Vielleicht.

Cool Beatles alternative

pretty good album, second half was lacking a bit but the beginning was fire

Solid. Good listen but very much lost in the background. 6/10

Really fun.

meh

urm idk cos some were really catchy but it just sounded very similar so kinda all smooooothed into one big ol song. ok ?

kind of like the beatles but a bit more boring. lacking the funk. some of it was still quite cool though.

it was fun. psychadelic (obviously). beatles vibes. would listen again i think or explore their discography

Easy listening with Beatles vibes. Neither mind blowing nor rubbish.

I liked this. It sounds very similar to the Beatles. Nothing quite as catchy as Beatles songs on this album.

okayish old rock album

not their strongest showing for me

Decent Kinks album, but not as good as Come Dancing

If inspired by the Beatles, then the 2 star rating is correct. If they inspired the Beatles, maybe 3. Keeping it 2 tho.

So so

The word that kept coming up in my head is “kitsch.” It’s uncool, goofy, corny and unserious. I get the appeal.. it’s just not appealing to me.

Not my bag baby

If i didn't know better I wouldve said this was an early Beatles album.

I call this puffy shirt rock

idk

Nope

Decent classic album, just nothing really memorable on it.

Iets minder kut dan de vorige Kinks plaat, maar wat een saaie band zeg.

Very 60s, not bad, not great. Firmly in the middle where they sound like they are trying something new but haven’t quite figured it out yet.

JL : 2, Sitting by the Riverside

mumbo jumbo

This is just a ridiculous album. I’m disappointed the band who wrote Waterloo Sunset and Sunny Afternoon also released this bunch of childish nonsense, even more disappointed it made this list! Relative to expectations it scores a 1, but realistically it is still better than some of the nonsense I’ve heard so they scrape a 2

Colonel Chili’s Lonely Spades Club Thing

I feel like I should be good at finding things to love in this. I like the Beatles, and like some of the folk of the same time. I feel like it's a bit of failure on my side, possibly, but it's ultimately quite fogettable to me. Starstruck is at least catchy.

Some excellent tracks but some half cooked attempts at psychedelia and beatlesesque tracks it’s goodies but not brilliant.

I wonder how the Kinks survived releasing such pablum.

It’s a forgettable album, nothing stood out, if anything the songs weren’t good

a lot of this sounds like something they'd play at a nursery

Not their best

Shite

A bit shit but not unpleasant

How on earth did they choose this one?

Finally, some folk rock that is not Bob Dylan or Beck that I like. These guys feel like an amalgamation of a lot of popular 60s music trends, Beatles-style pop rock, folk rock and a little psychedelic thrown in for good measure. Wes Anderson loves this band. These are all relatively short songs. The more folksy the songs, the worse they are. And the more psychedelic they are, even worse. It's an uneven effort.

I'LL CATCH UP OK uhhhh, not memorable (at all)

I’ll admit it, I just don’t get the Kinks, I never have, I’m beginning to doubt I ever will. I hear one or two songs here and I’m immediately like “I would really just rather be listening to the Beatles because they sound better in every way and they have more of an actual rich variety of songs” and then there’s still another 13 samey songs to go. The quaint British nostalgia of it all does very little for me, musically or lyrically, and I don’t find most of the character studies that engaging. The album just genuinely feels like a part of the musical canon that we settled on and so it becomes an unmovable part of the furniture - Ray Davies might be the godfather of Britpop, but I’m hard-pressed to say if that’s meaningful or good.

i don't bother to try and look past the burden of having to deali with the beatles all over again. the only song where something really interesting is happening were "sitting by the riverside" and "animal farm". and there. are. MANY. SONGS.

I’ve always felt i should listen to more albums by the Kinks, as i really like a lot of their singles. Unfortunately it’s the singles that stand out here and the rest of the album whilst pleasant enough doesn’t send me rushing to listen to more.

52 albums in and the second by The Kinks. Before I only knew 2 songs, Lola and I'm Not Like Everybody Else. This album sounds like they are like everybody else.

An odd album. Not a bad listen, but not one I'd gravitate toward regularly. No real standout songs.

It was fine. Nothing special. I like The Kinks, but I think they have better songs than what were on this album. I didn't know any songs on this album, but I did know the guitar riff in Picture Book because Green Day used the same one in Warning.

2/5 the only kink i'll shame

2*

Some wild changes of tone here but the blues by/for white people thing that men were doing in the 1960s is so profoundly embarrassing

This is ok. I liked the other Kinks album that I got on the list more. This does pick up towards the end as far as being odd and different, but nothing stands out.

Points for the title track. Burn the rest.

Eh.

This was ok.

4/10

idk

Meh?

y'a trop de trucs des kinks cet album dure 1h13 (!!) c'est bcp trop et c'est pas dingue en plus... foutez moi la paix pitier,,,

Ah yes, let's take everything that made a great band great, toss it to the side, and replace it with plodding folk vignettes and poor attempts at other music styles.

07/14 Boring

I really don’t care for 60’s psychedelic rock. The world would be better if 70% of the genre just vanished from the world

2/3

I feel like Waterloo Sunset (not on this album) is a brilliant song, and every time I come across the Kinks I compare whatever I'm hearing to that and leave disappointed. Is this an unfairly high bar to clear? Perhaps, but they've shown they're capable of it. Also I find patriotism in all guises a bit off putting, and this album's weird small-c conservative theme is lame

Never listened to this album. This opening track sounds like The Who. I like it, and listening to these early albums I’m starting to understand the “British Sound” everyone was talking about. I need more context of why this is on the list. It’s a good album. But it sounds like a The Who. I never realized how much the Kinks copied The Who.

All the great bands and artists that enlightened music in the 1960s, and these geniuses decided to play an hour of Renaissance minstrel music.

Partially known. One great song and the rest was kind of a snooze.

Bit disappointed with this one as I like a lot of the Kinks

Not their best work, sounding more like The Beatles here.

pretty lame, honestly.

beatles rip off

This is a very late 60's sounding album. "Do you remember Walter" sounds so much like "A Day in the life" that I forgot who I was listening to for a second. Then there's that Green Day song... Picture Book. The Kinks absolutely have written some iconic songs, but unfortunately none were on this album I just listened to.

Not for me

Yyyyh, tämä oli aika ikävää kuunneltavaa. Taas semmosta "sketsi-musaa" jota voi kuulla improteatterissa. Ainut asia mikä säästää tämän yhdeltä tähdeltä, oli barokki-soittimet jotka on hauskoja. Oon ehkä vähä barokki-fani. Mutta en Kinksifani.

Not my vibe .

Mid. Couldn't get into it really.

Thank you 1001 albums for refining my taste and making me realize I dislike the Beatles alternatives

Please no more Kinks albums. These are brutally bad.

More interesting than many of the other British bands at the time but the genre still feels over saturated and I’m not a huge fan.

I dont really like this one Reading the comments, clearly I'm in a minority here I dont find the twee English Village Green vibe at all appealing Or, for that matter, failed albums from the 60's PASS

The best I can say is that this album was not actively offensive to my ears. Some of the songs were fun. I liked the last one. That's about it. If your dad is the kind of guy that says "this used to be all forest when I was a kid" or "I remember when no one lived out here" or complaining about tearing down a house and building six apartments on the same property, he'd love this album.

With the exception of a few sounds I wanted to pave over the village green. No kinks, methinks!

A more British Beatles but not as charming

Troisième album généré, les 2 premiers (Arthur et Something Else) ne m'avaient pas convaincu (noté 2/5). Dans cet album le pop/rock côtoie parfois du blues/rock standard, et des morceaux plus inclassables, mais pas vraiment à mon gout (Sitting by the Riverside, All of My Friends Were There). Il contient quand même quelques morceaux intéressants ("Picture Book" et son riff par exemple), mais pas assez pour me donner envie d'y revenir. =>2/5

Simply boring to me, dont have mutch else to say. Sounds almost lenony to me.

It's fun and playful. The sound engineering is a little whack though. Not a record I think you HAVE to have heard. Somewhat better than a lot of the other brit pop/rock on this list. However that is a very low bar. 5/10

This sounds like an album that'd be great if you'd have some kind of nostalgia for the 60s, I however don't. It's fun, and it isn't bad but it is also very much the pop-rock stuff from the 60s that I don't like in the Beatles, so I have no reason to like this more.

The Kinks have pumped out a lot of cool tunes over their run. Unfortunately for us none of them appear on this album.

Did not bring joy

Fine

Pretty forgettable album yet there were some decent melodies

Never listened to the Kinks much, and I don't think that will change, especially after listening to this. I don't hate them, but it's such a dated sound to me. I think I can appreciate their later work better. I can't get into this at all.

I get that this rates highly because it's a little different than the psychedelic offerings at the same time. I understand the interesting theme of lampooning the fete faring, garden loving neighbourhood watch of Little Britain (later to be the aging Brexiteers). Also interesting as an early concept album... But It's too folk and musically boring. It really does feel like some Beatles C-side rejects at times. Someone in the reviews for something else said it should be important to rate something for its story and if it's interesting rather than if you found it to your taste. It's a good point to have. That in mind it's still not for me at all, it has to past the ear test and eventually it just sounds like the same song. Background music for The Good Life.

I want to appreciate this for what it is but it really just sounds like Beatle but bad?

Album 182. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (https://open.spotify.com/album/0YgkR96bK9JSHcj236W9ZK?si=acxZFyhrQrGtke-fdD2m8Q) — The Kinks (1968) I don't believe there are no Breaking Bad edits with Do You Remember Walter song. Such a shame. Yeah, influential somehow and sometimes interesting album, but it doesn't work for me. 2/5 Liked: — Do You Remember Walter? — Animal Farm

I like the title track. And phenomenal cat Otherwise sounds kind of like the wiggles. Would not relisten

I think the kinks are over rated. Twee lyrics, poor vocals and cringey composition. Full of dated noises and infantile production.

Best Songs: Johnny Thunder

meh 2/5

A bit random for my liking

so funky

lowk ass

no me gustó me pareció aburrido y como que sin nada especial pero pues tampoco así maluco

Franchement pas dingue. Rien de mémorable, assez moyen

This one is really........weird.

Yeh it was ok. So many great albums from this era though and I don't think this is on par with a lot of those.

Pensé mucho en el gato sonriente de Alicia en el país de las maravillas. Not my thing

this is some shit that would play on the radio in the car and its just listenable enough to not bother switching the channel. Also I'm not listening to a 3 hour album.

Me parecio muy repetitivo

Ñe.

This was mid for the most part, 2.75. 3 if im feeling nice.

Never really got the Kinks, felt like they were there to make up the numbers when it came to British bands of the 60s.

I now know why I overlooked this album

It's very sweet. I'm not particularly fond of sweets.

Gentle, doesn't have the best the kinks have to offer if you ask me

2.2/5 It was ok I guess. Another album I don't see the hype for it.

Honestly I can understand the hype around the album but it really wasn't my type of music and reminded me of the really old beatles.

Although I listened to this a good month ago and failed to review, I do recall my growing annoyance with the album - a late ‘60s quirky concept album just not my jam these days. It got too wee and twee in parts, despite some good rock sounds in others, and I ultimately didn’t care to follow the story.

Started off decent and devolved as time went on. It's generic 60s.

I think the Kinks have better stuff

Maybe you had to be there? It wasn't bad but didn't capture me at all.

I'll show these guys a kink or two

I'm gonna be real, this is way too British for me. It's kind of like a more annoying knockoff of The Beatles' low points. Psychedelic without the "rock" just kind of sucks. Wicked Annabella is the closest thing to an actual rock song. The rest can be best described as musings set to music and I really don't connect with it.

None of their biggest hits. Not unpleasant just not scintillating for me.

Are these australian guys pretending to be pining for the old British homeland? Distracting 60s "stereo tricks" take away from might be decent tracks otherwise.

Boring

A few good riffs not enough to save this proto-prog

Det låter 60-tals pop. Några fina melodier här och där, putslustiga texter och något enstaka groove. Det finns inget här som gör ett bestående intryck på mig.

Okej album, ali ništa posebno zanimljiv. 2/5, 3/10

Overall, it wasn’t my favorite. Some tracks were good, but others felt repeated and dull. Also, I get that it was the same time, but it felt a lot like The Beatles but different. The production wasn’t as crisp as I’d like it to be, but it wasn’t too bad. Don’t get me wrong, it was pretty solid, and had a few good tracks, but was not a good well-rounded album. Could have been so much better! Best tracks: Animal Farm, Wicked Annabella, Sitting by the Riverside. Not the best.

It is day 30. The troops are exhausted. We have been stationed in the trenches of male dominated bands for far too long. The reconnaissance is grim. Out of the last thirty engagements, 29 have been identical bloodbaths with the same enemy: men, from across the centuries, whining in our ears. The psychological warfare is reaching a breaking point. We have endured endless feedback loops, lyrics about not being ok (WE GET IT OK???) and the relentless bombardment with nasal vocals. Morale is at an all-time low. The tactical repetition of men-calling-their-own-chaos-art has caused a sensory overload. Our ears are bleeding from the sheer monotony of hearing another man process his basic emotions over a distorted power chord. We are exhausted. We are outnumbered. The ratio of 29-to-1 is not a discography, it’s a siege. Send reinforcements. Send melody. SEND MORE WOMEN. God be with us! As for the Kinks…. I don’t find them all too kinky.

Nowadays, I find this stale music. Where is Lola?

Fairly dull album. Enjoyed some Kinks on previous days, but this album did nothing for me really.

This has not dated well and sounds so very 60s that is almost a pastiche like the Ruttles, but with out the charm Almost my first 1 star , it got worse as the album dragged on . Just enough redeeming features to scrape a 2

Nice and upbeat, but just not for me

This is so so British, but in a derogatory way. I’m not a fan.

It was OK.

I guess I just don't like the Kinks? idk, I feel like the whole "60's british band does a semi-concept album" isn't a very attractive picture to me, and the things I do like (basically "Tommy") are just better than this.

Der Beginn ist noch ok, aber im Verlauf verliert mich das Album immer mehr.

Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains is real toe-tapper. I am surprised this album wasn’t received better at the time but concept albums were a new thing then. For the rest of the album, I was not the biggest fan.

kinda dgaf

No. Still don't understand.

Sonido que me recuerda a The beatles y hasta un poco onda Charly García. Zona de confort quizás. Me gusta la estructuracion de las canciones y los sonidos. Muchas canciones cortitas. Likes: The Village Green... - Johnny Thunder - Monica - Starstruck - PHENOMENAL CAT

I wanted to like this one, I really did. Not as though I've never heard of the Kinks, this record is on a few lists of seminal rock records. Not to my taste sadly.

any time i see a band named “the” and then “noun” i know its going to sound the same and i haven’t been disproven yet

Disappointing since I really like another kinks album. This was pretty lame overall

A band that just never worked for me: too English?

4/10

I had to double check this wasnt a kids album

Too whimsical and kind of annoying. Sorry to those who love this record but I don’t get it and didn’t enjoy it.

snoozefest

Meh

Si tuviera que describirlo en pocas palabras serían: Cartoonish, childish even, in a charming way. Para nada algo que escucharía yo pero un poco divertido nonetheless. Mi favorita fue Last of the Steam-Powered trains.

Ok. All quite comfortable plinky plonk. Easy listening but nothing compelling.

Just a bit nothing for me

old sounding

That would be a meh ,good and not so much at the same time so.

I am surprised bc I do like the Kinks (particularly their Lola vs Powerman album), but I was kinda bored listening to this album. It wasn’t bad. I just wouldn’t recommend to someone as something worth focusing on.

Beatles-esque music doesn't do much for me personally. Harsh microphones make the vocals feel "loud" as though they're peaking.

Temu Beatles/Hendrix

Not necessarily my jam in its entirety but a few great songs. Back in the day I imagine this was sound was quite new / innovative for the time, and it has no doubt influenced many musicians in the decades since, so appreciate the music and style.

Like the other

Nudne ale nie aż takie złe

Not bad very chill not my type of music tho. Very very chill.

A couple of decent songs, but most were kust annoying. For a short album, it surprising how long I was waiting for it to be over

Rebellious, clearly a huge influence on The Libertines 2 - a good album but not my thing

Not a bad album but just didn’t really do it for me. A couple decent songs but nothing was exceptional.

Ne kažem da je ovo nekvalitetna muzika, ali samo meni nimalo nisu sjeli. Bilo mi je dosadno, sve su neki isti pjesmuljci, predugo traje, nijedna nije bila drugačija. Ne bi slušala ponovo, sori Kinks :/

ne nicht mein thema

This one was hard for me to get into. I can hear where bands later found influence in this particular album, but I couldn’t quite get there.

álbum muy característico de la época, creo que logra captar muy bien la esencia y sonidos de esos años. Considerando que tal vez tengan influencia de The Beatles (No lo sé). Premio la intención de experimentar también. Se me hace un tanto plano, pero cumple.

Good

They tried out a lot of different directions. None to great success imo

Favorite Songs: Big Sky, Starstruck Least Favorite Song: Phenomenal Cat This is weird in a good way. I don't think I fully understand the concept here, but all of the songs are catchy at least.

Meh

Ist cool and I Like it