Talk:The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

message: "Upon its release, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society was greeted with almost unanimously positive reviews from both UK and US rock critics [...]. The LP went virtually unnoticed in the UK, receiving only a single review in Disc." 
So the single UK review was almost unanimously positive? S.Camus (talk) 20:37, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Critical reception

message: I noticed that there is a duplicate article, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.  I went to merge them, but the two articles seem at odds.  While this one calls it psychedelia, and claims that Ray Davies "managed to inject social commentary into simple observations of life," one of the central points of the other article is that he "composed the album as a gentle, nostalgic homage to English hamlet life. Its theme was very much out of step with the heavy social and psychedelic pop music trends of the day."  So one is claiming that while psychedelic, its innovation was injecting social commentary into the simple, while the other claims it lacks the heavy social commentary and psychedlia of its contemperaries.  Anyone?
(that comment is from me, Bgruber.  i had inadvertantly logged out)
I want to add a merge tag, but I don't know which one to merge into which. Plus, I don't know how to go about merging them. 00:50, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC) Shirimasen
A comment on irony.
Is it just me, or is there a degree of 'Tongue-In-Cheek' satire and irony in Ray Davies writing on this album, (and also on 'Arthur'), which is not reflected in this page. I mean how could anyone take "God save little shops, china cups, and virginity" seriously? I don't see Davies as a conservative at all - with a small or a big 'C'. That would be implied, at least within an English context, if we ignore the irony - and it was certainly not neglected by Weller, Blur and others. 
From Alan Clark, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
:It is affectionately satirical.  That doesn't make it anti-conservative.  There is a broad British conservative tradition of such writing, which you probably wouldn't be aware of, being at university as you are. 17:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: from redirect page

message: I've added details for the 1998 Castle Communications release. Mickraus 21:03, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Castle Communications Release

message: Just a note that, for my next Kinky project, I will be focusing on this article, cleaning it up, adding citations, and expanding it. When I fell that it is ready, I'll nominate it for GA. If you have any comments, feel free to ask me below, or post on my talk page. - I.M.S. (talk) 23:51, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article expansion 

message: ...doesn't get a mention?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.198.222 (talk) 02:45, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The title track...   

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message: To me this page seems filled with personal observations. The opinions frequently do not reference other works.Frank Lynch (talk) 23:27, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overwhelmed with personal viewpoints? 

message: I have opened up a discussion at WT:FTQ about a possible Good topic based around this album. Comments there are welcome. Tkbrett (✉) 15:26, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia talk:Featured and good topic questions#The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society|Potential Good Topic]] 

message: pointed out in an edit recently that Witanhurst mansion is viewable in the background of the Scandinavian cover shot. Indeed, it shows up in a lot of the pictures taken during the photo shoot (e.g. , , ).
I haven't seen Witanhurst mentioned in any reliable sources regarding Village Green however, meaning this information cannot be included in the body. This article in the Guardian points out that Witanhurst is not that far from Ray's house, but the article doesn't mention the mansion showing up on one of the album covers.
In lieu of being able to mention Witanhurst in the body, I've switched the image of Kenwood House to one of Hamstead Heath with Witanhurst visible. The image has very nearly the same angle as many of the pictures taken during the August 1968 photo session. I want to use a better picture, but it is unfortunately the only one I've seen like it on the Commons. Tkbrett (✉) 20:35, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I may be able to take a picture myself as I pass by there frequently and add it to the commons. Will update if I do Shredux (talk) 09:25, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Witanhurst]]