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The Kinks

Comes from 'Italy' vinyl LP

Are The Village Green Preservation Society - EX

THE KINKS Are The Village Green Preservation Society (Extremely rare 1968 Italian 12-track stereo LP, unique fully laminated picture sleeve. The rarest Kinks sleeve to find by a long chalk & well nigh impossible to find in anything other than'much loved' condition. This copy remains in very acceptable EX-/EX condition with few of the usual signs of the passing of forty five years. An astonishing find & one that is sure to delight the eventual new owner SLBP63.003)
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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1968 - 56 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Pye
Complete Stock List Go to The Kinks
Product Catalogue No SLBP63.003
Music Genre 60s Beat, 70s Artists, 70s Rock, 60s Rock, 60s Pop
Country Comes from Italy Comes from 'Italy'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Tracklisting:

The Village Green Preservation Society
Do You Remember Walter
Picture Book
Johnny Thunder
Monica
People Take Pictures Of Each Other
Village Green
Mr. Songbird
Wicked Annabella
Starstruck
Phenomenal Cat
Days

The first thing that you will notice is that the tracks that end the UK issue of the album have been moved to the end of side one. You will also notice that there are three less tracks, even though this tracklisting also does not correspond with that of the twelve track export only album.
Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains, Big Sky, Sitting By The Riverside, Animal Farm & All Of My Friends Were There are omitted.
In their place are inserted Mr. Songbird & the single Days, which closes this version of the album.

Condition:

So often found clinging to life by a thread, this copy luckily has nearly everything going for it.

Sleeve:

This is unique. It is fully laminated with a group and member biography on the back.
This shows just light wear & a little age yellowing at the edges. There is some scuffing at the opening but nothing too extreme. Close inspection will reveal a few laminate creases, particularly at the right hand corners, but there is no writing, any splits or tears. The most astonishing thing of all is that the sleeve is still basically white, which is seldom the case.

The Vinyl:

Pressed by Pye on vinyl so solid that you could build houses out of it, this copy is quite a pleasant surprise.
Upon playtesting, there was found to be little distortion or burring, even in loud passages & background noise was minmal. The sonic fidelity is still crisp and bright from beginning to end with background noise only really evident between tracks and even this is minor.
Whilst obviously played, this copy has been well looked after and has been played on good equipment. No chipped styli or three ton tone arms have been inflicted upon this disc in its lifetime.
Visually you can see a few light hairlines on each side, but having played both sides through, I can assure you that most have no effect on play whatsoever and are inaudible. There is a click at the end of Wicked Annabella that continues through the between song silence but stops almost immediately Starstruck kicks off. There is another click to be heard during Phenomenal Cat although that too is brief.

A slightly flawed gem, certainly, but a gem none the less.

If you want a copy of one of the rarest Kinks LPs in the world, but do not want to pick up the usual mangled mess or shell out a small mortgage for a mythical mint copy, then this one may be just the one that you are looking for.

A very acceptable copy of this incredibly rare album at a seriously advantageous price.

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist The Kinks
Product Title Are The Village Green Preservation Society - EX
Product Information The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - EX Italy vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
Artists Related To Café Society, Dave Davies, Mapleoak, Mark Johns, Ray Davies (Kinks)
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