The Kinks Village Green album (a long-time favorite of mine) is getting the deluxe/boxset reissue treatment in the very near future. The album was part of the group’s fantastic "middle period" Face To Face/Something Else By/Village Green trilogy. After Village Green, original bassist Pete Quaife left the group, and Ray Davies started thinking in terms of the dreaded concept album. Thanks, The Beatles ;-) . The Kinks next album was Arthur, and it was all downhill from there.
The Kinks remained a great live band (I saw them in 1969 and ’70, or was it ’70 and ’71?), but their albums became less and less interesting with every release (to me, anyway). By the time their Reprise contract expired, and they signed to RCA, they were almost out of gas. They had one pretty good album left in them, Muswell Hillbillies, after which it was pretty much over. They had a real good run there for quite a while.
