donl
Session Man
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Post by donl on Nov 3, 2011 8:53:25 GMT -5
i prefer act 1,especially how morning song goes into daylight,sweet lady genevieve,sitting in the mid day sun, one of the survivors,where are they now all are great songs. ray and dave's harmony vocals on one of the survivors is imo one of there best. i especially like dave's guitar riff in here comes flash, which recurs often thoughout act2. act 1 to me is a better album than act 2, more songs work better and could appear on any kinks album apart from the preservation theme. i always thought act 2 was a bit much especially the announcements, but i didn't really get a good feel for the project until i heard a bootleg of a preservation show.
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Post by willdockery on May 10, 2013 10:37:00 GMT -5
Hi Mr NG The Preservations are not the most easy listening of Kinks albums, and the announcementes in Part 2 don't help. I know of many people who didn't get into them easily, particularly part 2. For a long time there where some songs I wanted to skip. Since skiping with vinils was a bore, it was annoying. Now, with cd's, its easy to skip, but I love them all now. Part 2 is amongst my top 5 for many years now. Some of the chorus stuff doesn't really work as songs if you separate it from the story (Change in the weather, Money&Corruption, sheperds of the nation,..), and I think this is the stuff that make the albums hard to listen at first. Nevertheless this is nothing in comparison to the genious that oozes through the greater part of these unique records. Complete masterpieces: Part1 Sweet Lady.. Where are they now One of the survivors Sitting in the midday sun Demolition Part 2 Introduction to solution When a solution comes Money Talks Scum of the earth Second Hand Car spiv He's Evil Mirror of Love Nobody Gives Oh Where is love Flash's Confession Nothing Lasts Forever Artificial Man Scrapheap City Enjoy the Acts L Excellent list for the novice to this era of The Kinks, of whiich I am one... I now am the proud owner of Act 2 so I'll keep your list in mind.
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Post by HollyH on May 10, 2013 19:58:42 GMT -5
Interesting how often lines from these albums pop randomly into my head. I know that I listened to them to death over the years, but still -- perhaps because they are "about life" and not just generic love songs, they apply to more life situations. Although even that doesn't explain why lines like "It hasn't got a garden but it's got a lovely patio" or "Middle-aged housewives dream of dating Roger Moore or Steve McQueen" should so often intrude on my daily musings.
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Post by willdockery on Jun 25, 2013 3:17:54 GMT -5
Interesting how often lines from these albums pop randomly into my head. I know that I listened to them to death over the years, but still -- perhaps because they are "about life" and not just generic love songs, they apply to more life situations. Although even that doesn't explain why lines like "It hasn't got a garden but it's got a lovely patio" or "Middle-aged housewives dream of dating Roger Moore or Steve McQueen" should so often intrude on my daily musings. "They're digging up all of the flowers because they look pretty..." Keeps coming to mind when I see more deloition and pavement in the service of progress.
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Post by willdockery on Jun 25, 2013 3:21:58 GMT -5
i prefer act 1,especially how morning song goes into daylight,sweet lady genevieve,sitting in the mid day sun, one of the survivors,where are they now all are great songs. ray and dave's harmony vocals on one of the survivors is imo one of there best. i especially like dave's guitar riff in here comes flash, which recurs often thoughout act2. act 1 to me is a better album than act 2, more songs work better and could appear on any kinks album apart from the preservation theme. i always thought act 2 was a bit much especially the announcements, but i didn't really get a good feel for the project until i heard a bootleg of a preservation show. Listening to Act 2 a lot, and not having Act 1 yet... and the spoken "radio" announcements kind of make me wince. The songs are mostly really likable though, although very unlike any Kinks sound before or after.
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Post by Smiley on Jul 1, 2013 23:44:23 GMT -5
As many of you well know these are still in my top five and go hand in hand. See, I disagree about act one and don't feel it flows the story. one of the survivors seems to have been stuck in and I still can't figure out how it relates to Flash. as for act two, its really the meat and potatoes of the story of Preservation. I also seem To be one of the few who also likes the radio announcements. I'm a nut.
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Post by zombeels on Jun 23, 2015 21:05:05 GMT -5
I really like Nobody Gives especially the second half of the song.
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Post by HollyH on Jun 23, 2015 21:11:24 GMT -5
Yes, it's almost like a mini-opera in itself!
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Post by martin53 on Jul 11, 2015 0:44:03 GMT -5
A release of The Kinks Limited „Preservation“ Super Deluxe Edition Box Set (Vinyl/CD/DVD) would be fantastic! The two « Preservation » vinyl albums together with a separate CD containing bonus tracks, outtakes and extended edits. Plus a Live-DVD showing the band performing their entire and highly acclaimed „Preservation“ show in December 1974 in London.
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Post by lorendavies on Jul 5, 2016 10:30:23 GMT -5
PRESERVATIONS (1973 & 1974) MASTERPIECE
Preservation Act 1 (1973) One of the most ambitious projects of Ray Davies of The Kinks front. Dosed in two parts, Davies presents this first installment with its usual riot of musical and lyrical lucidity, building powerful rock songs such as "One of the survivors", "Here Comes Flash" or "Demolition", all enhanced by a great section metal that is present in almost all the album.
In it, also they include more gentle songs that ooze great class, style "Daylight", "There's a change in the weather" (a topic of complex structure) or "Where are they now". Your loved and succored music-hall sound is the foundation of the beautiful "Cricket".
The compositional culmination within a remarkable set are extraordinary "Sweet Lady Genevieve", "Money and corruption / I am your man" and "Sitting in the midday sun," three gems squeezing the most of the artistic wealth of the great Ray Davies. This Act is somewhat more conventional than the wonderful Act 2.
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Post by lorendavies on Jul 5, 2016 10:38:39 GMT -5
Preservation Act 2 (1974) - "The imposing double album pure sound flavored Broadway".
Second part of the misunderstood and undervalued project "Preservation", released as a double album where the songs with short excerpts of a narrator (Chris Timothy) telling the story devised by the genius Ray Davies are interleaved.
"Preservation Act 2" is closer to the original idea of Davies for the project that the first installment, reason for the greater amount of material here included.
Although as far as quality is concerned the two discs are very even, in this second part of the endless talent of Ray emerges in excellent songs that move between pop, rock and vaudeville and brimming wit in a tremendously imaginative textures and complex, always accompanied by a remarkable texts and an innate sense of rhythm and melody.
All this is reflected in prodigious compositions like "When a solution comes", "Sherperd Of The Nation", "Money talks", "Scum of the earth", "Second-hand car Spiv" "He's evil", "Mirror of love" (pure cabaret) "Nobody Gives", "Salvation road" or "Oh Where oh where is love?", a beautiful song performed as a duet with Marianne Price, which is repeated in "Nothing last forever" and the great mini-suite "artificial Man" (great song). Album with elegant sound in all musical arrangements and a very clean production that makes the concept of the work is from the first to the last sounds beautiful, witty, esthetically and stylistically very colorful.
Consequently for me it is the work and the brightest project that Ray Davies made his career as an artist without being his best work despite doing so in one of his worst moments of his life. The outpouring of creativity that involved creating a project of this magnitude was bestial. For critics and / or those who failed to understand this masterpiece and as Ray Davies it was a misunderstood and that would do the work and said that for those who in their day did not like or were carried away by the bad erroneous criticism that return to give a chance. Salute & God Save KiNkS
I love Preservation Act 2 !. It is my fifth or sixth favorite album of The Kinks and among my favorites in the world of Classic Rock. Salute & God Save KiNkS.
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Post by lorendavies on Jul 5, 2016 10:45:37 GMT -5
Dave Davies interview on "PRESERVATIONS '73 & ´'74" - RCA & ARISTA.
What about records? I always thought that the conceptual pair of 1973 "Maintenance Act 1" and 1974 "Maintenance Act 2," were wonderful. Musically diverse and describing a stormy political landscape of politicians, is only interested in their own wealth and self-promotion. Dave - are precious pieces of work and always thought it should have been the moving image material in this type of "West Side Story" step. Maybe one day they will end up in some way that way. "Telenovela" [in 1975] was not so fond. I felt "Schoolboys in disgrace" [late 1975] was fun and gave me the opportunity to stretch a little [on guitar]. "Sleepwalker" was great; Arista the years [1977-1984] were wonderful. [Then president of Arista] Clive Davis is so intuitive about popular music; he really has a gift. I enjoyed those years.
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Post by lorendavies on Jul 6, 2016 10:33:02 GMT -5
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Post by martin53 on Jul 19, 2016 0:48:28 GMT -5
I sincerely hope that Preservation will be staged as a musical one day...
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Post by lorendavies on Jul 19, 2016 11:50:16 GMT -5
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