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Aled Jones Presents Good Morning Sunday

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by: Various Artists

Release Date March 10, 2008
Borrowing an expression of Aled's, much repeated on Good Morning Sunday - "it doesn't get any better than this".

The Good Morning Sunday twin cd's can't help but "Raise you up". Reading from the sleeve notes, this is Radio 2 music that really "matters" ... and I would add that it has lyrics to match.

Our family - being amongst the many thousands of young and old who 'religiously' tune in at the 'unearthly' hour of 7am week by week without fail, for our 'fix' of most 'heavenly' goodies - can vouch for the compilations authenticity.

Nowhere else will you find such an inspired mix, celebrating and reflecting upon the joys of life love and faith - and in so many different genres, including choral music, folk ... Read More:

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Awkward Annie

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by: Kate Rusby

Release Date September 03, 2007
I like to listen to Jerry Anderson on BBC Radio Ulster, he's really funny (although when my English Nephew was visiting he couldn't understand a word anyone on the show was saying) and he plays nice folk music. I heard the song 'village green appreciation society' a few times on his show, and thought it was brill (I don't remember the Kinks version.) I surfed the net to find who sang it, and came across Kate Rusby - what a discovery! I bought this album on the strength of that one track, and have played it nearly to death already. I like all the songs, as well a loving Kate's accent (I spent two years in Leeds when I was at college, and it brings me back to those happy times.) Buy it. Play it. Love it.

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The Village Green Preservation Society

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by: The Kinks

Release Date February 26, 2008
Originally released in 1968 The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as The Kinks finest individual release. In retrospect it's easy to see why it sold so poorly as its cosy nostalgic songs were well out of place in a time when rock was just beginning to get heavy. It's only with the passing of time than one can admire the albums brilliance.

The album is all Ray Davies originals and the themes of the songs are sepia toned to a time which probably never existed, but should have. What really makes the album work is the punchy production, which is at once rhythmic and melodic, and prevents the atmosphere from being twee. The subject matter of the tracks tell stories of lost childhood friends ('Do You Remember Walter?'), old photographs ... Read More:

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EP Collection, Vol. 1

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by: The Kinks

Release Date October 26, 1999
Originally released in 1968 The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as The Kinks finest individual release. In retrospect it's easy to see why it sold so poorly as its cosy nostalgic songs were well out of place in a time when rock was just beginning to get heavy. It's only with the passing of time than one can admire the albums brilliance.

The album is all Ray Davies originals and the themes of the songs are sepia toned to a time which probably never existed, but should have. What really makes the album work is the punchy production, which is at once rhythmic and melodic, and prevents the atmosphere from being twee. The subject matter of the tracks tell stories of lost childhood friends ('Do You Remember Walter?'), old photographs ... Read More:

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BBC Sessions: 1964-1977

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by: The Kinks

Release Date February 26, 2008
This 2CD trawls through what has survived of the 24 sessions that the Kinks recorded for the BBC between 1964 and 1977, providing an alternative view of the Kinks. Due to the time constraints and lack of overdubbing facilities, the results are probably far closer to their live sound of the times than the sound produced on their albums and singles.

On their early Pye studio recordings, session men such as Bobby Graham (drums), Jimmy Page (rhythm guitar) and Jon Lord (organ) were drafted in by Shel Talmy to flesh out the sound, but here are the band proving more than capable of cutting it live. They are augmented in the early sessions only by the occasional background vocals of Rasa, Ray Davies' girlfriend and later wife, who also sang on the records, and ... Read More:

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The Village Green Preservation Society

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by: The Kinks

Release Date February 26, 2008
This album was released in November 1968, while bands around them were going experimental and trippy, The Kinks and Ray Davies went into the studio with a different concept in mind.

Originally the idea was not a Kinks album but a Ray Davies concept, on similar lines to the follow up Arthur album, a solo project to write and record a TV/theatre score, but loosely based around the theme of a Village Green. A theme which at the time sat firmly outside of the Bluesy R&B sound that Kinks coinsures were probably more used to.

However in November 1968 after two years of recording sessions with several brick walls being hit on the rocky road of TV concept, and with The Kinks commercial power being perceived to be on the way out. The Kinks released ... Read More:

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Hot Fuzz Soundtrack

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by: Various Artists

Release Date February 19, 2007
I mostly bought this for David Arnold's score. Track 22 is a 23-minute long suite containing all of his film music and, like his James Bond soundtracks, it's brilliant.

I was expecting to skip most of the rest but in fact really enjoyed it. Piles of 70s and glam, a pretty solid compilation album- you can't go wrong with XTC and T-Rex and The Troggs.

Some of the newer music, from bands like The Fratellis and Supergrass, I didn't enjoy so much (it's difficult for them to compete with Adam Ant and The Sweet), though Jon Spencer's contribution is really good.

Each track is smoothly linked together (by music editing genius Osymyso) with snippets of dialogue from the film over the intro to most of the songs, so bear in mind that you don't get 'clean' ... Read More:

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The Village Green Preservation Society

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by: Kinks

Release Date November 20, 2006
I mostly bought this for David Arnold's score. Track 22 is a 23-minute long suite containing all of his film music and, like his James Bond soundtracks, it's brilliant.

I was expecting to skip most of the rest but in fact really enjoyed it. Piles of 70s and glam, a pretty solid compilation album- you can't go wrong with XTC and T-Rex and The Troggs.

Some of the newer music, from bands like The Fratellis and Supergrass, I didn't enjoy so much (it's difficult for them to compete with Adam Ant and The Sweet), though Jon Spencer's contribution is really good.

Each track is smoothly linked together (by music editing genius Osymyso) with snippets of dialogue from the film over the intro to most of the songs, so bear in mind that you don't get 'clean' ... Read More: