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}} "Village Green" is the ninth track from The Kinks' 1968 album, ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society''. Like the other fourteen tracks on the album, it was written by Ray Davies. ==Background== "Village Green" was recorded during the sessions of ''Something Else'', The Kinks' 1967 predecessor to ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society''.〔Hinman, Doug (2004). p. 114〕 The track's influence came from Ray Davies's visit to Devon, a rural area in England. This track inspired Davies to use this "village green" concept as an idea for an album, and it was held back for what would become ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society''.〔 This track makes use of orchestral instrumentation, unlike the other tracks from ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society'', on which the mellotron was used instead. This is likely because the track was recorded a year before the rest of the album was worked on. It also, in early stages, was planned to be the title track of the album until The Village Green Preservation Society was written. This is proven by a statement made by Dave Davies, which said that the album will be called ''Village Green''.〔 J.H. Tompkins of Pitchfork Media called the track "understated", noting its "bouncing along like a horse and buggy as Ray Davies paints the landscape: 'Out in the country, far from all the soot and noise of the city...'" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Village Green (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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