If you want somebody to understand the heart of England and the essence of being English, and being working class in the 60's/70s, or looking at English society - then they could learn this by listening to half a dozen well-chosen kinks songs; this being one of them. The lyrics are modern English poetry and should be taught in schools - Autumn Almanac, Dead End Street, Village Green, Shangri-La etc etc. Reality, political, mocking and loving at the same time. Among the best and most poetic lyricists of all time.
I love this album. As someone who lives in the most backwards and rural part of england i can tell you the english countryside is the best and purest place in the world.
England is a cold and dull country...Who would compare rural England to the Austrian Alps or The Grand Canyon...England is okay for a picnic if you catch the week of summer we get...England is nothing special...The Lake District is dull and boring...If your lucky you might see a squirrel...
Like an early baroque minstrel who couches his intelligence in whimsicality. Ray Davies is a force of nature; so intense in conversation, yet child like and mordant in song.
Out in the country, Far from all the soot and noise of the city, There's a village green. It's been a long time Since I last set eyes on the church with the steeple Down by the village green. Twas there I met a girl called daisy And kissed her by the old oak tree. Although I loved my daisy, I saw fame, And so I left the village green. I miss the village green, And all the simple people. I miss the village green, The church, the clock, the steeple. I miss the morning dew, fresh air and Sunday school. And now all the houses Are rare antiquities. American tourists flock to see the village green. They snap their photographs and say "gawd darn it, Isn't it a pretty scene?" And daisy's married tom the grocer boy, And now he owns a grocery. I miss the village green, And all the simple people. I miss the village green, The church, the clock, the steeple. I miss the morning dew, fresh air and Sunday school. And I will return there, And I'll and daisy, And we'll sip tea, laugh, And talk about the village green. We will laugh and talk about the village green.
"Twas there I met a girl called daisy And kissed her by the old oak tree. Although I loved my daisy, I saw fame, And so I left the village green" Oh, Ray... :(
+geof holmes If you like this (the original studio version),- try Ray Davis & Crouch End Chorus version that he recorded a few years back (from an album "The Kinks Choral") The whole album is absolutely brilliant !
It took me a few seconds using my phone because this is the future and with obtrusive over casting reaches of Google and technology you can find anything you want with a few taps on a glass digitizer with high definition LCD underneath just above multicore processors overclocked to transfer data in a blink all in a package smaller than a standard wallet with more power than most computers had ten years ago. Ah the future where ignorance is a choice in a sea of information obtainable by even people with lesser money in modern countries. Yet somehow the populous in this country becomes less intellectual and intelligent with each generation.
This kinda brings me back to a time when I was a little kid during those boring hot summer days, in my hut of a home. There were those old French, Russian movies on TV, which I could barely understand even with voiceovers...and the documentaries showing faraway European countrysides...and the Red Balloon...
No tengo palabras, para definir este impresionante, Lp, forma parte de mi vida, no puedo salir de mi infancia te atrapa, es como un flechazo, sabes que ya va a ser para Toda la vida, inseparable de mi, God save to Ray Davids
The Kinks are my all time favourite band. This song is so so so special. Along with Two Sisters this is unfathomably important to my entire being. Love to all of you here x
This album is a masterpiece. I loved it so much the first time I heard it. That is super rare for me because I have to listen to an album a few times to finally be obsessed with it.
I used to live in the slums and every evening me my sister and mother used to watch the sunset at our doorstep (as our house at a top area) I didn't know the song that time but listening to this made me take back to that time as me and my sister were just 8-10 years old no pressure of world was there it's really amusing man
If you like what you hear you can either keep with UA-cam or some other outlet... or maybe...get the CD...if that's what you prefer... I...personally...have the CD... and yes it has short spurts of THE KINKS in HOT FUZZ...but...they are effective... they're still effective...and If you've not seen HOT FUZZ... you may want to check into that... as well... and hopefully you enjoy both... Great album. Great movie.
This song perfectly fits with the village's rustic aesthetic.
Any luck catching them killers then?
@@dak.5.123 Well, it's just the one killer actually.
I knew I'd find this comment
Unlike George Merchant's house.
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Hot Fuzz 2007 , thank you!!
The Kinks are simply the purest English rock band ever. Ray Davies has documented modern English society like no other.
I agree.
Together with the smiths
If you want somebody to understand the heart of England and the essence of being English, and being working class in the 60's/70s, or looking at English society - then they could learn this by listening to half a dozen well-chosen kinks songs; this being one of them. The lyrics are modern English poetry and should be taught in schools - Autumn Almanac, Dead End Street, Village Green, Shangri-La etc etc. Reality, political, mocking and loving at the same time. Among the best and most poetic lyricists of all time.
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 go sit in a corner
@@duckface524 why ?
I wish this song never ended.
Loop it.
I love harpsichord in pop/rock songs. It’s not used very often especially nowadays, but I love the sound it brings.
John Cale plays harpsichord on Nico's All That Is My Own on her Desertshore album, which he brilliantly arranged and produced.
I think some Zombies songs have too... not sure though, have to check again. But The Zombies rule anyways too
it was all over pop music in those days
See the theme to Danger Man.
An absolute masterpiece. Bach and Mozart would’ve loved it.
So, the Kinks had two songs on the best British cop film of all time? Awesome sauce, guys.
***** it's an intentional addition to the film. the songs paint a picture of how innocent the village is supposed to be.
that, and the cult is a sort of "village green preservation society"
Yarp
@@pyroed7044 Can I ask what film are you talking about? half of the comments here are about it
Kieran O'Connor imagine being so wrong and so blind...pity...
I love this album. As someone who lives in the most backwards and rural part of england i can tell you the english countryside is the best and purest place in the world.
England is a cold and dull country...Who would compare rural England to the Austrian Alps or The Grand Canyon...England is okay for a picnic if you catch the week of summer we get...England is nothing special...The Lake District is dull and boring...If your lucky you might see a squirrel...
@@leewalker662 imagine valuing a place purely through how sunny it is
@@leewalker662 walk on lee
@@leewalker662the Grand Canyon is the fullest place in the world
@@leewalker662 youre a cretin
How the hell I have lived 25 years without hearing this masterpiece??? I love the Kinks a little more with every time I hear to them
Santa Cruz is the American village green. Thanks for posting!
I love sad songs...... and this is a sad, nostalgic and beautiful song! God save The Kinks!
What a beautiful melody
Like an early baroque minstrel who couches his intelligence in whimsicality. Ray Davies is a force of nature; so intense in conversation, yet child like and mordant in song.
I can listen to this a thousand times.
Out in the country,
Far from all the soot and noise of the city,
There's a village green.
It's been a long time
Since I last set eyes on the church with the steeple
Down by the village green.
Twas there I met a girl called daisy
And kissed her by the old oak tree.
Although I loved my daisy, I saw fame,
And so I left the village green.
I miss the village green,
And all the simple people.
I miss the village green,
The church, the clock, the steeple.
I miss the morning dew, fresh air and Sunday school.
And now all the houses
Are rare antiquities.
American tourists flock to see the village green.
They snap their photographs and say "gawd darn it,
Isn't it a pretty scene?"
And daisy's married tom the grocer boy,
And now he owns a grocery.
I miss the village green,
And all the simple people.
I miss the village green,
The church, the clock, the steeple.
I miss the morning dew, fresh air and Sunday school.
And I will return there,
And I'll and daisy,
And we'll sip tea, laugh,
And talk about the village green.
We will laugh and talk about the village green.
Reminds me of my home town
By far their most beautiful song.
Agree. Though 《Sunny Afternoon》《Lola》and《Waterloo Sunset》are also brilliant songs.
Waterloo sunset by far.
Waterloo Sunset & Days are clear.
Minus Lola, add Strangers and Shangri-La and then we’re talking.
Waterloo Sunset perhaps?
Einer von den Vielen guten Kings Titeln. Klasse
Beautiful such movement great❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Makes one nostalgic.
Punk rock rules. The Kinks. Greatest band of all time. So intelligent. So subversive.
Punk? Isn't that a bit far-fetched? And could you please explain where the subversion lies in this particular song?
@@SwissCheese667 don't be so annoying, let the man have fun
@@ZaphiroAnejo Never ! Haha
@@SwissCheese667 yeah man, can't you see you're ruining the fun?
let people enjoy themselves by spreading false information!
Such a party pooper
Punk? Lmao what
The Kinks = The kings
God save the Kinks
sommerioslo and Donald Duck!
Yarp
One of those albums where every song is catchy. It reminds me of Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady. Incredible song writing.
Im here for the greater good 🤠
* I'm *.
The greater good.
No Hot Fuzz. Just one of the most greatest pop song of the 60's. So British.
50 years on! The best l.p. of 1968.
Mr Skinner to the managers office . Managers office, Mr Skinnerrrrr
Yarp
@@idfk1123narp！
A masterpiece.
This song will ensure we win the Village of the Year award!
Morning angle
Morning Angle
Harrison Buckley morning angle
Harrison Senpai morning Andys.
"T'weren't me."
Did he mean me or that? - NICK FROST...
What a catchy melody!
The musical richness of this album is incredible
It reminds me how much I miss those places, and those people that I haven't seen for long time.
Merriment merry-go-round
"Twas there I met a girl called daisy
And kissed her by the old oak tree.
Although I loved my daisy, I saw fame,
And so I left the village green"
Oh, Ray... :(
What an incredible band!
+geof holmes If you like this (the original studio version),- try Ray Davis & Crouch End Chorus version that he recorded a few years back (from an album "The Kinks Choral") The whole album is absolutely brilliant !
Beautiful song
Truly a incredible song in an even more incredible album
Can't believe I never heard this song until a year or so ago. I've now listened to it, what, 200 times?? #lol Thanks, UA-cam.
5 years searching for this song i finally fucking found it.
ten year for me
took me 5 minutes, I just search the first lyrics
I actually typed 'village green'
It took me a few seconds using my phone because this is the future and with obtrusive over casting reaches of Google and technology you can find anything you want with a few taps on a glass digitizer with high definition LCD underneath just above multicore processors overclocked to transfer data in a blink all in a package smaller than a standard wallet with more power than most computers had ten years ago. Ah the future where ignorance is a choice in a sea of information obtainable by even people with lesser money in modern countries. Yet somehow the populous in this country becomes less intellectual and intelligent with each generation.
left4deadian I've been looking since the movie came out and I just found it lol
Its grrreeeaat👍👍
Stunning imagery with music that seems to have been recorded hundreds of years ago.
Loved their songs on Hot Fuzz when it came out, so bought the album. Didn’t regret it. I miss England so much
as far as i know, England still exist.
@@masseffect435 not this England
This kinda brings me back to a time when I was a little kid during those boring hot summer days, in my hut of a home. There were those old French, Russian movies on TV, which I could barely understand even with voiceovers...and the documentaries showing faraway European countrysides...and the Red Balloon...
brillant album
Love the Kinks...
Minstrel song..love the harpsichord ❤
Another of countless Majestic Masterpieces by The Incomparable Kinks!!!
No tengo palabras, para definir este impresionante, Lp, forma parte de mi vida, no puedo salir de mi infancia te atrapa, es como un flechazo, sabes que ya va a ser para Toda la vida, inseparable de mi, God save to Ray Davids
Beautiful The Genius Of Ray. fantastic.
This song has been made for the greater good.
*the greater good*
The greater good
*the greater good*
The greater good
Crusty jugglers
The Kinks are my all time favourite band. This song is so so so special. Along with Two Sisters this is unfathomably important to my entire being. Love to all of you here x
Greatest band with the greatest songs representing the greatest country on the planet...No hairspray or leggings here...Thank you very much...
My favorite
Best one
Makes me want to live in Village Green.
Always best
REMINDS ME OF MY HOMETOWN 😪🌹🌹🌹🌟🌟🌟💫💕💞💓🤝
This album is a masterpiece. I loved it so much the first time I heard it. That is super rare for me because I have to listen to an album a few times to finally be obsessed with it.
Nasty way to go
Phenomenal.
Gawd darn It! Isn't It a pretty song?
Wow I love Baroque Pop!
I love you kinks I'm from scotland fife you're awesome I dig you Scottish mafia
Does anyone else miss the good old days so much it depresses them to the point where you just dont care anymore?
Beautiful
Lovely lovely song... Simply phenomenal !!! Pure magic !!!
Great song.
Tremendous tune indeed!!!
I used to live in the slums and every evening me my sister and mother used to watch the sunset at our doorstep (as our house at a top area)
I didn't know the song that time but listening to this made me take back to that time as me and my sister were just 8-10 years old no pressure of world was there it's really amusing man
i recently bought this LP and it’s a lovely album, it fills my room with great melodies and pictures and happy Rock ‘n roll feelings.
One of my all time favorites in the whole world 🌎 ❤️
Perfection
0:52 the tempo switch happening here is wonderful!
I love it, too!
@@GPsgurl80 Eyy! the kinks really know how to write songs with many small but amazing little details ^^
I love the harpsichord sound in the background
I feel so alone in this world…and the melody of this song is the only mate my soul has
Great
Lovely song..
Always come back to this song, every year!
Lovely song 😎❤
I had to Shazam this off Hot Fuzz. I've been a fan of the Kinks for decades but I never knew they did this. Nobody tells me nothing.
Hot fuzz got into this song.
Just worked out this song uses perfect 5th's all the way through
Amazing song 😍
Love the arrangement in this song
This is so beautiful.
Relaxing
The kinks are my third favourite band of all time in fact joint second 6with the rolling stones and this has to be one of thier best songs
So underrated.
"I'm sure if we *split* your head open, all sorts of secrets would come tumbling out..."
Allready loved the kinks, watched hot fuzz for the first time. Made me appreciate them even more.
If you like what you hear
you can either keep with
UA-cam or some other outlet...
or maybe...get the CD...if
that's what you prefer...
I...personally...have the CD...
and yes it has short spurts of THE KINKS in HOT FUZZ...but...they are effective...
they're still effective...and
If you've not seen HOT FUZZ...
you may want to check into that...
as well...
and hopefully you enjoy
both...
Great album.
Great movie.
Long life to the The powerfulls kinks
the best kink song ever
I moved from the village to the capital to study at university and, God, how this song saved me
Goll Darn It What A Pretty SOng!
Hot fuzz is an amazing movie and this song is super catchy
Gotta love the harpsichord
Lurch agrees!! Haha
Ray Davies the best song writer of the last fifty years and so quintessentially English.
Always come back every 6 months to listen to this song.
SHARK!
2022 I'm vibing never heard this song before