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20 Mar 08 - 06:01 PM (#2294014) Subject: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Georgiansilver Sorry but lost track of the thread where talk was of Kate Rusby singing this song and I do not know if...I think it was Roger? somebody found the track through the radio.......or even if it has been found on YouTube or elsewhere.....However here is a link to the You Tube presentation of Kate Rusby singing The Village Green Preservation Society. Best wishes, Mike. Kate Rusby....The Village Green Preservation Society |
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20 Mar 08 - 06:10 PM (#2294020) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive) And here's where you can get the recording Kate Rusby's album Awkward Annie 11 tracks plus a bonus track, (Village green preservation Society recorded for Jam and Jerusalem, BBCTV). Track list 1. Awkward Annie 3.14 2. Bitter Boy 4.54 3. John Barbury 5.42 4. High On A Hill 4.30 5. Farewell 5.30 6. Planets 4.10 7. The Old Man 3.49 8. Andrew Lammie 3.54 9. Streams Of Nancy 3.57 10. Daughter Of Heaven 3.56 11. Blooming Heather 4.44 Bonus Track 12. The Village Green Preservation Society 3.17 Charlotte (part of The Village Green Preservation Society) |
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20 Mar 08 - 06:48 PM (#2294050) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Rasener Its been on my website together with the Kinks version for ages Mike http://www.faldingworthlive.co.uk/folk_music.htm Scroll down to the bottom of the list |
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20 Mar 08 - 08:46 PM (#2294141) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Folkiedave Track Four - "High on A Hill" that's not "High on a hill stood a lonely goatherd tra la la la la la la la lee" is it? |
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21 Mar 08 - 07:30 PM (#2294846) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: the lemonade lady Ok let's count how many men post to this...!!! Kate Rusby = pounding heart! Sal |
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21 Mar 08 - 07:35 PM (#2294847) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: The Borchester Echo Track 9 Blooming Heather. That a Macca song? |
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21 Mar 08 - 07:39 PM (#2294850) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: The Borchester Echo Oh shit. I mean Track 11. As for 9, that would be lovely Nancy? Ah no, perhaps not. |
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22 Mar 08 - 02:56 PM (#2295315) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,JohnB They interviewed Ray Davies on a show called "Q" on CBC Radio in Canada and played the Village Green Preservation Society. I guess he is over here pushing a new CD, I didn't know he was still performing. Small World, JohnB |
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22 Mar 08 - 03:16 PM (#2295326) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull she's in hull tonight. |
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22 Mar 08 - 03:44 PM (#2295352) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice "They interviewed Ray Davies on a show called "Q" on CBC Radio in Canada and played the Village Green Preservation Society. I guess he is over here pushing a new CD, I didn't know he was still performing." Oh yes he's alive and well..if you take a look on You Tube there's a number of videos of R Davies performing at the BBC Electric Proms, last year (2007). The powers that be have finally released RD's Working Man's Cafe in North America, and he's out there plugging it Charlotte (not a dedicated follower of fashion) |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:58 AM (#2295725) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: KeithofChester A musical Easter egg Working Man's Cafe |
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23 Mar 08 - 11:59 PM (#2296291) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: harpmolly Folkiedave: I would LOVE to hear Kate sing "The Lonely Goatherd". ;) I think it'd be hilarious, especially with her accent. Unfortunately she's probably a bit too mezzo to pull it off, but I still think it'd be a complete gas. Maybe she'll put it on that children's album we told her she should record ages ago. ;) |
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24 Mar 08 - 03:41 AM (#2296330) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Mick Woods She sounds like a reject from Coronation Street! |
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24 Mar 08 - 04:19 AM (#2296332) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Malcolm Douglas Wrong county, Mick. Come back when you can tell the difference. |
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24 Mar 08 - 04:38 AM (#2296336) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: The Borchester Echo She didn't get the part in Emmerdale either. |
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24 Mar 08 - 04:43 AM (#2296338) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Folkiedave No, but they played June Tabor....... |
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24 Mar 08 - 12:41 PM (#2296575) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,guest Anyone seen this tour? Wondered how Anna Massie fits in? Well, I'd imagine. I was pleased to see there was another woman in the band, but interested to hear people's views. |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:14 PM (#2296854) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Pete_Standing Just thought I'd add to the man count. Well, OK wimp then. |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:32 AM (#2298783) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,Chaz Brewer Good on yer mate, me too!!! CB |
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29 Mar 08 - 03:15 PM (#2300515) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,guest I'm going to Peterbro tonight, I'll let you know! |
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21 Oct 09 - 05:50 AM (#2749267) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST Does anyone know what she's singing in the outro? Sounds like "Oo, the lucky man" but that doesn't make much sense. |
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21 Oct 09 - 07:39 AM (#2749335) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: Guy Wolff Ok Ok I love her music but then I love The Dales and Ripon and Fountains Abby and a ton of other treasures from Yorkshire .Oh yes I am male . You can add me to that count as well .. All the best , Guy |
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14 Dec 09 - 05:18 AM (#2787876) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: the lemonade lady Still can't see many women in here! lol Sal |
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15 Dec 09 - 03:47 AM (#2788600) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: RamblinStu And could it be that Mike Harding is using so many aliases? Tee hee |
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22 May 12 - 03:07 PM (#3354429) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST Is it just me??????????????????????????/ This song needs a serious punk versiown |
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23 May 12 - 01:53 PM (#3354817) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: MikeofNorthumbria GUEST wrote "Is it just me??????????????????????????/ This song needs a serious punk versiown " If that's so, then why stop there? How about "serious punk versions" of "My Favourite Things", "Nessun Dorma", Beethoven's 5th ...? Seriously though, it amazes me that so many music fans (and music journalists)of a certain age remain so nostalgic about the punk era. Punk was absolutely of its moment, and that moment is long gone. Of course, many people are nostalgic about other dated musical genres - music hall,trad jazz, big-band swing, skiffle, rockabilly, etc. They all had roots going back into the past, and branches reaching forward into the future. "Village Green Preservation Society" embodies the longing for continuity which underlies these (and many other) expressions of nostalgia. But punk was actively anti-nostalgic. Nostalgia (along with history, heritage,and the past in general)was something that punks wanted to stomp into the ground and then puke over. They weren't trying to celebrate or connect with the past, but to deface and destroy it. So it seems paradoxical for people to get all misty-eyed now about the glory days of 1976, and the wonderful musical heritage which those heroic pioneers have given us to cherish for posterity. If you want to be a nihilist, why not be a 21st century nihilist, rather than a nostalgic cheerleader for the nihilists of yesteryear? Wassail! |
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23 May 12 - 05:38 PM (#3354882) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,SRD '"Village Green Preservation Society" embodies the longing for continuity' or was an ironic comment on the Brits longing for a rose tinted past. |
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23 May 12 - 05:49 PM (#3354890) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker just so's you know.. GUEST Date: 22 May 12 - 03:07 PM wasn't me ... I've not cared to listen to "Village Green Preservation Society" LP since I bought it back around 1980. It struck me as over rated and a bit dull, so no way would I ever be bothered 'punking up' any of it... |
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24 May 12 - 05:26 AM (#3355025) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST I'm going to take considerable issue with Mike's post above (sorry, Mike!) "It amazes me that so many music fans (and music journalists)of a certain age remain so nostalgic about the punk era. Punk was absolutely of its moment, and that moment is long gone. Punk was 'of the moment', but equally it's didn't exist in a vacuum. It had antecedants going way back: the feral southern hillbillies with their raw early rock and roll; garage rock from the Kingsmen's Louie Louie to the 13th Floor Elevators' 'You're Gonna Miss Me' to every trash rock 45 in between; the likes of the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. In the UK, it was also influenced by elements of glam rock and by the pub rockers like Dr Feelgood. If you (like me) had been 14 when punk hit, you too might have fond memeories of great records by the Adverts and the Clash and Subway Sect and the Pistols and countless others. You too, like me, might still play and love those records. There was a lot of 'year zero' posturing, but why not? The bands were young, loud and snotty and wanted to distance themselves from the turgid soft rock and increasingly grandiose cocaine-driven megalomania that was prevalent at the time. That tendency has always existed in rock music, which has had to re-invent itself numerous times to keep from going stale. "Village Green Preservation Society" embodies the longing for continuity which underlies these (and many other) expressions of nostalgia. No it doesn't. It is an unapologetic sideswipe at all that. At his best, Ray Davies was a scathingly sharp songwriter and a great punk precursor. Hopefully Kate Rusby knows that. I suspect the makers of Jam and Jerusalem don't. And I don't 'get' Kate's version at all, but luckily it's such a good song that it would take a lot more saccharine than Kate gives it to ruin it... Nostalgia (along with history, heritage,and the past in general)was something that punks wanted to stomp into the ground and then puke over. They weren't trying to celebrate or connect with the past, but to deface and destroy it. Again, there was an element of that - but the best of the punk musicians knew their music history and their influences, and would readily acknowledge them. The position you're putting across was true (to an extent) for about five minutes. So it seems paradoxical for people to get all misty-eyed now about the glory days of 1976, and the wonderful musical heritage which those heroic pioneers have given us to cherish for posterity It's one of the most vibrant periods of rock history. The thing is that not only were there some great records, but punk, with it's democratising aversion to muso noodling suggested that anyone could have a go, and also ushered in a huge peak in the sort of independent DIY recordings we take for granted now (The Desperate Bicycles on releasing a single: It was easy. Now go and do it...) If you want to be a nihilist, why not be a 21st century nihilist, rather than a nostalgic cheerleader for the nihilists of yesteryear? There was far, far more to punk than nihilism. There was also humour, politics, energy and some great songs... |
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24 May 12 - 05:29 AM (#3355026) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe Me above... By the way... |
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24 May 12 - 07:22 AM (#3355044) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker splendid potted history of our long distant youth Spleen... I was 18 in 1977.. We sensed some kind of positive cultural shift was evolving since as early as about 1975.. Punk was about intelligent progressive possibilities, not rigid orthodoxies.. It was never about strictly adhered codified uniform dress style and restrictive musical conventions.. ..at least not until tabloid press and unimaginative cretinous fashion following dullwits clambered aboard the money spinning bandwagon.. and as dull & self regardingly 'clever' as the Kinks had become with "Village Green Preservation" early Kinks singles were revered along with the Who as direct antecedents of the adrenaline fueled music that has since become most associated with late 70s era highly charged youthful punk ethos... |
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24 May 12 - 12:42 PM (#3355146) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: MikeofNorthumbria PFR & SC - thanks for the enlightening comments. Just to be clear - I never thought that punk was ALL bad - The Clash and The Jam, for example, clearly had something important to say, and said it effectively. But the Sex Pistols? Malcolm Maclaren and Vivienne Westwood must have laughed all the way to the bank! And as regards the observation that "Punk was about intelligent progressive possibilities, not rigid orthodoxies.. It was never about strictly adhered codified uniform dress style and restrictive musical conventions..." Well, it may have been like that for insiders, but the "codified uniform dress style and restrictive musical conventions" seemed very dominant if one was on the outside. Still, let's look on the bright side - look what it did for the safety-pin industry. Wassail! |
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24 May 12 - 02:16 PM (#3355175) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe Interestingly, John Lydon nee Rotten describes himself as a 'folk singer'. I don't think he's being entirely tongue in cheek, either! As Ian Anderson has noted elsewhere, it would be great to hear him wrap his tonsils round something like Long Larkin! Still, let's look on the bright side - look what it did for the safety-pin industry Nice one! |
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24 May 12 - 07:58 PM (#3355280) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,punfolkrocker In essence, for me, the mighty empowering fundamental guiding words at the core of 'Punk/New Wave Ethos' were - and still are - skepticism iconoclasm irreverence autonomy electric guitar cider |
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24 May 12 - 09:02 PM (#3355300) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: michaelr The main thing that struck me about punk at the time (I was 23 in '78) was that many of the protagonists were absolute crap at their instruments. At least KR surrounds herself with stellar players. |
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25 May 12 - 05:42 AM (#3355404) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe many of the protagonists were absolute crap at their instruments One of the best things about punk was the refusal of the idea that to make music you had to be a technically expert musician. The ideology was neatly summed up by Sideburns Fanzine in '76: "This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band.". How democratising is that? The complete antithesis to muso snobbery and exclusivity.* Perhaps something that the folk scene should embrace, especially as (in the UK at least) it becomes increasingly dominated by virtuoso technicians? The real flowering of this approach, of course, came in the years after punk with the explosion of the DIY scene, which is being obsessively catalogued by the Hyped2Death label with their wonderful Messthetics series of CDs, which takes me right back to listening to the Peel show as a teenager... * The irony is, of course, that there were plenty of accomplished musicians in and around the punk scene. |
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11 Jun 12 - 02:38 PM (#3362169) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST,a dilliown gosh m o n'umbria gives me such pleasure, i will provide the oral you supply the jam |
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25 Jul 21 - 07:15 PM (#4114397) Subject: ADD:Village Green Preservation Society(Ray Davies) From: Joe Offer Oh, this is a Kinks song: THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY (Ray Davies) We are the Village Green Preservation Society God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties Preserving the old ways from being abused Protecting the new ways for me and for you What more can we do We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society God save Mrs. Mopp and good Old Mother Riley We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium God save the George Cross and all those who were awarded them We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity God save little shops, china cups and virginity We are the Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliate God save Tudor houses, antique tables and billiards Preserving the old ways from being abused Protecting the new ways for me and for you What more can we do We are the Village Green Preservation Society God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties Preserving the old ways from being abused Protecting the new ways for me and for you What more can we do God save the Village Green Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Ray Davies Kate Rusby Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAXSTlgaPLE And a very cute Alternate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPAVTxlv2c Kinks recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7dmu4G8oc |
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26 Jul 21 - 04:41 AM (#4114424) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: GUEST I'd like to hear Kate Rusby sing over the hills and far away |
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26 Jul 21 - 05:02 AM (#4114425) Subject: RE: Kate Rusby...Village Green Preservation From: The Sandman She is a better pop singer than Cliff Richard. |