Preservation: Act 2 [Hybrid SACD] [SACD]
Track Listings
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1. Announcement
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2. Introduction to Solution
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3. When a Solution Comes
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4. Money Talks
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5. Announcement
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6. Shepherds of the Nation
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7. Scum of the Earth
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8. Second-Hand Car Spiv
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9. He's Evil
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10. Mirror of Love
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11. Announcement
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12. Nobody Gives
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13. Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?
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14. Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)
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15. Flash's Confession
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16. Nothing Lasts Forever
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17. Announcement
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18. Artificial Man
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19. Scrapheap City
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20. Announcement
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See all 23 tracks on this disc
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Where Preservation, Act 1 created a dramatic framework and set this two-part drama in motion, Act 2 captures the full breadth of Ray Davies's morality play. Act 2 is so ambitiously plotted that it seems as if the narrative was built before the music was considered. The ensemble grows throughout, again detracting from the Kinks' music. (It's worth noting that none of the tracks from either part of Preservation stayed in the band's live sets for long after the LPs were released.) But for all the pretensions entailed in a narrative on community and class, both acts are refreshingly low-key. In each you can hear the roots of so much indie pop that came a couple of decades later. The shifty melodies call for all sorts of harmonic gamesmanship, and the action turns out to be fun, albeit less so on this sequel than on Act 1 or on the brittle Village Green Preservation Society. --Andrew Bartlett --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Preservation: Act 2, Music, The Kinks, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Rock, Rock/Pop
Average customer rating:
- Ahead Of My Time
- Best Concept Album Ever
- Klassic Kinks
- A frustrating, yet strangely fascinating Kinks odyssey
- Not bad but not one of the best
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Preservation: Act 2
The Kinks
Manufacturer: Velvel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 General
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General
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Pop Rock
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General
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Progressive Rock
| Progressive
| Rock
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General
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Hard Rock
| Hard Rock & Metal
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Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Preservation: Act 1
- Soap Opera
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
- Muswell Hillbillies
- Word of Mouth
ASIN: B0002PUH9M
Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
Tracks:
- Announcement
- Introduction to Solution
- When a Solution Comes
- Money Talks
- Announcement
- Shepherds of the Nation
- Scum of the Earth
- Second-Hand Car Spiv
- He's Evil
- Mirror of Love
- Announcement
- Nobody Gives
- Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?
- Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)
- Flash's Confession
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Announcement
- Artificial Man
- Scrapheap City
- Announcement
- Salvation Road
- Mirror of Love [#][*]
- Slum Kids [Take 1][#][*]
Amazon.com
Where Preservation, Act 1 created a dramatic framework and set this two-part drama in motion, Act 2 captures the full breadth of Ray Davies's morality play. Act 2 is so ambitiously plotted that it seems as if the narrative was built before the music was considered. The ensemble grows throughout, again detracting from the Kinks' music. (It's worth noting that none of the tracks from either part of Preservation stayed in the band's live sets for long after the LPs were released.) But for all the pretensions entailed in a narrative on community and class, both acts are refreshingly low-key. In each you can hear the roots of so much indie pop that came a couple of decades later. The shifty melodies call for all sorts of harmonic gamesmanship, and the action turns out to be fun, albeit less so on this sequel than on Act 1 or on the brittle Village Green Preservation Society. --Andrew Bartlett
Customer Reviews:
Ahead Of My Time.......2006-12-22
I don't usually write reviews, after all musical tastes are subjective and my opinion is just that - my opinion. However, I feel so strongly about this particular work that I feel compelled to add my two cents.
I heard this music for years before I really began to listen to it. A friend had a copy and liked it. He played it often. I love the Kinks, hated this record. But I'm one of those annoying persons who has to have everything an artist records if I really like that artists work. I bought a copy of Preservation, but not Preservation 2. It was the exception. I rarely listened to Preservation and never thought about Act 2.
One day many years later I found a copy of Act 2 in a used record bin. I figured I would buy it just to complete my collection. When at home and listening to it, badly scratched and in generally poor condition, I was completely blown away. Here was the same music I'd heard before and hated. Somewhere between then and now I found my way to this work and it found it's way to me. I made a cassette copy of that crappy old record and wore it out before Act 2 was finally re-released on CD. Hearing a pristine copy, even if cd format, made for a good day.
Each and every listen to this album is a reinforcement of it's timelessness, it's joy and pathos, and it's relevence. No, timelessness is incorrect -- this music's time is right now. Any major corporate CEO could be a stand-in for Flash and any Fundamentalist pundit could stand in for Mr. Black. It's as if Ray Davies' "...dream I can't forget..." was really a prophetic dream of our own times.
So what if the announcements are a drag. So what if every song isn't perfect. Read between the lines. Insert personal experience here. Isn't that what one does with art?
I wish someone would write a book and stage this. It realy is a musical play at heart.
Best Concept Album Ever.......2006-12-14
I dont see why when people are talking about great classic concept albums, some doesnt walk in with this album. I mean Tommy, and The Wall are great albums by great bands, but I just think the Preservation acts are the best concept albums ever. I mean it has everything and the story never gets boring. Its just so awsome in my mind its the best Kinks album ever made,and I've heard them all. I just love Flash and you feel so bad for him at the end when Mr.Black is turning him into a artificial man.
Klassic Kinks.......2006-11-25
Having read the other reviews, good, bad or indifferent, all I can tell anyone who cares is that on a chilly March night in '74 at the Music Hall in Boston, 4 buddies and I sat in awe of one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever - Dave Davies came out and said "1st, we're gonna prove we're still The Kinks" and proceeded to rock like nobody's business; then after a short break, out came "THE KINKS" in all la glory and gave us an elaborate, finely tuned night of rock and roll theater like only Ray can do. The music, costumes, choreography were all brillant and it endeared these albums to me forever. Please give them the time and respect they deserve - it's friggin' Ray Davies and the Kinks at their peak!
A frustrating, yet strangely fascinating Kinks odyssey.......2006-03-21
I actually prefer Act 2 of "Preservation" to Act 1. Sure, the songwriting is wildly inconsistent, but at least the band sounds like they're having a good time. The playing is a lot sharper and the vocals more engaged than on the often listless Act 1. And Ray is so far out on a limb with the concept and theatrical delivery, the failures are fascinatingly bizarre. Give me an oddity like "Scum of the Earth" over a boring song like "Daylight" any day.
There's at least an LP's worth of quality material here, from the doomy "When a Solution Comes" to the epic "Nobody Gives" to ballads "Mirror of Love," "Where Oh Where is Love?", and "Nothing Lasts Forever." The band even rocks out convincingly on "He's Evil" and "Money Talks."
Among the more far-out material, I can't help being entertained by the twangy shuffle of "Scrapheap City," and "Salvation Road" makes a tuneful closer for the whole "Preservation" saga.
There are only a couple of truly terrible songs ("Flash's Dream" and "Second-Hand Car Spiv" spring to mind), and a few things that will just make you scratch your head. Overall though, "Preservation Act 2" is an entertainingly weird ride and Kinks devotees will find it worthwhile to pick out the gems among the sprawl.
Not bad but not one of the best.......2005-08-20
The first Kinks album I bought was One For The Road and I absolutely loved it!!! When I bought this and gave it a listen I was disappointed. The story is very clever and some of the songs are very funny (Sheperds of the Nation is hilarious and very relevant to today) However, the guitars should have been more prevalent and perhaps a little louder. The bass and drums don't stand out either. Too many horned instruments and keyboard instruments. I recommend this to die hard fans.
Average customer rating:
- Ahead Of My Time
- Best Concept Album Ever
- Klassic Kinks
- A frustrating, yet strangely fascinating Kinks odyssey
- Not bad but not one of the best
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Preservation: Act 2
The Kinks
Manufacturer: Velvel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Progressive Rock
| Progressive
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Hard Rock
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Preservation: Act 1
- Soap Opera
- The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
- Muswell Hillbillies
- Word of Mouth
ASIN: B000009DI4
Release Date: 1998-07-14 |
Tracks:
- Announcement
- Introduction To Solution
- When A Solution Comes
- Money Talks
- Announcement
- Shepherds Of The Nation
- Scum Of The Earth
- Second-Hand Car Spiv
- He's Evil
- Mirror Of Love
- Announcement
- Nobody Gives
- Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?
- Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)
- Flash's Confession
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Announcement
- Artificial Man
- Scrapheap City
- Announcement
- Salvation Road
- Bonus Tracks: Mirror Of Love
- Bonus Tracks: Slum Kids (Take 1)
Amazon.com
Where Preservation, Act 1 created a dramatic framework and set this two-part drama in motion, Act 2 captures the full breadth of Ray Davies's morality play. Act 2 is so ambitiously plotted that it seems as if the narrative was built before the music was considered. The ensemble grows throughout, again detracting from the Kinks' music. (It's worth noting that none of the tracks from either part of Preservation stayed in the band's live sets for long after the LPs were released.) But for all the pretensions entailed in a narrative on community and class, both acts are refreshingly low-key. In each you can hear the roots of so much indie pop that came a couple of decades later. The shifty melodies call for all sorts of harmonic gamesmanship, and the action turns out to be fun, albeit less so on this sequel than on Act 1 or on the brittle Village Green Preservation Society. --Andrew Bartlett
Customer Reviews:
Ahead Of My Time.......2006-12-22
I don't usually write reviews, after all musical tastes are subjective and my opinion is just that - my opinion. However, I feel so strongly about this particular work that I feel compelled to add my two cents.
I heard this music for years before I really began to listen to it. A friend had a copy and liked it. He played it often. I love the Kinks, hated this record. But I'm one of those annoying persons who has to have everything an artist records if I really like that artists work. I bought a copy of Preservation, but not Preservation 2. It was the exception. I rarely listened to Preservation and never thought about Act 2.
One day many years later I found a copy of Act 2 in a used record bin. I figured I would buy it just to complete my collection. When at home and listening to it, badly scratched and in generally poor condition, I was completely blown away. Here was the same music I'd heard before and hated. Somewhere between then and now I found my way to this work and it found it's way to me. I made a cassette copy of that crappy old record and wore it out before Act 2 was finally re-released on CD. Hearing a pristine copy, even if cd format, made for a good day.
Each and every listen to this album is a reinforcement of it's timelessness, it's joy and pathos, and it's relevence. No, timelessness is incorrect -- this music's time is right now. Any major corporate CEO could be a stand-in for Flash and any Fundamentalist pundit could stand in for Mr. Black. It's as if Ray Davies' "...dream I can't forget..." was really a prophetic dream of our own times.
So what if the announcements are a drag. So what if every song isn't perfect. Read between the lines. Insert personal experience here. Isn't that what one does with art?
I wish someone would write a book and stage this. It realy is a musical play at heart.
Best Concept Album Ever.......2006-12-14
I dont see why when people are talking about great classic concept albums, some doesnt walk in with this album. I mean Tommy, and The Wall are great albums by great bands, but I just think the Preservation acts are the best concept albums ever. I mean it has everything and the story never gets boring. Its just so awsome in my mind its the best Kinks album ever made,and I've heard them all. I just love Flash and you feel so bad for him at the end when Mr.Black is turning him into a artificial man.
Klassic Kinks.......2006-11-25
Having read the other reviews, good, bad or indifferent, all I can tell anyone who cares is that on a chilly March night in '74 at the Music Hall in Boston, 4 buddies and I sat in awe of one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever - Dave Davies came out and said "1st, we're gonna prove we're still The Kinks" and proceeded to rock like nobody's business; then after a short break, out came "THE KINKS" in all la glory and gave us an elaborate, finely tuned night of rock and roll theater like only Ray can do. The music, costumes, choreography were all brillant and it endeared these albums to me forever. Please give them the time and respect they deserve - it's friggin' Ray Davies and the Kinks at their peak!
A frustrating, yet strangely fascinating Kinks odyssey.......2006-03-21
I actually prefer Act 2 of "Preservation" to Act 1. Sure, the songwriting is wildly inconsistent, but at least the band sounds like they're having a good time. The playing is a lot sharper and the vocals more engaged than on the often listless Act 1. And Ray is so far out on a limb with the concept and theatrical delivery, the failures are fascinatingly bizarre. Give me an oddity like "Scum of the Earth" over a boring song like "Daylight" any day.
There's at least an LP's worth of quality material here, from the doomy "When a Solution Comes" to the epic "Nobody Gives" to ballads "Mirror of Love," "Where Oh Where is Love?", and "Nothing Lasts Forever." The band even rocks out convincingly on "He's Evil" and "Money Talks."
Among the more far-out material, I can't help being entertained by the twangy shuffle of "Scrapheap City," and "Salvation Road" makes a tuneful closer for the whole "Preservation" saga.
There are only a couple of truly terrible songs ("Flash's Dream" and "Second-Hand Car Spiv" spring to mind), and a few things that will just make you scratch your head. Overall though, "Preservation Act 2" is an entertainingly weird ride and Kinks devotees will find it worthwhile to pick out the gems among the sprawl.
Not bad but not one of the best.......2005-08-20
The first Kinks album I bought was One For The Road and I absolutely loved it!!! When I bought this and gave it a listen I was disappointed. The story is very clever and some of the songs are very funny (Sheperds of the Nation is hilarious and very relevant to today) However, the guitars should have been more prevalent and perhaps a little louder. The bass and drums don't stand out either. Too many horned instruments and keyboard instruments. I recommend this to die hard fans.
Average customer rating:
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Preservation: Act 2
The Kinks
Manufacturer: JVC Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Britain
| British Isles
| Europe
| International
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000PWQOTY
Release Date: 2007-08-06 |
Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
Average customer rating:
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Preservation Act 2
Kinks
Manufacturer: Jvc Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000QFCDC2
Release Date: 2007-04-26 |
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