Preservation Act 2 Music Cd

Kinks - Preservation Act 2

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Preservation: Act 2      Artist : The Kinks      List Price : $16.98 USD        Your Price : $16.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2004-09-21      Studio : Velvel Records      Label : Velvel Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (24 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Preservation Act 2      Ahead Of My Time      Rating:      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.     Customer Reviews for Preservation Act 2 Cd      Best Concept Album Ever      Rating:       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. Editorial Reviews for Preservation Act 2 Audio Cd      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