each to be enjoyed either separately or together. Influence and legacy In the decades after its release, Village Green developed a cult following. The album's themes appealed to English songwriters, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes its "defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop". Among the album's earliest English supporters was Pete Townshend of the Who, who later described it as Ray's "masterwork" and "his Sgt. Pepper". The album's themes resonated with British bands in the mid-1970s who rose to prominence during the new wave movement, like the Jam, XTC, Squeeze and Madness. In the 1990s, as Britpop groups sought to emphasise their Englishness through their music, Village Green inspired bands like Blur, Oasis and Pulp. Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon each named the album as one of their favourites. It has been a major influence on Blur's principal songwriter Damon Albarn, who expressed similar sentiments of nostalgia for a past England on Blur's albums Modern Life is Rubbish (1993) and Parklife (1994). Driven in part by its influence on other artists, Village Green experienced a broader critical and commercial resurgence in the 1990s. The Kinks' emerging status in the 1990s as figures of the 1960s was propelled by the newfound popularity of Village Green. In America, the album attracted the attention of indie rock bands and Anglophiles, who covered its songs extensively in the late1980s and 1990s. Other artists incorporated its elements into their own work. Along with the rest of the Kinks' catalogue, the album was first remastered on CD in 1998. In contrast to the band's other 1998 reissues, Village Green included no bonus material but instead consisted of the mono version of the fifteen-track edition, the twelve-track edition in stereo and the mono single version of "Days". Sanctuary Records reissued the album in 2004 as an expanded 3-CD box set, joining stereo and mono versions of the album and compiling many of the sessions' songs as bonus tracks. To coincide with the album's 50th anniversary, Sony BMG and Legacy issued a "Super Deluxe" edition on 26 October 2018. The reissue received critical acclaim, though several reviewers remarked that most of interesting bonus material had already been included on previous reissues. The 2018 release resulted in the album's first appearance on the UK Albums Chart, where it charted for one week at . It also charted in Belgium, Spain