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The Kinks' Music – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
A revised version of this essay appears in Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, available in paperback , hardback, Kindle (US), Kindle (UK) , and for all non-Kindle devices from Smashwords.
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is the album that is nearly universally acknowledged as The Kinks' masterpiece, having a thematic and musical coherence greater than any of their earlier albums, while having stronger songs than any of the later ones. It's all the more surprising, then, that such a coherent album had such a tortured genesis.
During the recording of the Face To Face album, Ray Davies had written, and the band recorded, a song called Village Green, with a nostalgic feel that was quite out of place with the satirical style of that album. He had discussed doing a solo concept album based around the song during the Something Else sessions, at the same time Dave Davies' solo career seemed to be taking off, but after a chance remark that the Kinks' music was about 'preservation', the concept for an album about nostalgia gelled, and Davies quickly wrote the title track.
However, the album still had a major hiccup — which is one reason why, happily, there are so many extra tracks from this period. Originally, Ray Davies compiled two albums, one for the European market entitled The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, with twelve tracks, and one for the US, Four More Respected Gentlemen, with eleven. But after masters had been created for these, and promotional copies sent out, Davies rethought the album. He wanted to make it into a double album, but the budget-conscious Pye records wouldn't allow him to, and after pushing back the release date by months the final fifteen-song album was released in both the UK and the US.
The album sold pitifully, partly because of the lack of any hit singles on the album, partly because of the release date changing (so all the promotional work was done months before the album itself came out) and partly because the gentle, pastoral sound didn't fit with the psychedelic hard rock that was having success at the time (though 'getting our heads together in the country' would soon become a favoured pastime for rock musicians, and this album now sounds ahead of its time, rather than behind it).
The Kinks would never have a UK charting album again, and this album marked the end of the hit-making team that had created their unbroken run of classic singles. It was the first album to be wholly produced by Ray Davies, rather than Shel Talmy, and it was the last album on which bassist Pete Quaife played, before he left the band forever in fairly acrimonious circumstances. It was also the last Kinks album to feature keyboard player Nicky Hopkins, whose mastery of a wide range of styles had added so much to the Kinks' sound. Hopkins was enraged when the album came out to find that Ray Davies (who played a small amount of keyboards on the album) was credited as "guitarist, keyboard player and singer", while Hopkins wasn't even credited as among those who 'contributed'. Hopkins refused ever to work with the band again, and claimed for the rest of his life that he'd never even been paid for his work on the album.
However, the album has in recent decades been critically reappraised, and it is now among a select group of albums (also including Forever Changes by Love and Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies) that are considered essential albums of the 60s even though they sold almost nothing on their release. The Kinks' biggest flop up to that point now comfortably outsells the rest of their catalogue and regularly makes "best album of all time" lists.
It's also the album that has had the most lavish reissue. All the Kinks' 60s studio albums are currently available in double-CD versions with mono and stereo versions of the album plus bonus tracks, but The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is available as a three-CD set, and so there are more tracks for us to look at here than on any other Kinks album.
The Album
The Village Green Preservation Society
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
The title track of the album was written and recorded fairly late in the album's genesis, and seems to have been written quite quickly once Davies had the inspiration. The backing track is just I-V-IV-V chords throughout, first in C and then (from "We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular") in D, apart from a single change to III on the last line of the choruses, while the lyric seems to have been written with the aid of a thesaurus (every alternate line in the verses ends with a synonym for 'society', except the Sherlock Holmes line — clearly his thesaurus was rather unreliable).
That said, there's a more serious point to be made by this song, and indeed by the whole album. 1968, the year of the album's release, was a year of political ferment, though much less so in the UK, where people were able to take a somewhat detached view of proceedings, than in the USA, where young men were being sent off in their thousands to kill or be killed, or in Czechoslovakia, which had been invaded by the Soviet Union.
Youth culture generally was on the side of revolution, and while a few rock stars managed to sit on the fence about the idea (notably John Lennon with Revolution), most were expected to pay at least lip service to the idea. But the Kinks were an altogether more conservative band. Three weeks before this album was released, the White Panther Party had released their manifesto calling for "Total assault on the culture by any means necessary, including rock 'n' roll, dope and fucking in the streets." The Kinks, on the other hand, were calling for vaudeville, draught beer and virginity.
The Kinks couldn't have made a more blatant declaration of their irrelevance to the times they were living in if they'd tried, but by doing so they managed to create an album that is timeless.
Do You Remember Walter
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A beautiful, wistful song, summed up in its last line "People often change, but memories of people can remain", this song is the heart of the album. Inspired by a real person, as so many of Davies' songs are, this finds the universal in the specific. Almost everyone has had a close friend with whom they've fallen out of touch, and who they've later reunited with to find they have nothing in common, but Davies here uses the specifics of his friendship with Walter ("playing cricket in the thunder and the rain?" "We'd save up all our money and we'd buy a boat and sail away to sea") to conjure up the bittersweet emotions of such a friendship far better than a more generic lyric ever could.
The music reinforces this ambiguity — the fondness for the friendship alongside the recognition that the friendship can never exist again — by floating between two keys, C and B-flat, a tone apart, meaning that while the song starts out in C, the chord sequence keeps gravitating towards the melancholy Cm7.
Picture Book
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
One of the more minor songs on the album, Ray Davies thought highly enough of this that it was included on the line-ups of both the 12-song Village Green Preservation Society and of Four More Respected Gentlemen, unlike the two previous songs which were included on the former but not the latter.
Based around a fairly simple cycle-of-fifths chord sequence for the verses, with a chorus that's just F and C, and a guitar riff that's little more than an ascending chromatic scale, this is once again a song featuring real people from Davies' life, this time describing photos of his parents and 'fat old Uncle Charlie' on holiday. The song's jollity almost manages to hide the melancholy tinge that creeps in with lines like "when you were just a baby, those days when you were happy, a long time ago". Certainly when HP used it in a commercial in 2004 they were not, one hopes, intending to imply that for their customers happiness would be a distant memory accessible only through photographs.
Johnny Thunder
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
One of the weaker songs on the album, this play-in-a-day portrait of a rebel biker who rejects society but is nonetheless prayed for by one of the women in 'the town' (most of the songs on this album appear to take place in a common setting, a mythical English village that's deliberately left ambiguous) was inspired by the belated release in Britain earlier that year of the 1953 film The Wild One, [FOOTNOTE Note that while Paul McCartney has claimed that the Beatles were named in part after the Beetles, one of the two gangs in this film, it would have been impossible for any of the Beatles to have seen it until many years after the band formed, as it was banned in the UK until late 1967, and first shown in the UK at a private screening in 1968.] and in particular the character Marlon Brando plays, Johnny Strabler, leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club.
While the song's central character is certainly an individualist, of a type celebrated by many of the songs on the album, the celebration here of a fairly clichéd biker type, rebelling in the most obvious manner, seems to lack subtlety when compared with the songs around it.
Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
This was one of the last songs recorded for the album, being written and recorded after the original twelve-track Village Green Preservation Society was pulled from release, and it feels very different from the rest of the album musically, if not lyrically.
Musically, this points the way forward to the harder rock music the band would be doing on their next album, Arthur — the song is based around the riff to Howlin' Wolf's blues classic Smokestack Lightnin' and has a long instrumental section that makes this the longest track the band had ever recorded to this point, at four minutes ten seconds.
Lyrically, however, the song fits the album perfectly, and helps tie together its twin themes of nostalgia and individualism. Davies takes the train blues (a standard form that was dying out in its home, the US, as the passenger railways were being replaced as a symbol of freedom with the car) and uses it as a basis for a song about remaining (or wishing to remain) working-class and eccentric as one's friends become steadily more middle-class and conformist.
The central metaphor (the narrator comparing himself to a steam trains) is a telling one. Not only were steam trains a thing of the past (the last mainline steam train voyage in the UK having been in August 1968, and this track being recorded in October of that year), being replaced by electric or diesel trains (which don't have the rhythms or horn sounds that inspired the train blues sound), but nostalgia for steam trains was, itself, out-of-date. A few years earlier there had been regular campaigns to save beloved steam trains from being scrapped, but these had stopped getting any publicity, as the replacement of steam had become inevitable.
So Davies here is presenting himself as someone so out-of-step with modern times that even his nostalgia was out-of-date, and as the last rebel in an increasingly conformist society. In fact, he was so out-of-step with the times that he was almost getting back into step, as the blues-rock style of this track would become the norm for many of the newer bands who were becoming popular as the 60s turned into the 70s, but even if it's factually wrong, emotionally this track is enormously resonant. If Do You Remember Walter? is the best song on the album, and its emotional core, this is the thematic core of the album, and the basis on which their next one would be built.
Big Sky
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
While this was, along with Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains, one of the last songs recorded for the album, it was actually written some nine months earlier. Andy Miller, in his 33 1/3 book on this album, speculates that Davies wanted to keep it for the solo album he was still, in early 1968, half planning.
However, Miller's other claim, that the song doesn't fit the album particularly well thematically, is clearly balderdash. While the song isn't especially about nostalgia or English village life, it is about an individual who feels cut off from the rest of society — in this case, about God himself. "Big Sky" in this context is just the ultimate outsider, like Monica or Wicked Annabella or the Phenomenal Cat, looking down dispassionately at the people he would like to care about but for whom he can't be bothered to feel bad.
This dispassionate, objective attitude is seen in the song as something to aspire to, in the most beautiful melodic passage of what is a largely spoken song — "one day, we'll be free, we won't care, just you see". In a world which has a God who doesn't care, the best freedom we can hope for is to not care ourselves. Thus detachment from society, as idolised in the rest of the album, eventually becomes detachment from the self. Given that Davies had had a breakdown shortly before writing the song, one can sympathise with the wish to be free of the stresses of the world, even if in retrospect it looks itself like a symptom of the problems he was having.
Regardless, Big Sky is a lovely piece of music, one that actually manages to turn the hope of a future without feeling into a positive, comforting, sharing thought right now. One of the finest things on the album.
Sitting By The Riverside
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
Side one of the album closes with one of the more minor pieces, and one that was recorded relatively early in the sessions for the album, but left off the initial tracklistings. This is a gentle, pastoral track based around piano and mellotron [FOOTNOTE a sort of primitive synthesiser, mellotrons were keyboard instruments that had a bank of tapes inside them, of different instruments playing every note. If you put it on, say, the flute setting and pressed middle C, a tape of a flute playing middle C would be heard. Mellotrons were very popular with British bands around this period, and probably the most famous example is the introduction to Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles.] on accordion setting. The most notable feature of the song is that it is the one nod toward psychedelia on the album — after the lines "I can close my eyes" and "like a willow tree" we get an instrumental freak-out section that sounds a little like the orchestral sections of the Beatles' A Day In The Life redone on a budget of tuppence ha'penny, presumably meant to represent a dream state.
Even this, though, one of the least interesting tracks on the album, is only relatively so. The standard of this album as a whole is utterly astonishing, and we close side one without having had a single track that was less than excellent.
Animal Farm
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
Side two opens with a song which was a favourite for all the band members, even though it caused a row between Pete Quaife and the Davies brothers (Quaife wanted the bass-line on the intro to double the piano intro, while the Davies brothers both wanted him to play the more mobile part that ended up on the record).
An absolutely joyous track, with layers of stacked vocals, treated guitar, tack piano and mellotron on a string setting, this is one of the musically simplest songs on the album — although the album as a whole has seen a retreat from the musical experimentation of tracks like Autumn Almanac, and most songs have a fairly straightforward verse/chorus structure and are based around chord changes of a fourth or a fifth — easy, poppy chords. This whole song is based around only four chords in total, E, G, A and D, and has no key changes or real harmonic movement, getting all its effects from changes in tempo and density of arrangement.
The subject of the song, a wish to return to nature and be away from civilisation, is one that Davies would return to throughout his career, but rarely so successfully as here.
On the subject of the title… the song has no connection with the Orwell novel of the same name, but Andy Miller, author of the 33 1/3 book on the album, has suggested that there are a number of parallels between this album and Orwell's early novel Coming Up For Air, which would suggest that a link between Orwell's work and this album would merit further investigation.
In truth, though, while there are some similarities — both men prized elements of working-class British life and seemed to seek out some form of authenticity in rejecting middle- and upper-class life even as they made their livings in the arts, both loved an imaginary England (and specifically England, not Britain) that never existed — Orwell would undoubtedly have been very critical of Davies' work. Davies is, like Orwell, essentially slumming when he tries to be working class — his concerns are those of the rich, or, at the very least, those of the insecure middle classes. While he can write affectingly about poverty, he's more likely to attack unions, high tax rates, the welfare state, and other aspects of life which he views as interfering in one's ability to live a life free of others' meddling. Davies' combination of an instinctively libertarian politics with a reactionary worldview would not have been one that Orwell would have let go without comment, however much the two men's aesthetics may seem superficially close.
Village Green
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
While this track was the inspiration for the entire album, it feels (sonically, if not lyrically) somewhat out of place here. The song is harmonically more mobile than anything else on the album, proceeding in a stately manner through all the major and minor triads in Cm, rather than the simpler sequences we're used to with this album, and in the middle eight we have the old Face To Face era standby of having a bassline descending by semitones while we stay on one chord (Fm for four bars, then repeated on Cm for four bars).
The track is also somewhat tinnier than those surrounding it, possibly suggesting the hand of Shel Talmy in its production, though he is not credited on the album.
But the most striking feature of the track is its arrangement. Nicky Hopkins once again uses the baroque harpsichord style he had used to such great effect on several Face To Face tracks, and because this track was recorded when the band were at their commercial height, rather than on a downslide, Pye allowed the band to use a small orchestra.
And the orchestration is dazzling — David Whittaker uses a very small number of instruments to create a sound reminiscent of Purcell, combining an oboe part full of trills and ornamentation, sounding almost crumhorn-like, with a bassoon part that moves in parallel to the oboe before going its own way at points.
The song has a camp archness to it, especially evident in Davies' vocal, that isn't really present on the rest of the album, and for that reason if no other it's a welcome reminder of Davies' wit, otherwise not especially present on this most sincere of Kinks albums.
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
And after a song that was recorded two years earlier, we come to a song that sounds like it was recorded during the height of the beat boom. Davies' attempt at writing a soul track, this has a hook based on descending chords that sounds very Holland-Dozier-Holland, while the backing vocals on the chorus are a girl-group chant, but with a British band singing it, it inevitably sounds closer to the Beatles' mid-sixties work than to actual soul music.
While this is a pleasant enough track, neither the music nor the lyrics (a warning to a woman who is possibly having too much of a good time, as well as being too impressed by Davies himself) really fit the tone of the rest of the album, so it's quite surprising it was on the original twelve-track line-up of the album.
This was released as a single in the US and parts of Europe, the only single to be released from the album, and made number 13 in the Netherlands.
Phenomenal Cat
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
One of the band's very rare forays into psychedelia, this strange little nursery rhyme about a cat who "lived to eat, 'cause it kept him fat, and that's how he wanted to stay" hits almost all the standard British psychedelic notes, from the whimsical childlike lyric to the mellotron on flute setting to Dave Davies' varispeeded vocal (sounding uncannily like Bluebottle from the Goons) on the chorus. If they'd phased something or added a backwards guitar it would almost be the type example of British psychedelia ca. late 1967.
Fortunately, the track is still of interest even on what is otherwise a non-lysergic album. Nicky Hopkins' mellotron part is quite exquisite, and while the story of the phenomenal cat may at first seem childish, it's yet another song about an outsider looking dispassionately at the world around him. In particular, it's notable that for Ray Davies, at least as far as this song goes, the main benefit of going on a pilgrimage and gaining spiritual insight is that if you gain the secret of eternal life you don't have to diet any more. It's precisely that kind of attitude that kept Davies' feet on the ground as a songwriter, while all around him everyone else was writing songs about their great insights.
All Of My Friends Were There
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
One of the very few Kinks songs to actually show the music-hall influence that lazy writers claim for most of Davies' work, this is a genuinely funny comic song about what must be every performer's nightmare (though it apparently actually happened to Davies) — turning up to do an important show, having a few too many drinks to steady the nerves (Davies is apparently very susceptible to alcohol, because of the pain medication he takes for his back), and going on and doing an horrific performance, only to discover that all your friends are sat in the audience watching.
The lurch from the upbeat, jaunty verse into the woozy, drunk, waltz-time chorus, with its descending stepwise bassline this time sounding like someone falling down very, very slowly, is one of the funniest moments in the Kinks' catalogue, with the hyperbolic bathos of "All of my friends were there…not just my friends, but their best friends, too".
This song was, like Sitting By The Riverside, recorded quite early in the making of the album but left off the initial tracklistings. It's hard to see why, as it's one of the most engaging tracks on the entire album.
Wicked Annabella
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Dave Davies
This spooky little story about a witch who lives out in the woods is one of the few opportunities on the album for someone other than Ray Davies or Nicky Hopkins to shine, and the rest of the band seize the opportunity with relish. A slow, heavy rocker, it starts with a prominent drum part by Mick Avory, which stays high in the mix throughout. Dave Davies not only gets to play the fuzz guitar riff but also to do a wonderfully sinister vocal, going from the creepy insinuation of the verses to the terror of the "I've seen her face" section, and Pete Quaife actually gets to play a short bass solo, where he shows off by playing a snatch of Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring in 4/4 time.
Not one of the best songs on the album, it is still a welcome burst of heaviness in an otherwise very light album side, and shows that however much this may seem like a Ray Davies solo project, the Kinks were still a band and every member was capable of pulling his weight.
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A simple three-chord cod-calypso song, once again featuring Ray Davies' attempt at a Carribean accent (though thankfully toned down a bit compared to some of the horrors he would later inflict in this style), this is a love song written about a streetwalking prostitute.
I'm in several minds about the subject of this song, though I'll keep it brief because an essay on the Kinks isn't somewhere people go looking for critical theory. To start with, I think it's a genuinely good thing that Davies would write a song about a prostitute which treats her as a human being, rather than purely as a sex object, but on the other hand, I think that there is an element here of what one might look at as the sex worker equivalent of the magical Negro — the prostitute who secretly understands all her clients but is saving her love for just one. On the gripping hand, though, no doubt there are such prostitutes out there…
Either way, the song has a light, enjoyable feel, and while it's not a highlight of the album, it definitely deserves its place.
People Take Pictures Of Each Other
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
And now we get a song that ties everything together, in a superficially jolly but utterly heartbreaking closing. Here we tie up all the themes — an outsider, looking back at 'a time when [he] mattered to someone', the lost happiness of youth, artifacts from the past persisting into a present where their context has changed irrevocably — with the simple plea "Don't show me no more, please".
For all its appeal, nostalgia is ultimately a deadly emotion, because it prevents one moving on, and here, in the closing song, we see an acknowledgement of the rot at the core of that emotion. The photos are only letting the narrator hold on to his bitterness — "you can't picture love that you took from me" — and he recognises that no matter how unpleasant the present may be compared to the past, he still has to live in it.
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is a remarkable, beautiful, astonishing work, one of the great albums of all time. But it's not a particularly pleasant album, or a comforting one, despite the cozy nostalgia of the opening track. Rather, it's an album that shows that an obsession with the past over the present eventually leads to becoming one of the loner characters that are dotted throughout the album, refusing to care about anything in the present day.
It's undoubtedly a masterpiece, but it's easy to see why it wasn't a hit. At a time when childish whimsy was giving place to adolescent rebellion, a work as fundamentally adult as this never could be.
Bonus Tracks
Mr. Songbird
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A lovely little minor track that was on the original 12-song Village Green Preservation Society as well as Four More Respected Men, but pulled from the final lineup, this wistful, bouncy little mellotron-led track about the joys of music is perhaps not as substantial as much of the rest of the album. That said, it's a sign of how good a band the Kinks were at this point that they could leave material as strong as this unreleased, though it would undoubtedly have made the tracklisting if the proposed double-album version had ever been made.
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
The last single the original line-up of the Kinks ever released was this astonishingly beautiful song, possibly the best thing Davies ever wrote.
The song, apparently about the end of an affair but also (or so Davies now claims) about the break-up of the original line-up of the band, is one of those simple songs that resist all analysis. All the strength of the song lies in its sentiment — a statement to a lover who has left that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, and that the happiness she gave was more than worth the sadness of her departure. It's one of a very small number of songs that can regularly move me to tears, and it does so by underplaying, rather than exaggerating, the emotion. A line like "now I'm not frightened of the world, believe me" says volumes about the bravery of the man facing the night alone, about what the nameless person to whom the song is being sung meant to him, and about what his life is going to be like without her, without ever trying to tug on the heart-strings.
There's some evidence that Ray Davies himself didn't realise just how good this song was. Released as a single, it went to number twelve in the UK, but [FOOTNOTE According to Miller] it never entered the Kinks' live set until twenty years later, after Kirsty MacColl had a hit with a cover version. Davies now dedicates the song to MacColl, and to Pete Quaife (who died in 2010) in live performances.
Certainly, while the song was included on the twelve-track version of Village Green Preservation Society and on Four More Respected Gentlemen, it was dropped from the final version of the album, and left as a single-only release, leaving Village Green Preservation Society as the only Kinks album of the 60s not to feature a UK hit single.
But now, the song is rightfully considered a pop classic. If the only two songs Ray Davies had ever written had been this and Waterloo Sunset, he would still have a good claim to be one of the great songwriters of the twentieth century.
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
The B-side to Wonderboy, it says something about how good the Kinks were at this point that a song as strong as this was relegated to a B-side.
Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, with its description of pastoral village life and cast of eccentrics, was a clear inspiration for Davies' work around the time of Village Green Preservation Society, and here Davies takes the name (though nothing else) of one of the characters, Polly Garter, and puns with it on the Pretty Polly brand of tights (from which Thomas may have taken inspiration in the first place) to give himself a chorus, around which he builds another of his tales of a young girl who is corrupted by the big city (though here she goes back home to the chains of her family).
There's nothing in this song that Davies hadn't done elsewhere, and relatively recently, but it's done exceptionally well here.
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
This was the Kinks' first comparative flop since You Really Got Me, going only to number 36 in the UK charts. It's hard now to see why, though, as the song itself, with its gentle message of reassurance, is easily as strong as all but the very best of the band's singles to that point.
The song was reputedly John Lennon's favourite Kinks song, with a story often being told that he insisted, on hearing the song while out (either at a club or a restaurant, depending who's telling the story), on having the record played over and over again for the entire evening. It's easy to see why — not only is the song's lyrical message, telling someone who's going through a difficult time that things will be OK, something that would have resonated with Lennon at the time (like Hey Jude, which is very similar in sentiment), but the lyric and vocals are Davies at his most Lennonesque (so much so that Oasis, a 90s rock band famed for attempting to sound like the Beatles and failing miserably, stole the "I see you and you see me" section of this song for their hit She's Electric).
All that said, the band themselves apparently detested the track, Pete Quaife later calling it horrible, and Ray Davies saying it should never have been released. It's a shame, because despite its lack of commercial success, this is another great single by a great singles band.
Berkeley Mews
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A very good song, loosely inspired by September In The Rain (the melody, as well as the lyric, on the line "The leaves of brown came falling through the view" is almost identical to "The leaves of brown came tumbling down, remember", and the structure of the verses is similar), this tale of a one-night stand that ended badly is hamstrung by an overly-busy arrangement, going from honky-tonk piano to boogie bass to a parodic 50s rock ending. It was intended for Four More Respected Gentlemen, but whether because of the poor arrangement or because of fears of a copyright infringement lawsuit it remained unreleased until 1970, when it was released as the B-side to Lola.
Misty Water
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
Another song that was intended for Four More Respected Gentlemen but was left unreleased, this is another track that, while not quite up to the standards of the tracks that made it to the finished Village Green Preservation Society, nonetheless deserved better than the obscurity to which it was consigned.
A song about the pleasures of drunkenness, this works almost entirely in metaphor and allusion, from its opening line "By the town of Straight And Narrow", with a town name worthy of Bunyan, to the title of the song itself, a reference to alcoholic drink.
Parts of the song bear some slight resemblance to some of the musical ideas in Shangri-La, from the band's next album, but other than a brief release on the unauthorised compilation The Great Lost Kinks Album this remained unavailable until the release of the Village Green Preservation Society deluxe edition. A shame.
Easy Come, There You Went
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: None
An utterly unmemorable instrumental, this remained unreleased until the deluxe edition came out. No-one was missing anything much.
Did You See His Name
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
Around the time of Village Green Preservation Society Ray Davies was writing songs, usually on topical subjects, for several TV shows. This one was written for At The Eleventh Hour, and was inspired by reading through the newspaper looking for ideas and coming across an obituary for Davies' doctor.
One presumes, though, that the story told here bears little or no resemblance to that of Davies' GP, as it tells a story of a man living in poverty who steals a tin of beans 'from a cut-price grocery store', is named-and-shamed in the newspaper, loses his job, and kills himself because he can't live with the shame.
The song is obviously one that was written quickly, rather than crafted over a longer period, and some infelicities remain as a result ("his little job", for example, is clearly just there to fill out the syllables), but it's surprisingly good for a throwaway piece. Certainly Davies must have thought so — it's the only song from his At The Eleventh Hour work that the Kinks recorded, and it was intended for release on Four More Respected Men, though it didn't end up getting released until a US-only compilation in 1972.
Mick Avory's Underpants
Writer: Dave Davies
Lead Vocalist: None
A nondescript instrumental, with a prominent drum intro.
Lavender Hill
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A pleasant, mellotron-led track with a slight resemblance to some of the Zombies' contemporaneous work, this is one of a very small number of Kinks tracks that could actually be called overproduced. The mellotron, the backwards-recorded backing vocals, the forwards backing vocals, the overly-busy bass line at the end, and the solo (which sounds like a guitar put through a wah-wah pedal and recorded backwards, to my ears) all have decent ideas in them, but clash with each other — and the tape-speed problems inherent in both backwards recording and in using a mellotron mean that everything sounds ever-so-slightly off-key compared to everything else.
There's a nice idea for a song here — you can definitely tell what Davies was going for — but it doesn't quite come off. This was briefly released on The Great Lost Kinks Album, but otherwise remained unavailable until the 2004 deluxe edition of Village Green Preservation Society.
Rosemary Rose
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
A rather lovely little piece, based around an arpeggiated piano figure and rough harpsichord, this character piece (presumably written about memories of the Davies' sister Rose) would have fit perfectly on Village Green Preservation Society. Oddly, it seems to have been inspired by You Really Got Me, as can be heard in the instrumental break, when the harpsichord plays a figure very similar to the You Really Got Me riff. Try singing the title of one over the other, and you'll see what I mean. This was another one that was briefly available on The Great Lost Kinks Album but then remained unreleased until 2004.
Spotty Grotty Anna
Writer: Dave Davies
Lead Vocalist: None
A dull instrumental blues jam, this was apparently named after a notorious groupie on the London scene.
Where Did My Spring Go?
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray Davies
Another song written for a TV show, this was written for the second episode of Where Was Spring?, a sketch show starring Eleanor Bron and John Fortune that was apparently one of the best things on TV at the time. Unfortunately, we'll never know if it lived up to its reputation, because in the same act of cultural vandalism that led to the destruction of the tapes of the TV coverage of the moon landing and of the Beatles' performances on Top Of The Pops among many others, the BBC in its wisdom decided to destroy all existing copies of the show to save space.
This recording is little more than a full-band demo, but sketches out a song that fits the mood of Village Green Preservation Society very well, even though it was recorded some months after the album's release, with its narrator having been left by a lover who was just using him, and reflecting on his lost youth and health. While these sentiments may seem rather unusual for someone who was, as Davies was when recording this, only twenty-four, it should be remembered that Davies has had poor health for most of his life, so when he sings "Why ain't my back straight? Why do my feet ache?" we can presume he knows what he's talking about.
This is only a trifle, but even the trifles the band were recording at this point were better than many bands' best work. Once again, this was released briefly on The Great Lost Kinks Album then stayed unavailable until 2004.
Groovy Movies
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Dave Davies
By rights, this should have been a bonus track on Arthur, having been recorded six months after Village Green Preservation Society was released, and it has little to do with the rest of the recordings here. An attempt at horn-driven Memphis soul, with Dave Davies turning in a rather sub-par vocal (more shouted than sung), this is a fairly straightforward track about Ray Davies' desire to be a film director.
King Kong
Writer: Ray Davies
Lead Vocalist: Ray and Dave Davies
This track, a return to the riff-driven rock of the band's early days, was recorded either towards the end of the Village Green Preservation Society sessions or several months later — it sounds to me like the latter. A lumbering, distorted hard-rock track with little subtlety about it, but still somehow enjoyable, this was released as the B-side to Plastic Man.
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Nice review. Society is certainly one of the greatest British albums of the Sixties and indeed one of the greatest albums without qualification made up to the present day, even if I would prefer it if some of the songs that didn't make it had in place of Phenomenal Cat, Wicked Annabella and Monica but that's pickiness.
It's interesting that Picture Book and People Take Pictures Of Each Other though out-of-time songs in many ways chime perfectly with the modern obsession with social networking, FaceBook, Twitter, and the like. "Just to prove that they really existed" indeed.
I think that one has to be careful when using the word "nostalgia" as there are legions of lazy-minded, conformist, conservative people who will dismiss an appreciation of *anything* from the past no matter how worthwhile or even vital as mere nostalgia whilst presenting such a simple-minded and at times dangerous attitude as somehow "elevated" and "enlightened". There are doubtless those who would see an appreciation for the best of the Kinks as somehow nostalgic despite the idiocy of such a stance being comparable to dismissing Dickens or Hinchcliffe/Holmes Doctor Who or Seinfeld for the crime of being, to varying degrees, "old". I find it fascinating that various not-so-good "modern" things and people are treated with ridiculous or even pathetic reverence, what is the word for a distorted enthusiasm for the new (neophilia?) no matter its true quality (that's subjective I know) now *that* is dangerous. One cannot appreciate quality if one is nailed to the present. After all some people think the "Twilight Saga" is good , ahahaha. Ah, well, digression ends. -
My biggest quibble: "Mr. Songbird" is an utterly amazing classic-era Kinks recording, certainly equal to almost anything on VGPS – it should have been left on the album.
This album was edited in Mexico with some changes that made it very interesting. In the list appears Days in the first place of the side A, and She got evertything in the side B. By the other hand, Wicked Annabella and Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains were out of the album. According with eleven reviews (Mark Prindle, Starostin¨s, Alhoa Rock, Scaruffi, Wilson and Arloy¨s, Morten Vinberg, Roadkill, Reason to Rock, Amason, Rate Your Music, "La web de los Kinks") has the higher average of all the Kinks albums, but only in four cases is considered the best album absolutly. For me, with the VGPS started my deep approach to the Kinks in the far 1967 and still continues. Very good review.
Berkeley Mews is the greatest. I love the way the verse keeps tumbling into the boogie-woogie part. For my ears it works very well, although it would be a weird song to fit on an album for some reason. I rate Lavender Hill pretty high too, minor high but in my lexicon "minor" doesn't just mean "lesser" (although if you don't get what I mean it would take some 'splaining).
I'm not sure that slotting Misty Water into place for Monica would have been a disaster. I like Monica but I disagree that Misty Water isn't up to VGPS standards, Monica is a decent song but the low point of the album I think. When the harmonies come in on "morning 'til moonshine" is very nice, it must be admitted.
I used to also think that Johnny Thunder was weak, but I have been unable to maintain that opinion. I think its biggest flaw is the vagueness of the lyrics, but the picture kind of fills in in the mind after a while. I think of sweet Helen [DuLanne?] as being kind of like Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront, the good, straight girl who prays for her leather-clad beau. She could also be a kindly Catholic spinster type, though.
Another possible Monica maneuver would be to drop it, move PTPOEO up one, and close with Days. I think this would have strengthened the album also (not that it needs much strengthening).
I think this is definitely the best Kinks album, no question. Animal Farm is probably the best song, the part that goes "she is by my side and the sky is wide" may be the highlight of the Kinks' career. The title track gets number two for me, then either Walter or Village Green probably, although all these rankings are provisional.
A lot of the online reviewers seem to like Arthur better, which I think is just nutso. I'd rank Arthur at best third, behind at least Something Else.


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Zotac's cute Zacate powered ZBox Nano-XS
Subject: Systems | May 9, 2012 - 06:34 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: zotac, zbox nano-xs, SFF, htpc
Zotac's new ZBox Nano-XS is smaller than your average case fan, measuring only 4.17" x 4.17" x 1.46" (106mm x 106mm x 37mm) but is powerful enough you can stream video and even get some light game playing in on it. The name is a bit misleading as it is powered by a dual core AMD E-450 with a HD 6320 giving it impressive graphics for its size and the 64GB Kingston mSATA SSD making the general performance of the system quite snappy. Funky Kit does want you to be aware that this tiny PC ships without an OS so make sure that you are familiar with making a bootable USB drive with which to install your OS but apart from that they highly recommend the Nano-XS to anyone who needs a tiny PC.
"The performance of the ZBox impressed me. It can't touch my high end desktop of course, but given the size and the price it is quite impressive. You can do some low end gaming, watch any videos you might want to regardless of their resolution and it snaps windows around and loads programs quite quickly, thanks to the SSD."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- Noontec MovieHome V8 NAS Media Player @ Kitguru
- Australian Blu-ray Importing: May 2012 Buying Guide @ Tweaktown
- ASRock's High-End Vision 3D 252B HTPC @ AnandTech
- Egreat S-Series R300 Network HD Media Player Review @ NikKTech
- SilverStone Grandia GD07 Review: Centering and Serving Your Media @ AnandTech
- Thermaltake Element Q Small Form Factor Chassis @ TechwareLabs
- ZOTAC A75-ITX WiFi A-E @ techPowerUp
Looking for a low power SFF system you don't have to build yourself? Try Lenovo's ThinkCentre M91p
Subject: Systems | April 24, 2012 - 06:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: silent, SFF, Lenovo, ThinkCentre M91p
Most people who want a small form factor PC at home are those who will build it themselves, but not everyone has the time or inclination to do so. That is where systems like the Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p come in handy. Powered by a 2.7GHz Core 5-2500S, a single 4GB DIMM of DDR3-1333 and a 500GB HDD it is not overwhelming in its abilities but certainly qualifies as a low heat and low noise machine. Silent PC Review thought that this machine would be better for an office PC than an HTPC as the Intel HD3000 struggles with playback in some cases but are very glad to see the rare 2500S in a system as it is hard to purchase as a seperate item but is quite nice with a turbo speed of 3.7GHz.
"The USFF version of Lenovo's ThinkCentre M91p packs a significant punch in a small package. Utilizing an Intel "S" low power processor and a 150W external AC power adapter, it's also incredibly energy efficient."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- Dell Alienware X51 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Dell Precision T3600 Review: Dell's New Enterprise @ AnandTech
- QuietPC Nofan Icepipe A40-Z68 Silent PC @ OC3D
- ZOTAC ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus Mini PC Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Ars Technica system guide: Bargain Box April 2012
Little machines need little PSUs; Seasonic's new TFX PSU
Subject: Cases and Cooling | April 16, 2012 - 06:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: seasonic, SS-350TGM, PSU, TFX, SFF
The PSU that you have come to know in your desktop is an ATX PSU but that is not the only choice, as server techs and SFF builders are well aware. One of the alternative standards is the TFX which retains the ATX electrical and connection specs but fits it into a 5.75" × 3.25" × 2.5" (146 x 83 x 64mm) casing. The 350W Seasonic SS-350TGM is not designed for SLI/CrossFire systems, indeed it does not have a single PCIe connector of any type which is not a problem for the type of machine this is intended for. If you are planning on building an ITX box with an internal PSU, or even a small custom built case, you really should drop by [H]ard|OCP to check this little PSU out.
"Today we tackle something a bit off the beaten path for us; a low power non-ATX specification power supply from Seasonic. We do know that many of our readers build systems that are not like all the others especially when it comes to crafting smaller purpose driven boxes. The 300TGM may be just what you are looking for."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Antec High Current Pro Platinum 1000 W @ techPowerUp
- Antec Earthwatts Platinum 650W @ Kitguru
- OCZ FATAL1TY Series 1000 W @ techPowerUp
- Kingwin Lazer Platinum 850 W Power Supply Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1300-watt @ Tweaktown
- OCZ Fatal1ty 1000W Modular @ Funky Kit
- FSP Aurum Pro Gold 1200-watt @ Tweaktown
- PC Power Silencer Mk III @ HardwareBistro
- OCZ Fatal1ty Series 1000-watt @ Tweaktown
- Super Flower Golden King 500 W @ techPowerUp
- Silent Power: Fanless PSU Roundup @ X-bit Labs
Logic Supply has an interesting way of sizing their smaller HTPCs
Subject: Systems | April 13, 2012 - 04:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SFF, mini-itx, Logic Supply, LGX AG150 Fanless Mini PC, htpc, Atom N2800
Defining the size of the Logic Supply LGX AG150 Fanless Mini PC as being 1.2 litres is a unique way of describing just how small this machine is. You can see from the picture below that a pair of serial ports takes up a significant portion of the front panel. Part of the reason for this is the completely fanless design, the heatsink obscuring the Atom N2800 has TIM on it to allow the entire top of the case to distribute the heat. The SSD drive also helps slim the machine down and also adds snappy performance as well. The Intel DN2800MT mini-ITX board powers the SSD and can fit up to 4GB of RAM in its two slots and the Intel GMA 3650 powers the HDMI and VGA ports with enough processing power for you to watch HD video. As it is a totally silent HTPC, it should come as no surprise that it was Silent PC Review who received this box for testing.
"This new PC from specialist Logic Systems is based around the recently released Intel DN2800MT "Marshalltown" mini-ITX Atom board, a long-awaited follow-up to the original "Thin ITX" board, the Intel D945GSEJT. Super low energy consumption, 1080P video capability and a tiny 1.2 liter form factor should be compelling for Mini PC enthusiasts."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- ZOTAC ZBOX Blu-Ray AD05 Plus Mini PC Review @ HardwareHeaven
- RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-MP3011Plus Network Media Player Review @ NikKTech
- Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus: Redefining the Small Form Factor PC @ AnandTech
- SilverStone GD06 Home Theater PC Case @ Computing on Demand
- Arctic MC001-BD Blu-Ray Entertainment Center Review @ eTeknix
- nMedia HTPC 7000B SFF Case Review @ Hardware Canucks
- USB 3.0 to HDMI & VGA External Video Card @ CoD
ECS trims the fat off and presents two new mini-ITX boards
Subject: Motherboards, Systems | March 29, 2012 - 11:59 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ECS, elitegroup, mini ITX, CDC-TI Thin, H61H2-TI Thin, SFF
The CDC-TI Thin Mini-ITX may not interest many readers as it is designed for an Atom processor which have never been terribly popular here at PC Perspective, even for HTPC builds. The CDC-TI Thin Mini-ITX is a totally different story as it can handle LGA1155 chips and has an HDMI out, making it a beautiful choice for an HTPC or even a SFF portable gaming machine although you might be disappointed by the orientation of the full and half length PCIe slots. Consider it a challenge and see if you can get a decent half height GPU in there!
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the world's leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system, notebook and mobile device manufacturer announces a variety of options of Thin Mini-ITX for users to meet their different demands with AIO (All-In-One) and motherboards. To target different segments, ECS Thin Mini-ITX motherboards are not only compatible with AIO but also with small form factor PCs, offering a wide range of solutions including H61H2-TI, H61H2-G11 and CDC-TI. With the growth in popularity of AIO, acceptance of the Thin Mini-ITX platform proves to be leading standard of this new trend, allowing for future-proof upgradeability.
The brand new CDC-TI Thin Mini-ITX motherboard supports Intel® Atom™ D2700/D2550/D2500 Dual-core processors. The CPU and Memory are supported 100% by Solid Capacitors in order to provide better conductivity and longevity. CDC-TI features 2 x DDR3 SO-DIMM socket supporting up to 4GB, 2 x SATA 3Gb/s, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 Mini-PCIe (1 Full/ 1 Half), VGA, HDMI and LVDS support. It is distinguished by its fan-less design because of the lowest CPU power consumption of <10W TDP. ECS CDC-TI not only works well for Thin Mini-ITX AIOs but also for other form factors that can take advantage of a low-profile board.
The other H61H2-TI Thin Mini-ITX motherboard can support socket LGA1155 Intel® 2nd and 3rd Generation Core processors. It features Intel® H61 Express chipset with SATA 3Gb/s, 2 x DDR3 SO-DIMM socket up to 16GB, 2 x USB 3.0, 2 Mini-PCIe (1 Full/ 1 Half), 1 x mSATA, and HDMI input/output that deliver you an excellent performance and amazing experience. ECS H61H2-TI provides you a multi-functional solution within a limited space. Small but versatile.
Asetek Demonstrates Liquid Cooling For Laptop And All-In-One PCs
Subject: Mobile | March 20, 2012 - 03:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SFF, liquid cooling, gaming laptop, asetek, alienware
The rise of mATX boards designed for high powered gaming machines, laptops with serious mobile GPU power and All-In-One Systems have increased the problem of heat generation in small systems. A SFF system used to be a moderately powerful system good for use as a workstation or HTPC but now it could well be a multi-GPU gaming beast and the same goes for laptops.
In an effort to stop baking laps and shortening the life of components in SFF systems Asetek has been working on liquid cooling systems for these types of systems. You can see an example of a watercooling Alienware laptop on the YouTube video they produced and be sure to check out the links on this page if you are looking for more information.
Asetek Inc., the world leading supplier of liquid cooling for the computer industry announced today a new and groundbreaking slim form factor liquid cooling technology for extreme performance and workstation grade laptops and All-In-One PCs. Slim form factor liquid cooling enables laptop and AIO PC manufacturers to deliver mobility and sleek industrial designs without sacrificing performance.
"We see a growing need for higher performance personal computers, driven by ever more powerful modeling software for engineering, scientific and financial work, and for content creation and gaming," said André S. Eriksen, Founder and CEO of Asetek. "We also see high performance hardware expanding to more portable, sleeker devices like the highly successful M-series of notebooks from Alienware."
"For laptops and AIOs to deliver workstation and gaming PC performance, these machines must be able to take full advantage of desktop grade performance hardware. We have identified this need and designed our cooling solution to target these thinner machines," continued Eriksen.
The fundamental challenge in cooling desktop replacement laptops and All-In-One PCs is the lack of space for a proper thermal solution. Consequently, previous attempts at liquid cooling laptops have offered no performance improvement over traditional heat-pipe based heat sinks.
"Asetek successfully cracked the code of improving acoustic and thermal performance in a notebook without increasing the form factor," said Ole Madsen, VP of Engineering. "Our patent protected technology allows better utilization of the thermal modules used to cool the CPU and GPUs. That, along with our optimized coldplate technology enables the use of much more powerful hardware than air cooling could ever allow".
Asetek is showcasing its new technology in an Alienware M18x notebook with the CPU overclocked from 3.5GHz to 4.4Ghz and the GPUs overclocked from 680Mhz to 800Mhz. In addition, the M18x achieved a 23% improvement in Futuremark's 3D Mark Vantage benchmark while reducing the noise output of the stock air-cooled laptop. A video demonstration can be found at Asetek.com.
So you want to build an octocore mATX beast?
Subject: Systems | March 15, 2012 - 06:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ASUS ROG Rampage IV GENE X79, SFF, mATX, hd7970, Intel Xeon E5-2690
The mATX ASUS ROG Rampage IV GENE X79 motherboard can hold more power than you might assume from its size, as you can see at VR-Zone. Even though the board looks tiny compared to the heatsink needed to cool the Xeon E5-2690 and the triple slot HD7970 seems to barely fit beside the OZC Revodrive 3 X2 480GB, the components do work at full speed making this beast a real power house. As Yoda said, "Size matters not."
"What if I have about US$5000 to spend - Could I have a true 8-core/16-thread CPU in a small form factor setup without compromising on storage, thermals or online gaming prowess?" Well, we show that we can!"
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- PC Specialist Vortex XT-270FB @ Kitguru
- iBUYPOWER Erebus GT: Custom Cooling for Less @ AnandTech
- HP Omni 27 Quad Review @ TechReviewSource
- HP Phoenix h9se: The Pavilion Goes Beyond Thunderdome @ AnandTech
Zotac Launches Three New ZBOX Mini PCs At CeBIT 2012
Subject: Systems | March 10, 2012 - 02:15 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: zotac, zbox, SFF, PC, hardware
In a recent press release, Zotac unveiled three new ZBox small form factor computers, including one PC that features a blu-ray optical drive. Specifically, the new models include the ZBOX ID82, ZBOX Nano ID61, and the ZBOX Blu-ray AD05. In addition, the company offers "plus" versions of the three ZBOX computers that add 2GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive to the hardware package. Carsten Berger, marketing director for ZOTAC stated that the company is constantly pushing the small form factor envelope and the latest Intel Core i3 Sandy Bridge processors "enables us to give demanding users the performance edge they need."
The ZBOX Nano ID61
The ZBOX ID61 is the smallest of the three PCs and is the latest in their Nano form factor. It is powered by a dual core Intel Celeron 867 processor, a single DDR3 SO-DIMM slots, and an integrated multimedia card reader. Connections include HDMI, Displayport, 2 USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, 1 eSATA port, Bluetooth 3.0, and a built in IR receiver. The ID61 plus further features 2 GB of DDR3 1333 MHz laptop RAM and a 320 GB SATA III (6Gbps) hard drive.
The ZBOX ID82
The ID82 represents the latest ZBOX PC, and while it is a big bulkier than the Nano series, it packs a lot more punch with an Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3-2330. The new Intel CPU is a dual core 2.2 GHz processor which further includes Hyper-Threading tech for a total of four virtual cores. Further, the PC has two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots, two USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, DVI-I, and Bluetooth 3.0. The ZBOX ID82 Plus includes 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 320 GB laptop hard drive.
The ZBOX Blu-ray AD05
Finally, the ZBOX Blu-ray AD05 is a small form factor PC that moves to AMD for their processor and GPU with the AMD E-450 APU with integrated Radeon 6320 GPU. The extra hardware horsepower provides the "oomph" needed to support smooth blu-ray playback. The mini PC holds a 4x Blu-ray reader that doubles as a 8x DVD +/- writer. It includes support for two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots and an 2.5" SATA II hard drive. Connections include HDMI, DVI, two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, and one combo USB 2.0/eSATA port. The ZBOX Blu-ray AD05 Plus version further includes 2 GB of memory and a 320 GB hard drive.
All three of the mini ZOTAC ZBOX PCs (wow, that's a lot of caps) also feature Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and a bundled Media Center remote and USB IR receiver. No matter the model, the user is still responsible for providing an OS as one does not come bundled. Unfortunately, there is no word on pricing or availability.
Xigmatek thinks big with their new mATX Gigas enclosure
Subject: Cases and Cooling | March 2, 2012 - 03:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xigmatek gigas, xigmatek, SFF, mATX
When you build a machine based on an mATX board, you tend to be aiming for a compact system that can be hidden away or is at least small enough that it is unobtrusive. Xigmatek decided to toss that style away when they designed the Gigas, quite possibly the only mATX enclosure which weighs more than 20lbs. At 10.94" x 12.68" x 15.59" you have a lot of space to work with and will find space for a lot more drives than you might expect even with a full size GPU and 1kg+ heatsink. This is a perfect enclosure for some of the high end mATX board for sale currently, but as TechPowerUp points out in their review there are no grommets for watercooling if you wanted to upgrade your cooling solution.
"Is it a mATX chassis? No! Is it a mid-tower case? No! What is it? It is the Xigmatek Gigas! Too big to be a compact mATX cube, but too compact to be considered a mid-tower. Will the Gigas end up being the Frankenstein of cases, or manage to impress with this new approach?"
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Corsair Carbide 300R @ OC3D
- NZXT Switch 810 Hybrid Full Tower @ Pro-Clockers
- Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus Mid Tower Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion
- Corsair Carbide 300R Case Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Chassis @ Kitguru
- Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Black and White Mid-Tower Chassis Review @ eTeknix
- Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Review @ circuitREMIX
- SilenX EFZ-120HA5 Heatsink Review @ Ninjalane
- NZXT Havik 120 CPU Cooler Review @Hi Tech Legion
- SilenX EFZ-120HA5 Cooler @ HardwareBistro
- Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler @ Kitguru
A SFF case from Lian-Li you can pick up in stores now
Subject: Cases and Cooling | January 11, 2012 - 04:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SFF, PC-TU200, Lian-Li
One frustrating thing about seeing all of the great new products at CES is that you can't always get your hands on them as many products are unreleased as the companies are showing off prototypes. Take a break from the unobtainable with Think Computers who just wrapped up a review of the Lian-Li PC-TU200. It is a squarish mini-tower, measuring 220mm x 320mm x 360mm (8.7" x 12.6" x 14.1") and will house Mini-ITX and Mini-DTX style motherboards. Thanks to some decent spacing, you can fit many varieties of discrete GPUs and there is room for four 3.5" drives and a pair of 2.5" drives for those who want to include an SSD. The exterior features a carrying handle, two USB 3.0 ports and eSATA connections, making it great for LAN parties and other purposes. Check out the full review here.
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Mike Parkinson - 28/11/2010
Nice A/B Improvers fun dance, had fun teaching this the last couple of classes. Everyone enjoyed the dance, even for them (& me) trying to remember the sequence of A & B (& 1/2 an A). Last few weeks have come across a few fun A's & B's, this one of them and worth a look at for your Improvers class. Easy teach & fits the music perfect. Don't let the A/B sequence put you off teaching it, Well worth a teach in any-ones book and certainly one for your Christmas Party. Thank Girls (M&M)
Elaine Hornagold - 26/11/2010
Peter & Alison taught this at their improver weekend at Bournemouth. Feel good fun dance with catchy music - my class love it!


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Chakrabartty's Self-Powered Sensing Technology Showcased at NSF
Showcased at NSF
Chakrabartty's AIR project leverages prior NSF-funded work that resulted in a patent for a self-powered wireless sensor called a piezo-floating-gate. When embedded in safety-critical physical structures, the ultra-low power sensor is capable of storing structural strain data significantly reducing the maintenance cost of existing civil and mechanical infrastructure. It also is suitable for use with infrastructure for structural health monitoring via wireless RFID readers over the lifetime of structures, biomedical devices and systems, individual and civil transportation and energy, according to the researchers.
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SANTA ANA – The family of a man fatally shot by police called for answers outside the Santa Ana Police Department on Wednesday while inside, Interim Police Chief Carlos Rojas said he was committed to transparency as three separate investigations continued.
Hans Kevin Arellano, 22, was shot and killed by an officer Tuesday afternoon in a shopping complex at South Harbor Boulevard and West McFadden Avenue, Rojas said. Arellano got into a confrontation with an officer around 3 p.m., then ran, he said. Another officer came to assist, and one officer, woman who is a 13-year veteran with the department, shot Arellano once in the front torso, Rojas said.
Arellano was pronounced dead at the scene, outside the Jugos La Tropicana juice shop. He was unarmed, Rojas said, adding he could not discuss the circumstances that led to the shooting while investigations continued. Other confrontations occurred before police arrived, he added, and described "odd behavior."
"It was a confrontation," Rojas said. "It wasn't having a casual conversation."
Family members said they have received little information from police and seek answers.
"Nobody deserves to die like that," said Tania Arellano, his sister. About 20 family members and friends stood outside police headquarters as officials spoke to media.
She described her younger brother, who went by Kevin, as funny and outgoing; often, his voice and laugh were the loudest in a room. He was kind to her four children, she said, and had a soft spot for her. About a month ago, she found a branch of roses, likely rescued from a gardener's trimmings, on the hood of her car. She instantly knew it was from her brother.
"He always said I was like a second mom," she said.
He grew up in Orange, attending Orange High School, and also attended The Crossing Church in Costa Mesa, she said.
Court records showed that in 2012 he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of burglary and was sentenced to 11 days in jail and three years of probation. Santa Ana police had had contact with him before, Rojas said, and he was a suspect in an investigation into another robbery.
Later in 2012, he also pleaded guilty to breaking a statute against camping in a public place. His sister said he had lived all over the area, sometimes staying with her or other family members, sometimes renting rooms and sometimes staying on the street.
The homeless people in the area of Harbor and McFadden were his friends, she said, but he wasn't really one of them.
"I have a home, and I have a family," her brother would tell others, she said.
The area around the strip mall has been a focus for police in recent months, Rojas said. In July, police received 150 calls from the area relating to vagrancy, prostitution and drugs, he said.
Rojas went to the shopping center recently himself to speak with Business owners, property owners and also the people who camped behind the buildings.


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By Joann Plockova. Web onlyPublished online: 26 November 2011
Prague. One of the Czech Republic's most famed Cubist painters is dominating the country's headlines this week. Emil Filla, a leader in Prague's avant-garde and an early Cubist painter, has been at the centre of three separate stories, including a theft of his works and a record setting auction .
First, on Friday 18 November, four of Filla's works were stolen in the early morning hours from the Peruc Chateau, located about 50 km northwest of Prague, which houses a permanent exhibition of Filla's works and where the artist spent several years after the second world war. According to Alica Stefancikova, the exhibition's curator, the alarm system, which is directly connected to the Peruc police station, sounded at 4:04am on Friday morning. Although police arrived at the chateau within ten minutes, the thieves had already fled the scene. The four oil paintings, all from the 1940s with the exception of one earlier painting, are estimated to be worth 50m to 80m Czech crowns, and the paintings are uninsured. "We preferred to invest in the preventative protection of the collections," Stefancikova told The Art Newspaper after the theft. Besides an attempt to steal the works in 1992, when the perpetrator was arrested, no other attempts have been documented. The stolen works include Still Life With a Fruit Basket and Clarinet (Zatisi s klarinetem a kosikem ovoce), 1948, Woman with Picture Cards (Zena s kartami), 1946, Still Life with a fruit bowl (Zatisi s misami ovoce), 1946, and Blind man (Slepec), 1926. According to reports in the Czech press, several frames were discovered in the nearby village of Bysen on Sunday 20 November. Whether they belong to the missing paintings is yet to be determined, according to Stefancikova.At the same time, one of Filla's works set a record on 20 November as one of the top 20 most expensive paintings ever sold at auction on the domestic scene. Dating from 1911, Filla's Comforter (Utesitel) went for 11m crowns, almost double the starting price, at a sale held by Galerie Art Praha at the Hilton Hotel in Prague. Last year, Filla's Still Life with a Bottle of Cherry (Zatisi s lahvi Cherry), 1914, sold for 16.25m crowns, ranking it as the highest-priced Filla work sold at a domestic auction. His Sculptress in the Studio (Socharka v ateleru) was among several Czech avant-garde works that brought Sotheby's in London more than £11m, double the estimate, at an auction in June of this year. Finally, on Tuesday 22 November, Filla's 1913 canvas Two Women (along with The Dancer, a painting by Vincenc Benes and a bronze statue by Otto Gutfreund) was returned to the Czech Republic after having been seized while on loan in Vienna this past May as a result of a multi-billion crown claim against the state by a blood plasma firm. An Austrian appeals court refused to recognise the claim. Although the Filla painting has been returned to the Moravian Gallery in Brno (and the two other works to the National Gallery in Prague), Diag Human, the blood plasma firm who is behind the almost 20-year-long arbitration dispute, may challenge the final verdict according to a report on Cesky Rozhlas (Czech Radio). As a result of the claims made by Diag Human, the Czech Ministry of Culture issued a ban on the loaning of art and cultural artefacts to international exhibitions this spring. Beyond a loss to the public sector of 1.2m crowns in six months, according to the Czech Radio report, the Czech Republic will be unable to participate in 58 international exhibitions in London, Paris and Houston, among other cities, which were slated to receive more than 1,000 works as loans this year and in 2012.
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This is so sad! I have heard of the fruit basket painting before, and I am saddened to hear that it has been stolen. Have the paintings been recovered yet? They should be in a museum, not on the black market.
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Bambi Coat Rack by Charles Constantine
Charles Constantine has designed a simple coat rack "inspired by a certain Disney ruminant mammal".
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I rushed from Erotica L.A. where Bill Margold was hosting Adult Industry News at the Protecting Adult Welfare booth where I was with the busty babes signing for him. (Read the TitBits coming soon on this.) I had to get to the grand opening party at Silver Reign North Hollywood. Donna Doll and Regan Anthony were featuring tonight and I wanted to interview both of them. Donna was going on first so I was able to talk with her in the dressing room. Donna is an incredibly beautiful Brazilian bombshell with big boobs! She is articulate and a real sweetheart. She's been feature dancing for four years now after coming to the US from Brazil to visit and vacation. Talking about her career in films Donna says she likes anal "but it needs to be done right. You have to take your time. I love foreplay, it sets the mood for everything. Don't hurry! Can't hurry, that's not good..." Just then the fire alarm goes off and lights go off and on. Silver Reign has been going through renovations and evidently the fire alarms were set a bit too sensitive and the fog machines on stage were setting them off. (An aside from Donna: "Oh great, and I've got pyrotechnics!") We go out to the patio in the front of the club. It's a nice cool summer night. Donna enjoys every minute of her career as a feature dancer and porn star. She was sincere when she said, "I want to offer to fans everything I can give because I appreciate them and want them to have every single piece of me!" She has tons of plans but when I asked her to comment on the future she said, "I want to enjoy where I am for a while." Currently Donna is one of the top features in the country. She travels 40 weeks a year touring and the rest of the time is doing movies. A self-pronounced workaholic, Donna travels across the US a few times each year. You'll see pictures of her from the Exotic Dancers Expo August 2007 for sure! The fire department had arrived and the club was swarming with firemen. I'll bet it was the best duty they had in weeks! The girls at the club didn't seem to mind either and made it obvious to the firemen. We went back to the dressing room so Donna could change. When she was naked I asked her about attending Nudes a Poppin'. "I would love to go," she said, "but I've been booked elsewhere each year!" Looking at Donna close up and naked I was almost poppin' myself! Donna has done almost 60 movies so far. Recent ones are "Cheating Housewives 3" and shot in Brazil, her first anal with John West, "Rio Whores". To book Donna Doll go through Pure Talent for feature dancing and Lisa Ann's Talent Management for movies. Fans can reach Donna through her website XXXDonnaDoll.com. Silver Reign, North Hollywood is a nicely decorated spacious club where the dancers have the smallest fees and the customers have the biggest discounts of any club around. The management is friendly and the girls were chatty and affectionate even when they learned that my columnist Myles Shaffer and I were there to work! Read more about the club and features in Myles' column "Myles' Weekend Adventures" and get a copy of the January Gent magazine and have a look at the shots I took of Donna in the dressing room and a couple of her pyrotechnics on stage!
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For Impact 89FM, my name is J.Wiz, and we are here at the Intersection in Grand Rapids with two friends from Tally Hall, guys, why don't you introduce yourselves for us.
Zubin Sedghi (blue tie): I'm Z-intellect.
Ross Federman (gray tie) : I'm Ross, I don't have a DJ name.
Z: You actually do have a DJ name!
F: ..I do have a DJ name.
What is it?
F: Uhh, mr. F
Did you guys DJ in college?
F: I D.J.ed a lot in Brooklyn, where I used to live.
Z: Have you seen Arrested Development?
Z: (sings..) Mr. F..
Z: It's an Arrested Development reference.
Oh okay, I must not have seen that episode.
Z: It's okay.
F: Season 3. Charlize Theron? Mentally retarded female?
Oh yeah!
F: Well my last name starts with an F, so Mr. F is sort of a … it's a reference and a reality.
This album, Good and Evil, it's been a long time coming.
Z: It has.
It's been about six years? Since the last one came out?
Z: Well when we re-released it in, what was it? 2007? 2008?
Z: Yeah, but that was already a re-release so it's been about four or five years. It's been a long time. We've wanted to release it for quite a while but we're just so thankful that we finally were able to release it an everyone gets to hear it, and we get to play the music and people know it.
Is it the only thing you guys have been working on, or have there been any side projects?
F: Well we spent a lot of time working on the internet show, or this, the Tally Hall internet show? Or is it Tally Hall's internet show? Tally Hall's. This is horribly embarrassing, we should cut this out, but we can't, I'm sure. Anyway, we did an internet show… we spent a lot of time doing a series of internet shorts, or skits if you will. We did a lot of touring, we weren't able to really write, there was a certain period of time, after we released Marvin's, and after we subsequently re-released Marvin's, where you're on the road and it's tough to write and really come up with new material in the process of trying to market your other material. So there was a lot of that going on.
As far as sound goes, how would you compare this [album, Good & Evil] to Marvin's [Marvelous Mechanical Museum]?
Z: Well, it's different. We're a little bit older, I would say, but I would leave it to the listener to see how they feel about it. We've been so close to the music that it's difficult to exactly place it for us, but there have been years in between writing these songs so it's definitely a different sound.
This is a personal curiosity I've always had about that first album, did you guys ever meet with Marvin? I've been to that museum, did you ever hang out with him and say, "Why don't you listen to this?"
F: We have, several times actually. In fact, one time he took us to a really awesome place. I don't even know how to describe where he took us to.
Z: The name is pretty good actually.
F: What was it called?
Z: Theatre Bizarre.
F: Theatre Bizarre! He took us to a place named Theatre Bizarre, and he had us follow him, and he was just a crazy– his driving was on par with the way Marvin's Museum is laid out,
Z: Which is hectic.
F: Which is very hectic, but we got there safely. And it was a very cool place, we ended up filming our Two Wuv music video there.
[Editor's note, here's a link to the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ54SA_wa68 ]
Was he happy to have that album named after him?
F: Well, he's sort of a little aloof, to say the least. I think the relationship was very friendly though. It's tough to say that he was happy, he was obviously okay with it and yeah, we like him and I think he likes us? So, leave it at that.
So you guys are back with Quack Media again, how does it feel to be back with them?
Z: You know when it's the wintertime and you have a glove that you really like, and then you loose the glove, and then you're wearing this other glove and it's itchy and it's not the same, and it's more expensive and kind of flashy and people are like,"Ohh look at that glove!"
But it doesn't totally feel right, and then the glove's like, "We don't want to release your CD."
And then you get really complicated emotions with the glove and the glove ends up like, firing you, not really, kind of mutually departing with the glove, and then there's another glove that was your old glove, then you go back to that, and you're like, "Oh it's nice to be back with this original glove."
'Cause it's like cold outside, that's kind of what it felt like.
Could this other glove perhaps be a reference to Atlantic Records?
Z: What glove are you talking about?
The fancy glove?
Z: No not at all, it's just about something you wear on your hands when your hands are cold.
Are there any more videos that we should be expecting on the internet that you guys have been working on, or have those all been released?
F: All the videos that were at this point in time completed have been released, but there's definitely some work being done on music videos for this album. I don't think we have any firm release dates necessarily on them, but they're underway.
Z: And hopefully we'll have something during this touring, video releases, that will perhaps, we're working on it. There will be something.
F: There will be some video content to go along with the record.
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Velvet And Brass
Mel Torme, Rob McConnell And The Boss Brass
1. Nobody Else But Me 3:56 2. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 3:28 3. If You Could See Me Now 4:46 4. I Get A Kick Out Of You 5:14 5. Have You Met Miss Jones? 2:44 6. Love Walked In 3:30 7. Autumn Serenade 5:54 8. My Sweetie Went Away 3:25 9. I'll Be Around 4:19 10. On The Swing Shift 3:15 11. High And Low 3:07 12. In The Still Of The Night 4:58 13. I'm Glad There Is You 4:34
Mel has collaborated with Rob McConnell and the vibrant Boss Brass before, but everyone on these sessions seem more inspired, energized, and full of spruce then than on the previous album. McConnell uses the rudiments of composition and harmony in the same way, elevating band charts from the dregs of monotony to create cohesive, lyrical and spontaneous jazz in an exciting, entertaining manor. This is the quintessential landscape to showcase the full range and personality of Mel Torme.
This album was recorded in Hollywood, Ca, on July 13, 1995.
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Race Results Junior Women's Cross Country Results The U.S. National Mountain Bike Team continued its campaign at the 2005 UCI World Championships on Thursday as Chloe Forsman (Boulder, Colo.) scored a top-ten finish in the 10.5-mile junior women's cross country race. Forsman finished ninth to record the best finish for an American junior woman cross country rider since 2001 and vastly improved upon her 26th-place effort from a year ago. With 43 riders representing 22 countries, Forsman started strong and continued to improve throughout the race. After clocking the 13th fastest time at the first checkpoint, Forsman advanced to 10th position at the second time check before picking off one more rider to close out her day in the ninth spot, six minutes and 21 seconds off the pace of winner Tereza Hurikova of the Czech Republic. Hanna Klein (GER) and Tanja Zakelj (SLO) rounded out the podium in second and third respectively. The only other American rider in the race, Danae York (Indio, Calif.) finished 38th. Results 10.5 miles 1. Tereza Hurikova (CZE) 1:13:14 2. Hanna Klein (GER) +1:03 3. Tanja Zakelj (SLO) +2:18 9. Chloe Forsman (Boulder, Colo.) +6:21 38. Danae York (Indio, Calif.) +31:00 |
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