Preservation: Acts 1 & 2

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Preservation: Act 1
Studio album by The Kinks
Released	November 16, 1973
Recorded	March - July, 1973
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	46:54
Label	Velvel
Producer(s)	Ray Davies
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (Average of both ratings) Act1 Act2
The Kinks chronology
The Great Lost Kinks Album (1972)	Preservation: Acts 1 & 2 (1973)	Soap Opera (1974)
Preservation: Act 2

Preservation: Act 1 and Preservation: Act 2 are a 1973 concept released as separate albums in 1973 and 1974 by the English rock group The Kinks.

The Preservation albums were not well-received by critics and sold poorly (the first one peaking on the Billboard 200 at #177), though the live performances of the material were much better received. Many hardcore Kinks fans were alienated by Ray Davies' melodramatic songwriting during the Preservation project era, resulting in albums that played more like the soundtracks to a piece of musical theatre than rock albums.

However, more recent reviews of Preservation: Act 1 have been more sympathetic to its ambitions, and its inclusion of the track "Sweet Lady Genevieve", which All Music's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the "real candidate for Davies' forgotten masterpiece".

The CD reissue of Preservation: Act 1 includes the single versions of "Preservation" and "One of the Survivors," not available on the original vinyl release. The latter briefly charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and peaked at #108.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Preservation: Act 1

1. "Preservation"* – 3:37
2. "Morning Song" – 2:00
3. "Daylight" – 3:19
4. "Sweet Lady Genevieve" – 3:26
5. "There's a Change in the Weather" – 2:59
6. "Where Are They Now?" – 3:28
7. "One of the Survivors" – 4:31
8. "Cricket" – 2:56
9. "Money & Corruption" / "I Am Your Man" – 6:01
10. "Here Comes Flash" – 2:41
11. "Sitting in the Midday Sun" – 3:47
12. "Demolition" – 4:07
13. "One of the Survivors"* – 4:07

[edit] Preservation: Act 2

1. "Announcement" – 0:41
2. "Introduction to Solution" – 2:43
3. "When a Solution Comes" – 3:40
4. "Money Talks" – 3:44
5. "Announcement" – 0:55
6. "Shepherds of the Nation" – 4:17
7. "Scum of the Earth" – 2:45
8. "Second-Hand Car Spiv" – 4:01
9. "He's Evil" – 4:25
10. "Mirror of Love" – 3:26
11. "Announcement" – 0:34
12. "Nobody Gives" – 6:33
13. "Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?" – 3:40
14. "Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)" – 4:17
15. "Flash's Confession" – 4:06
16. "Nothing Lasts Forever" – 3:42
17. "Announcement" – 0:20
18. "Artificial Man" – 5:30
19. "Scrapheap City" – 3:16
20. "Announcement" – 1:05
21. "Salvation Road" – 3:20
22. "Mirror of Love"* – 3:29
23. "Slum Kids"* – 6:27

The songs marked with a star are bonus tracks on CD reissues.

The Kinks
Ray Davies – Dave Davies – Pete Quaife – Ian Gibbons – Mick Avory – Jim Rodford
John Gosling – John Dalton – Bob Henrit – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards
Discography
Albums: The Kinks (1964) - Kinda Kinks (1965) - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) - Face to Face (1966) - Something Else by the Kinks (1967) - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) - Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) - Muswell Hillbillies (1971) - Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) - Preservation: Act 1 (1973) - Preservation: Act 2 (1974) - Soap Opera (1975) - Schoolboys in Disgrace (1976) - Sleepwalker (1977) - Misfits (1978) - Low Budget (1979) - Give the People What They Want (1981) - State of Confusion (1983) - Word of Mouth (1984) - Think Visual (1986) - UK Jive (1989) - Phobia (1993)
Songs: "You Really Got Me" – "Waterloo Sunset" – "Sunny Afternoon" – "Lola" – "All Day and All of the Night" – "Celluloid Heroes"
Related: British Invasion - Argent