Although The Kinks are still far away from the reunion, the fans of this British rock band still got some new music recently. A previously unreleased song from 1968, titled “Time Song,” was unveiled as part of the promotion for band’s upcoming 50th-anniversary edition of their sixth studio album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
This edition will be available on October 26th, and you can check out the song below.
“Time Song” will be available both digitally and as a limited edition seven-inch vinyl. Although the track wasn’t included on any previous album, The Kinks did play it live on one occasion. It was in January 1973 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
“When we played a concert at Drury Lane in ’73 to ‘celebrate’ us about to join what was called the Common Market, I decided to use the song as a warning that time was running out for the old British Empire,” explained frontman Ray Davies in a statement. “This song was recorded a few weeks later but never made the final cut on the Preservation Act I album. Oddly enough, the song seems quite poignant and appropriate to release at this time in British history, and like Europe itself the track its a rough mix which still has to be finessed.”
The 50th-anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society will be available as standard 2-CD version as well as a deluxe box set. According to the official description, the set will contain numerous exciting things for The Kinks’ fans including: “remastered original album, B-sides, live cuts, other unreleased tracks and alternate versions, mixes and backing tracks; three seven-inch singles, a gatefold double-LP, various memorabilia and a 52-page hardback photo book featuring sleeve notes, interviews, photography and essays from the Who’s Pete Townshend and journalist Kate Mossman.”
