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Davies ' mid-period work for the Kinks also showed signs of an emerging social conscience.

For example, " Holiday in Waikiki " ( 1966 ) deplored the vulgar commercialization of a once unspoiled indigenous culture.

Similarly, " God's Children " and " Apeman " ( both 1970 ), and the songs " 20th Century Man ", " Complicated Life " and " Here Come the People in Grey " from Muswell Hillbillies ( 1971 ), passionately decried industrialization and bureaucracy in favour of simple pastoral living.

Perhaps most significantly, the band's acclaimed 1968 concept album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society gave an affectionate embrace to " Merry England " nostalgia and advocated for the preservation of traditional English country village and hamlet life.