Muswell Hillbillies

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They're trying to build a computerised community," but vows that "they'll never make a zombie out of me. The album introduces a number of working class figures and the stresses with which they must contend. With “20th Century Man”, I had this image – I wrote a short story about it – of a man in the last house in the street to be demolished. Churchill Says" " Strangers" " This Time Tomorrow" " Rats" " Got to Be Free" " Have a Cuppa Tea" " Oklahoma U.

Muswell Hillbillies - Rolling Stone

Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues” is about someone who feels like they’re not in control of their own life anymore. In fact, there are some crazed loons who would go so far as to claim that the Kinks are none other than the greatest rock and roll band of all time.However, in a more critical analysis of the song, Mike Saunders of Rolling Stone said, "The country stuff [on Muswell Hillbillies] is another matter.

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The compassionate way in which he shows us the contrast between the girl’s monochrome life and her Technicolor daydreams is so delicate it’s almost balletic. It also has an antiquated style, mostly attributed to the fact that the entire album was recorded with ten-year-old equipment. But then stand outside Ray Davies’s childhood home for a moment, and try to calculate its interior dimensions.

The charming demo “Nobody’s Fool”, meeting us in a familiar Soho, sounds like a Percy outtake but was in fact a theme tune for the ITV series Budgie. Muswell Hillbillies was the band's first album for RCA Records, [2] their prior recordings having been released on Pye Records ( Reprise Records in the United States).

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies (1971, Gatefold, Vinyl) - Discogs The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies (1971, Gatefold, Vinyl) - Discogs

The front cover picture was taken by Rod Shone in the Archway Tavern, a pub in Archway (more than two miles away from Muswell Hill). Such as things like the Kinks nasally whining 'I'm a Muswell hillbilly boy, But my heart lies in old West Virginia. Looking ideally-sized for a young couple with a baby, 6 Denmark Terrace had to house Fred and Annie Davies and various permutations of their eight children. A Kinks fan making a pilgrimage to modern-day Muswell Hill would probably experience a slight disconnect.The back inset picture, showing the band below a signpost giving directions to Muswell Hill, was taken on the small traffic island at the intersection of Castle Yard and Southwood Lane in Highgate. It also appeared in live format on Everybody's in Show-Biz (the follow-up to Muswell Hillbillies) and To the Bone. And that’s why it’s such a drag to hear the routine 1971 country slide guitar rot turning up on a Kinks album, even if only in a couple spots. A previous Kinks album had used the village green as a symbol of a nostalgic Eden (and another had portrayed Australia as a pot of gold for emigrating Brits), but a move to Muswell Hill – the conceptual glue holding the 12 songs on this 1971 LP together – seems in Ray’s eyes to represent a defeat for the working class, a victory for bureaucracy and the fracturing of a way of life. He says his farewells to his friends, including Rosie Rooke, who "wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress [the singer.