Muswell Hillbillies

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No character, just uniformity. They're trying to build a computerised community," but vows that "they'll never make a zombie out of me." a b c d e Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies> Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 November 2011. The album introduces a number of working class figures and the stresses with which they must contend. It did not sell well but received critical acclaim and lasting fan appreciation. Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 Side A runout stamped (last three characters etched)): APRS 5984 - 4E A3D

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Despite its affectionate title, Muswell Hillbillies is anything but a tender tribute to the north London suburb that Ray and Dave Davies knew as home. 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. The character in “20th Century Man”, the opening song, is a disillusioned anti-hero, alienated by every current trend and unhappy about the erosion of his civil liberties. The narrator of “Complicated Life” is plagued by a catalogue of chronic ailments. The old man being remembered in “Uncle Son” never had a voice, never had a politician willing to speak for him. These people were mis-sold a utopia and cheated out of a vote. My eldest sister, Rosie, brought me up. It’s a song about her going to work in a factory, and her way of escaping was the movies. No Nintendo. No PlayStation. No apps in those days. Rosie’s escape was the movies. I used her as a springboard and then I drifted off into my own world. As she walks to the corner shop, she’s “walking on the surrey with the fringe on top”. “The Surrey With The Fringe On Top” is a song from Oklahoma!. It’s the song that my other sister, Rene, was dancing to [at the Lyceum in 1957] when she died. A lot of inner messages are linked into the words. Only people who know me would fully understand them.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). Their contract with Pye/Reprise expired the same year. The album was recorded between August and October 1971

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Josephes, Jason (24 August 2004). "The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 9 November 2011. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4thed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734. Dave Davies commented on the song, "There's that love and fondness for Americana and for country music because I had quite a big family, and all the great films like South Pacific and Oklahoma! – all these influences from the States – were embedded in our culture when growing up. It was kind of like a London version of The Beverly Hillbillies in a humorous way." [2] Release [ edit ]The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies 1971 classic album has been remastered in stereo from the original audio source for the albums 50th Anniversary on heavy weight 180 gram vinyl. Have A Cuppa Tea" (LP6: Muswell Hillbillies/Everybody's In Show Biz: Everybody's A Star: Ray Davies remixes) (3:46) Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 Side B runout stamped (last three characters etched)): APRS 5985 - 4E A2G Have A Cuppa Tea" (CD3: Muswell Hillbillies/Everybody's In Show Biz: Everybody's A Star: Ray Davies remixes)