Muswell Hillbillies

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Mostly, Muswell Hillbillies operates in a state of exaggerated calamity where pain meets the funny bone. Such as things like the Kinks nasally whining “I’m a Muswell hillbilly boy, But my heart lies in old West Virginia” or Ray singing the saga of “Holloway Jail,” a total doggerel of a song which would have been more at home on some forgotten Marty Robbins album ten years ago. Churchill Says" " Strangers" " This Time Tomorrow" " Rats" " Got to Be Free" " Have a Cuppa Tea" " Oklahoma U. The most disturbing matter of all concerns a very serious recent Kinks problem that has turned up once again here on Muswell Hillbillies: production. Most of the music-hall style songs come over pretty well, even if the genre is minor compared to things the Kinks have done in the past.

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So Mystifying" " Bald Headed Woman" " Stop Your Sobbing" " Dancing in the Street" " I Need You" " I Go to Sleep" " I'm Not Like Everybody Else" " Big Black Smoke" " Party Line" " Rosy Won't You Please Come Home" " Love Me Till the Sun Shines" " David Watts" " Two Sisters" " Polly" " She's Got Everything" " Do You Remember Walter? He tapes explosives to his body, so that if they come to knock the house down, he’ll blow the place up, including himself. Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] “Slut! 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). Mountain Woman” and the Randy Newman-like “Kentucky Moon” are examples of Davies’s early ’70s fascination with rural American societies (“uneducated but they’re happy”), whom he romanticised like lost tribes.

The Kinks who roared out of Muswell Hill in 1964 with “Long Tall Sally,”“You Do Something To Me,” and (finally) “You Really Got Me” weren’t any shuffling hillbillies, they were grade-A urban brats: and they later matured in a way encompassing broadened scope and sensibilities that few rock bands have ever matched. The best way to describe the difference between the original 1st UK (this listing) and the 1st USA is the USA is far more polite and reserved while the UK is punchier, wider and more open. They're trying to build a computerised community," but vows that "they'll never make a zombie out of me.

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AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine cited the track as a highlight from the Muswell Hillbillies album.

The album is named after the Muswell Hill area of North London, where band leader Ray Davies and guitarist Dave Davies grew up and the band formed in the early 1960s. Looks like I have a choice between the RCA pressing which is flat and muffled, but has the gatefold, and the dynaflex pressing which has range but does not have the gatefold sleeve. 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. Ever since the Kinks started handling their own production on Village Green, it’s been a detracting factor from time to time, and here it seems to have reached its ultimate dilemma.