Muswell Hillbillies

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Josephes, Jason (24 August 2004). "The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 9 November 2011.

And to finish, 4 CDs (each in gatefold card sleeves), which replicate the two original albums, the bonus remixes and a CD of a travel montage from the 1971 tour. Ray went on to study at Hornsey College of Art, but kept the band going with gigs at local pubs like the Clissold Arms and the Archway Tavern – which features on the Muswell Hillbillies album cover. They also played Hornsey Town Hall on Valentine’s Day 1963. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4thed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734. Not all of the songs on Muswell Hillbillies are so bleak. Many are hilarious, in fact, such as “Have a Cuppa Tea”, which sends up the, yes, tradition of English reliance on the caffeinated beverage as a coping mechanism. But each song revolves around a central theme about the dehumanizing machinery of modernity.What's a Muswell Hillbilly? Well, Muswell Hill was a community in England that the Davies family had to move to after their neighborhood in North London was razed and gentrified. You do the math, kiddo. Previously unseen, digitally restored Ray Davies 1971 home movie, narrated by Ray (15 minutes long). 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 Original artwork for the Muswell Hillbillies album is included in a deluxe release (Image: Marketing Mix/BMG Rights Management) Now with a new record company and a new image, I could bring some of the old wild western spirit into my music."

The Kinks at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on June 30, 1972. Left to Right: John Dalton, Ray Davies, Dave Davies, John Gosling (Image: 1972 Jorgen Angel) Saunders, Mike (3 February 1972). "The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies". Rolling Stone. No.RS 101. Straight Arrow. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008.

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Dave Davies (Ray’s younger brother) takes issue with such understandings of the band’s politics. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Davies rejects the label “conservative” (used by Pete Townshend in a reflection on Village Green). In response to the word “conservatism”, Davies says, “I think it was ‘values’ more than conservatism. My father was a socialist — very left — and I was brought up to be that way. You can still be far-left and have values.” Promoting his recent Americanaproject in an insightful interview with The Quietus, Ray Davies sums up his uncomfortable politics succinctly: “I haven’t found a political party that adequately expresses how I feel about the world. My dad was a working-class socialist, but as a person . . . I just don’t want people in shops to have to sell their businesses. I don’t know what that makes me.” In these lines, one hears clear echoes of the 1968 song “Village Green”, in which the singer laments, “I miss the village green / and all the simple people.” In the body politic, Davies was far more interested in the body than the politic. No character, just uniformity. They're trying to build a computerised community," but vows that "they'll never make a zombie out of me." Stolder, Steven. "Muswell Hillbillies". MusicVIP.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011 . Retrieved 5 December 2009. Muswell Hillbillies’ 2014 gatefold deluxe 2LP remastered from newly discovered Ray Davies original master tapes, colour vinyl.