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The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1467539
Disk length: 50m 55s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1971
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. 20th Century Man | 5:52 |
| 2. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues | 3:28 |
| 3. Holiday | 2:37 |
| 4. Skin And Bone | 3:35 |
| 5. Alcohol | 3:33 |
| 6. Complicated Life | 4:00 |
| 7. Here Come The People In Grey | 3:43 |
| 8. Have A Cuppa Tea | 3:42 |
| 9. Holloway Jail | 3:23 |
| 10. Oklahoma U.S.A. | 2:36 |
| 11. Uncle Son | 2:29 |
| 12. Muswell Hillbilly | 4:53 |
| 13. Mountain Woman | 3:04 |
| 14. Kentucky Moon | 3:51 |
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Review
The first album in the Kinks' RCA phase, this 1971 aggregation stands as one of the pivotal titles in the group's extensive oeuvre. Check out the cover for a sense where this collection is rooted: the five longhaired lads mill about at a sunlit working-class pub where the regulars go about their libationary affairs. The album's keynote tracks--"20th Century Man," "Holiday," "Here Come the People in Grey"--focus on proletariat proceedings that were familiar to frontman Ray Davies and his guitar-slinging sibling, Dave. Indeed, the title track's name is concocted from of the name of the north London community where the Davies brothers grew up and the then-popular Beverly Hillbillies TV show. Musically, Muswell Hillbillies draws on country and pub-jazz elements; check out the trad-band brass that adorns the intoxicating "Alcohol." Ray Davies called this album his "existentialist-type record," noting that he resisted the temptation to design a radio-friendly single to succeed "Lola" in favor of devising a conceptual collection of tunes. For better or worse, it would be some time before he'd abandon his predilection for plots. --Steven Stolder
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