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The track borrows the main riff from The Kinks' 1964 song, "All Day and All of the Night", which was one of the band's first hits. [2] The lyrics feature the return of the transvestite title character from The Kinks' 1970 hit song, "Lola"; in "Destroyer", the singer brings Lola to his place where he becomes increasingly paranoid. [3]
"Set Me Free" is a song by Ray Davies, released first by the Kinks in 1965. Along with " Tired of Waiting for You ", it is one of band's first attempts at a softer, more introspective sound. The song's B-side, " I Need You ", makes prominent use of powerchords in the style of the Kinks' early, "raunchy" sound.
[1] [2] The lyrics also act as a commentary on the music business, a recurring theme in Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One). "Got to Be Free" opens as a kind of lullaby ("Hush little baby/Don't you cry"), the same lyrics and tune as the album's introduction on side A, but soon changes to a more standard rock song structure ...
He did not include the song on his original twelve-track edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, planned for UK release in September 1968. [27] When he delayed the album's release by two months to expand its track listing to fifteen tracks, "Animal Farm" was among the songs he added. [ 28 ]
The Kinks recorded "Stop Your Sobbing" on Kinks, which was rushed out in order to capitalize on the success of "You Really Got Me." [3] Kinks biographer Rob Jovanovic writes that "Stop Your Sobbing" was supposedly written by Ray about a former girlfriend who, fearing that fame would change him, broke down in tears upon seeing how popular he had become. [4]
Muswell Hillbillies is the tenth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks. Released on 24 November 1971, it was the band's first album released through RCA Records. 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. [3]
The Kinks expanded on their English sound throughout the remainder of the 1960s, incorporating elements of music hall, folk, and baroque music through use of harpsichord, acoustic guitar, Mellotron, and horns, in albums such as Face to Face, Something Else by the Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur (Or the ...
Prior to its release, Kinks member Ray Davies intended for the track to be the opening track of a possible film adaptation of the album. However, RCA refused to finance this project, and it was scrapped. [3] "Muswell Hillbilly" was first released on the Muswell Hillbillies album in 1971, where it