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Muswell Hill was my childhood home and the Kinks ('The Muswell Hillbillies)' were my family's neighbours shortly before I was born. There wasn't a time when I didn't know that 'Ray Davies once knocked on our front door and asked to borrow a bucket'. I've had 'Apeman' by the Kinks going around my head for hours .. literally all night. Its not one of their finest songs in my view. Ray's intimate observational pieces about every day life and love(eg- Waterloo Sunset) remain fresh to this day, and earned him a reputation as a social commentator of note - I think he must have felt the need to live up to this reputation, as a lot of his subsequent songs (eg- 'Ape-man' and 'Dead-end Street') feel comparalatively heavy-handed in their treatment of social themes. A touch contrived and laboured - still good stuff though. Imagine the pressures he must have been under when he was writing in the late 60s - suddenly everyone had expectations - its not easy to write songs to order-'Wriite hits! Write songs that can compete with the Beatles and Stones- both commercially and artistically! No pressure, its only your livelihood and your friend's livelihood and your place in history that are at stake!'. Still got Ape-man going round and round .. mainly the chorus .. and I don't know the words, but I now the
words are wrong .. adn they keep changing ... 'compared to a battleship or a can of baked beans .. I m an ape, man'
bongodream| Jun 25, 2017
Wow! This is incredible. Thanks for the best profile comment I've gotten so far
I don't know if Ray was under pressure or not in the late '60s, it was an amazing creative streak for him. "Village Green" and "Arthur" are two of my favorite records by any band. They're just pure inspiration, both of them. Their catalog gets a little spotty later on in the '70s -- maybe that was when the pressure started to bear down on him.
ALSO and this might be one reason they fell off somewhat, Nicky Hopkins contributed a lot to both of those records, to the extent that he says he pretty much wrote many of the songs on "Village Green" but Ray wouldn't give him songwriting credits. Later on, they stopped working together. I'm inclined to believe him, just because he had such an amazing career and played as a session man on so many other great records.