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* ConspicuousConsumption: The main target of the entire album is how local traditions are being ground down by consumerism and modern life, including pressures to have unrealistic weight ("Skin And Bone"), expecting that a "computerized community" can stifle local Cockney pride and so on. In the end, people are confused, bitter and alone.

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* ConspicuousConsumption: The main target of the entire album is how local traditions are being ground down by consumerism and modern life, including pressures to have unrealistic weight ("Skin And and Bone"), expecting that a "computerized community" can stifle local Cockney pride and so on. In the end, people are confused, bitter and alone.



* NewSoundAlbum: Marked a new country rock sound for the Kinks, specifically it mixes American country with English musical hall, so convincingly that it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends. "20th Century Man" is even sung with a typical country western nasal twang.

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* NewSoundAlbum: Marked a new country rock sound for the Kinks, it specifically it mixes American country with English musical hall, so convincingly that it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends. "20th Century Man" is even sung with a typical country western nasal twang.



* WorkingClassHero: “Uncle Son”, which ambiguously seems to be a eulogy for a simple man, more sympathetic in tone than [[Music/JohnLennon Lennon's]] famous song but the same undercurrent of scorn is there. It notes how working class people are honoured and eulogized but exploited by the same people who romanticize their plight:

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* WorkingClassHero: “Uncle Son”, which ambiguously seems to be a eulogy for a simple man, more sympathetic in tone than [[Music/JohnLennon Lennon's]] famous song but the same undercurrent of scorn is there. It notes how working class working-class people are honoured and eulogized but exploited by the same people who romanticize their plight:
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''Muswell Hillbillies'' is the tenth studio album by Music/TheKinks, released in 1971. Named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muswell_Hill Muswell Hill]], the district of North UsefulNotes/{{London}} in which the Davies brothers grew up, it introduced a new {{country music}} influence to the band's sound, as well as UsefulNotes/NewOrleans style horns on some tracks.

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''Muswell Hillbillies'' is the tenth studio album by Music/TheKinks, released in 1971. Named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muswell_Hill Muswell Hill]], the district of North UsefulNotes/{{London}} in which the Davies brothers grew up, it introduced a new {{country music}} influence to the band's sound, as well as UsefulNotes/NewOrleans style UsefulNotes/NewOrleans-style horns on some tracks.
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* WorkingClassHero: “Uncle Son”, which ambiguously seems to be a eulogy for a simple man, more sympathetic in tone than Lennon's famous song but the same undercurrent of scorn is there. It notes how working class people are honoured and eulogized but exploited by the same people who romanticize their plight:

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* WorkingClassHero: “Uncle Son”, which ambiguously seems to be a eulogy for a simple man, more sympathetic in tone than Lennon's [[Music/JohnLennon Lennon's]] famous song but the same undercurrent of scorn is there. It notes how working class people are honoured and eulogized but exploited by the same people who romanticize their plight:

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