wasted
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Definitely musically that's pretty good description. With Kurt doing Lennon on Cold Turkey vocals.
Kurt's voice has that Young yodel on a lot of the early, like Spank Thru. Lithium. There was a early song Wes Scatlin covered. That illustrates it.
Wes thinks it's just about straining, but Kurt has that Young yodel on About a Girl which makes it work.
That's how I see it, once they got banned they started doing British songs like Waterloo and Sunny Afternoon, then they really went into it on Village and Arthur.
But by 1970 they brought back the rock more.
Blur didn't try to break America for 4 albums, then with self titled they tried with Song 2. They did it opposite to The Kinks.
My guess is Muswell Hillbillies is much more lauded in North London than say Birmingham which is heavy metal territory. Village and Arthur resonate with middle England, everyone who lives in a village in England and plays cricket likes Village Green. Weird thing is 60s Londoners think RNB and Blues were a British thing, it was a part of their scene.
They kind of fell between two stools.
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