1967 was a really good year for songs from Ray Davies the Kinks. So many of them are about England and its social traditions and habits. David Watts is this boy you envied in high school, he was good at sports, girls loved him, top student, from a wealthy family. It's also possible that since the girls can't catch him and he is so 'gay and fancy free,' there may be another side to David Watts that produces hero worship in the narrator.
I really love the opening '1234' with it's reversed vocal processing, that whooshing sound. As usual, the lyrics are brilliant and visual. The piano echoes the vocal line, and the other guys sing a kind of posh 'wish I could be....' Oscar Wilde would have loved this song.
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