I grew up with the music from the British Invasion. The Kinks were huge & had a lot of hits. I especially love their music from the 60's & 70's. "You Really Got Me", "All Day & All Of The Night", "Set Me Free", "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion", "Tired Of Waiting For You", "A Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon", "Waterloo Sunset", "Dead End Street", "Autumn Almanac" etc.
The song was banned by the BBC because the original lyrics were "tastes just like Coca-Cola", which violated the BBC's product placement policy. Davies, therefore, changed them to "tastes just like cherry cola". In 1970, homosexual acts were illegal in Australia, which led to the song being banned in that country. A classic, iconic rocker from this legendary band. Thanks for your reaction.
Along with Coca-Cola change, another original line was "I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola" - not "dark low voice." Also, I saw a comment saying the song was written about an event that happened to an "inexperienced roadie" - but the Kinks says it was written about band's manager. Just fyi.
@@karenfryberger4260 Right, I noticed the "dark low voice" lyric here, but often, lyric videos are garbled. That's most likely the case with this misprint. As far as the true story of the song's inspiration, it seems the "mgr." one is the most common. That may simply be because it's the one most often repeated, with various band members & associates telling slightly different tales. Thanks for your reply.
You can hear the wind go 'woosh' over my older sisters head and when this song was out, she thought it was a romantic encounter between a man and a woman She thought when he got down on his knees, he was proposing. I tried to explain it to her and finally let her just make a fool of herself and I enjoyed the song for what it really was. She still thinks that. Duh.
At the beginning of the song, the original lyrics are "it tastes just like coca-cola, but they weren't allowed to use it and the words were changed to "cherry cola." I have the album with the original lyrics! Fun fact, I got to hear them play at Fordham University in 1973. I was in high school. Aerosmith opened for them! 🎶✌️
Your SMILE! You got it when you should have! HAHAHAHA!!! Don't tell me people weren't progressive back in the 60's! Back when I was a teenager, this song was so catchy, we loved it! And we didn't CARE! You're awesome! Thank you for reviewing this and bringing a smile to my face.
Hi. May I suggest that you might also like The Zombies - 'She's not there.' (1964), or 'Time of the season' ('68). I think either one would be a great introduction.
The Kinks were part of the first British invasion back in the early 1960’s. They were more punky with full of satire.Tremendous talent and gutsy musically and lyrically!They did comeback and played in the U.S.A. In the late 1970’s!Ray and Dave fought all the time!
thanks, MMB! The Kinks were awesome... this song was supposedly based on the true experience of one of their "naive" young roadies... they have so many great songs...I hope you listen to more.. they are very diverse in their music...
Your smile is adorable. Nice reaction. I've loved this song for a very long time. I first heard it about 10 years after it came out. I was about 14. They have some very good music.
Lola and the fellow singing are both very comfortable in their respective skins, living life for the fun and love in it, not striving to out-do each other, not condemning the other for being their individual selves. Particularly relevant in today's PRONOUN-FEARFUL WORLD.
A new band....omfg brother So next: Celluloid Heroes! The emotion and love and respect shown will impress you! Then theres so many. Destroyer? You Really Got Me? Ray Davies: Come Dancing?
I've seen a few reactions to this tune. You are the first who saw the whole thing coming. Most just have a deeply quizzical expression throughout the entire song.😎
The BBC banned the track for a different reason the original lyrics had the line tastes like Coca Cola the BBC by its charter is not allowed to advertise because of its charter. Davies flew back to London from being on tour in the US and rerecorded that part to say tastes like cherry cola only the UK version had the cherry cola lyric the us version had the Coca Cola lyric both versions are available online.
Great reaction to a great song. Gen Xers think that's a newer song. Outstanding. They also sing one of my favorite Christmas songs. I worked in restaurants for years and would get tired if the sugar sweet Christmas songs. I would jam this or play it on the jukebox at the local joint. The Kinks "Father Christmas"!! Great punk rock Christmas song. 😅😂😊
To add a little retro-rock/blues and rockabilly into your Xmas Playlist, may I suggest 2018's " Socks " by JD McPherson. The title track is just what you think. Getting Socks for a gift. Other songs include " Hey Skinny Santa " " Ugly Sweater Blues " and " Santa's Got a Mean Machine "
Welcome to 'The Kinks'! - Reccommendations:- Early - 'All of the Day and All of the Night', 'You Really Got Me' - Mid 60's 'Waterloo Senset', 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' - Later 'Apeman', 'Come Dancing' - Famous Covers:- 'David Watts' by The Jam, 'Days' by Kirsty McColl, 'Stop Your Sobbing' by The Pretenders.
Loved this song from the first time I heard it when it was brand new in the 1960s. I hadn't heard the last story involving Davies and Candy Darling, but it does bring it full circle back to Lou Reed and "Walk on the Wild Side". There's something satisfying in that. I can definitely recommend "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting for You", "Well-Respected Man", and "Come Dancing".
The Kinks have had a long history as a British Rock group. They had their share of television performances on network variety shows and syndicated music programs in the 1960s. The band continued to record and tour in the 1970s and 1980s. They also made some entertaining music videos as well. Some other songs by The Kinks that you might want to react to, are “You’ve Really Got Me” (which was later covered by Van Halen), “All Day (And All Of The Night)”, and the songs/music videos for “Predictable”, and “Come Dancing”.
Google The Kinks and John Wayne Gacey... They did a concert in Springfield Illinois promoted by the local Jaycees. Gacey was a VP for The Jaycees. He invited the band back to his house after the show! After a few drinks Gacey seemed to " take a bit of a shine " to Dave. That combined with a strange odor in the house, the boys got the hell out! Dave would go on to write " Death of a Clown!".
He shall be called SIR Raymond Davies nowadays.... 😊 PS: In the first verse, the moment he says "Old Soho", you got an idea of the direction this was going......
The US was the worst for banning things nick named “ the puritanical society “, books music you name it. When Elvis appeared on tv for the first time, on Ed Sullivan, camera operators were instructed to only show him “ waist up “ In 1975 the Gordon Lightfoot song “ Black Day in July “ ( about the 1975 race riots ) was banned from US air waves.
The song is about the band manager meet a girl one night named Lola. Some of the band knew who lola was, but wanted to see how long it took him to figure out.. lol Ray wrote the song
Comparing that song to Lou Reed at all was a sharp observation. That kind of subject matter was right up his alley. I'm pretty sure the line about nearly breaking his spine is the funniest R&R line ever.
According to Dave Davies's book (and other accounts I've read well before that), it was their first manager's decision that they'd make their new name the Kinks, and dress accordingly. I don't think they ever did the last one, though. But, Swinging London, after all, so I don't think it made that big a splash.
You're from DMV area. There's a band that was big around here called Crack The Sky and they had a song with a similar theme as this called She's A Dancer. Actually CTS has many great songs, but unfortunately arent well known outside the Baltimore/Washington area.
Mersey is the name of a river in NW England. Mersey beat was a name given to the style of music coming from that area (Liverpool). The bands had adopted that beat from their rock and roll, R&B and soul music influences
The Kinks Dave Davies pioneered the earliest distortion guitar on "You Really Got Me". Pete Townshend (The Who) also pioneered distortion, and together these two Bands CREATED electric distortion rock, influencing ALL later rock artists (like Jimi Hendrix). The Kinks Singer Ray Davies' song writing was hugely influential, begining with simple catchy songs, and expanding into unusual topics with witty, creative lyrics. A very under-rated Band, partly due to their US ban. Try classics "Celluloid Heroes" & "20th Century Man".
The BBC love banning expression. One of my favourites is when they asked Rage Against the Machine not to swear in their live performance of Killing in the Name. Obviously they didn't listen to that request 😂
The BBC had banned the song, but not for why you think. The original version had a reference, not to "cherry cola," but to "Coca-Cola," and the BBC had a fit over what we'd call "product placement." When the Kinks redid the song to change "Coca-Cola" to "cherry cola," the BBC unbanned it.
I have to give it to ya', watching your face you got it faster than anyone I've ever seen. 😁 I was in junior high when this song came out, and it took a while for my buddies and I to figure it out. Of course, at that time social boundaries and what was readily accepted were quite different than today.
I was a Steelers fan since I was a kid, but when the NFL started trampling on people's personal American rights, I dropped the sport altogether. The Kinks were part of the wave after the Beatles came to America. It was the Beatles, (Mersey beat was referring to the Mersey river in Liverpool) then came the Animals that summer. then the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, and the Kinks before the end of the year of 1964.
I remember when this came out (1970 - yeah, I'm ooold). It was really controversial at the time. Now it's a classic but back in the day you didn't routinely even hear about trans-people - 'the times they are a-changin'". I found a link to a video of Lola: th-cam.com/video/B7HTqoxks_4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tGZaCkMWMCmXnlWY. Thanks for playing this!
If you like Star Wars, check out the parody Yoda by Weird Al Yankovic. Well I've been around but I ain't ever seen, a guy who looks like a Muppet but he's wrinkled and green, oh my Yodaaa.
The Kinks basically reinvented, in the post-rock-and-roll world, the concept of specifically "British"-identified narrative/character-sketch lyrics. As an historian I can't help arguing that every album - as problematic as some of them are - between Face To Face ('66) and Schoolboys In Disgrace ('75) is worth hearing, especially in their deluxe editions which have the relevant non-album single tracks and other rare songs added. Come on, man, you know as well as anyone that brothers in bands are always fighting - and the Davieses are especially notorious for it. For what it's worth, the brothers were both bisexual, but Lola was based on someone else's experience.
They were banned in the US largely because of the lyrics to Lola - Homosexual/transvestite or something - controversial in the US, especially then, still even now in some places.
In your hour long game that is stretched out to at least 3 hours, for adverts, defence on the field, offence onto the field and other "Special" teams, flags on the play, timeouts, do you know how long the ball is in Play on average? Eleven, 11, yes, ELEVEN minutes, that's it, done, that's your lot! What a game! 11 minutes!
The key is that line which could mean one of two different things: 1) I’m glad I’m a man, and so is Lola, meaning Lola is also glad that he (her new boyfriend) is a man, or 2) I’m glad I’m a man, and so is Lola, meaning Lola is also a man like he himself is I don’t think the UK censors would have allowed 2) on the airwaves in 1970, but you have the plausible deniability of 1) And some beautiful, sexy women like Bonnie Tyler or Kim Carnes just have raspy voices. For an even more challenging song, listen to The Kinks ‘Art Lover’
Ray and Dave Davies were sort of the originals quoted when all later sibling squabbles within bands were mentioned. I'm not sure if Don and Phil Everly were ever mentioned in that context? I've read Dave Davies book (Living on a thin line), and he professes to have always loved his brother, and vice versa, but in his opinion Ray have always gone out of his way to be a bast*, er, mongr*, er, not very supportive. Ray has yet to write a book I've read, so who knows how that would sound? But Ray did state after their last album long ago, that there would be no new Kinks album unless Dave was aboard for it. Ray has made several solo albums since that.
I watched the Commanders for the first time this weekend in well over 10 years. I was a die hard Skins fan for over 20 years but Dan Snyder made me totally stop watching. Glad to be back into Washington football. Don't love the name but now I can respect and root for the team again.
The Kinks have a really good song, less well known than this one, called "Apeman", and I think it was the first charting pop song to have an f-bomb. So they are a little... different shall we say. Also, their lead singer is literally schizophrenic.
Millennials are so uber religious. Remember older generations had no such hangups. The 70s had everything from Lola to the group The Village People. It was no big deal back then.
Dark brown voice = low voice, brown girl And NO they are NOT called the Kinks because of being kinky. That word wasn't used back when they chose their name.
Great song. Think about it...thus was over 50 years ago and cross dressers or transgender people were harder for some to accept. So, let's ban this song...or the Kinks. Yeah, it was a different time! I'm glad we're past that. Great reaction, thanks for the "oldies". ✌ Jodi/ Child of the 60s
Unless a fan makes a video decades later, there are NO VIDEOS of any bands in the 60s. Video tape wasn't even invented yet. Everything was on film. There was no MTV, no shows that featured videos. The only place to see a band in the 50s-70s was in concert, or on a television variety show that may feature a song or two per week. Videos really did not take off untl the 1980s.
Promotional music film clips were made by The Beatles during the mid-1960s onward. Motown Records followed their lead, and made some for their music artists. Grand Funk Railroad made one in the early-1970s for their song, “We’re An American Band”.
The BBC experimented from 1952 to 1958 with a high-speed linear videotape system called Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA), but this was ultimately dropped in favor of quadruplex videotape. VERA used half-inch metallized (1.27 cm) tape on 20-inch reels traveling at 200 inches per second (5.1 m/s). The electronics division of entertainer Bing Crosby's production company, Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951. Wikipedia. You meant to say tape for the home market.
You laugh cause you know what’s coming….
I grew up with the music from the British Invasion. The Kinks were huge & had a lot of hits. I especially love their music from the 60's & 70's. "You Really Got Me", "All Day & All Of The Night", "Set Me Free", "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion", "Tired Of Waiting For You", "A Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon", "Waterloo Sunset", "Dead End Street", "Autumn Almanac" etc.
Great list! Thanks for sharing!
YES - Muswell Hillbilly Boy... and the best Christmas song evah: Father Christmas: give us some money,....
Ape Man as well.
Yep, all those!!
The other end of the kinks spectrum is "come dancing". A really great song
A rather sad song when you learn it's about Ray and Dave's sister that died.
@@BritIronRebel yeah, didn't know that until I listed to it after posting the comment and reading the comments below it
You snapped to that really fast compared to most people.
The song was banned by the BBC because the original lyrics were "tastes just like Coca-Cola", which violated the BBC's product placement policy. Davies, therefore, changed them to "tastes just like cherry cola". In 1970, homosexual acts were illegal in Australia, which led to the song being banned in that country. A classic, iconic rocker from this legendary band. Thanks for your reaction.
Along with Coca-Cola change, another original line was "I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola" - not "dark low voice." Also, I saw a comment saying the song was written about an event that happened to an "inexperienced roadie" - but the Kinks says it was written about band's manager. Just fyi.
@@karenfryberger4260 Right, I noticed the "dark low voice" lyric here, but often, lyric videos are garbled. That's most likely the case with this misprint. As far as the true story of the song's inspiration, it seems the "mgr." one is the most common. That may simply be because it's the one most often repeated, with various band members & associates telling slightly different tales. Thanks for your reply.
You can hear the wind go 'woosh' over my older sisters head and when this song was out, she thought it was a romantic encounter between a man and a woman She thought when he got down on his knees, he was proposing. I tried to explain it to her and finally let her just make a fool of herself and I enjoyed the song for what it really was. She still thinks that. Duh.
@@patmanchester8045 So the Kinks' mgr. wasn't the ONLY one fooled by Lola, LOL! Thanks for your reply!
At the beginning of the song, the original lyrics are "it tastes just like coca-cola, but they weren't allowed to use it and the words were changed to "cherry cola." I have the album with the original lyrics! Fun fact, I got to hear them play at Fordham University in 1973. I was in high school. Aerosmith opened for them! 🎶✌️
Your SMILE! You got it when you should have! HAHAHAHA!!! Don't tell me people weren't progressive back in the 60's! Back when I was a teenager, this song was so catchy, we loved it! And we didn't CARE! You're awesome! Thank you for reviewing this and bringing a smile to my face.
almost 60 yrs and still a great and groundbreaking song!
"But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola"
The best double entendre in rock and roll. 😊
You came up because m learning this tune. Great song.
Hi. May I suggest that you might also like The Zombies - 'She's not there.' (1964), or 'Time of the season' ('68). I think either one would be a great introduction.
You are so astute I can't believe how quickly smiled and picked up on that lyric bang you knew it This is fun Thanks for sharing
The Kinks were part of the first British invasion back in the early 1960’s. They were more punky with full of satire.Tremendous talent and gutsy musically and lyrically!They did comeback and played in the U.S.A. In the late 1970’s!Ray and Dave fought all the time!
This came out in 1970 and was pretty schocking.
thanks, MMB! The Kinks were awesome... this song was supposedly based on the true experience of one of their "naive" young roadies... they have so many great songs...I hope you listen to more.. they are very diverse in their music...
Still are 😎
Your smile said it all..i knew you got what was going on here lol! 💞✌️
I think you should react to "All Day and All Of the Night" and "You Really Got Me."
Yes, their 2 biggest rockers!
Your smile is adorable. Nice reaction. I've loved this song for a very long time. I first heard it about 10 years after it came out. I was about 14. They have some very good music.
Lola and the fellow singing are both very comfortable in their respective skins, living life for the fun and love in it, not striving to out-do each other, not condemning the other for being their individual selves. Particularly relevant in today's PRONOUN-FEARFUL WORLD.
A new band....omfg brother
So next: Celluloid Heroes! The emotion and love and respect shown will impress you!
Then theres so many. Destroyer? You Really Got Me?
Ray Davies: Come Dancing?
I've seen a few reactions to this tune. You are the first who saw the whole thing coming. Most just have a deeply quizzical expression throughout the entire song.😎
It certainly helps that he had the lyrics in front of him! Most people don't pay that much attention.
The BBC banned the track for a different reason the original lyrics had the line tastes like Coca Cola the BBC by its charter is not allowed to advertise because of its charter. Davies flew back to London from being on tour in the US and rerecorded that part to say tastes like cherry cola only the UK version had the cherry cola lyric the us version had the Coca Cola lyric both versions are available online.
Great reaction to a great song. Gen Xers think that's a newer song. Outstanding.
They also sing one of my favorite Christmas songs. I worked in restaurants for years and would get tired if the sugar sweet Christmas songs. I would jam this or play it on the jukebox at the local joint.
The Kinks "Father Christmas"!! Great punk rock Christmas song. 😅😂😊
To add a little retro-rock/blues and rockabilly into your Xmas Playlist, may I suggest 2018's
" Socks " by JD McPherson.
The title track is just what you think. Getting Socks for a gift.
Other songs include
" Hey Skinny Santa "
" Ugly Sweater Blues " and
" Santa's Got a Mean Machine "
Welcome to 'The Kinks'! - Reccommendations:- Early - 'All of the Day and All of the Night', 'You Really Got Me' - Mid 60's 'Waterloo Senset', 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' - Later 'Apeman', 'Come Dancing' - Famous Covers:- 'David Watts' by The Jam, 'Days' by Kirsty McColl, 'Stop Your Sobbing' by The Pretenders.
Candy Darling (remember, she went to dinner with Ray Davies) is the same Candy who "never lost her head" in the Lou Reed song.
Mersey Beat was named for The Mersey River in Liverpool Gerry and the Pacemakers had a hit with"Ferry across the Mersey!"
And it’s pronounced Merzee not Mersea ❤
Loved this song from the first time I heard it when it was brand new in the 1960s.
I hadn't heard the last story involving Davies and Candy Darling, but it does bring it full circle back to Lou Reed and "Walk on the Wild Side". There's something satisfying in that.
I can definitely recommend "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting for You", "Well-Respected Man", and "Come Dancing".
As did I (ditto), even though a naive farm kid that had no idea what it was about.
The Kinks have had a long history as a British Rock group. They had their share of television performances on network variety shows and syndicated music programs in the 1960s. The band continued to record and tour in the 1970s and 1980s. They also made some entertaining music videos as well. Some other songs by The Kinks that you might want to react to, are “You’ve Really Got Me” (which was later covered by Van Halen), “All Day (And All Of The Night)”, and the songs/music videos for “Predictable”, and “Come Dancing”.
Google The Kinks and John Wayne Gacey...
They did a concert in Springfield Illinois promoted by the local Jaycees. Gacey was a VP for The Jaycees. He invited the band back to his house after the show! After a few drinks Gacey seemed to " take a bit of a shine " to Dave. That combined with a strange odor in the house, the boys got the hell out!
Dave would go on to write
" Death of a Clown!".
Their song Waterloo Sunset is really good.
He shall be called SIR Raymond Davies nowadays.... 😊
PS: In the first verse, the moment he says "Old Soho", you got an idea of the direction this was going......
YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT JUST HOW KINKY THIS SONG IS...LOL...LISTEN TO WORDS CAREFULLY......ENJOY....IT'S WILD!!!!!
The brothers were always at loggerheads, much of the time it was to do with Ray’s reticence to let Dave write more material for the band.
Congratulations to finding one of the most popular ear worms around - seriously, I dare you to get his out of my head for the next 24 hrs!
The US was the worst for banning things nick named “ the puritanical society “, books music you name it. When Elvis appeared on tv for the first time, on Ed Sullivan, camera operators were instructed to only show him “ waist up “ In 1975 the Gordon Lightfoot song “ Black Day in July “ ( about the 1975 race riots ) was banned from US air waves.
Yup, his hips were just too sexy
The song is about the band manager meet a girl one night named Lola. Some of the band knew who lola was, but wanted to see how long it took him to figure out.. lol Ray wrote the song
From what I understand, the song is based on a real life event that Ray experienced a long time ago. After all, he is a story teller. 🎸💕
The manager was hit on by a transvestite, & Ray wrote the song to needle him.
@alabhaois :
I heard it was Ray's
manager who had
this encounter
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They rocked hard for their time, so much so that Van Halen covered Two of their songs. "You Really Got Me" and "where Have All the Good Times Gone".
It also reminds me a lot of Lou Reed, good catch.
I get that yeah I get that Lou Reed vibe. Good observation. Man this song was Way ahead of it's time.
Comparing that song to Lou Reed at all was a sharp observation. That kind of subject matter was right up his alley.
I'm pretty sure the line about nearly breaking his spine is the funniest R&R line ever.
According to Dave Davies's book (and other accounts I've read well before that), it was their first manager's decision that they'd make their new name the Kinks, and dress accordingly. I don't think they ever did the last one, though. But, Swinging London, after all, so I don't think it made that big a splash.
Thanks for the review!
You're from DMV area. There's a band that was big around here called Crack The Sky and they had a song with a similar theme as this called She's A Dancer. Actually CTS has many great songs, but unfortunately arent well known outside the Baltimore/Washington area.
Perhaps give the song "Destroyer" a listen. Lola makes another appearance in that track as well. Pretty good song imo.
Mersey is the name of a river in NW England. Mersey beat was a name given to the style of music coming from that area (Liverpool). The bands had adopted that beat from their rock and roll, R&B and soul music influences
The Beetles were heavily Mersey Beat in the early going.
Drew this song came out in 1970 two years before Walk On The Wildside so it may have had an influence on Reed.
The Kinks Destroyer, kinda like Lola part 2
Very astute comparison Lou Reed and the Kinks..very similar in my opinion as well.
The Kinks Dave Davies pioneered the earliest distortion guitar on "You Really Got Me". Pete Townshend (The Who) also pioneered distortion, and together these two Bands CREATED electric distortion rock, influencing ALL later rock artists (like Jimi Hendrix). The Kinks Singer Ray Davies' song writing was hugely influential, begining with simple catchy songs, and expanding into unusual topics with witty, creative lyrics. A very under-rated Band, partly due to their US ban. Try classics "Celluloid Heroes" & "20th Century Man".
Link Wray was the pioneer of distorted guitar in the 1950s...
The BBC love banning expression. One of my favourites is when they asked Rage Against the Machine not to swear in their live performance of Killing in the Name. Obviously they didn't listen to that request 😂
The BBC had banned the song, but not for why you think. The original version had a reference, not to "cherry cola," but to "Coca-Cola," and the BBC had a fit over what we'd call "product placement." When the Kinks redid the song to change "Coca-Cola" to "cherry cola," the BBC unbanned it.
This should be Epic😂😂😂 thanks for the good laughs ahead of time lol😂😂
I have to give it to ya', watching your face you got it faster than anyone I've ever seen. 😁
I was in junior high when this song came out, and it took a while for my buddies and I to figure it out. Of course, at that time social boundaries and what was readily accepted were quite different than today.
Lola was released in 1970.
Walk On The Wild Side was released in 1972.
Thanks for your comments and reaction.
I was a Steelers fan since I was a kid, but when the NFL started trampling on people's personal American rights, I dropped the sport altogether. The Kinks were part of the wave after the Beatles came to America. It was the Beatles, (Mersey beat was referring to the Mersey river in Liverpool) then came the Animals that summer. then the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, and the Kinks before the end of the year of 1964.
Weird Al did a really funny parody called Yoda.
The original punk band
Lola is on the play list for my wake
Great band. as stated below, tons of great songs to check out.
Kinks, cool rock group Van Halen covered one of their songs
I’m lucky enough to have family with season tickets for the Packers. I go to one game per year. It’s so fun!!
Ha, not only did you get it, you got it on the first line about Lola’s dark brown voice, which a lot of reactors miss.
One of the best concerts I ever saw
I remember when this came out (1970 - yeah, I'm ooold). It was really controversial at the time. Now it's a classic but back in the day you didn't routinely even hear about trans-people - 'the times they are a-changin'". I found a link to a video of Lola: th-cam.com/video/B7HTqoxks_4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tGZaCkMWMCmXnlWY. Thanks for playing this!
BTW, Lou Reed released "Walk on the Wild Side" in 1973.
I'm new to your channel, so I don't know if you've found him yet: Weird Al Yancovic did a parody of this song called "Yoda.".
Oh man....noone else is gonna say this but i will....
YODA! Y O D A YODA!
Weird Al Yankovic...
Thanks for your wonderful reactions thank you this came out when I was 13 I was very confused by the time I was 14 I got it Wild bill
If you like Star Wars, check out the parody Yoda by Weird Al Yankovic. Well I've been around but I ain't ever seen, a guy who looks like a Muppet but he's wrinkled and green, oh my Yodaaa.
A little ahead of their time eh? 😁
You need to go to an English football match in the UK 😂
The Kinks basically reinvented, in the post-rock-and-roll world, the concept of specifically "British"-identified narrative/character-sketch lyrics. As an historian I can't help arguing that every album - as problematic as some of them are - between Face To Face ('66) and Schoolboys In Disgrace ('75) is worth hearing, especially in their deluxe editions which have the relevant non-album single tracks and other rare songs added.
Come on, man, you know as well as anyone that brothers in bands are always fighting - and the Davieses are especially notorious for it.
For what it's worth, the brothers were both bisexual, but Lola was based on someone else's experience.
They were banned in the US largely because of the lyrics to Lola - Homosexual/transvestite or something - controversial in the US, especially then, still even now in some places.
If you want to go to a football game, you need to see a game in the English Premier League, proper football!
A follow-on Kinks song is: “Destroyer.”
Ray Davies is a genius
In your hour long game that is stretched out to at least 3 hours, for adverts, defence on the field, offence onto the field and other "Special" teams, flags on the play, timeouts, do you know how long the ball is in Play on average?
Eleven, 11, yes, ELEVEN minutes, that's it, done, that's your lot!
What a game! 11 minutes!
The key is that line which could mean one of two different things:
1) I’m glad I’m a man, and so is Lola, meaning Lola is also glad that he (her new boyfriend) is a man, or
2) I’m glad I’m a man, and so is Lola, meaning Lola is also a man like he himself is
I don’t think the UK censors would have allowed 2) on the airwaves in 1970, but you have the plausible deniability of 1)
And some beautiful, sexy women like Bonnie Tyler or Kim Carnes just have raspy voices.
For an even more challenging song, listen to The Kinks ‘Art Lover’
Lions, SUPERBOWL BABY!!
You need to experience ARROWHEAD STADIUM!!!!
Ray and Dave Davies were sort of the originals quoted when all later sibling squabbles within bands were mentioned. I'm not sure if Don and Phil Everly were ever mentioned in that context? I've read Dave Davies book (Living on a thin line), and he professes to have always loved his brother, and vice versa, but in his opinion Ray have always gone out of his way to be a bast*, er, mongr*, er, not very supportive. Ray has yet to write a book I've read, so who knows how that would sound? But Ray did state after their last album long ago, that there would be no new Kinks album unless Dave was aboard for it. Ray has made several solo albums since that.
I watched the Commanders for the first time this weekend in well over 10 years. I was a die hard Skins fan for over 20 years but Dan Snyder made me totally stop watching. Glad to be back into Washington football. Don't love the name but now I can respect and root for the team again.
What were you hoping the name would be? Exclude Redskins because we all wanted that to stay. I was hoping for Red Wolves. HTTR
The Kinks have a really good song, less well known than this one, called "Apeman", and I think it was the first charting pop song to have an f-bomb. So they are a little... different shall we say.
Also, their lead singer is literally schizophrenic.
As you got that one have a listen to The Who Pictures of Lily, see if you can work that out! 😂 Also you must do the Who Won't get fooled again.
Millennials are so uber religious. Remember older generations had no such hangups. The 70s had everything from Lola to the group The Village People. It was no big deal back then.
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The BeaT sound from Liverpool
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The BeaTles
L:ove your reaction......This is why they were not allowed it the States
Lola based on a true story.
I went to the Nats game that day.
I fell asleep and woke up and you were still talking. Never did see the reaction! Whew
You need to react to "Dude Look Like a Lady", by Aerosmith.
Their: Lazy Sunday Afternoon should be the next one
*Sunny Afternoon.
Now go and do Weird Al's Parody of this while it is still kinda fresh. It is called "Yoda"
Dark brown voice = low voice, brown girl
And NO they are NOT called the Kinks because of being kinky.
That word wasn't used back when they chose their name.
Great song. Think about it...thus was over 50 years ago and cross dressers or transgender people were harder for some to accept. So, let's ban this song...or the Kinks. Yeah, it was a different time! I'm glad we're past that. Great reaction, thanks for the "oldies". ✌ Jodi/ Child of the 60s
Unless a fan makes a video decades later, there are NO VIDEOS of any bands in the 60s. Video tape wasn't even invented yet. Everything was on film. There was no MTV, no shows that featured videos. The only place to see a band in the 50s-70s was in concert, or on a television variety show that may feature a song or two per week. Videos really did not take off untl the 1980s.
Promotional music film clips were made by The Beatles during the mid-1960s onward. Motown Records followed their lead, and made some for their music artists. Grand Funk Railroad made one in the early-1970s for their song, “We’re An American Band”.
The BBC experimented from 1952 to 1958 with a high-speed linear videotape system called Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA), but this was ultimately dropped in favor of quadruplex videotape. VERA used half-inch metallized (1.27 cm) tape on 20-inch reels traveling at 200 inches per second (5.1 m/s).
The electronics division of entertainer Bing Crosby's production company, Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951. Wikipedia.
You meant to say tape for the home market.
I think bohemian rhapsody was the first true song vid, and not just hashed together live footage with some sgx
Totally agree with you about the name Commanders. It's just awful. Almost as bad as Cleveland Guardians. They should have just left the names alone.
1:14 your have to try real hard to find me at a football game. 🙄
Have you ever watched Rugby?
The beauty of the song is its ambiguity. The big reveal line can be read two ways. Is Lola a man, or is Lola glad the singer is a man?