great comments here. I'd like to point out that for 1964, that was a ROARING guitar solo by Dave Davies. Besides all the other great stuff in the song.
One of the first songs ever with a real PUNK attitude and musicality. Straight ahead riffs that get right to the heart of the matter. Ray Davies gets it.
The Kinks have to be the most underrated band of all time. These guys made outstanding music for decades. The amazing thing about them is the diversity of sound. Compare this song to "Come Dancing," or "This Time Tomorrow." You might think it was 3 different bands. Just incredible!
I completely agree with you saying The Kinks are the most underrated band of all time. When you put their music up against their contemporaries, so that's The Beatles, Stones and Who (among others), it's the other groups that sound left behind.
I agree with this completely. Their music range is unique and pretty amazing. Fantastic. Brad & Lex, you should check out Father Christmas & Celluloid Heroes ... continue to enjoy!
They were different. They had never broken is the US except for those two early singles were sort of nowhere and forgotten. A desperate Ray agreed to go under the Clive Davis thumb and go soft rock AOR with every song and production decided by Clive. So they had a new career. They hate all those songs but they finally made big money.
Paul McCartney was asked (in the recent documentary about Beatles recording and production) what band (in 64/65 ) did he think had a sound never heard before, Paul answered, The Kinks!
Remember...THIS was recorded in 1964.....NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR!!!....Beatles hits for that year included Love Me Do, Please Please Me, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and She Loves You. So that distorted guitar and wild solo were WAY ahead of their time! Got to give props where props are due....and keep it in context! 💯🤘👀
This was 1964 friends. 1964!!! Think about that, when the Beatles were singing She Loves You and all that, these guys were bringin' it hard. This was crazy hard rock for 1964. LOVE IT!
The Beatles were harder edged band in leather jackets before their manager cleaned them up with suits so they could be commercially successful, and would never have made it if they hadn't done so and gotten rid of sloppy beat Pete Best in favor of Ringo on drums who was already a pro musician in another band. the Beatles wrote cutesy tunes on purpose to become successful in the teen market. They could rock out, but did what they knew they had to do to become successful. I'm not saying their guitar skills were as good as others who came along after they broke the door down though. They were just very diverse and evolved. Remember Decca records turned them down saying guitar bands were on the way out, hahahha.
@@scottfrench4139 I Feel Fine was released at the end of the year. It's one song and it wasn't like they were playing anything quite that raucous or rowdy. Twist and Shout was about as raunchy as those 64 tracks got and yes I know that was actually recorded in 63.
Ray can write the hardest rock songs I’ve ever heard, then turn around and compose something that brings tears to my eyes. And everything in-between. Fantastic scope. He is brilliant-that’s all. 💕🎸😎
When this came out it was the best song on the radio!, as it was a fun, crank it up song! The newer generations have no way of comprehending how new this was to us at the time, as the younger folks have newer music to compare it to being the 80’s, 90’s and on, and have tendencies to make light of older technology and overall quality of music during the sixties.
Used too listen too way back when I a kid back in the 80s and even into the 90s I love the kinks thier just a very underated band and this was when the British invasion was going on you a lot of from across the pond coming over here the play thier music live
It's been a long time since I watched one of these people's reaction videos... Now I just remembered why... This guy has a 'rare ability': he always cuts the songs at the best part. And together with the other girl, they start talking nonsense for an indeterminate amount of time... but long enough so that you can no longer get hooked on the song again.
I remember when this song came out. I just happen to be taking dancing lessons at the time and they would play this song and I loved to dance to it. Many good memories.
I Love the Kinks...They are awesome!...Dave Davies is a kind soul and Actually a Jersey Boy (Lives in New Jersey) now with his girlfriend Rebecca who is a NJ native!...She works as a volunteer for Angels for Animals...They were just at the Petco in Paramus NJ with Pet adoption from the misplaced animals from the Hurricane in Puerto Rico!
This song definitely is a great example of the punk sound before that was a whole genre. It came out in '64, before guitar effects were a thing and people would damage the speakers in their amplifiers and turn the volume all the way up to make the guitar sound distorted.
The Kinks had a long career from 1960s - 1980s. Many good songs from them. This was their early years. They were garage rock, proto-punk. Also their singer, Ray Davies, used to be married to Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), have a daughter together. Natalie.
That lead guitar break in the middle is considered a classic by serious rock guitarists. Joe Perry, of Aerosmith, and Jeff Beck, among others, say they wish they’d come up with it. This, and other songs by the kinks, inspired a lot of garage rock bands. In a sense you’re right he does want to take the relationship farther. However you seem to see it as simping, a bad thing. It’s really romantic for the time, a good thing.
The first 6 Kinks' "hit" singles in '64 and '65 charted a relationship from start to finish - You Really Got Me All Day and all of the Night Tired of Waiting for You Everybody's Gonna be Happy Set Me Free See My Friends
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You're in my wheelhouse now. The Kinks were just a little more raw than the rest of the British Invasion (although The Who Live at Leed's was arguably pre-punk). The Kinks went on to show a depth that was unexpected (e.g. Lola and Come Dancing).
Interestingly, Pete Townshend worships the Kinks-he has said any number of times that Ray is tops. Don’t know if it’s reciprocated but thought that was noteworthy.
The British invasion was such a mix of sugary pop, love ballads, show tunes, raucous R & B, Motown covers, country twang, heartfelt blues and original grit like this punk-grunge-garage number before there was even such a thing. What a diverse mix from the Beatles, the Stones, Dave Clark 5, the Animals, the Who, the Hollies and of course, the Kinks.
Dave Davies, lead guitar, was 16 when he formed the band. Older brother Ray, main writer and vocalist, joined 2 days later. Dave was 17 when he INVENTED metal in 1964.
Now since they did yet another Kinks song. With it being close to Christmas. They have to react to Father Christmas. Maybe one of the best Christmas rock songs ever.
Their second hit and follow up to "You Really Got Me", this was 1964 and part of the British Invasion explosion. They and leader Ray Davies had long impressive careers, including "Lola" and "Come Dancing" and, at this time of year, "Father Christmas", a different kind of Holiday song.
Brad & Lex, you’ll love their "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" and “Better Things”!!! edit- fuzz guitar sound is legendary. pre punk and pre heavy metal all in one song!
To me this and You Really Got Me are iconic great songs. Love them both. Unfortunately the great music of the 60s my favorite decade will never happen again.
This song, and their other 1964 classic, *"You Really Got Me",* were arguably the first 2 hard rock songs. Some might say, "Louie, Louie", from 1963 was first, but I don't think that song quite qualifies. But it's close.
My all time favorite band! I was born and raised listening to The Kinks...and so were my kids! The Davies brothers are both true masters. God save The Kinks!!!
It does not get any better. The best and original hard rock song that has strode the test of time for over 60 years. The Kinks rock and so much more!!!!
THE most underrated band of all time. This was recorded in 1964. Nineteen. Sixty. Four. I'm a massive fan of both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones but these guys were lightyears ahead of both in 1964
Welcome to the ORIGIN of rock music. This is the first time ever that a distorted guitar sound was heard on record. Kinks guitarist achieved this sound by taking a razor blade to the cone of his amp's speaker to make it buzz and fuzz like it did. In '64, it just wasn't possible to get this kind of distortion from an amplifier normally. After this though the legendary Mr Jim Marshall decided to design and build an amp that would distort this way without the need for vandalism lol. Thus heralding the birth of two legends, Rock music and it's most iconic symbol, the Marshall amp. So, inadvertently The Kinks, a MOD band, created the blueprints for the music of their then enemies the Rockers.
the kinks are very underrated and under appreciated. song's like "sunny afternoon," "plastic man," "a well respected man," "lola" and "victoria" are very distinctive and original social commentaries. and remember "(wish i could fly like) superman?" and their cover of "long tall sally" is very kinkish! they also had a christmas song called "father christmas." "dead end street" and "apeman" are still two of my favorite kink songs. both songs are, sadly, still relevant today. "apeman" is how i want to live. free from corporate greed and their technological slavery! ray davies was a remarkable song writer! thank you kinks for the lifetime of joy you gave me!
oh man! how could i forget my two personal mantras i live by - "i'm not like everybody else" and "where have all the good times gone?" so many great songs to remember!
One of the best songs ever made. I used to listen to The Beatles as a kid and my dad always told me The Kinks were far better. It probably took me 20+ years to realise, he was right.
You know you know it's it is about Christmas time and there's a feeling starting to come in the air I couldn't I can tell I'd like to get the Teddy bear out red silver and sings the song called Teddy bear Teddy bear it's by reddit red Soviet So VIN AOU
The perfect follow-up to "You Really Got Me"…and the basis for (two decades later) the sequel/pastiche that was "Destroyer". There's no Van Halen without Dave Davies. Or at least not the Eddie that we know and love and mourn.
This is one of rock's greatest singles of all time. You have to image the sixties beginning to take off, with emerging bands like the Beatles and Stones etc and the kind of parents music that went a year or so before - lots of American and British crooners (parent's music). This song was revolutionary for young British kids. On hearing it for the first time, I left childhood behind and became a teenager. Remember thinking, 'I want some of that'.
Brad you are so right about how a girl feels when BF wants too much too soon. Whenever I hear The Kinks lately- no matter the song- all other bands fade and I'm thinking, "it's these guys...The Kinks are IT for me...turn me over cause I'm DONE. LOL...LOVE The KINKS sound...one of my top 5 concerts ever and don't get me started on Dave Davies...💞
The Kinks had a big influence years later on Punk, from people who'd listened to their records when they were kids. Partly the style and partly the attitude
You think lol. Tomorrow its Days day after that it Living on a Thin Line. Shall we go on lol. To many good songs. Just playing with ya tune is up there for me. Round the Dial is mine. Peace and happy holidays be safe. Snowing like a mofo here in Ottawa Canada. Love it
I love it when you both, especially Lex, perked up during that solo guitar "Power Chord", played by 17 year old Dave Davies. That type of chord was invented by the Kinks, played by 17 year old Dave Davies, who is the younger brother the the lead singer/song writer Dave, and is also featured on "You Really Got Me". I believe both songs were on the same 45. That invention by the Kinks and their proto-garage/punk style has influenced dozens of bands, even today, and set the foundations for Garage in the 60's and then Punk's emergence in the 70's.
This song and the Kinks came around during the "British Invasion" of the mid-60s. If you look at the sound and especially the middle break with the guitar instrumental you'll hear the beginnings of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal which came about a few years later.
Yes the "beginnings: of that but IMO unintentional, just different from anything in the context of the times. You can trace a lot of things back to the blues artists even in the 1920's. Or WC Handy's Saint Louis Blues song from 1914. I just like looking at the bigger musical evolutionary picture rather than being trapped in metal head land.
THE GREATEST rock song ever.... Consider when it was recorded, 1964! All that heavy distortion, driving drums, vocals pushing ahead, raucous solo. I actually think it's "happy" as far as raw jubilation at the power of attraction, desire and love. It's not lamenting loss of love, which most find easier to make hard hitting songs out of, but being in love...
THANKS. First band I ever saw at 13. Killer rocking show that lead to many more. VERY UNDERRATED. Van Halen used a few songs to get going, only difference is they slowed them down.
You could argue that The Kinks invented hard rock with this track and "You Really Got Me".
Dave,some do
More like punk rock.
@@eximusic Both, in my opinion.
@@thomassamburgh5904 Yes and they would be correct!
@@davescurry69 I agree
The Kinks are the influence of every rock and punk rock band. They are legendary beyond legendary.
Father Christmas was the first punk rock song.
The Strokes I say were heavily influenced. Early 2000 music like the vines etc. remind me alot of the KInks.
Listen to Link Ray's "Rumble" Far earlier.
@@jackempson3044 That track is proto-everything, man. I would say Little Richard is also in there.
Influence of Punk Rock was the Velvet Underground and the Stooges.
great comments here. I'd like to point out that for 1964, that was a ROARING guitar solo by Dave Davies. Besides all the other great stuff in the song.
One of the first songs ever with a real PUNK attitude and musicality. Straight ahead riffs that get right to the heart of the matter. Ray Davies gets it.
The Kinks have to be the most underrated band of all time. These guys made outstanding music for decades. The amazing thing about them is the diversity of sound. Compare this song to "Come Dancing," or "This Time Tomorrow." You might think it was 3 different bands. Just incredible!
I completely agree with you saying The Kinks are the most underrated band of all time. When you put their music up against their contemporaries, so that's The Beatles, Stones and Who (among others), it's the other groups that sound left behind.
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I agree with this completely. Their music range is unique and pretty amazing. Fantastic. Brad & Lex, you should check out Father Christmas & Celluloid Heroes ... continue to enjoy!
The Kinks are in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and UK Music Hall of Fame...50 million records sold.
They were different. They had never broken is the US except for those
two early singles were sort of nowhere and forgotten. A desperate
Ray agreed to go under the Clive Davis thumb and go soft
rock AOR with every song and production decided by Clive.
So they had a new career. They hate all those songs but they
finally made big money.
Paul McCartney was asked (in the recent documentary about Beatles recording and production) what band (in 64/65 ) did he think had a sound never heard before, Paul answered, The Kinks!
Remember...THIS was recorded in 1964.....NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR!!!....Beatles hits for that year included Love Me Do, Please Please Me, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and She Loves You. So that distorted guitar and wild solo were WAY ahead of their time! Got to give props where props are due....and keep it in context! 💯🤘👀
pure garage rock
@@kenhoyer8601 before garage rock existed....
I think you'll find Love me do was 62 but anyway you are right with how ahead of time they were of any band out there at the time. Truly influential
@@jtf2dan They didn't even have a garage lol
@@andyc7666 Love Me Do was re-released though in 1964 in the USA and was one of the 5 Beatles songs that hit the top 5 spots in Spring of 1964
Bear in mind that this was released in 1964! This was both groundbreaking and hugely influential. It was definitely ahead of it's time! :)
The Kinks were the heaviest the earliest!!
Kinks are #3 of the first British Invasion.
Really the first hard rockers.
Punk before punk
This was 1964 friends. 1964!!! Think about that, when the Beatles were singing She Loves You and all that, these guys were bringin' it hard. This was crazy hard rock for 1964. LOVE IT!
The Beatles were harder edged band in leather jackets before their manager cleaned them up with suits so they could be commercially successful, and would never have made it if they hadn't done so and gotten rid of sloppy beat Pete Best in favor of Ringo on drums who was already a pro musician in another band. the Beatles wrote cutesy tunes on purpose to become successful in the teen market. They could rock out, but did what they knew they had to do to become successful. I'm not saying their guitar skills were as good as others who came along after they broke the door down though. They were just very diverse and evolved. Remember Decca records turned them down saying guitar bands were on the way out, hahahha.
The Beatles were well beyond "She Loves You" in 1964. They were starting to experiment with feedback.
@@scottfrench4139 I Feel Fine was released at the end of the year. It's one song and it wasn't like they were playing anything quite that raucous or rowdy. Twist and Shout was about as raunchy as those 64 tracks got and yes I know that was actually recorded in 63.
In 1964 that guitar solo was about the heaviest solo I had ever heard at that point!
Blew me away!!! And Ray’s gritty, forceful voice was mind-blowing!!
👍👍👍
The Kinks is a great band, they have so many hits. Such as Waterloo Station, Sunny Afternoon.
Their non hits are even better
For a long time I thought Sunny Afternoon was the Beatles
I think you meant to say Waterloo Sunset ;-)
Ray can write the hardest rock songs I’ve ever heard, then turn around and compose something that brings tears to my eyes. And everything in-between. Fantastic scope. He is brilliant-that’s all. 💕🎸😎
When this came out it was the best song on the radio!, as it was a fun, crank it up song!
The newer generations have no way of comprehending how new this was to us at the time, as the younger folks have newer music to compare it to being the 80’s, 90’s and on, and have tendencies to make light of older technology and overall quality of music during the sixties.
The original punks. Love The Kinks.
Love the kinks
Used too listen too way back when I a kid back in the 80s and even into the 90s I love the kinks thier just a very underated band and this was when the British invasion was going on you a lot of from across the pond coming over here the play thier music live
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This was the top band to many of us youngsters (18 years old) in the early 60's. Far outpaced the Beatles pop and teeny bopper music at the time.
My favorite song by Kinks, it was an amazing sensation when it was first released, nothing like it. the Kinks Band is the birth of Punk Rock
Only no one could do heavy metal/punk rock like they could.
😉😁
As legendary a song as any in the history of rock and roll. The drums are recorded so well in this track. Really cut through the mix.
"Dedicated follower of fashion" from the Kinks is amazing
Love Ray Davies...cause I grew gap-toothed too...hilarious reaction...
One of the greatest bands ever!!
Thanks for reaction to the Kinks, I was.luckly enough to see them in concert in the 80s
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The Kinks were one of the all time greatest live bands EVER. Check out their live version of Superman next. You won’t be disappointed.
You’ve actually opened a new interpretation of this song for me. I’ve never thought of it as a friend zone situation.
It's been a long time since I watched one of these people's reaction videos... Now I just remembered why... This guy has a 'rare ability': he always cuts the songs at the best part. And together with the other girl, they start talking nonsense for an indeterminate amount of time... but long enough so that you can no longer get hooked on the song again.
This song is before my time and I’ve heard it hundreds of times, but after your reaction I love the song. That guitar solo was ahead of it’s time
The Kinks rock!
I remember when this song came out. I just happen to be taking dancing lessons at the time and they would play this song and I loved to dance to it. Many good memories.
Got to see The Kinks in concert in Charlotte, NC back in the early 80’s. It was a great concert.
I Love the Kinks...They are awesome!...Dave Davies is a kind soul and Actually a Jersey Boy (Lives in New Jersey) now with his girlfriend Rebecca who is a NJ native!...She works as a volunteer for Angels for Animals...They were just at the Petco in Paramus NJ with Pet adoption from the misplaced animals from the Hurricane in Puerto Rico!
This song definitely is a great example of the punk sound before that was a whole genre. It came out in '64, before guitar effects were a thing and people would damage the speakers in their amplifiers and turn the volume all the way up to make the guitar sound distorted.
Killer! That guitar solo kicked off an avalanche in rock and roll back in the sixties.
Dave Davies is said to have cut the speaker in his guitar amp with a razor to produce the trademark distortion.
The Kinks had a long career from 1960s - 1980s. Many good songs from them. This was their early years. They were garage rock, proto-punk.
Also their singer, Ray Davies, used to be married to Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), have a daughter together. Natalie.
That lead guitar break in the middle is considered a classic by serious rock guitarists. Joe Perry, of Aerosmith, and Jeff Beck, among others, say they wish they’d come up with it. This, and other songs by the kinks, inspired a lot of garage rock bands. In a sense you’re right he does want to take the relationship farther. However you seem to see it as simping, a bad thing. It’s really romantic for the time, a good thing.
The first 6 Kinks' "hit" singles in '64 and '65 charted a relationship from start to finish -
You Really Got Me
All Day and all of the Night
Tired of Waiting for You
Everybody's Gonna be Happy
Set Me Free
See My Friends
I have followed your channel for some time. You two are really cool with your evaluations and choices! I'm elderly and remember all these releases when new! Music lives forever!
Great music one biggest group of all time
You're in my wheelhouse now. The Kinks were just a little more raw than the rest of the British Invasion (although The Who Live at Leed's was arguably pre-punk). The Kinks went on to show a depth that was unexpected (e.g. Lola and Come Dancing).
Interestingly, Pete Townshend worships the Kinks-he has said any number of times that Ray is tops. Don’t know if it’s reciprocated but thought that was noteworthy.
The British invasion was such a mix of sugary pop, love ballads, show tunes, raucous R & B, Motown covers, country twang, heartfelt blues and original grit like this punk-grunge-garage number before there was even such a thing. What a diverse mix from the Beatles, the Stones, Dave Clark 5, the Animals, the Who, the Hollies and of course, the Kinks.
Dave Davies, lead guitar, was 16 when he formed the band. Older brother Ray, main writer and vocalist, joined 2 days later. Dave was 17 when he INVENTED metal in 1964.
Now since they did yet another Kinks song. With it being close to Christmas. They have to react to Father Christmas. Maybe one of the best Christmas rock songs ever.
Their second hit and follow up to "You Really Got Me", this was 1964 and part of the British Invasion explosion. They and leader Ray Davies had long impressive careers, including "Lola" and "Come Dancing" and, at this time of year, "Father Christmas", a different kind of Holiday song.
Brad & Lex, you’ll love their "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" and “Better Things”!!!
edit- fuzz guitar sound is legendary. pre punk and pre heavy metal all in one song!
You can’t pigeonhole Sir Ray. He’s amazing!! 🎸🎸🎸
Cool band Kinks ! They have a LOT of great songs thru out their catalogue.Some great albums they produced !!
This is a song that couldve come out tomorrow and would still sound new.
To me this and You Really Got Me are iconic great songs. Love them both. Unfortunately the great music of the 60s my favorite decade will never happen again.
The Kinks are one of the greatest bands that Rock has ever produced! Check out " Till the end of the Day"!
This song, and their other 1964 classic, *"You Really Got Me",* were arguably the first 2 hard rock songs. Some might say, "Louie, Louie", from 1963 was first, but I don't think that song quite qualifies. But it's close.
THE KINKS and THE WHO...real proto british punk and pub rock bands !!!
Glad you're doing the Kinks. They're the godfathers of punk. Try Apeman and Well Respected Man, among many more.
With the raw guitar and punching drums, you and your band play this in a club and you are _packing_ the dance floor. Classic live-gig rock song.
My all time favorite band! I was born and raised listening to The Kinks...and so were my kids! The Davies brothers are both true masters. God save The Kinks!!!
"20th Century Man" by the Kinks is a great song that everyone seems to have forgotten.
I love the writing in 20th century man.
@wildpalms They called it "The age of insanity" I wonder what they would call it now?
It does not get any better. The best and original hard rock song that has strode the test of time for over 60 years.
The Kinks rock and so much more!!!!
THE most underrated band of all time. This was recorded in 1964. Nineteen. Sixty. Four. I'm a massive fan of both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones but these guys were lightyears ahead of both in 1964
Sir Ray has a CBE. Don’t think that would have happened if he wasn’t noteworthy and brilliant-*not* “underrated.”
Welcome to the ORIGIN of rock music. This is the first time ever that a distorted guitar sound was heard on record. Kinks guitarist achieved this sound by taking a razor blade to the cone of his amp's speaker to make it buzz and fuzz like it did. In '64, it just wasn't possible to get this kind of distortion from an amplifier normally. After this though the legendary Mr Jim Marshall decided to design and build an amp that would distort this way without the need for vandalism lol. Thus heralding the birth of two legends, Rock music and it's most iconic symbol, the Marshall amp. So, inadvertently The Kinks, a MOD band, created the blueprints for the music of their then enemies the Rockers.
Forever and ever amen- Randy Travis
Better than "You Really Got Me". This band was important in leading up to punk and heavy metal. An evolutionary ancestor of the two.
the kinks are very underrated and under appreciated. song's like "sunny afternoon," "plastic man," "a well respected man," "lola" and "victoria" are very distinctive and original social commentaries. and remember "(wish i could fly like) superman?" and their cover of "long tall sally" is very kinkish! they also had a christmas song called "father christmas."
"dead end street" and "apeman" are still two of my favorite kink songs. both songs are, sadly, still relevant today. "apeman" is how i want to live. free from corporate greed and their technological slavery! ray davies was a remarkable song writer! thank you kinks for the lifetime of joy you gave me!
oh man! how could i forget my two personal mantras i live by - "i'm not like everybody else" and "where have all the good times gone?" so many great songs to remember!
The Kinks always sounded like they were scrapping on solid metallic instruments - especially the guitar.
Wife here..., Loving this musical trip through England today!!!
Kinks, “Destroyer”, “Living On a Thin Line”, “Superman”
It's Christmas. You need to listen to the kinks Father Christmas. Great song
The band 'The Stranglers' were big fans of the Kinks and did a cover in the late 80's of this song, one of my favorites.
One of the best songs ever made. I used to listen to The Beatles as a kid and my dad always told me The Kinks were far better. It probably took me 20+ years to realise, he was right.
One of your early punk offerings. That riff and broken, spastic, sloppy guitar solo. Perfection. Kinks.
When the Official introduced my Missus and Me to All at the Ceremony- THIS was THE SONG that Played
We've been rocking this hard ever since
That Brad said he was already doing a d*** touchdown dance what the h*** at the h***
You know you know it's it is about Christmas time and there's a feeling starting to come in the air I couldn't I can tell I'd like to get the Teddy bear out red silver and sings the song called Teddy bear Teddy bear it's by reddit red Soviet So VIN AOU
Brad, you hit a homer with the "hail Mary" analysis.
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The perfect follow-up to "You Really Got Me"…and the basis for (two decades later) the sequel/pastiche that was "Destroyer".
There's no Van Halen without Dave Davies. Or at least not the Eddie that we know and love and mourn.
Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks is one of my all time favorite songs
2 Live Crew - One and One
The Kinks were the first band I ever saw in concert in 1981.
Tune!✌🏻😬🏴
Kickin' song. Never gets old
The Kinks never get old baby. 2 bands I can listen 2 all day ... Steely Dan and The Kinks. Always some thing different going on.
This is one of rock's greatest singles of all time. You have to image the sixties beginning to take off, with emerging bands like the Beatles and Stones etc and the kind of parents music that went a year or so before - lots of American and British crooners (parent's music). This song was revolutionary for young British kids. On hearing it for the first time, I left childhood behind and became a teenager. Remember thinking, 'I want some of that'.
Awesome band!!!!!! And my favourite by The Kinks.
Brad you are so right about how a girl feels when BF wants too much too soon.
Whenever I hear The Kinks lately- no matter the song- all other bands fade and I'm thinking, "it's these guys...The Kinks are IT for me...turn me over cause I'm DONE.
LOL...LOVE The KINKS sound...one of my top 5 concerts ever and don't get me started on Dave Davies...💞
Absolutely the most underrated band ever. God save the Kinks!
The Kinks had a big influence years later on Punk, from people who'd listened to their records when they were kids. Partly the style and partly the attitude
I think they were the first band to use distorted chords which lead to heavy rock and also possibly the band that started punk brilliant band
I think Waterloo sunset is my favourite Kinks tune
You think lol. Tomorrow its Days day after that it Living on a Thin Line. Shall we go on lol. To many good songs. Just playing with ya tune is up there for me. Round the Dial is mine. Peace and happy holidays be safe. Snowing like a mofo here in Ottawa Canada. Love it
It's just a cool song! I 've never contemplated lyrics this much, I just danced to it. 😎
This was the rougher element of the British Invasion. Very raw and for 1964, risque.
The Kinks did good for what little they had to go on. Things were just simple and new back then.
Friend zone to the end zone. Way to go Brad.😆
So much great Kinks to pick from ..
" Picture Book " , "Dedicated Follower of Fashion " " Sleepwalker" " Victoria "
Great band. Brad nails it, these two have been positively on fire lately hitting on all cylinders. Kudos
Thank you! 🤘🏾
Always loved that guitar sound!
You can get that sound by sticking a pencil through your speaker cone. It's a little hard to get any other sound after that, though.
I love it when you both, especially Lex, perked up during that solo guitar "Power Chord", played by 17 year old Dave Davies. That type of chord was invented by the Kinks, played by 17 year old Dave Davies, who is the younger brother the the lead singer/song writer Dave, and is also featured on "You Really Got Me". I believe both songs were on the same 45. That invention by the Kinks and their proto-garage/punk style has influenced dozens of bands, even today, and set the foundations for Garage in the 60's and then Punk's emergence in the 70's.
This song and the Kinks came around during the "British Invasion" of the mid-60s. If you look at the sound and especially the middle break with the guitar instrumental you'll hear the beginnings of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal which came about a few years later.
Yes the "beginnings: of that but IMO unintentional, just different from anything in the context of the times. You can trace a lot of things back to the blues artists even in the 1920's. Or WC Handy's Saint Louis Blues song from 1914. I just like looking at the bigger musical evolutionary picture rather than being trapped in metal head land.
THE GREATEST rock song ever.... Consider when it was recorded, 1964! All that heavy distortion, driving drums, vocals pushing ahead, raucous solo. I actually think it's "happy" as far as raw jubilation at the power of attraction, desire and love. It's not lamenting loss of love, which most find easier to make hard hitting songs out of, but being in love...
the rawness of the instruments was groundbreaking.
THANKS. First band I ever saw at 13. Killer rocking show that lead to many more. VERY UNDERRATED. Van Halen used a few songs to get going, only difference is they slowed them down.
Damn Brad! You f'n killed me on this one! 😂🤣😂
Love the Kinks♥️🙏🏽
Mid '60s vibe. They were proto-punk, long before punk. They are a fun band to watch. They were bad boys like the Stones.
...the Kinks came in with this strong sound really early - 1964 - ground breaking at the time!
One of the most important groups of the British Invasion!