"Come Dancing" is a terrific song. I live near the site of an amusement park that was around for 100 years and is now a gated community. 😝 The song is about an old English dance hall where his sister used to go on a Saturday. Then it was a bowling alley and a parking lot. He (Ray Davies) wonders if his sister would still come dancing. (His sister died young and unexpectedly). It's so nostalgic and a great song with a big band feel. The Kinks were very underappreciated IMO. They also did a lot of social commentary like "Dedicated Follower of fashion" about Carnaby Street, "Dead End Street" about poverty, "Lola" about a transvestite and the beautiful "Waterloo Sunset". Please do some more Kinks. They started as a sort of early grunge band but varied their styles a lot. BTW Ray Davies was stabbed trying to pursue a purse snatcher when in the US. He did survive.
I think that "Tired of Waiting for You" is another of the great early songs by the Kinks. Unfortunately, it's often ignored by people. Which leads me to a reminder of my two choices Harri, we're nearly at the end of the month, don't ignore them (spot the link). Oh, "Tired of Waiting for You" also goes well with Ozy Osbourne's "So Tired."
The Animals, the Kinks and the Yardbirds were my favorite bands in the early 60s. I got to see the Kinks in 1981 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley Ca. It was wonderful.
The Kinks were the BEST 60s band and the most underrated band in history! You really need to do more of them. Ray Davies is an incredible song writer. "Celluloid Heroes", "A Well Respected Man, "Lola", "Victoria", "All Day and All of the Night" and my very personal favorite "Waterloo Sunset", which always makes me tear up, I bet it will you. :)
"You Really Got Me" was also the lead single off of Van Halen's 1978 debut album. It finishes off the mind-blowing guitar solo Eruption. Van Halen also covered "Where Have All the Good Times Gone". The Kinks were very influential back then even if they get overlooked a bit these day. The lead single off The Pretenders 1980 debut album was a cover of "Stop Your Sobbing". Chrissie Hynde had a child with Ray Davies back in 1983. When you're ready for more from The Kinks, check out "Waterloo Sunset", "Victoria", "Tired of Waiting for You", "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", "A Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon", "Father Christmas", and "Come Dancing" among many many others.
And that is our boys... Everybody say "I don't know any song of The KinKs". Then they hear You Really Got Me, Lola, All Day And All Of The Night, Dead End Street, Sunny Afternoon, Celluloid Heroes, Tired Of Waiting, Come Dancing, Low Budget, Alcohol, Waterloo Sunset or Destroyer and allways say: I know that song.... wow ,is that The KinKs as well? And don't be mistaken, if you saw ever a KinKs concert live, then you knew that the 'quiet' Ray Davies on his own could match easily all the other guys you talked about. There was just a huge hiatus in their performance in the USA since they were banned there for about 4 years because of a punch-out with a union guy and unprofessional performance. Where others acted they were the bad guys of music, they allways stayed themselves, raw, energetic, and real. God Save The KinKs!
The Kinks' catalog is just absurd. Even the mediocre albums had at least one or two stone cold classics that anyone else would kill to have written. And Dave Davies had the misfortune, if you can call it that, of being a first class songwriter in a band with one of the all-time greats. His contributions - guitar work and songwriting - can't be overstated. They had a remarkable career. Fast-forward to the late 70s and give "A Rock n' Roll Fantasy" a listen. It's a fascinating look at a chapter in their career when they were thinking of packing it in.
The fantastic Kinks. What terrific grooves. Dave Davies just drives this band with his slashing guitar, rhythm and lead. Ray is a classic rock vocalist. Ray and Dave are both fantastic songwriters. My favorite English band. They influenced so many singers and guitarist. Long live the Kinks. Check out the Kinks Paris 1965. Maybe the best photographed concert. Long Tall Shorty, yeah.
Thanks Harri! This band is perhaps the most underappreciated of the so-called British Invasion. You owe it to yourself to do a reaction to "All Day and All of the Night".
"Come Dancing" reminds me of an amusement park near me that was around for 100 years and is now sadly a gated community. I think of that and my childhood fun times there whenever I hear it. The BIG BANDS played at that park too back in the 40's!
"All Day and All of the Night" is similar. The Kinks belong up there with the greatest British Invasion bands. It used to be considered The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, and Kinks.
This is the original from the Kinks, and will always be my favorite because I was 8 yrs old when I first heard it, (I'm 65 now) and everyone younger than 50 thinks it's a song by Van Halen, who covered it, but this is the original, and the best version. Thanks
They were certainly in the top five of the British Invasion. Another great from this channel. Number one on Yourtube, in my humble opinion. Thank you again, Sir Harri.
This was a song that we played when I was in a band ( a long time a go) we named our band the Mystics......but we also were called the Mistakes by some of the people who heard us play LOL. Harri you are the Best. Lyndon
For yet another completely different face of The Kinks, check out their love ballad, "Strangers". It's devastatingly beautiful in its power & simplicity.
One of the great 60's rock songs, marvellous guitar and singing, I think they used the same producer for their early hits like the Who called Shel Talmy.
Kinks are awesome! Top Ten bands! You may be recalling the Van Halen cover given its popularity. Paranoia is a great bit of rock. Thanks for the reaction. Happy Thanksgiving to all on board!
One of my favorite songs by The Kinks is “Destroyer.” It’s a riff-driven song like this one, but came out much later in 1981. “Destroyer” also very overtly pays homage to their earlier songs “Lola” and “All Day and All of the Night.” In fact, because of the storyline you could call it “Lola, Part II.”
Such a raw sounding track, which must have inspired so many kids to pick up an instrument and start jamming in the garage! My favourite part of all is that early, unintended bass note at 0:17......you get the raspiness of the guitar intro, then the drums kick in, and then that bass fart hangs there for a second before the vocal.......love how rough and ready it all sounds, proper 60's 4 track recording!
This is the first time I have heard this in its entirety. I think this has been in many commercials. I like how the tension builds in the music. Great analysis Harri!
Being in my 60's now I'm amazed how I just accepted this as a regular song when it's clearly not a song that smoothly intertwined with the sound of the 1960's.
Love Ray Davies’ voice, which can be rough on the one hand and incredibly tender on the other (“Days” for example). And they’re *not* underrated- not by a long shot.
Another song that came out about the same time that also rocks hard and is practically as popular is All Day and All of the Night! Happy you are praising the Kinks
While they remained popular in the UK, except for a stretch in the mid-70s when musical tastes turned toward disco, the real reason for their seemingly less than deserved adulation may have been their 4 year ban from performing in the USA (1965-1969). The musician's union in the States made them after-thoughts in the American market, unable to tour behind their record releases in that period right after the success of "You Really Got Me." The whole sordid affair was caused by their American promoter not paying them upfront for their concert dates after the group's hard-drinking and rowdy behavior made them late for a number of appearances. Add to that a couple of onstage brawls between Ray and Dave Davies and ticket sales began to decline. When the promoter (a woman named Betty Kaye) refused to pay them in advance going forward, they sabotaged their own concerts by shortening sets and, once in Sacramento before an almost empty house, playing an interminable version of "You Really Got Me" for most of a half-hour. Kaye filed a complaint with the American Federation of Musicians and they banned them for four years. It wasn't until "Lola" came out in 1970 that The Kinks regained some of the momentum they had lost on the American Top 40 chart.
The signature of this song was Dave's ripped and distorted amp. Harri, I'm surprised you never knew. This song was the genesis of really hard rock. Every garage band that came after owed allegiance to the Kinks. But on the flip side of the coin of Ray's genius listen to 'Waterloo Sunset' or "Celluloid Heroes' .
The Kinks were an awesome band. They were extremely popular in my days. This is so painful to me. I'll bet you have still never listened to even one of the Beatles first hits. I'm talking about 'She Loves You' or 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' or 'Please Please Me' or 'Hard Days Night'. There are so many. The songs that made the whole F-ing world stop and take notice. The songs that made absolutely EVERYONE think "Holy crap! Now that's different!" I know I'm not a patron, so you won't take my request, but I am 70 years old, retired, and on a fixed income so I can't send money to every reactor out there. Doesn't mean you can't take someone else's request every now and then. Sorry for being a downer.
Harri has done a lot of Beatles, including early material. If you just type in his name and “Beatles” they will pop up. I agree that they were earth shattering. I’m 67 and I have adored them for nearly six decades. I know every single word to every song they did. I even won a prize once, at a Karaoke bar, for singing all of “Rocky Raccoon” without looking at the prompter😂😂
Interesting tidbit. Dave Davies guitar was deliberately distorted to play that memorable riff and its the first rock song ever to feature heavy distortion. And Dave did it by using a knife to cut slits in the speakers. They didnt have distortion pedals then back in the early 60s.
Catch Me Now I'm Falling is a great Kinks tune you should check out from their '80's period. The Kinks have so many great songs it's hard to pick a favorite.
The Who will do this for you too Harri. Love the Stones and in these days The Kinks & Who were Better. There are others as well. Alas the Stones & Keith are Still on front page!
The Kinks were banned from playing the USA for four years by the American Federation of Musicians (1965-69) at the height of the British Invasion for drinking and fighting onstage and off and for, when they hadn’t been paid according to their contract, intentionally playing short sets and/or one long song for the entire gig or not playing altogether. Nirvana did the same sort of onstage protest, but the Kinks were English and this was 1965, way before punk. That’s why they aren’t as well-known in the USA as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who,…
There first hit no distortion technology rumor that knitting needles put in Dave's speaker when they were about to explode in America they were banned from performing in the US but dude they sold tons of records in the 1980s
Nice speculation at the end about why the Kinks don't get as much attention as they deserve. I think you're right that their unpretentious down-to-earth attitude helps explain it. They certainly didn't have the personal flamboyance of those other groups you cited. Speaking of underrated groups, you should give a listen to the Kinks' mid-1960s peer Dave Berry, singer of those haunting slow-motion songs "This Strange Effect" and "The Crying Game."
In terms of stage presence, I think Ray Davies was (and is) pretty charismatic, as was his brother Dave; the other two maybe not so much. But that's no different to say a band like the Animals , where Eric Burden and (originally) Alan Price (on keyboards) stood out more than the others. In the UK in the early to mid-sixties, after the top tier of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the next tier down included the Kinks along with those other fantastic bands, the Animals and the Who. Then in the third tier there were really good pop groups including Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many others. That's how I remember it anyway, in terms of the relative size and enthusiasm of their following/ fan bases. (Others may remember it slightly differently.) The higher they were up the scale, the more developed and original they were as musicians, AND their net looks and charisma score tended to be higher too, which obviously attracted the girls in particular. And, then of course, there was the quality of the song-writing and arrangements/production... If you got the mixture of all those ingredients just right, you were higher in the pecking order. I don't think the Kinks were underrated, particularly, except in the US of course, where they were unfortunately banned from performing for most of the key years of the sixties, so unable to promote themselves. That was a real downer for their career and did put them at a real disadvantage. I do think Ray's song-writing is absolutely brilliant - I'd rate him immediately behind Lennon-McCartney and Jagger-Richards - and does deserve more recognition. If you listen to a whole album of his best songs they really are stunningly good; well worth exploring. If you haven't heard Waterloo Sunset yet, that really is a must - maybe go for the official/studio version first. :-)
Right on! Great rant about attention grabbin' supies vs "average people" pop! (Though lotsa stars pretend to be the "Ray from the block" in different ways, from Jarvis to Bruce to Cash. And Janis to Aretha to Ciccone.)
Now you have to listen to the version by Van Halen... 🤘🔥 Then listen to the version by Oingo Boingo... it has a Danny Elfman twist to it. 😎 Both cover versions are really great!
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Very underrated band. They were awesome 🤩
Just about every garage band in America were playing this along with Gloria by Them, and House of The Rising Sun by the Animals
I sure was. 😜
Punk before Punk.
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The sound of the piano coming in the middle of the verse is just so cool !!
That piano, and then the little syncopated drumming hiccup right before the second verse are two of the coolest details of the song to me.
The guitar riff on “Tired of waiting for you” is outstanding and legendary check it out 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
They are underrated! Try All Day and All of the Night!
"Come Dancing" is a terrific song. I live near the site of an amusement park that was around for 100 years and is now a gated community. 😝 The song is about an old English dance hall where his sister used to go on a Saturday. Then it was a bowling alley and a parking lot. He (Ray Davies) wonders if his sister would still come dancing. (His sister died young and unexpectedly). It's so nostalgic and a great song with a big band feel. The Kinks were very underappreciated IMO. They also did a lot of social commentary like "Dedicated Follower of fashion" about Carnaby Street, "Dead End Street" about poverty, "Lola" about a transvestite and the beautiful "Waterloo Sunset". Please do some more Kinks. They started as a sort of early grunge band but varied their styles a lot.
BTW Ray Davies was stabbed trying to pursue a purse snatcher when in the US. He did survive.
yes yes yes to 'Come Dancing'. a masterful piece of 1950's britain put to song. touching, clever and yet a good song.
He was shot in the leg in New Orleans pursuing a purse-snatcher and lost a lot of blood.
You beat me to it Susie Q.
@@lathedauphinot6820 - My error Lathe. He was shot. I thought he was stabbed.
@@susieq9801 I’m sorry he was either, and I’m glad he survived. I would’ve told him, New Orleans can be rough.
I think that "Tired of Waiting for You" is another of the great early songs by the Kinks. Unfortunately, it's often ignored by people.
Which leads me to a reminder of my two choices Harri, we're nearly at the end of the month, don't ignore them (spot the link).
Oh, "Tired of Waiting for You" also goes well with Ozy Osbourne's "So Tired."
Their song “Father Christmas” has got to be the greatest rock and roll Christmas song ever.
Absolutely agree! It should be on everyone’s Christmas playlist!
You sould follow this up with All Day And All Of The Night. A cover of You Really Got Me is the tune that introduced Van Halen to the world!
The Kinks, like the Stones and Yardbirds, were on the raw, edgy, naughty side of early British rock.
'Sunny Afternoon' is an all-time great song by the Kinks
The Animals, the Kinks and the Yardbirds were my favorite bands in the early 60s. I got to see the Kinks in 1981 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley Ca. It was wonderful.
The Kinks were the BEST 60s band and the most underrated band in history! You really need to do more of them. Ray Davies is an incredible song writer. "Celluloid Heroes", "A Well Respected Man, "Lola", "Victoria", "All Day and All of the Night" and my very personal favorite "Waterloo Sunset", which always makes me tear up, I bet it will you. :)
You know your stuff.
Kinks is one band I would loved to have seen in concert.
"You Really Got Me" was also the lead single off of Van Halen's 1978 debut album. It finishes off the mind-blowing guitar solo Eruption. Van Halen also covered "Where Have All the Good Times Gone". The Kinks were very influential back then even if they get overlooked a bit these day. The lead single off The Pretenders 1980 debut album was a cover of "Stop Your Sobbing". Chrissie Hynde had a child with Ray Davies back in 1983. When you're ready for more from The Kinks, check out "Waterloo Sunset", "Victoria", "Tired of Waiting for You", "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", "A Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon", "Father Christmas", and "Come Dancing" among many many others.
And that is our boys... Everybody say "I don't know any song of The KinKs". Then they hear You Really Got Me, Lola, All Day And All Of The Night, Dead End Street, Sunny Afternoon, Celluloid Heroes, Tired Of Waiting, Come Dancing, Low Budget, Alcohol, Waterloo Sunset or Destroyer and allways say: I know that song.... wow ,is that The KinKs as well? And don't be mistaken, if you saw ever a KinKs concert live, then you knew that the 'quiet' Ray Davies on his own could match easily all the other guys you talked about. There was just a huge hiatus in their performance in the USA since they were banned there for about 4 years because of a punch-out with a union guy and unprofessional performance. Where others acted they were the bad guys of music, they allways stayed themselves, raw, energetic, and real. God Save The KinKs!
The first real “punk”, “hard rock” and “metal” song.
as Meatloaf would sing, two outta three ain't bad.
The Kinks' catalog is just absurd. Even the mediocre albums had at least one or two stone cold classics that anyone else would kill to have written. And Dave Davies had the misfortune, if you can call it that, of being a first class songwriter in a band with one of the all-time greats. His contributions - guitar work and songwriting - can't be overstated. They had a remarkable career.
Fast-forward to the late 70s and give "A Rock n' Roll Fantasy" a listen. It's a fascinating look at a chapter in their career when they were thinking of packing it in.
Great riff for sure. The Kinks were one of my favorite English bands. Thanx Harri
The fantastic Kinks. What terrific grooves. Dave Davies just drives this band with his slashing guitar, rhythm and lead. Ray is a classic rock vocalist. Ray and Dave are both fantastic songwriters. My favorite English band. They influenced so many singers and guitarist. Long live the Kinks. Check out the Kinks Paris 1965. Maybe the best photographed concert. Long Tall Shorty, yeah.
Thanks Harri! This band is perhaps the most underappreciated of the so-called British Invasion. You owe it to yourself to do a reaction to "All Day and All of the Night".
Early Punk to me. Loved them for 57 years.
Strangers, Well Respected Man, Waterloo Sunset, Apeman, Come Dancing, are all big hits and great songs and not one, sounds like the other.
"Come Dancing" reminds me of an amusement park near me that was around for 100 years and is now sadly a gated community. I think of that and my childhood fun times there whenever I hear it. The BIG BANDS played at that park too back in the 40's!
@@susieq9801 I agree that it has that feel to it, for sure
Well Respected Man is one I always liked.
LOVE THE KINKS!!!!
They were banned from touring in the US for several years which cut into their popularity in the US greatly.
"All Day and All of the Night" is similar. The Kinks belong up there with the greatest British Invasion bands. It used to be considered The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, and Kinks.
Ahead of their time! They were singing adult songs, while many were singing teeny- boper tunes. Thanks for sharing, Harri!
One of the most underrated bands of all time
Their follow up hit to this was "All Day and All of the Night". As was the wont back then, it was quite similar to "You Really Got Me."
All of the Day and All of the Night, the follow on to this UK number 1 was a similar sort of sound
I love the Kinks! Thank you.
This is the original from the Kinks, and will always be my favorite because I was 8 yrs old when I first heard it, (I'm 65 now) and everyone younger than 50 thinks it's a song by Van Halen, who covered it, but this is the original, and the best version.
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It's the same kind of riff as "Smoke on the water" from Deep Purple. you always remember this riffs.
They were certainly in the top five of the British Invasion. Another great from this channel. Number one on Yourtube, in my humble opinion. Thank you again, Sir Harri.
This was a song that we played when I was in a band ( a long time a go) we named our band the Mystics......but we also were called the Mistakes by some of the people who heard us play LOL.
Harri you are the Best.
Lyndon
For yet another completely different face of The Kinks, check out their love ballad, "Strangers". It's devastatingly beautiful in its power & simplicity.
Thank you for a blast from the past. It transported me back to the 60s. Thank you for the revived memories.
Love the Kinks, Ray Davies songwriting is awesome. They had hits in 3 or 4 decades and not many pulled that off.
One of the great 60's rock songs, marvellous guitar and singing, I think they used the same producer for their early hits like the Who called Shel Talmy.
They were the grandfathers of punk. Remember this was the mid 60's
Kinks are awesome! Top Ten bands!
You may be recalling the Van Halen cover given its popularity.
Paranoia is a great bit of rock.
Thanks for the reaction.
Happy Thanksgiving to all on board!
One of my favorite songs by The Kinks is “Destroyer.” It’s a riff-driven song like this one, but came out much later in 1981. “Destroyer” also very overtly pays homage to their earlier songs “Lola” and “All Day and All of the Night.” In fact, because of the storyline you could call it “Lola, Part II.”
Such a raw sounding track, which must have inspired so many kids to pick up an instrument and start jamming in the garage! My favourite part of all is that early, unintended bass note at 0:17......you get the raspiness of the guitar intro, then the drums kick in, and then that bass fart hangs there for a second before the vocal.......love how rough and ready it all sounds, proper 60's 4 track recording!
This is the first time I have heard this in its entirety. I think this has been in many commercials.
I like how the tension builds in the music. Great analysis Harri!
Being in my 60's now I'm amazed how I just accepted this as a regular song when it's clearly not a song that smoothly intertwined with the sound of the 1960's.
The Kinks are great. I love their song "Come Dancing"
This hit the spot today. Just what the dictor orfered. Thanks Harri
I love the Kinks and I agree that they are kind of under appreciated. My favorite song of theirs is “Celluloid Heroes”. Nice reaction Harri. 🌺✌️
The Kinks are so good. Celluloid Heroes is my favorite. Such a beautiful and sad song.
Two Kinks songs with a happy, storytelling vibe are "Come Dancing" and "Picture Book."
Their song "Well Respected Man" is so incredibly English.
Love Ray Davies’ voice, which can be rough on the one hand and incredibly tender on the other (“Days” for example).
And they’re *not* underrated- not by a long shot.
I was lucky enough to see the Kinks at Fordham University in 1973!!
Thanks so much for this. A true rock classic.
Another song that came out about the same time that also rocks hard and is practically as popular is All Day and All of the Night! Happy you are praising the Kinks
The Kinks were the best music to dance too!
While they remained popular in the UK, except for a stretch in the mid-70s when musical tastes turned toward disco, the real reason for their seemingly less than deserved adulation may have been their 4 year ban from performing in the USA (1965-1969). The musician's union in the States made them after-thoughts in the American market, unable to tour behind their record releases in that period right after the success of "You Really Got Me." The whole sordid affair was caused by their American promoter not paying them upfront for their concert dates after the group's hard-drinking and rowdy behavior made them late for a number of appearances. Add to that a couple of onstage brawls between Ray and Dave Davies and ticket sales began to decline. When the promoter (a woman named Betty Kaye) refused to pay them in advance going forward, they sabotaged their own concerts by shortening sets and, once in Sacramento before an almost empty house, playing an interminable version of "You Really Got Me" for most of a half-hour. Kaye filed a complaint with the American Federation of Musicians and they banned them for four years. It wasn't until "Lola" came out in 1970 that The Kinks regained some of the momentum they had lost on the American Top 40 chart.
Another component of the British invasion of the 1960's! What an era! Never will be another musical era so influential.
Ray is clearly one of the greatest songwriters in British history. They are as legendary as the best bands of the era.
The signature of this song was Dave's ripped and distorted amp. Harri, I'm surprised you never knew. This song was the genesis of really hard rock. Every garage band that came after owed allegiance to the Kinks. But on the flip side of the coin of Ray's genius listen to 'Waterloo Sunset' or "Celluloid Heroes' .
Another song you might like is "Gloria," from a band by the name of Them (which was Van Morrison's band).
This was a very early recording of distorted guitars that was deliberate.
When talking about the British Invasion of the 60s there are 4 bands that paved the way. The Beatles, The WHO, The Rolling Stones and the Kinks.
Funny tidbit: This iconic guitar riff sounded the way it did because their amp was blown. They started a trend with the buzzing sound.
The Kinks were an awesome band. They were extremely popular in my days. This is so painful to me. I'll bet you have still never listened to even one of the Beatles first hits. I'm talking about 'She Loves You' or 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' or 'Please Please Me' or 'Hard Days Night'. There are so many. The songs that made the whole F-ing world stop and take notice. The songs that made absolutely EVERYONE think "Holy crap! Now that's different!" I know I'm not a patron, so you won't take my request, but I am 70 years old, retired, and on a fixed income so I can't send money to every reactor out there. Doesn't mean you can't take someone else's request every now and then.
Sorry for being a downer.
On the nail head, Joe!!
Hey Joe, if you go through some of Harri’s early stuff you will find a few early Beatles, and more than a couple of others!
Harri has done a lot of Beatles, including early material. If you just type in his name and “Beatles” they will pop up. I agree that they were earth shattering. I’m 67 and I have adored them for nearly six decades. I know every single word to every song they did. I even won a prize once, at a Karaoke bar, for singing all of “Rocky Raccoon” without looking at the prompter😂😂
a song similar to this is their followup "All Day and All Of The Night-which features another dirty riff.
The Pioneers of the British Invasion.
They are so good! Listen to Sunny Afternoon or Lola. You really Got Me was their first hit during the British Invasion.
We were the Kool kids in school, all the rest were "square" lol
I ran into Ray Davies back in the 1980s in San Diego. He asked me for directions to the mall.
You can spend a lifetime covering all the kinks songs from start to finish ..
This was their breakthrough song😲👍
Don't be afraid of the Kinks EVER!
I figure that in 1964, the beginning of the "invasion". they needed a song that would jump out and get your attention, and this one did just that.
Interesting tidbit. Dave Davies guitar was deliberately distorted to play that memorable riff and its the first rock song ever to feature heavy distortion. And Dave did it by using a knife to cut slits in the speakers. They didnt have distortion pedals then back in the early 60s.
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Catch Me Now I'm Falling is a great Kinks tune you should check out from their '80's period. The Kinks have so many great songs it's hard to pick a favorite.
Ray Davies& Dave Davies were songwriters to so many tracks for other artists too 👍🇬🇧
The Who will do this for you too Harri. Love the Stones and in these days The Kinks & Who were Better. There are others as well. Alas the Stones & Keith are Still on front page!
How about “The Village Green Preservation Society” by the Kinks?
Oh Yeeeaah, Love it Harri, imagine being a little kid hearing this! Brittish invasion....🇺🇸🇬🇧✌❤
Van Halen does a great version of this song too Harri.
Kinks, song to do next,,,,, All Day And All of the Night, Till The End of The Day, Come Dancing,
The Kinks were banned from playing the USA for four years by the American Federation of Musicians (1965-69) at the height of the British Invasion for drinking and fighting onstage and off and for, when they hadn’t been paid according to their contract, intentionally playing short sets and/or one long song for the entire gig or not playing altogether. Nirvana did the same sort of onstage protest, but the Kinks were English and this was 1965, way before punk. That’s why they aren’t as well-known in the USA as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who,…
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There first hit no distortion technology rumor that knitting needles put in Dave's speaker when they were about to explode in America they were banned from performing in the US but dude they sold tons of records in the 1980s
Nice speculation at the end about why the Kinks don't get as much attention as they deserve. I think you're right that their unpretentious down-to-earth attitude helps explain it. They certainly didn't have the personal flamboyance of those other groups you cited.
Speaking of underrated groups, you should give a listen to the Kinks' mid-1960s peer Dave Berry, singer of those haunting slow-motion songs "This Strange Effect" and "The Crying Game."
Nice shirt Harri !
In terms of stage presence, I think Ray Davies was (and is) pretty charismatic, as was his brother Dave; the other two maybe not so much. But that's no different to say a band like the Animals , where Eric Burden and (originally) Alan Price (on keyboards) stood out more than the others.
In the UK in the early to mid-sixties, after the top tier of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the next tier down included the Kinks along with those other fantastic bands, the Animals and the Who. Then in the third tier there were really good pop groups including Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many others.
That's how I remember it anyway, in terms of the relative size and enthusiasm of their following/ fan bases. (Others may remember it slightly differently.) The higher they were up the scale, the more developed and original they were as musicians, AND their net looks and charisma score tended to be higher too, which obviously attracted the girls in particular. And, then of course, there was the quality of the song-writing and arrangements/production... If you got the mixture of all those ingredients just right, you were higher in the pecking order.
I don't think the Kinks were underrated, particularly, except in the US of course, where they were unfortunately banned from performing for most of the key years of the sixties, so unable to promote themselves. That was a real downer for their career and did put them at a real disadvantage.
I do think Ray's song-writing is absolutely brilliant - I'd rate him immediately behind Lennon-McCartney and Jagger-Richards - and does deserve more recognition. If you listen to a whole album of his best songs they really are stunningly good; well worth exploring. If you haven't heard Waterloo Sunset yet, that really is a must - maybe go for the official/studio version first. :-)
Lola. L O L A: a Kinky song by The Kinks.
Celluloid Heros or Ducks on the Wall are two different sounding walls from them.
Harry, now that you have the Kinks` version, you have to do Van Halen`s version!
Don't forget the Troggs, Wild Thing"
Right on!
Great rant about attention grabbin' supies vs "average people" pop!
(Though lotsa stars pretend to be the "Ray from the block" in different ways, from Jarvis to Bruce to Cash. And Janis to Aretha to Ciccone.)
Harri you absolutely MUST react to "isn't it a pity" (take 27) by George Harrison
Time for The Small Faces Harri... try Tin Soldier for a major buzz.
Now you have to listen to the version by Van Halen... 🤘🔥
Then listen to the version by Oingo Boingo... it has a Danny Elfman twist to it. 😎
Both cover versions are really great!
Rod Stewart sang in an early iteration of the Davies brothers bands...
and Rock was created.........
Please try She Was Waiting For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh by Shawn Phillips