You can tell by watching this and listening to the Kinks catalogue that they were a huge influence for Blur. I never realised how similar Damon's voice is to Ray's.
Damon looks like a happy little boy meeting Santa Claus when Ray starts strumming the into the Park Life, but in 30 years it'll be a future star in awe of Damon. Hope I'm still here to see it!
6:20 well done Damon for reinforcing the astonishing rundown of E, Eb, D, C# 👏 with backing vocals because that’s the truly astonishing and unusual part of the songwriting in this song.
@@d.thomasmoore3020 There are plenty of Kinks songs that fit that bill... As well as lots of Stones songs. And many of the Who. The four bands were at the same and very high level. What happens is that many are embarrassed to say it... No matter if you're misfit or mainstream.
@@andrespalacios1122 Yeah, in a way, it's a shame, how all the big British bands of the '60s were pitted against each other by the press and fans -- especially when we all know now that most of those guys were very cordial with one another. Pete Townshend and Ray Davis are huge admirers of each other's music. John Lennon and Keith Richards performed "Yer Blues" together at the Rock 'n Roll Circus around, I think '68 or so. Keith Moon and Ringo Starr were close friends. Charlie Watts and Kenney Jones of the Faces/Small Faces (and later, the Who) were also close friends. I love pretty much all of the great British "invasion" bands, and all have added so much to my life -- even as a Millennial who wasn't born for another 20 years after all these great bands became household names.
Spiral Architect ok I guess I could see that... my bad just seemed like a low blow 😅, just based on what she was stating about a guy with large bone structures in the face etc I thought you were being a troll 🤣 I can kind of see it though she has great cheekbones and a similar shape but she’s a pretty lady and he’s a pretty guy 😅
This duet with Damon Albarn and Ray Davies of "Waterloo Sunset" is brilliant. There's a magical chemistry between two of the greatest English musicians of the time. Love this masterpiece song's lyrics and rhythm 🎭 🎸🎤🎶❤️🔥. From Ont. Canada 🫶
One of the greatest versions of this tune, no matter what any of you say! Hats of to Damon for having the B***s to get on stage with a true legend and not mucking it up!
Never seen this before superb though. Makes me appreciate Brit pop more as it was a frightening 20 years ago. I love the Kinks, Small Faces and The Who. Now I see there influence on brit pop and especially Blur who I have grown to like as a 60s inspired and modern band.
Blur were the band that, in my opinion, drew more from the Kinks compared to any other band in Britain, and I supose it's the same for the rest of the world...
@@fernpolliks9029 The Oasis Beatles comparisons were how they were sold (It's all marketing), and of course the band bought into that to help buy their success. Not saying they didn't become a great band. But, if you look into it, all the insiders say it was just as fake media nonsense as the Blur versus Oasis supposed 'battle' for number one.
Got to be one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. It's been 1 of my favourite songs for over 45 years. That melody is just beautifully melancholic.
Omg I don’t know how I haven’t seen this before but maybe I have. The 90s were pretty hectic. In any case, ace and the respect shown between the new and old guard is brilliant. Love it, wished I was 25 again.
A thousand years old.. Youre gunna live forever m8!!! All because of your amazing music.. I wish I could leave such a legacy 4 my kids.. Legend.. Respect!
Ray is an amazing song writer, singer and person. Ray Davies for President in 2024....He can and will make this world a better place. You are The Best Ray !
RD & DA are both huge talents. Waterloo Sunset is a top drawer classic whether you like it or not. These guys are teaming up to give us a new take and theie intention is what is more admirable than anything else. BTW, i loooove it.
To the Bone, kills me every time. So heartfelt :felt like that about one girl when I was a soppy youth. Still cuts me when I hear it 34 years later. Amazingly it's a Duran Duran song. You can't chose a song like that, it chooses you! 😊
What splendidness! In fact, this is so splendid that it is arguably the epitome of British splendor (and you can't get splendider than British splendidness.)
This is what I used to love about Mark Radcliffe fronted 'The White Room'. It was one of those progs for me that I had to be in to watch, we didn't have a damn VCR, so had no choice, and me living up north in the sticks always cursing the lucky buggers in the audience. Excellent music from all genres, and extra special moments like this. I remember Q magazine (or some such) doing a 'White Room' tape that had this on, which I played till it busted.. this took me right back, nice one..!
What a fabulous acoustic version of you really got me. Outstanding. Great video thx so much for posting. 🙂 Incidentally, I went shopping earlier and for some reason Waterloo sunset was going through my head .... 🤔😄
![Elliott Smith, The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset cover [Live on the Jon Brion Show]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LFbQQzkZuqU/mqdefault.jpg)
The little smile damon gave when Ray started playing parklife
i love how happy Damon gets when Ray starts playing park life
Even funnier that it threw Damon for a second.
Yeah so sweet!❤
You can tell by watching this and listening to the Kinks catalogue that they were a huge influence for Blur. I never realised how similar Damon's voice is to Ray's.
Absolutely! Love Tk
For Tomorrow could have easily been a Kinks tune
Think that is for the oldest Damon's way..
Parklife sounds like a kinks album if you squint your ears
The thing is, when you are among the first, and among the best, you set a high bar. Kinks were truly something.
Damn Damon's voice does do that song justice!
Correct it was Gracious of Ray to Have him Sing
Damon looks like a happy little boy meeting Santa Claus when Ray starts strumming the into the Park Life, but in 30 years it'll be a future star in awe of Damon. Hope I'm still here to see it!
I think we are all already in aww of Damon, he is an absolute genius
The Parklife bit makes me smile so much. The respect Damon has for Ray is very obvious
the respect Ray gave back is just so joyful
The chemistry is magic - like father and son.
Damon is so perfect I'm in agony
Yessssssss 😍💓😍💓😍💓😍💓😍💓🙌🔥
and now make to him a cake, lol !!
Ray's seemingly un announced tribute to Damon must've blown Damon's mind! and also a "baton passing" moment in a way for us.
BRILLIANT! It's like the veteran giving the blessing to the new kid on the block. I love it.
6:20 well done Damon for reinforcing the astonishing rundown of E, Eb, D, C# 👏 with backing vocals because that’s the truly astonishing and unusual part of the songwriting in this song.
I think the upwards line in the original is better (e-f#-g-a), I guess Damon didn't want to go that high.
@@palms159 I disagree. I think the falling chromatic line is lovely. Each to their own though!
Damon’s voice is so beautiful
I really enjoyed that. Ray sounded great and bloody hell Damon looked pretty!
First comment after 17 years. Plenty of time to come up with something funny or original, but alas...
someone loses it at 7:58 and honeslty same
me because its literally damon albarn
Literally two of my biggest heroes. Some of England’s finest songwriters and musicians
True- 2 of the finest song writers. There are Kinks songs that outdo the Beatles to us fringe dwellers...
@@d.thomasmoore3020 There are plenty of Kinks songs that fit that bill... As well as lots of Stones songs. And many of the Who. The four bands were at the same and very high level. What happens is that many are embarrassed to say it...
No matter if you're misfit or mainstream.
@@andrespalacios1122 Yeah, in a way, it's a shame, how all the big British bands of the '60s were pitted against each other by the press and fans -- especially when we all know now that most of those guys were very cordial with one another. Pete Townshend and Ray Davis are huge admirers of each other's music. John Lennon and Keith Richards performed "Yer Blues" together at the Rock 'n Roll Circus around, I think '68 or so. Keith Moon and Ringo Starr were close friends. Charlie Watts and Kenney Jones of the Faces/Small Faces (and later, the Who) were also close friends. I love pretty much all of the great British "invasion" bands, and all have added so much to my life -- even as a Millennial who wasn't born for another 20 years after all these great bands became household names.
this is the perfect song for damon albarn to cover, it sounds so good with his voice :)
Damon himself said something like that about this song
When ray started parklife (that's legendary).
So lovely.
This melted my cold heart and I nearly cried. Nearly, but not quite.
Same
I lost the battle and cried
The world may make your heart feel cold at times but that's a problem with the world and not with your heart ❤
damon's level of attractiveness is actually frightening.
I prefer him animated haha
Connie Craig good for what? Tryna get sum? Lol
@@gigaware4533 she never said he was good for anything. She said his attractiveness was frightened.
Spiral Architect what? A bit how? Lol being white ?
Spiral Architect ok I guess I could see that... my bad just seemed like a low blow 😅, just based on what she was stating about a guy with large bone structures in the face etc I thought you were being a troll 🤣 I can kind of see it though she has great cheekbones and a similar shape but she’s a pretty lady and he’s a pretty guy 😅
5:38 Damon Albarn appears ..
Beautiful version of Waterloo Sunset, one of the best I’ve ever heard.
How can anyone not love Ray Davies.............
this is one of the most beautiful thing I've ever heard
damons so attractive its ridiculous
This duet with Damon Albarn and Ray Davies of "Waterloo Sunset" is brilliant. There's a magical chemistry between two of the greatest English musicians of the time. Love this masterpiece song's lyrics and rhythm 🎭 🎸🎤🎶❤️🔥. From Ont. Canada 🫶
Ah yes, Ray ‘Davis’. Love that man.
I get chills when ray smiles at Damon
What a beautiful performance of that song. And Damon was a total dreamboat back in the day.
What a frickin' genius! What a songwriter....... what an icon.....
One of the greatest versions of this tune, no matter what any of you say!
Hats of to Damon for having the B***s to get on stage with a true legend and not mucking it up!
Never seen this before superb though. Makes me appreciate Brit pop more as it was a frightening 20 years ago. I love the Kinks, Small Faces and The Who. Now I see there influence on brit pop and especially Blur who I have grown to like as a 60s inspired and modern band.
This just convinces me further that Damon is an actual angel
I am still so in love with Damon omggg
I literally teared up during the second chorus of Waterloo Sunset
me too
As an American who came up during Britpop, I must say, this is a very "English," and a very "90s," performance😎 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Uh, 60s
@@alixfarron6730 He said the performance, not the songs
They are actually just performing the songs live, with minimal effects, both lighting and soundwise? Yeah, so much better than ameritrash products.
@@MrMurkosullivan As a Brit, I think that's quite a graceless response. No need.
Wrong flag for the English, try 🏴
Wow. I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve heard this. It’s insanely beautiful.
Damon's fave jam, so a dream come true for him I'm sure...
I was just reading an article about this on my Google news feed. So i came a searching! 💜✌🏽🎶🎸
one of best duets ever!!
Well, i cant believe that im JUST finding this, 2 of my favorites.2022 is already fantastic, just for this!
Waterloo Sunset is one of the greatest English songs of the modern era.
And this isn't it😳
this is my favourite performance. very wholesome
Luck to have seen them both play. Two of Britain's finest songwriters 🤍
one of the alltime gr8 songs...
Qué privilegio el de los que estuvieron en la actuación de Ray Davies !
Blur were the band that, in my opinion, drew more from the Kinks compared to any other band in Britain, and I supose it's the same for the rest of the world...
blur from the kinks
oasis from the beatles
wait a sec...
Oasis didn't pick anything up from the fab four IMO. They always sounded much closer to a loud version of T. Rex...
Gianmaria Framarin loool ur mad if u think the Gallaghers weren’t completely and utterly trying to be the Beatles in every way
@@fernpolliks9029 The Oasis Beatles comparisons were how they were sold (It's all marketing), and of course the band bought into that to help buy their success. Not saying they didn't become a great band. But, if you look into it, all the insiders say it was just as fake media nonsense as the Blur versus Oasis supposed 'battle' for number one.
@@220773 are you joking?
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE THEM BOTH I WANT TO CRY
Love this. Damon's quality and Ray is British royalty.
Got to be one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. It's been 1 of my favourite songs for over 45 years. That melody is just beautifully melancholic.
Underrated singer and gorgeous too !
Omg I don’t know how I haven’t seen this before but maybe I have. The 90s were pretty hectic. In any case, ace and the respect shown between the new and old guard is brilliant. Love it, wished I was 25 again.
Two of the greatest English musicians of my lifetime. You could argue that both have been overshadowed
by lesser talents.
A thousand years old.. Youre gunna live forever m8!!!
All because of your amazing music..
I wish I could leave such a legacy 4 my kids.. Legend.. Respect!
F*ing brilliant.
This gave me goosebumps in 1995. It gives me goosebumps in 2023 😊
What an Honour and Privilege for him to perform with a Musician of his accomplishments and pedigree !
.....I just hope Ray appreciates it....
Haha
So beautiful, love love love❤❤❤
Ray is an amazing song writer, singer and person.
Ray Davies for President in 2024....He can and will make this
world a better place.
You are The Best Ray !
RD & DA are both huge talents. Waterloo Sunset is a top drawer classic whether you like it or not. These guys are teaming up to give us a new take and theie intention is what is more admirable than anything else. BTW, i loooove it.
Love both
Love everything about this. 2 London landmarks right there.
I remember this fondly. Great to watch and listen again!
Me too. I was one of the "kids" sitting on the floor in front of them that night... Back in the days when I had hair🥲
Damon king of my heart 😭♥️
2 bloody legends,
Gives me goosepimps,can`t get better than these 2 together!
5:46 Damon
I love Damon and this song!!❤
To the Bone, kills me every time. So heartfelt :felt like that about one girl when I was a soppy youth. Still cuts me when I hear it 34 years later. Amazingly it's a Duran Duran song. You can't chose a song like that, it chooses you! 😊
Absolutely Brilliant
this is bladdy brilliant, albarn and davies both are excellent talented musicians, it's moments like this which make you feel proud to be english!
its great, he was made to sing this song.
My life is now complete
The #MadFerItAmerican here... And this is just pretty damned brilliant, innit it, Damon singing 'Waterloo...' Very nice, indeed.
The most amazing duet I have ever seen
What a beautiful duo! So much talent and passion... Keep coming back
Excellent
How cool is that! Ray is always great.
it's great at the end how people can't contain their excitement and joy and start shouting! great moment
Fantastic hand shake at the end
no this actually made me cry
wonderful perfomance.
What splendidness!
In fact, this is so splendid that it is arguably the epitome of British splendor (and you can't get splendider than British splendidness.)
Agreed. And it is also SO London.
The King is the King ...I love this performance
i want to pull my hair out this is so amazing if i had been in the audience i think i would have fallen on my knees for these two
This is what I used to love about Mark Radcliffe fronted 'The White Room'. It was one of those progs for me that I had to be in to watch, we didn't have a damn VCR, so had no choice, and me living up north in the sticks always cursing the lucky buggers in the audience. Excellent music from all genres, and extra special moments like this. I remember Q magazine (or some such) doing a 'White Room' tape that had this on, which I played till it busted.. this took me right back, nice one..!
Brilliant.
How beautiful.
Just lovely.
What a fabulous acoustic version of you really got me. Outstanding. Great video thx so much for posting. 🙂 Incidentally, I went shopping earlier and for some reason Waterloo sunset was going through my head .... 🤔😄
Damon Albarn is a legend in his own merit, but here's, he looks so honored when the legendary Ray Davies started playing his song.
That acoustic version of you really got me though! ❤️⭐️👋
My two heroes, this is a wonderful video.. I needed this
I would cry of joy if I saw this in person
Damn… Ray Davies is a master songwriter (and handsome too)… this must have been a huge moment in Damon’s career.
This is a great performance - trust me - beauty is in the eye of the beholder - same sort of thing with music - you need to find your soul!!
Omg that was beautiful.
Guitar magic and great singing lads🙂
Thanks . very good moment
2021 and just saw it . and love it .
What a combination. Damon is so so cool