SUS OUTFITS!!! Americans Review "The Kinks - Lola - TOTP 1970"
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In my humble opinion The Kinks are one of the greatest British bands of all time.
Absolutely!!!
👍👍👍😎😎
Not just you!
When you consider the subject matter of the song & the fact that this was 50 years ago it was very cutting edge !!
Even the BBC didn't get it for a few years.
@@ba-gg6jo : LOL ✔✔✔✔
@@ba-gg6jo Surprising. They're usually so quick on the uptake.
@@ba-gg6jo the BBC did ban it initially, not for the subject content but because the lyrics referred to Coca Cola ( no product placement on the BBC!) The band had to redo the vocals to say 'cherry cola' before the BBC would play it.
It was less controversial back then.
I could never believe Lola got past the TV censors back then, until my Mum said it was because they were so prim they didn't understand what the lyrics were about 😂
Actually Lola had to be re-written before it was released but not because of the content, it was because the lyric coca cola, a tradename
It probably would be considered "transphobic", because of the line, im a man im a man "and so is Lola"..
@@KrunchyJD The song ain't transphobic
you got it wrong
@@KrunchyJD
The Kinks never made it in the States in the 60s cos Ray punched an American tour promoter in the boat race!
Lucky he didn't grab him by The Jacobs !
@@Isleofskye Or poked him in the mince pies.
Not in the Minces ! Ouch !
Or kicked him in the Town Halls.
Good to see that they're all wearing their Lionel Blairs
Ray Davies is on a par with the Beatles writing. The songs are a brilliant bit of British whimsy.
Well apart from the fact that Ray wrote 30 great songs and The Beatles wrote TWO HUNDRED AND 30 ..lol
@@Isleofskye and? I said on a par, nothing to do with the amount written.
So by your "logic" if I write 1 great song and you write 230 great songs we can be considered on a par ?
3rd behind the beatles and the stones
What are you blabbering on about ? See more of the World from where ?
I had Set Me Free on The Kinks Double Album which cleverly contained 90% of their 20+ hits. haha
Where do you think I was born, raised, and still currently;y reside?
The Kinks were a quintessentially London band and Waterloo Sunset is one of the greatest songs ever written about my home town. I used to see Ray Davies around Marylebone quite a bit, as I lived just around the corner from him. Pretty much every evening you could find him sitting at the same table at Le Muscadet restaurant in Crawford Street. He was a real character. Anyway guys, 'Cheers!' from the UK.
I agree with you I worked in Waterloo for many years, so that song means a lot to me.
I might be returning to Waterloo Station this weekend. I moved 12 miles away in 1983 but after 38 years and only half-hour away on the train I still miss the beating heart of South East London and I'm 67 years old now. haha
I lived in a place called Earlsfield until I was 23 then moved to Kent 35 years ago, but still commuted to Waterloo for several years.
@@Isleofskye Went back to Walworth rd 2 weeks ago its a shithole now Im sorry to say.
Try going down it after Midnight these days :)
I lived 50 yards from THe Walworth Road over East Street Market (The Lane ).
Wonderful times and to be so close to The City and Central London for work but "emigrated" 12 miles away in 1983 and I still miss the vibe but, as you rightly say, it is certainly not the same mate...
Bearing in mind that at the time homosexuality was still illegal, I believe, and for plenty of people cross dressing was strictly a form of comedy act, like in pantomimes, and the idea of transgender sounded crazy. So what people thought this song meant has changed over time. In fact the brothers had no particular agenda when they wrote it, neither for mockery nor representation - it was just about someone they ran into in a nightclub.
Homosexuality was NOT still illegal in 1970 in the UK
@@markalexander3659 True, decriminalised in 1967.
This is a great song by a great band, always worth airing!
Ah, Top of the Pops - 30 minutes on a Thursday night. Much anticipated back in the 70s and 80s.
It's true. The whole country ground to a halt. My dad used it as an opportunity to oggle Pans People and not get told off by my mum.
Waiting for Slade.I was 15 in 1970.
@@robertmartin8233 Speaking of Slade, we all know what'll be playing in the shops soon!
Jimmy Saville and Stuart hall hosting with Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris on the bill.
Loads of kids in the audience didn't need to buy their own sweets that night.
Just like oasis, the mighty kinks had two brothers who didn't get on either.
Oasis had one brother.......
@@liamreidy1175 i said maybeeeeee!
“Decent”? I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say most people would say it’s a bit better than that. You still should do Marvellous or Perfect by the Lightning seeds.
Waterloo Sunset is one of the greatest songs ever written. Ray davies is an excellent lyricist, british lyrics about loads of things. Underrated band dont get enough credit.
My grandfather was a drummer who played in the big Glenn Miller type bands in the 50s and then small bands who played in the clubs and at weddings. He taught drums too. He even taught me a little. He used to go nuts when he saw bands on top of the pops who weren't holding the drumsticks properly. He'd have approved of this guy 👌
my brother was taught drums in the pipe band and they called this type of drumming military drumming
@@MrnicEsmurfsmurf I always pay attention to the drummers when I watch a military band. It always reminds me of my grandfather 🙂
@@ladykaycey you should look up Edinburgh Tattoo held every year at Edinburgh Castle in case you have not seen or heard of it , i promise if you havent its a must if you want to see that type of drumming you love , it will give so many more great memories to conect to the past enjoy, and if you do please let me know what you though enjoy fae S.W.Scotland
That type of drum stick holding is common in jazz aswell. Makes it easier to work the snare I suppose.
@@MrnicEsmurfsmurf I live in Fife! Small world 🌎 lol I know the tattoo well. I grew up as a Highland Dancer so I'm very used to going to galas etc which always has pipe bands and we would dance to a piper.
"I know what I am, I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola" Fantastic lyric that could mean Lola is glad he is a man or is also a man. Sneaky funny
Please do Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks too 😊
That would be great 👍
That's it, make a 67-year-old South East Londoner cry. lol My first job in 1971 exactly 50 years ago, was getting off the bus on Waterloo Bridge as you could hop off the buses then. Jumping across the dividing section between lanes on the Bridge (you could do that then ) and breezing thru' the far Wing of Somerset House without Security and it wasn't even my employer's offices (you could do that then ) and working by The River.
ps: Come to think of it , there was an awful lot you could do then that you can no longer do :)
Yes!
Yes!!!
Great call, but I think Dead End St, and Father Christmas are both constantly overlooked.
This was a song which defied all the mores of the times...christ I was sixteen or so and got it...so did my schoolmates but you'd be amazed how many didn't...and perhaps still don't...wonderful stuff from the Muswell Hill Cowboys...
I didn't get it until many years later!
The Beatles had written O-bla-Di, O-bla-Da 2 years earlier.
@@highpath4776 According to Steve Turner (Hard Days Write) in O-bla-Di, O-bla-Da the supposed role change between Desmond and Molly in the final verse was a mistake in the recording by Paul McCartney, which the band decided they liked and retained.
It's also possible they were fed up with recording and re-recording the song by then as McCartney was allegedly being deliberately anal over it to get at Lennon.
@@cogidubnus1953 I have only ever heard the Marmalade Version which retains the lyrics
I haven't seen many people reacting to Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - try Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile) or Judy Teen.
Steve Harley was one of my first crushes (pipped to the post by Marc Bolan). Chewing gum, a bowler hat and a fur collar on his coat - the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
@@lordylou1 Yup, T Rex another one - is there a more recognisable intro to a song than 20th Century Boy?
I am a Londoner with a Bowler Hat but, sadly, no chewing gum, if that helps Gilly :)
Saw his plaque at Golders Green Jewish Cemetary recently...
A delicious 60s song "come dancing" by the Kinks just travels back at speed to dancing venues in London - it is simply divine and a must listen
That reaction is what makes you guys so different.bloody marvellous.and totally watchable 🤭👌
These guys have loads of really good catchy songs! Sunny afternoon next boys! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Absolutely one of my favourites
The audience isn't on drugs, that's just how they danced lmao
Worth checking out other Kinks songs including 'Picture Book', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Dead End Street' and 'Waterloo Sunset'. One of their great album from the 60s is 'We are the Village Green Preservation Society'. There's a documentary on this album, where Noel Gallagher (Oasis) raves about the songwriting and genius of it, and listens to it regularly for inspiration.
Try ape man by the kinks another fine song 🎵 and try the live version of lola it's much better
The late great Charlie watts also held his drum sticks the same way
I love this song ,but the Weird Al parody "Yoda" lyrics are going through my head, while I listen to this.
Not only is Ray Davies one of the greatest songwriters of all time but he is also the most Joker looking person never to have played The Joker.
Ray is *much* more attractive, IMO 😎
One of my favourite songs ever!!! I remember my mum explaining to me what it was about lol! I was 11/12 at the time.
Lola is an all-time classic, I mean no-one but the Kinks could have written a song like that in the UK and maybe only the Velvet Underground in the US, but the Kinks were a pop band!
And it was WAY ahead of its time! Long live the Kinks!!!!
😍😍😍
What a belter of a song. You gotta listen to Waterloo Sunset! It's so good
They never made it in America because the singers brother (also in the band) had an argument with an American roadie and hit him with a mic stand. They were immediately blacklisted. No roadies would work with them and no venues would book them because then the roadies would blacklist the venue. I guess there was a roadies Union back then.
I quite like ‘This Time Tomorrow’ by the Kinks, you guys should check it out
The drumstick grip you noticed isn't "old fashioned" 😂.... It's part of any decent drummers armoury to play a fast beat or super fast roll on the snare drum if the song/track dictates.... Many of the top rock drummers (Ginger Baker, John Bonham, Charlie Watts) learned their trade because of their love of Jazz drumming, where such a grip is the norm. Even Keith Moon used it during some tracks.... It's good for speed, but not for hard hitting 😉
I've been playing drums for over 40yrs and there is nothing "old school" about holding the left stick like that,most of my playing these days is matched grip but I will still change to traditional grip to play some parts for paradiddles, double strokes and buzz rolls etc.Trad grip is how I first learned to play and it has stuck with me.
Top of the Pops performances were on the whole mimed. Drummers reigned things in so as not to spoil the playback for the kids dancing in the studio and to look more in sync.
I"ve been drumming this way for more than 50 years. The "traditional grip" is still used today, and is being taught in University music programs. Just ask Sena of Sena-Drums on U-tube.
I was lucky enough to see The Kinks live twice in ‘93 at The Barrowlands, Glasgow in March and Glastonbury in June. Throughout both gigs they would tease the crowd with the start of the intro to this but didn’t play the full song until the very end of the set. At Glasgow, the first song of the encore was ‘Days’ (a brilliant song and well worth a reaction) which Ray Davies (lead singer on this and most of their songs) dedicated to his brother Dave, (harmonies and lead guitar on this) which has an extra layer of poignancy due to how famous they were for fighting and arguing even whilst on stage.
As for Kinks recommendations:
Autumn Almanac
A Well Respected Man
Shangri-La
I’m Not Like Everybody Else
Lazy Old Sun
Sitting on my Sofa
Days
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Waterloo Sunset
….to be honest, pretty much everything they recorded in the 60’s and early 70’s, the list of meh songs is far shorter than the list of great songs.
I saw them at Glastonbury as well, they played right after The Velvet Underground. A good night.
I’ve seen them four times in the SF Bay Area over the years. Every concert was fantastic!! No one sounds like the Kinks, and no one writes better songs than Sir Ray Davies.
😎😍😎
"Boys will be girls and girls will be boys".....man were they ahead of their time when you look at the confusion going on today.
Kia ora, the best part of this song is the lyrics, guys did you understand the lyrics about Lola I'm asking because you didn't mention the lyrics and yes a great song.
I enjoy your channel keep up the fantastic work.
I saw the Kinks live at Glastonbury back in the early 90s. Bloody great band.... you guys should react to Waterloo Sunset, one of the greatest songs ever written. 👍
Timeless song, my favourite Kinks song is Waterloo sunset though.
Another great band from 60's London you should check out is the Small Faces.
Do you not think the keyboard player was plucked straight from The Muppet Show?
Jazz grip not matched grip. Drummers with finesse still do it...or can anyway.
The Kinks were a bit before my time, but I've since listened and enjoyed their music, very good band, my band have covered some of their tunes like 'Sunny Afternoon' and 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion'.
Different generation, but you've probably not heard....Del Amitri Nothing Ever Happens
Waterloo sunset was thier real classic for me when I took my wife to London as the sun was setting I told her to sit by the window and slipped headphones on her playing it.
Delays on that bridge, she probably heard the entire album...
I'm not like everybody else is a cracking tune by the kinks!
Paul Weller Sunflower is a good shout & Wildwood
Try the Green Day fans singing Bohemian Rapsody in Hyde Park London 2017
It's different, in a good way.
The kinks, such a great band.
hey guys. can you listen to a song called "Stairway To Heaven"? It's by a band called "Led Zeppelin".
Try this boys... Aussie band by the name of Skyhooks singing "Living in the 70's". Guaranteed that you haven't heard that one, or seen the band!
My fave song ever xx nothing beats 60s music..check out the small faces..steve marriot was amazing
He's holding the sticks that way because he's doing a rolling drum beat.
If you've heard the original version you may notice they change the taste of the champagne from Coca-Cola to cherry cola for this version, as the BBC wouldn't let them advertise a known brand.
LMAO ! now just need "One Night in Bangkok" as a reminder to be careful about who you let hug you when you're in some dodgy dives !
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The BBC weren't happy with the line "They drink champagne that tastes like Coke Cola" which was changed to "They drink champagne that tastes like Cherry Cola". They seemed to be OK with the rest of the songs lyrics.
They really are a stickler for advertising rules
Have you tried house of the rising sun by the animals 1964?
I'm still a working drummer,40+ yrs, getting to 70 yrs old and I still use traditional grip occasionally for some quieter songs.Not too sure why it's "old School" a lot of todays big drummers use it.P.S. Looking at the motion of his left hand I would say he is big brushes user as well,but that's just my thoughts on that.
Got to comment on the drummer observation guys. See: Buddy Rich.
What about The Sensational Alex Harvey Band “Next”.
Check out The Kinks Sunny Afternoon The words are awesome
Try Mungo Jerry in the summertime for some questionable lyrics
Drummer holding his sticks is the rythum and blues play because they get a double bounce from the stick hitting the drum. Great one to watch is Santana at Woodstock, the drummer killed it. Stilled played today
Lola is living her best life.
Sadly, thia song is being considered for retirement a la Rolling Stones's Brown Sugar, due to subject matter. It's a shame because it's a great song.
That's odd. If anything this is a very pro trans song.
Seriously ?
Have you delved into the 'Slade' rabbit hole? try How Does it Feel? (1973) and Far Far Away (71)
Lola is absolutely my favourite Kinks song, and Ray Davies wrote a lot of good songs!
This song was written about a true life experience of their manager!
When this song was first released in the UK, my friends and I were all about 11 or 12 years old, and (perhaps helped by many of us having older brothers or sisters,) we ALL cottoned onto what the song was really about.
After just a week or two, the BBC (who still see themselves as the guardians of the public's morals,) banned it from airplay on BBC radio. That wasn't a surprise to us, because the BBC had always been quite prudish with themes like this, and our only surprise was that it had taken them two weeks to work out what the theme of the song really was.
At the time, The Kinks were making various live appearances in the USA, and Ray Davies, the vocalist, flew back to the UK. While here, he re-recorded just one line of the song, changing "Coca Cola" to "Cherry Cola" and then returned to The States.
It turned out that the reason the BBC had banned the song from broadcast was that it didn't allow advertising or any kind of product placement on its airwaves, so the reference to Coca Cola had to go, and following the re-recording of the single with the altered lyrice, the BBC once again allowed it to be broadcast.
It caused a hell of a lot of amusement to us 11/12 year old kids, that something we'd taken about 5 minutes to work out, (i.e. the theme of the song,) had totally elluded the BBC, (and still has to this day as far as I know.)
Check out Billy Bragg Left wing Bob Dylan of English protest and love songs try "New England" - I saw two shooting stars last night i wished on them but they were only satellites - its bad to wish on space hardware i wish i wish i wish she cared!
Good Old Billy. As hypocritical as the rest of them.
For the longest time extolled the virtues of MultiCulturalism in London and yet when his area, where he was born and raised which was: Barking, suddenly became extremely diverse he opped sticks and moved to the Whitest part of the whole Country i.e West Dorset and to add insult to injury wanted to set a centre there for any non indigenous Brits having chosen to live 200 miles away in an area virtually completely full of the indigenous population. haha
My comment got deleted, presumably because I put a link in the comment so... if you want something you've never heard, try searching She Does it Right Dr Feelgood Geordie Scene. This is a live performance from a kids afternoon tv show in 1975 (we were truly spoilt back then) and features Wilko Johnson (aka Ilyn Payne from Game of Thrones) on guitar.
Aphrodite's Child the four horsemen.
You probably won't have heard of this.. think you will like its weirdness... please please watch this masterpiece
Great track
Yeah, Vangelis is a fantastic Composer.
Blade Runner is an amazing Soundtrack.
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@@trevordoolan5011 yes, would love to see their reaction to something like four horsemen.
The songs a trip.
My brother got me into vangelis and other electronic music, I was a seasoned punk. I even went to the Jean Michel Jarre Destination Docklands concert in 1988 with him.
As far as I'm aware this was the first ever song about a trans woman. :)
You could try The Kinks 'Waterloo Sunset'
Love Ray’s irreverent sense of humor. 👍👍
Free All Right Now 🔥think you guys will like it! 👍
A truly great band up there with the Who. Beatles and stones. So many wonderful songs. But try All day and all of the night and my own personal favourite for its whimsical qualities Days See on Hardfolk channel. PS the original lyric is Coca-Cola but BBC objected because it was “advertising”. so it was changed to cherry cola. Also try Sunshine of your love. by Cream. Another great classic from the 60s
Give the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band a go, I doubt you'd have heard any of there stuff. Or maybe Madness and Ian Dury - Drip Fed Fred.
KINKS, "LOLA". Here's a song that you may not of heard. The Group TRAFFIC, doing 🎵 "THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS". 🎶
1:14 That's not Them, that's The Kinks.😉
You should also check out Them.
A B-side of theirs, Gloria, became a classic and was covered by both Hendrix, and The Doors.
Here Comes The Night, Mystic Eyes and Baby Please Don't Go, are all great.
PS. Just remembered It's All Over Baby Blue, so many.
You've gotta check Them out.
Sunny Afternoon is the best kinks song for me.
Try some chas and Dave. Pure London.
I'm with Kirsty I can only hear Weird Al's Yoda now.
This was mimed in the Top of the Pops studio.
Please do Shangri-la by the Kinks
I'm amused that you say the thing that dates this video is not the big hair or the clothes, but the way the drummer holds his drumsticks!
I hope that is not a Euphemism, Caroline :)
They were banned from playing the US for some time, having infringed union rules
Go through their whole back catalogue.
There is two versions of this song one for the BBC with words Cherry Cola and one with the words Coca Cola for everybody else
Wow. I have never listened to the words before - they are really great and funny. Yep this was my time folks. Try Tom Lehrer - USA 1960s pianist with very satirical words. 'Poisoning pigeons in the Park' or 'her her was in roses or perhaps they were peonies, I was blind to her obvious faults - the Vienaschnizel Walz. Lewd but funny lyrics.
How about Genesis "Firth of Fifth", "Suppers Ready", "One for the Vine"? Give some old English prog rock a listen.
Brilliant band, always great lyrics.
Hey lads, Try "Parisienne Walkways" a song by guitarist Gary Moore
Gary Moore is great...
But, Rory Gallagher is the Man !
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Thank you for not calling it a reaction because you'd seen it before. Some people call their re-reactions reactions, which is bloody annoying when you find out it's something they've already seen
Similar sort of subject as Lola. I'm a Boy by The Who
But his ma won't admit it ...
Ever heard "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf? If not, the official video is a must see!
The Davies Bros. and band......."L-O-L-A Lola......... la la la Lola !"........hey, it was the 60's ! everybody made a mistake......luv the ending double entendre......
Hey guys enjoying your reactions a lot just a recommendation for you to react to an old movie from the 1990s called Run Lola Run if you've not seen it it's an interesting one don't know about copyright for it but it's a good movie to react to
Really annoyed that you make fun of the classical way to hold the drum stcks, IT MEANS THE DRUMMER HAS BEEN TRAINED...
That aside, I thought you were supposed to be critiquing the song... You did NOTHING but laugh, giggle and comment that "oh wait we've heard this before" but did you even understand the lyrics? You know, transgender/cross dressing? In 1970 this was unheard of in music or the public place.
Crap reaction to a classic song..!
I'm sure that u've heard it before but do u 2 lovely blokes from the U.S. know the song "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues.
I'd love u to hear it or if u already have...do a review, give us ur spin on it. Purdy purleeze!!! 😉
They're from Birmingham,England ( not Alabama) that's my home city also ( Black Sabbath were born n bred here too,amongst a lot of other great musicians n vocalists.)
This tune is not a rock tune, per se, but it is fuckin AMAZING. So atmospheric.
Please put it on ur channel n thanx for all the love u show the UK.
Plus I'd love a shout out... Birmingham Becky....plz,if ya can?
Tc lads n keep up the gud work.
U n 'JT Reacts' are my 2 fave United States RUclipsrs. 💚 & 🕊.xxxx
Please do a reaction review of, God Gave Rock And Roll To You, the original, by Argent, not the tacky knock off, by KISS. In fact, why not do a back to back comparison? Most Americans aren't even aware of the (far superior, IMHO) original.
Maybe try something from Pulp. Pink Glove maybe? Brilliant song that I doubt you've heard.