This is like the original punk rock song. I love this one so much.

@module79l28

2 жыл бұрын

So "punky" that the Hammersmith Gorillas did a cover of it. : )

@chrisjamieson3452

2 жыл бұрын

1964. Dave Davies introduces the power chord to rock n rollers.

@eileendobbs8009

2 жыл бұрын

I think The Kinks are considered by many to be the roots of punk rock.

@sqidvishus

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the first pop punk song to be aired on the radio.

@thgeremilrivera-thorsen9556

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to say this but you put it better

The Kinks are iconic and one of the best British bands of all time. Leader/lead vocalist Ray Davies is a songwriting genius, and his brother Dave Davies is an incredible (and underrated) guitarist.

@chrisbloomfield3350

2 жыл бұрын

Let's not add that Ray and Dave kinda hated each other. The original "Oasis"....

@mollyhall2954

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanjulian2532 Page was still a session man at that point. He made fun of the song until it was a hit and then he tried to take credit. The brothers, notorious for fistfighting with each other and others, had to shut him up. He still Coyly let people think he something to do with the song when he had nothing to do with it. He was finally forced to say that. He's a strange man, with his occult interests, and interest in underage girls, and extreme fame, to still want credit for Dave Davies' guitar part on The Kinks' first hit.

@mollyhall2954

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisbloomfield3350 As brothers, and with Ray being bipolar at a time when there was no proper treatment, they made it through with alcohol, fistfighting and as Dave Davies said, "I hate Ray and I love Ray." They kept the band together from the '60s through the '90s, both having lots of kids to support, and they still get together for holidays and exchange gifts, just like most siblings who aren't millionaires! Oasis and Blur both owe them a lot! (Dead End Street video, House In The Country, listen to them talk about The Kinks)

@marke2452

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanjulian2532 Incorrect

This song was the birth of guitar distortion. Dave Davies the lead guitarist took a razor to the speaker of his amplifier to get that sound in 1964. The rest is history.

@TattiebogleYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

^ this

@TattiebogleYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@drcornelius8275 I'll need to check that out, cheers!

@SevenHunnid

2 жыл бұрын

You think i should quit KZread lol?..

@betsyduane3461

2 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't, distortion dates back to the 40's. Others cut their speakers before that.

@ralphkern380

2 жыл бұрын

@@betsyduane3461 One early example was (believe it or not) Marty Robbins 1961 hit DON'T WORRY 'BOUT ME ... If you skip to the 1:26 mark . . . . kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2aLpKSceJm1gLg.html

So many great songs to choose from...please take a listen to "Lola" or "All Day and all of the Night"!!!

@Falconer1128

2 жыл бұрын

"Come Dancing" is one of my favorites from them. But ...yeah... Lola would blow their minds. Would love to see that.

@stevend3753

2 жыл бұрын

Destroyer, Superman, Low Budget.

@thancrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevend3753 I saw them in concert for the Low Budget tour . Great concert.

@stevend3753

2 жыл бұрын

@@thancrow Nice!

@thancrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevend3753 It was. It was great to see one of the og original rockers

Great tune! I'd also like to see Brad's reaction to "Lola" by the same band - "So, what's this one about???"

@kengregory6026

2 жыл бұрын

lmao🤣

@stephenbrough8132

2 жыл бұрын

Next, we'll be challenging him to interpret St Cecilia's classic hit , "LEAP UP AND DOWN, WAVE YOUR KNICKERS IN THE AIR" OR anything by Hunt Lunt and Cunningham. (I've never actually HEARD anything by Hunt Lunt & Cunningham but I did keep stumbling on their adverts in NME but couldn;t find them on You Tube so I have no idea what they sound like. I thought it was law firm.

@mikecumbo7531

2 жыл бұрын

Or Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”.

@bashirmussachand1738

2 жыл бұрын

Lola great song

@tripledistilled2822

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely, the College Students didn't get it haha!

You called it once again, Lex! This is widely regarded as one of the seminal influences of what eventually became heavy metal. 👍

@Rock_Snob

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Jimi Page said they hung around with the Kinks cause that is where the hot chicks were!

@MadSlantedPowers

2 жыл бұрын

And punk as well.

@ericwalker8636

2 жыл бұрын

@@MadSlantedPowers Absolutely

@scottfrench4139

2 жыл бұрын

More so punk.

@josephstanton4872

2 жыл бұрын

Not heavy metal, you can make out the lyrics😎

Hey guys, that song ,"You Really Got Me", was the birth of hard/heavy rock. The Kinks were true rock and roll innovators. Lex you were spot on about this being a precursor to metal. 1964 was 5 years before Woodstock. Check out "Waterloo Sunset", "Sunny Afternoon", "Shangri-La", "Days", "See My Friends" or "Dead End Street".

@craigplatel813

2 жыл бұрын

More like the early era of swinging London

@bigred3966

2 жыл бұрын

love how Ray would intro the song by calling it Van Halens biggest hit. lol

The Kinks are one of the greatest bands of all time, with dozens of hits into the 1980's. Ray Davies is a song writing master.

@davidtingley9978

2 жыл бұрын

And dozens of other great songs that weren't hits.

@crazeyjoe

2 жыл бұрын

Destroyer!

The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" (1964) has been covered by many bands; here are some: Mott the Hoople (1969), Oingo Boingo (1981), Van Halen (1978), even Alvin & The Chipmunks (2009). I didn't look to see what movies the song has been used in. Love the syncopation and off-beat accentuations in the lyrics. Lex just loves to rock out!!! GO, GAL!!!

Try "Days," "Waterloo Sunset," "Sunny Afternoon," "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," "Dead End Street," "Lola," so many to choose from ...

@chrisjamieson3452

2 жыл бұрын

God's Children from Arthur. Ah ha ha ha ha. Strange movie.

@stephenbrough8132

2 жыл бұрын

I felt a right birk thinking I'd put SUNNY AFTERNOON in on karaoke, only to realize I'd written LAZY SUNDAY - dunno why i get those two mixed up - one's easy to sing - the other is not and requires a convincing Cockney accent - which I don;t have (my name is NOT Michael Caine) - you don't half feel a DH trying to sing a song you've never even tried before and doing the worst Cockney accent since Dick Van Dyke.

The Kinks were the garage band of the British Invasion. That's not a bad thing. Great raw sound on this and other songs.

The beginning of raunchy with a capital R! Raw and balls-to-the-wall recording! A guitar solo out beyond Pluto! Whoo! What a band!

The Kinks! Love this band...there are many more to listen to. Lola, Father Christmas, A Well Respected Man...They started up in 1963 and are pretty much a legendary band.

@nightwood4379

2 жыл бұрын

“The Kinks are the Preservation Society” a favorite.

Ray Davies is a genius songwriter. It's difficult to overstate the influence of The Kinks and this song in particular - "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" are arguably two of the reasons punk and heavy metal exist. The Kinks moved on from this style and they often get overlooked, but their influence was enormous.

Keeping it in the 60s and Lex's head is bopping

Your ear and instincts are spot on, again. “You Really Got Me” not only brought distorted guitar to the masses it’s the genesis of all things hard and heavy in rock and, as the legend goes, it was an act of aggression from Kinks guitarist Dave Davies (by slashing the speaker cone) that created the gnarlier tone and started an amplifier revolution in the process. Try VAN HALEN's version, it's kick-ass!

Yes Lex is right, it's the precursor of the metal. The original source: a riff

It's hard not to have heard this one, at some point lol. On Van Halen's first album they have a dual track of Eruption & a cover of this song together (Eruption/You Really Got Me Now), & it was super popular. I know you've done the live extended Eruption reaction, but the studio version is a lot more condensed and planned out and along with this was it totally ROCKS! I know some will say it's blasphemous, but I like the VH version of this song better. Amazing dual track & def worth checking out. Cheers!

@unholydriver4987

2 жыл бұрын

Oh the VH version is world's better, IMO. I find this one boring and monotonous.

@HollowGolem

2 жыл бұрын

@@unholydriver4987 This was also, depending on who you ask, literally the first "hard rock" song. Ever.

@alanskidadomdom3748

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. That's definitely blasphemous!😁😁😁

@HollowGolem

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanskidadomdom3748 The thing is, in a vacuum, sure, Van Halen's sounds better, after rock playing and production had gone through a frenzied decade of evolution. And Van Halen WAS doing something pretty new at the time (Akkerman and some jazz dudes paved the way, but Eddie brought that style of playing into mainstream rock). But the original, in the context of 1964, blew the goddamn roof off of the genre. We're talking about most people''s first exposure to power chords. At all.

@JoeR203

2 жыл бұрын

@@unholydriver4987 Same with White Lion's version of Radar Love. SO much better than the original by Golden Earring.

The Kinks, a great band, loved in Britain at the time and very influential.

Also from The Kinks, Destroyer, Superman, and Low Budget!

I was a little girl, maybe 5 or 6, when this song came out. I remember hearing it on the radio and I loved it. Who knew that 10+ yrs later, I would still be jamming to their later music in the 80's that was also fantastic!

This is the birth of hard rock right here. First record EVER to feature a distorted guitar sound. Dave Davies wanted to change the tone of his guitar on this so he took a razor blade to the speaker cone of his amp to make it sound this way. The rest was rock n roll history.

All the 60s Kinks singles are magic , See My Friends , Tired Of Waiting , Dead End Street , heaps of others . 60s Who was also great .

What Dave Davies lead guitarist did was revolutionary at the time . He sliced his speaker with a razor blade to create that distorted guitar sound that changed the game. He was 17 years old at the time.

"Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon" and "Waterloo Sunset" also by the Kinks are worthy of a listen

Hey, my favorite band! Alot of people give these guys credit for innovating and being the first band to use the "power chord", something heard in most rock songs.

@johnr.8275

2 жыл бұрын

One of my very favorites, too. I feel very lucky to have gotten to see them live!

Ok we need Brad to react to Lola, with the lyrics up, it will be amazing to witness lol

They will call The Kinks 2 promote their innocence they were part of the British Invasion in 63 and 64 along with the Beatles and other bands

This makes me think how wild the Stooges must have sounded at the time '69 with I wanna be your dog. - You guys will be surprised how wild that song is for its time.

Guitarist Dave Davies (brother of front man and writer Ray) got his sound on this track by taking a razor blade to the cones on the speakers.

B&L, you'll love their "All Day And All Of The Night", "Better Things" and many more. They are music pioneers. Great guitar riffs on this one and "All Day..."

Lola is a must, Brad will trip on the lyrics, Lex will love the sound

Part of the "British Invasion" of the mid 60's, I remember it well. The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five and dozens more great groups.

Lex and many comments are right, this song is often cited as a main springboard to hard rock and heavy metal to come. For a similar influence track, try the extended version of Kick Out the Jams by the MC5, it is a pioneering track that is absolute fire. Enjoy! 🎸

@cjhere2224

2 жыл бұрын

I tried pushing MC5 in the past. Hopefully it makes it one day. Pioneers.

@vicprovost2561

2 жыл бұрын

@@cjhere2224 That extended version of Kick Out the Jams is epic and a big influense for hard rock, heavy metal and punk to come. Amazing stuff they need to hear. Rock On! 🎸

@vicprovost2561

2 жыл бұрын

@@cjhere2224 That extended version of Kick Out the Jams is epic and a springboard for hard rock, heavy metal and punk to come. Amazing stuff they need to hear. Rock On! 🎸

@MrWalkingguy

2 жыл бұрын

Early experiments with guitar distortion. It rocks!

@bothellkenmore

2 жыл бұрын

The evolution of Rock in the 60's astounds me. 5 years later we had Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Must have been LSD LOL.

According to Ray Davies, they had one shot at recording this, and they did it live for the most part. When the time for the guitar solo came, he looked (or shouted, depending on which version he tells) across the studio at his brother Dave, to encourage him before his big solo. As Ray says it on the fantastic "The Storyteller" album: "Halfway through the song it was time for Dave's guitar solo. This moment had to be right. So I shouted across the studio to Dave, to give him encouragement. But I seemed to spoil his concentration. He looked at me with a dazed expression and yelled, "F*ck off!!!" If you doubt me, if you doubt what I'm saying, I challenge you to listen to the original Kinks recording of 'You Really Got Me'. Halfway through the song, after the second chorus, before the guitar solo, there's a drum break. Boo ka, boo boo ka, boo ka, boo boo. And in the background you can hear "f*ck off!!" (Laughing) You can, you can! When I did the vocal I tried to cover it up by going "Oh no", but in the background you still hear it: "f*ck off!!". And it's even clearer on CD, it's really embarrassing."

I became familiar with this song only after Van Halen covered it in 1978 on their eponymous debut album. Oingo Boingo also covered it on their 1981 album Only a Lad.

1964 is before the hippies. They came around not too long after. The Kinks have a lot of great tunes. Everyone will ask for "Lola" (from 1970, I think). "All Day and All of the Night" is another garage rock classic. "Sunny Afternoon", "Waterloo Sunset" and "Lazy Old Sun" are some favourites. "Come Dancing" is a bop from 1980.

Many of these songs sound familiar to you guys because they've become part of much of the world's cultural memory. This song was a hit at the dawn of the "Swinging London" era.

"Lola" was the biggest hit of "The Kinks"...But my personal favourite "The Kinks" song is "Pictures of matchstick men" and a melody section of that song was then used 2002 by the group "Death in Vegas feat Liam Gallagher" as song melody for their song "Scorpio Rising" which also a great song.

Another great live band. Yes, I'm that old boys and girls. The Kinks are incredible

The Kinks were a fantastic band that had many hits over many years!!! I've loved this song since I was around 3 or 4. They were Hugh part of the early-mid 60's British Invasion with the Rolling Stone, The Beatles, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, The Who, The Zombies and a few others. I saw them at The Fabulous Forum in 1980 and then I saw Ray Davies at The House of Blues on Sunset in Hollywood in around 1995. They are incredible entertaining!!!👌👍✌😁

@nightwood4379

2 жыл бұрын

Saw them in the sixties and again in the 80s in L.A. Ray Davies a legend….

This song came out at least three years before hippies were even a thing. This was right after the Beatles came to America for the first time. This is straight up British Invasion rock.

The Kinks were not just around in the 60's. They played and made many more hits into current years. Check out 'Come dancing' from the 80's. A few decades from this and still good.

that guitar short solo is so perfect

Lex, for a first time listening to these tunes, your ear and your insights really are remarkable. "...they're leading up to metal..." This riff apparently was the first intentional use of guitar distortion on a record. So you were absolutely right! The kinks are an amazing band. Fun and clever and creative and full of surprises in their songs. I hope you'll be checking out more from them.

@LordEriolTolkien

2 жыл бұрын

This and the Beatles Helter Skelter both prefigure metal by a few years

It was great to be a kid back then. We all gathered around the TV and watched the Beatles first appearance in America. Then the Kinks, Stones, and the Who all became big shortly thereafter. Then, in the second half of the 60s the music started reflecting drugs and the war while I had little idea of what the world was really like as I rode my bike around the neighborhood and played football in the streets. :)

@stephenbrough8132

2 жыл бұрын

I remember telling my older sisters I'd just seen an old man and woman on READY STEADY GO -it was sonny & cher. I was only about 6.

Issued in 1964 on Pye. Records also got the LP “You really got me “🇬🇧

This is the first metal song ever and was absolutely revolutionary in its time. The Kinks were teenagers when they wrote and recorded this. It was a number 1 hit and launched their legendary career. They are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and leader Ray Davies was eventually knighted for his contribution to music so now he's Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE.

The Kinks are a British band and that is where you hear the accent in his words. Maybe the familiarity of the song would be if you heard the Van Halen version of this song.

Some songs you know are precursors to heavy rock. They aren't the fathers of heavy, rock but you know without them heavy rock would never have been born. The Kinks "You Really Got Me", is part of that evolution. Another track that is a part of that precursor lineage is The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie".

If you were to compare this song to every other song popular in 1964, this was the heavy metal/ grunge introduction. Ozzy Osborne said he was blown away by this song when he heard it.

This what they call "Garage Music". They are the fourth best Rock Band of all time behind The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks.

@ralphgomez6251

2 жыл бұрын

And The Who

The first fuzzy distortion. Lead guitarist sliced the speaker in his amplifier to create the sound.

This is 1964, the last year of what I'd call early or pre-modern rock. They're still singing about teen life to teens. Starting in 1965, rock begins a transformation, into a more mature musical style for adults.

Years ago (when I was young & at a party) and this song came = DANCE SONG == Grab a Girl and DANCE 😁😁😁😁😁😁

My second favourite band of all time! So many classics

Kinks 1963-1996 "You Really Got Me" was written by Ray Davies, the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964! He was a Guitarist and the father of "Distortion" which many use to this day!

Recorded before guitar distortion was invented, they damaged the front cone of the amp to get this distorted guitar sound and all of a sudden every guitar player wanted that sound.

@vivianphillips8519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for that bit of information. I'd never heard this before.

The reason it sounds so familiar to most people is Van Halen did a cover of it in 1978 on their debut album...so besides the mass coverage after the original in 1964, it was reborn again 14 years later in 1978. So it charted twice. Classic rock at its finest.......distortion on a guitar in 1964? they were ahead of their time!

1964 was pre-hippy era. I don't know that you can pick a date or even a year, but I have always considered the 1967 Monterrey Pop Festival in Monterrey, Ca. as the the first Hippy concert.

This song is special because there is no distortion on the guitar, but the guitarist cut the membrane of the amplifier with a knife to get the distortion of sound

This was from BEFORE the Hippies! They were still Beatniks, just starting to become Hippies. I think the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests of 1965 officially launched the Hippie Era.

To put this song in context, five years earlier, the biggest songs were things like "Venus," by Frankie Avalon, or "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin, or anything by The Everly Brothers. When people thought about the genre that would become rock, they thought of stuff like Rock around the Clock, which is a long ways from this. Relatively speaking, to people back then, this would have sounded like punk did, to people in the 80's, who were coming out of disco.

You may have heard the Van Halen version of this song during a commercial they used to run during Football games. It had Barbie and GI Joe dolls in it.

Sir Ray Davies wrote so many great songs. Brother Dave was 15 when this was recorded. This song was WAY ahead of its time. A tribute to the Kinks' influence is how many bands have covered their material.

I love some golden oldies! Makes you want to move! My dad ensured that I knew all of these by heart!

A Well Respected Man is a must do song for reaction, yeah the Kinks have many great songs or picture book...do it, do it, do it, do it

British Invasion! Some credit then session player Jimmy Page with the solo on this, but I'm not keeping score. Whatever the case, that solo still totally screams with energy fifty plus years later. 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", "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (Van Halen covered this one too!), and from 1977, their evergreen holiday banger, "Father Christmas" -- the video for that is a good one to see what the band looked like back then.

@craigplatel813

2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy didn't do the solo. As a session musician he did some bass work on a couple earlier songs. He has definitely stated he didn't do the solo.

@edwardjons8684

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigplatel813 i was about to say the same. Page didnt play on this and has said as much on many occasions. Dave Davies was a great guitar player in his own right and deserves the respect for the solo.

This predates the hippy movement by a year or two. There were hippies around, but it wasn't until they sort of morphed together with the beatnik subculture that the hippy movement exploded in to the scene around 1966 . The Kinks were a revolutionary band for the time. Definitely a setter of trends.

I’ve seen them half a dozen times live and they never fail to deliver!!! My favourite group. 👍😎

Their manager at the time suggested the name The Kinks but I can't remember why. There was an explanation given in the musical about the band which is called 'Sunny Afternoon' (named after one of their songs). Apparently Ray Davies (lead singer and songwriter) said he never liked the name. They didn't want to be thought of as kinky but it was good for publicity.

They took razor blades to their speakers/amps to get that distorted/fuzz guitar sound! Plus they were the original band with the warring/hating brothers in. At 15 alongside Smells Like Teen Spirits, couple of Sex Pistols numbers, this and 'All day and all of the night', plus Enter Sandman, were the 5 songs my band played. The UK roots of indie, punk and metal here folks! This shit inspired, and will inspire, countless bands from here to infinity!

good ear Lex. yes one could consider this the birthplace of hard rock/heavy metal. the distorted power cords created from the mutilated amp was adopted by virtually all the hard rock / metal bands and is the basis to the heavy sound of the genre. many have falsely claimed over the years that it was actually done by jimmy page in the studio before he joined the yardbirds and formed led zeppelin. Page did a lot of work on the kinks albums when he was a studio musician and even though he was heavily experimenting with distortion at the time , he did not do this particular one. he has confirmed this again and again in interviews.

1964 was a little before the hippies, which was 1967...Very close...You look at the video of the Kinks in 1964 for the band uniforms.

This song came out the same year The Beatles exploded onto the American Music Scene; the Kinks were part of "The British Invasion." Just by listening, you can see how The Kinks probably had a greater influence on what happened to "Rock & Roll" over the next decade than The Beatles. The Beatles were unique, featured vocal harmonies that few succeeding bands were able to match. But The Kinks were able to produce that raw energy from guitar chords you can dance to at, starting a trend..

The Kinks and The Troggs were two of the first punk bands in the UK. The meaning behind their names? Kinky may have been around in the modern meaning, it usually meant quirky, off the wall, or even rebellious. Troggs? All I can think of is cave dwellers. They wrote the classics Wild Thing and Love Is All Around. The song writer, Reg Presly (no relation to Carl Registration), became very involved in the study of corn circles and aliens.

This was a huge hit when it came out

This song probably sounds familiar since Van Halen did a cover of it in an early album. You had to hear it somewhere then. Ray Davies is singing lead on this song. I'm a young 72, Our rock band, Deep River Rock Band, did this song back in 1968. Indiana.

Y'all should check out The Yardbirds. Start with "I Ain't Done Wrong", and then some others like "For Your Love", "Shapes of Things", "Heart Full of Soul", "Over Under Sideways Down", "I'm Not Talking", "Train Kept a-Rolling", "Evil Hearted You".

Punk Rock origins. The Kinks are fucking awesome.

Woodstock was in '69, an awful lot changed between 1964 and then. But I think 1964 was when music really made a definitive break with the '50s. The Kinks had a lot of influence on Punk and New Wave - partly because of the mood of rebellion and partly because it was the music people remembered from when they were kids.

The unique guitar sound on this song was created by the guitarist cutting the speakers on his amp with a utility knife.

One of the most exciting bands of all time.

Dave Daviess, inventor of guitar distortion! He slashed the speaker cone on a cheap amplifier with a razor blade to get that sound.

Check out the Van Halen version of this song that they play after Eruption on their first album. (Eruption/You Really Got Me Now) It's only the 2 minute version of Eruption that leads into You Really Got Me Now.

This was before the hippie era of the 60s. In 1964 the sixties was still very Innocent and fresh. Teeny bop crooners, doo wop, girl groups, Motown, surf bands and orchestral arrangements were all still very popular then…………………the British Invasion came in 1964 and changed the world forever. The Beatles of course led it but the kinks are highly influential in modern music even till today as well. Gotta do more Kinks and/or even more 60s in general

There are soooo many great Kinks songs. Lola is their biggest hit, but also try: This Time Tomorrow, Sunny Afternoon, Wish I Could Fly Like Superman, Celluloid Heroes, Jack the Idiot Dunce, Waterloo Sunset, Muswell Hillbillies, etc.

Hoop-de-doo? Did you mean Hullabaloo? Black and white, go-go dancer, teen dance party TV? You may want to check out The Troggs 'Wild Thing' for another song in this vein. And this is pre-hippie, mod music in fact.

The "Woodstock Era" really is from 1969 on into the 70s. 1963 and 64 is the beginnings of the British Invasion. Part of why Rick Davies sounds so different is because he is leaning heavily in his British pronunciations.

I haven't seen it mentioned so i'll mention this; this is the very first recording of guitar distortion (there was previously 1 recording with a distorted bass called "Don't Worry" by Marty Robbins). If it was intentional is a matter of debate but Davies' amp speaker got slashed and that created that flubby distortion sound. The Rolling Stones achieved a similar effect when they accidentally plugged the guitar directly into the sound board instead of the amp on "Can't Get no Satisfaction" and then everyone from the Yardbirds to Jimi Hendrix chased that sound.

Great reaction, This is the beginning of the 'distorted guitar' sound, (The guitar player cut the speaker in his amp with a knife) You should try, ("All of the day and all of the night" from the same era. "Give the people what they want" later kinks. "Come Dancing" for a little bit of fun. and "Lola")

Awesome!! Now Brad can decipher the lyrics to Lola from same band. It will be a hoot.

1964 was not the Woodstock era, Lex. In 1964 the Beatles had not turned on, people were not doing LSD. They were not growing their hair long. All that came a few years later.

Thanks to wiki Pedia What a great year 1964 was both in Britain and USA with the arrival of so many talented musicians “ The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom[2] and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.[3] Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, the Kinks,[4] Small Faces, the Dave Clark Five,[5] Herman's Hermits, the Hollies, the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, the Yardbirds, the Who, and Them, as well as solo singers like Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Lulu, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, and Donovan, were at the forefront of the "invasion". I am so glad I grew up in those times of course nothing was perfect it never is but I think young people had a better time than they do now even if life was much more basic and simple. Try to imagine No Mobile phone pop songs came on a 7 inch vinyl single played one at a time and pretty expensive and most people watched black and white 20 inch televisions. In England we didn’t get colour TV till 1967 and then they were extremely expensive. It’s a good rule for a happy life to make the most of what you’ve got

Dave Davies sliced the speaker on a cheap amplifier to get the guitar sound. Van Halen covered this song on the first album. The first Van Halen song on the radio.

Trivia: to get a bit more distortion from their guitar rigs, they poked pencil holes through the speakers to make it sound a bit more ragged.

The Kinks were banned from playing gigs in America for 5 years from, I think, 1965-‘69 for drinking and fighting onstage, so they’re not as well-known as the Beatles and Stones, but they’re a very influential, genius band. “You Really Got Me” was unique when it came out. Check out “All Day And All Of The Night” and “She’s Got Everything”. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) plays with Dave Davies on “I Gotta Move”.

The Kinks were a radically different sound, their beat from the 60's became punk rock in the 80's with the new bands, the Ramones, and the Clash. "Lola" is one of my all time favorite songs.

After Peter Quaife (bass) retired from the music business he headed to Denmark and in 1980 relocated to the small city I live in, Belleville, Ontario Canada. He did airbrush art while here as well as political cartoons for a local weekly paper. 🙂

Iconic 60's band with many great hits. We had such great music back then. Very spoilt for choice but I loved it all.