I love the stills and the photos in this video. They make me feel so nostalgic. Especially the photos of the houses and the Christmas tree (our trees always had those big, round, HOT lights, too).
Are they photos from your personal collection? They really take me back to a better time.
Namaste. Utter innovation. Stunning, just like they were in the 60's-70's... excuse me... I must dance... retro-trancing... British Invasion mantra... is it 4:20 yet? Just kinda asking. LOL. Namaste.
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The kinks were innovators, better than the rolling stones anyday if you look at both their careers, the kinks are ahead of the stones and the who....I love early stones and the beatles but the kinks are my favorite band EVER and Im 62 now.....I was 15 when the beatles invaded America in 64
I was in 10th grade when this song hit the charts. I was in drivers education with two other kids and the instructor. He was 50ish and encouraged cranking up the volume on the good songs. There was so much good stuff on the radio we played it loud a lot. We even learned how to drive. the drivers ed car were donated by the dealers in those days. that year it was a 1965 Dodge Coronet.
@doctorfuse007 The Stones might of had more commercial success but these guys were original. Raw and Heavy. The Stones (Like many other British groups) were too busy redoing a bunch of American Black music. Some even made a career out of it redoing the blues. Eric Burton and Clapton are good examples!
Great song & great photo vid, back in the days when things were real & inspiring n not just a soulless digital file :( & wow 15 cent hamburgers at 1:57 :)
They're not underrated as far as we can see, we know the score! My favorite Kinks tune out of so many! Ray is my hero along with Ian Hunter long live The Kinks, and Mott The Hoople, Oh yeah and The Ramones, America loves you!!
They're not underrated as far as we can see, we know the score! My favorite Kinks tune out of so many! Ray is my hero along with Ian Hunter long live The Kinks, and Mott The Hoople, Oh yeah and The Ramones, America loves you!!
I can't begin my day without this tune. I always crank it up (even in the car --much to the dismay of other drivers)! The Kinks and The Who are the ROAR of the British Rock Lion! Okay, The Small Faces were (and are) great too!
I agree they were underrated - maybe the most ever, and here's why:
They aren't revered like other British Invasion bands. Ask a 20 year old who the Kinks are and you'll get a blank stare, or maybe "Lola."
They are arguably the 1st punk band & the 1st metal (proto-metal, but this was the EARLY 60's for $%^# sake). Nobody had distortion until Dave took a knife and cut into his amp, creating a genre defining sound.
These guys were pure genius - popular, revered by many, but not nearly enough.
@gromisch1 you couldn't be more wrong... about the distortion things. loads of people did it in the '50s and the pre-Kinks '60s: the best example would be Link Wray and his Rumble. if you haven't heard of him and that song you shouldn't be here in the first place. then a bit more famous is Rocket 88, which featured a guitar played through an amp with holes poked in the speaker. and that was in 1951.
@deathpill100 - No argument here - I chose my words poorly. A lot of people (Ike, Willie Johnson, Link, Ventures, etc.) doing distortion before the Kinks. What I should have said is that there were no prominent, chart topping bands doing it. Ike's Rocket 88 was probably the best known, but even that wasn't known by the vast majority of middle America. The Kinks hit # 1, blew it up and it quickly became the dominant rock sound. It would have happened soon anyway, but they opened the floodgate.
I don't know where you live, Mr. Sodapop, but around 1:50 you have a pic of my town, Williamsport PA. Bit of a shock.... The Kinks were HARD before almost anybody. I'll never forget the impact "You Really Got Me" had roaring (in a tinny way) out the little radios we had in those days. Then, of course, Ray and the band went on to become even better... "Waterloo Sunset," "Sunny Afternoon," "Victoria," it goes on and on.
don't wanna get morbid, or anything, but I'm gonna have 'Days' as my funeral song. I LOVE the Who, and therefore I LOVE the Kinks, or rather Ray and Dave,...xxx
great song. I won this album in about 1981 at asome carnival. This is their best song in my opinion. I so love actually being to understand the words. Modern rock is too hard to hear the words. Can't really get the feeling in the singer's voice.
Only competition I remember at the time was "Battle Of The Bands" on radio Luxembourg, and that was just a chance to play all the records of the bands involved. Think we were very lucky to have lived through such a massive pop/rock music revolution with so many fantastic bands who took the risk with their futures to follow the dream. Even Lennon didn't know if the Beatles would last longer than a few more months due to fickle public taste
@jajus125100 Average. But they at least taught me to write to a higher level than txt speak.!!!!!1! I replied to one guy's comment at first, because whenever I watch a Kinks vids, there's someone who has to arrogantly 'dictate' them being better than the Beatles, blah, blah, blah. Look at the reaction if you disagree with that.
Must be a liberal. 1) Didn't bother to properly read comment, therefore still haven't grasped it. 2) Can't take your views being questioned. 3) Anyone who does that is a tyrant or some ad hom. 4) Hypocrisy. You had to dictate to norris how wrong he was and how the Kinks were equals. They're not. You just have th eopinion they are.
this song will be the best song till the end of every day ;) i get up and i see the sun , i feel good yeah cause my life has begun , you and me were free cause we do what we please ,from mornin till the end of the day. so much respect for the kinks still in 2010 people are still listening
This song is an expression of how the Western word felt to certain degree at the time. In 2010 the "so called" couldn't begin to feel as free...however WE can make believe!11
this takes me back - I remember putting a shilling in the Sparkford all night cafe juke box in my hitch hiking days on my way to Cornwall - fantastic songs then : - ))
The "problem" for bands like the Kinks is the time in which they were popular. Because of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, many excellent bands were pushed to the back by the music industry and the media. The Kinks were a top band in their own right. They played to their strengths and were just killer.
One of the greatest songs ever and very catchy guitar riff. The Kinks music will live forever, omg what a great band. I just love all 60's music. Much better then the crap of my generation like justin beiber and jonas bro's.
@sukkkmyballs How fair and open minded of you to search out this music, listen to it impartially, discover you like it and write with such enthusiasm about it. I grew up with this kind of music, so I'm perhaps almost bound to like it, steeped as I was in the culture of the time. But your objective appraisal and approval give me great faith in, and respect for, those of your generation who are like you. It's not just your musical taste, which is impeccable, but your whole approach.
I'd like to stab the 3 people who voted "dislike" on this song. Seriously? What's wrong with this song? I'm 22 and love this sort of stuff, seeing the Rolling Stones live was one of the highlights of my college experience.
This was a Top-10 hit in the UK (#8), but not even a top-40 hit in the US (#50). The first three notes are the chords to "Louie Louie" played backwards, but no one has ever played them quite like Dave Davies, with just the right amount of sustain and disortion. This is my FAVORITE of all the Kinks rockers, even more than "All Day and All of the Night".
I am compiling a list of the best dance songs ever for a wedding (the audience is people who are NOT into rap, hip hop, etc - they are mid 50's in age)...THIS is definitely going on the list!
i was 12 when these guys came on the scene, the first real gutsy music, i'd go so far to say they were the first rock band, they were so different, even from the fab 4 or stones, lets face it, there were very few crap bands those dave. happy memories, greatest time to be a kid bordering his teen yrs
@dnorfed ....ME TO ..I was born on August 24th 1953..../ 12 but loved em at such a young age and my father grew to love them , though my mom was stuck on Elvis after Mitch Miller... LOL
@time2act1001 ah, so your 57, your kids think that this music is ancient, as are we eh, but they miss out on our times for music, the finest time to be around, but the kinks were one of the few bands i never saw mores the pity, but i have all their music, oh how i wish for a time machine to go back lol
@time2act1001 well it isn't very often you 'meet' someone born the same day, month, and year as you (meaning me), It is all good is it not?... How 'lucky' we were ... I mean imagine having a 15 year banquet of some of the finest music produced for the times... Anyone 20 yrs younger wouldn't have a clue... God Bless MR. 8/24/ 1953.... Ride On!!!
Brilliant song 74sodapop ! pity the slideshow wasnt Muswell Hill...or North London at least, my Dad was in the same class at school with Ray Davies...London was crazy in them days
I think the photo of the train station at 0:15 is just down the road from me, in Stretford, Manchester. You can tell cause it's raining. Great song, Great Video. Thanks for posting this, I love it.
You never heard any rolling stones music.?. What the fuck are you two. Come on. You look up the kinks,but you don't know the stones. You are a fucking lying clown.
This has always been one of my favourite songs by this wonderful band. The drumming is great. The guitar solo is short but perfectly crafted. The Kinks must be one of the most underrated bands ever. This is because they stayed true to their roots and never pretended to be anything that they were not. They kept their accents and their dignity. The Kinks are for me only a notch under the Beatles and equal to the Rolling Stones.
@norrisonthespot - I saw the kinks back in the 70's - and believe me - NOBODY has ever rocked harder then them, for straight ahead classical rock. I saw the Stones, punk rockers, tons of other acts and the Kinks totally rocked hardest. Rock & Roll!
dude they were bloomin equals - i even like em slightly more - there isnt a single song of theirs tht i dont like - so u can take your "beatles" and your "rolling stones" im quite happy with these guys thank you very much
@jamreaper ''a notch under the beatles? dude they were bloomin equals - i even like em slightly more - there isnt a single song of theirs tht i dont like - so u can take your "beatles" and your "rolling stones" im quite happy with these guys thank you very much'' Kinks vids are filled with sad bastards like this where their love for the Kinks means they have to become stupid and place them above the Beatles as a matter of 'fact'. Probably all left-wing liberals too. Identical mindset.
@Underground906 have you heard of something called opinions? its something all people are entitled to and something of yours that i do not want to hear - if you dont like kinks then dont listen to their music idiot - personally i like them more than beatles and rolling stones - if you dont like that then you can fuck off mate - oh and left wing liberals? - wow what an insult - the only person that would say that is an insult is a backwards right wing ignorant person
@jamreaper Fucking imbecil. Miss the point entirely. I like the Kinks. but can't watch their vids without encoutering the type of insufferable arsehole, who instead of being sensible and simply saying THEY like the Kinks better, it has to become the Kinks WERE better. Which is wholly ridiculous. The Liberal thing wasn't an empty insult. That obnoxious mindset is identitical to the Liberal mindset. And no I'm not right-wing. I've no political leaning either way.
@Underground906 so im obnoxious because i like the kinks better? how much of an idiot are you? of course there will be people who will say that some bands are better than the others - its not you to say they are right or wrong - oh and it isnt rediculous that the kinks were better - just stop being such a tyrant ok? let people think what they want and fuck off - if you go to juustin beiber vids there will be people who say he is better than the beatles - go be an arsehole with them
@jamreaper shut your pipe hole dipshit, respect the stones....sure the kinks were awesome and all but they became a "scooby doo" band with village green, arthur, lola and shit...they were not longer with the times while the stones were blasting them with monsters like gimme shelter, jumpin jack flash. bitch and the exile era
@theachtungtree look i cant remember what i wrote or how many centuries ago i wrote it. but yes the stones were great, but the kinks wrote music that they wanted to, i found their music amazing, they are the only british band that really had a british style e.g. arthur, village green ect., all others sold out and became so americanised.
now we all have different opinions so just grow up and stop trying to make an argument about something i said probably over a year ago
@jamreaper BUT i have to admit that creativily the stones weren't THAT impresive circa 64-67 in contrast to the kinks, the beatles, the byrds, the hollies, buffalo sringfield,jefferson airplane, etc....the stones were better at sticking to the roots on their late sixties early seventies hey day
@psych0p4t3 They weren't. No one was. The Beatles set the pace as long as they were together. I'm glad norris kept it sensible with that comment and gave the Beatles their due, although the rolling stones are ahead of the Kinks too. This tune wouldn't have happened without the obvious Stones influence that this song took its nod from.
@norrisonthespot The stones had no business against the beatles, the kinks and several other bands like cream or hendrix around that 64-67 era when it comes to the whole "album" thing, and i say that as a stones fan, for me they kicked in blasting everyone on their later years (early later years)
This is the kind of song that transformed 'most' of the clean-cut, momma's-boy rock & roll of the 50's into the 'listenable' rock & roll of the 60's, and beyond. Love it!
No disrespect "classiclistener01", but you have to be out of your mind to think that the Rock of the 50's was "clean-cut, momma's boy" stuff. Have you ever listened to Bo Diddley or Chuck Berry? What about Carl Perkins or Gene Vincent? That was music to sharpen your switchblade to.
No, man, no disrespect taken, but I wasn't writing about them - or Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, B.B. King, Elvis, or any of the "rockers" who influenced jamming 60's groups. I WAS MEANING EXACTLY WHAT I WROTE - "clean-cut, momma's-boy rock & roll of the 50's," like The Everly Brothers, Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, Dion, Wayne Newton, Gene Pitney, etc., - AS I WROTE!
I am still waiting for somebody to catch on to this song as a stadium anthem, to replace the old, crusty "Start Me Up", "We Will Rock You" dreck. But no one ever said that life was fair....
How impressive...This song has everything and when you mind the time when it came out, no wonder people said that Rock was the devils' music...Killer song!!!
Ugh. No way. Jimmy Page never played lead on a Kinks track ever, OK? Why would anyone else play when you have Dave Davies? Enough already with this myth!
I LOVE THIS SONG... & who was that girl with the great bod on the beach???
OdinsCloud 1 week ago
I love the stills and the photos in this video. They make me feel so nostalgic. Especially the photos of the houses and the Christmas tree (our trees always had those big, round, HOT lights, too).
Are they photos from your personal collection? They really take me back to a better time.
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Namaste. Utter innovation. Stunning, just like they were in the 60's-70's... excuse me... I must dance... retro-trancing... British Invasion mantra... is it 4:20 yet? Just kinda asking. LOL. Namaste.
HanumanDas420 4 weeks ago
@HanumanDas420 I took the battery out of my watch at 420, so yes it is 420 somewhere.
Fossilproduction 3 weeks ago
Great to hear this again. It just popped into my head. Thanks for sharing!!
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MarmaladeSkyBand1 1 month ago
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeee the kinks!!!
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the kinks have a ALOT of great songs. The rawness of this one is super! Remember when it first played on radio. Still good today!
pbcwerner 1 month ago
The kinks were innovators, better than the rolling stones anyday if you look at both their careers, the kinks are ahead of the stones and the who....I love early stones and the beatles but the kinks are my favorite band EVER and Im 62 now.....I was 15 when the beatles invaded America in 64
davidwatts67 1 month ago 6
I was in 10th grade when this song hit the charts. I was in drivers education with two other kids and the instructor. He was 50ish and encouraged cranking up the volume on the good songs. There was so much good stuff on the radio we played it loud a lot. We even learned how to drive. the drivers ed car were donated by the dealers in those days. that year it was a 1965 Dodge Coronet.
galaxybeing101 2 months ago
@doctorfuse007 The Stones might of had more commercial success but these guys were original. Raw and Heavy. The Stones (Like many other British groups) were too busy redoing a bunch of American Black music. Some even made a career out of it redoing the blues. Eric Burton and Clapton are good examples!
MrRaiderfan1000 2 months ago
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MrRaiderfan1000 2 months ago
les witakers un groupe Revinois des années 60 avait enregistré ce morceau en français le chanteur était Marcel Moya.
TheDziadosz 2 months ago
My life's anthem. This is truth. I need this to keep me going.
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
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This is a great song but if you like this you may like to search:
THE VINYLS-GET IT OUT OF YOUR HEAD
It'll only take 3mins and this band are AMAZING!
JonnyMcCraine22 3 months ago
lov it
chippy783 3 months ago
kinksの前にkinksなし。kinksの後にkinksなし。
from JAPAN
takeorts 3 months ago
Great song & great photo vid, back in the days when things were real & inspiring n not just a soulless digital file :( & wow 15 cent hamburgers at 1:57 :)
scottjinx 3 months ago
grandi questa canzone è stata incisa anche dai pooh in italia. 1965
francescocusato 3 months ago
Great song--anthem really--the photo montage gives a poignant feeling to the end of an era...
juliano66 3 months ago
That guitar sound is the dog's bollocks!
WallOfSound1990 3 months ago
They're not underrated as far as we can see, we know the score! My favorite Kinks tune out of so many! Ray is my hero along with Ian Hunter long live The Kinks, and Mott The Hoople, Oh yeah and The Ramones, America loves you!!
hooterstooge 3 months ago
They're not underrated as far as we can see, we know the score! My favorite Kinks tune out of so many! Ray is my hero along with Ian Hunter long live The Kinks, and Mott The Hoople, Oh yeah and The Ramones, America loves you!!
hooterstooge 3 months ago
FUCKING YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
embojitsu 4 months ago
Great opening riffs -- shake that tamourine! Love this -- everyday of my life!
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago
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hahahahahaha how goddam good is this
just makes me smile
brou2512 4 months ago
hahahahahaha how goddam good is this
brou2512 4 months ago
wilco
AWEEKBACK 4 months ago
this is such an underrated band.
emremokoko 4 months ago
No matter where you go in life you'll always find hardcore Kinks fans.
creepingjean 4 months ago
@creepingjean
you're so right, like me in the SF Bay Area
kinksboss1 4 months ago
I read your description, do you mean to say that you don't like the Kinks 67-70 era?
bluemeanie81 4 months ago
@LB: Nice that one of us "feels good"...
lenahjonsson 4 months ago
Yeah, so I still do the Twist and the Booga-loo to this one. It's STILL a person's right to have a rave up. These days, we NEED to do it!
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago
I can't begin my day without this tune. I always crank it up (even in the car --much to the dismay of other drivers)! The Kinks and The Who are the ROAR of the British Rock Lion! Okay, The Small Faces were (and are) great too!
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago
If they are underrated they are overplayed in supermarkets.lol
richiezed 4 months ago
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RManFlint 4 months ago
baby i feel good now ! yeah the kinks are soooo original its scary !!great british rock !!! great song !my favorite till the end of the day !
tlgray1000 5 months ago
Proud to be related to Pete!
RiffMan14 5 months ago
Same beat as All day and all of the night.....Great Song Tho...
eddietheturdburglar 5 months ago
Love this album Kink Kontroversy. I still own the vinyl.
Raikaage 5 months ago
1972*
SuperLordBeast 5 months ago
lol 1:42
SolFart 5 months ago
Why can't you download this song anywhere? itunes only has a couple lame covers of it.
ebeatworld 6 months ago
watched programme on tv 2day Ray Davies said they actualy cut speakers to make them fart !
43carruthers 6 months ago
@43carruthers
Make them fart? I've never heard it put that way before, lol.
mussman717word 6 months ago
f ucking bostin ! thats top notch 4 our USA people !
43carruthers 6 months ago
"...if you haven't heard of him and that song you shouldn't be here in the first place."
Jawohl Herr Youtubeattendancemeister!
CJWensleydale 6 months ago
I Agreed with so many comments on this page. In my opinion, one of the best of all time.
MastersofStyle 6 months ago
who the hell are the beatles??
MultiRyantv 6 months ago
This song is joyous and sad at the same time. It still gives me goosebumps.
Staggerbaroque 7 months ago
I agree they were underrated - maybe the most ever, and here's why:
They aren't revered like other British Invasion bands. Ask a 20 year old who the Kinks are and you'll get a blank stare, or maybe "Lola."
They are arguably the 1st punk band & the 1st metal (proto-metal, but this was the EARLY 60's for $%^# sake). Nobody had distortion until Dave took a knife and cut into his amp, creating a genre defining sound.
These guys were pure genius - popular, revered by many, but not nearly enough.
gromisch1 7 months ago
@gromisch1 you couldn't be more wrong... about the distortion things. loads of people did it in the '50s and the pre-Kinks '60s: the best example would be Link Wray and his Rumble. if you haven't heard of him and that song you shouldn't be here in the first place. then a bit more famous is Rocket 88, which featured a guitar played through an amp with holes poked in the speaker. and that was in 1951.
deathpill100 6 months ago
@deathpill100 - No argument here - I chose my words poorly. A lot of people (Ike, Willie Johnson, Link, Ventures, etc.) doing distortion before the Kinks. What I should have said is that there were no prominent, chart topping bands doing it. Ike's Rocket 88 was probably the best known, but even that wasn't known by the vast majority of middle America. The Kinks hit # 1, blew it up and it quickly became the dominant rock sound. It would have happened soon anyway, but they opened the floodgate.
gromisch1 6 months ago
@gromisch1 oh, well, in that case, you're right. glad you didn't start a flame, the average youtuber would have. cheers :)
deathpill100 6 months ago
¡¡Una canción perpetuamente cojonuda!!
Yanpol64 7 months ago
underrated? i hardly think so. they inspired loads of musicians, had many hits, and have legions of fans. how is that underrated?
gratefuldrake 7 months ago
Great song!!!
kostasplani 7 months ago
Big Star did a kick ass version of this song
jamaral81 8 months ago
Still have the single on reprise records, Have most of their records. Very underrated Group. One of the Greatest of the 60's and beyond.
roge69charger 9 months ago
another great Kinks song. thumbs up!
creamofcardstv 9 months ago
I don't know where you live, Mr. Sodapop, but around 1:50 you have a pic of my town, Williamsport PA. Bit of a shock.... The Kinks were HARD before almost anybody. I'll never forget the impact "You Really Got Me" had roaring (in a tinny way) out the little radios we had in those days. Then, of course, Ray and the band went on to become even better... "Waterloo Sunset," "Sunny Afternoon," "Victoria," it goes on and on.
mcminndoug 9 months ago 4
don't wanna get morbid, or anything, but I'm gonna have 'Days' as my funeral song. I LOVE the Who, and therefore I LOVE the Kinks, or rather Ray and Dave,...xxx
matthewmaus 10 months ago
This is FABULOUS!!!
anglicanbeachparty 10 months ago
The best three note riff in rock to start this song. My opinion.
LOCKED121 10 months ago 27
@LOCKED121 AGREED -- 110%!!!
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago
@LOCKED121 I know, just makes you want to know what's next.
waitingformypopcorn 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Kinks
i hope these songs last FOREVER.
budtab1 10 months ago
great song. I won this album in about 1981 at asome carnival. This is their best song in my opinion. I so love actually being to understand the words. Modern rock is too hard to hear the words. Can't really get the feeling in the singer's voice.
gk10002000 11 months ago
Most underrated band ever...
highradamiel 11 months ago
I want to kill people TIL THE END OF THE DAYYYYY!!!!!!!
MVT44 11 months ago
and I call 60s music BB..... Before Bieber...
skaterwat 11 months ago
Im 13 and I love this song.
skaterwat 11 months ago
sorry, misunderstanding ,, apologise
jajus125100 1 year ago
lovely, lovely song that is totally addictive
highroadnow 1 year ago
Only competition I remember at the time was "Battle Of The Bands" on radio Luxembourg, and that was just a chance to play all the records of the bands involved. Think we were very lucky to have lived through such a massive pop/rock music revolution with so many fantastic bands who took the risk with their futures to follow the dream. Even Lennon didn't know if the Beatles would last longer than a few more months due to fickle public taste
SuperNevile 1 year ago
I hope tons more people come to this vid and comment, so that all the ugly comments are far back enough that people don't have to see them.
People, you gotta learn not to feed the trolls, especially the long-winded pseudo-intellectual ones
you guys suck
doodahgal 1 year ago
@doodahgal lol
youtube(DOT)com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
Pendor42 1 year ago
wow- to all the nasty comments on here....thanks for ruining this
highroadnow 1 year ago
One of the most underrated bands in R&R history.
joraider08 1 year ago 57
@joraider08 One of the ten best, probably five.
RManFlint 4 months ago
wow guys shut the fuck up and listen to the song. your both losers. get over it
Wormdog84 1 year ago
@Wormdog84 Fuck off you silly prick. There's always some cunt who has to get involved in order to try to make themselves look good.
Underground906 1 year ago
@Underground906 hahahaaha yaaaaa its easy to make myself look good cause u acting like dildos
Wormdog84 1 year ago
@Wormdog84 I said 'trying to make themselves look good'. It always has the opposite effect though. As you've displayed quite clearly.
Underground906 1 year ago
@Underground906 watch youre language!! not easy eh?????
wats your education???
000
jajus125100 1 year ago
@jajus125100 Average. But they at least taught me to write to a higher level than txt speak.!!!!!1! I replied to one guy's comment at first, because whenever I watch a Kinks vids, there's someone who has to arrogantly 'dictate' them being better than the Beatles, blah, blah, blah. Look at the reaction if you disagree with that.
Underground906 1 year ago
Must be a liberal. 1) Didn't bother to properly read comment, therefore still haven't grasped it. 2) Can't take your views being questioned. 3) Anyone who does that is a tyrant or some ad hom. 4) Hypocrisy. You had to dictate to norris how wrong he was and how the Kinks were equals. They're not. You just have th eopinion they are.
Underground906 1 year ago
I guess from the predicable way you responded with the knee-jerk right wing stereotype the comparison was spot on. Cunt.
Underground906 1 year ago
this song will be the best song till the end of every day ;) i get up and i see the sun , i feel good yeah cause my life has begun , you and me were free cause we do what we please ,from mornin till the end of the day. so much respect for the kinks still in 2010 people are still listening
BlackShades1977 1 year ago 3
I feel good, cuz my life has begun.......awesome!!!
izzykov 1 year ago
Winter late 65 early 66. Driving around with my buddies,drinking beer with this cranked up on the AM. Thats about as good as it gets.
DinoTuned1 1 year ago
great song...the beginin (3 notes) are ,,,,so great
enplay 1 year ago
The best of the best! Great photo montage also!
64098 1 year ago
hamburgers were 15 Cents back in 1965 lol!
greenfoley 1 year ago
@greenfoley what was the weekly wage? and the cost of a house? Never again
weenyone 1 year ago
Maher ought to know 'cause he's the "head of stupidity.'
time2act1001 1 year ago
The Kinks: premier league. Their songs: champions league. And this one seems to be another undiscovered gem.
Ray Davies: a genius.
kinkybeatle 1 year ago
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74sodapop that must mean you are stupid also,no?
time2act1001 1 year ago
This song is an expression of how the Western word felt to certain degree at the time. In 2010 the "so called" couldn't begin to feel as free...however WE can make believe!11
time2act1001 1 year ago
Where did we go wrong? This is....!
jackw220862 1 year ago
this takes me back - I remember putting a shilling in the Sparkford all night cafe juke box in my hitch hiking days on my way to Cornwall - fantastic songs then : - ))
Bluddybrilliant 1 year ago
The Who sound quite smililar to this. :P Such a great song.
SpineHunt 1 year ago
The "problem" for bands like the Kinks is the time in which they were popular. Because of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, many excellent bands were pushed to the back by the music industry and the media. The Kinks were a top band in their own right. They played to their strengths and were just killer.
stuckinnebraska 1 year ago 3
One of the greatest songs ever and very catchy guitar riff. The Kinks music will live forever, omg what a great band. I just love all 60's music. Much better then the crap of my generation like justin beiber and jonas bro's.
sukkkmyballs 1 year ago
@sukkkmyballs How fair and open minded of you to search out this music, listen to it impartially, discover you like it and write with such enthusiasm about it. I grew up with this kind of music, so I'm perhaps almost bound to like it, steeped as I was in the culture of the time. But your objective appraisal and approval give me great faith in, and respect for, those of your generation who are like you. It's not just your musical taste, which is impeccable, but your whole approach.
Galericulus 1 year ago
I'd like to stab the 3 people who voted "dislike" on this song. Seriously? What's wrong with this song? I'm 22 and love this sort of stuff, seeing the Rolling Stones live was one of the highlights of my college experience.
queencelestyna 1 year ago
This was a Top-10 hit in the UK (#8), but not even a top-40 hit in the US (#50). The first three notes are the chords to "Louie Louie" played backwards, but no one has ever played them quite like Dave Davies, with just the right amount of sustain and disortion. This is my FAVORITE of all the Kinks rockers, even more than "All Day and All of the Night".
RiotCity66 1 year ago
Awesome!
stylostef 1 year ago
awesome song.. .. I love the Kinks..best band ever.. Fuck April Lafivne or whatever her fucking name is..
stylostef 1 year ago
If this song was a woman, I would fuck it all day long.
Waffleboy2c7 1 year ago
'if' it was released in 1978 ,it would have sounded great among all that punk music,tis a timeless tune
chasman19651888 1 year ago
great song
shanehenning26 1 year ago
if this song was released in 1978??? ,tis brill,great guitar
chasman19651888 1 year ago
@chasman19651888 Actually, it was released in 1965.
firsttimein 1 year ago
best Kinks song ever! It fills me full of youthful exuberance! Makes me think I'm 15 again!
PussmasterX 1 year ago
The best.
LogicIsLove 1 year ago
can't explain
LeamingtonSteve 1 year ago
I am compiling a list of the best dance songs ever for a wedding (the audience is people who are NOT into rap, hip hop, etc - they are mid 50's in age)...THIS is definitely going on the list!
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
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OlRetro 1 year ago
still goood.how old are they now
suryonosuryi 1 year ago
@suryonosuryi They're in their mid 60's now. Not sure about Dave and Mick (they're still performing) but Ray still is good
Swartenager 1 year ago
i was 12 when these guys came on the scene, the first real gutsy music, i'd go so far to say they were the first rock band, they were so different, even from the fab 4 or stones, lets face it, there were very few crap bands those dave. happy memories, greatest time to be a kid bordering his teen yrs
dnorfed 1 year ago 11
@dnorfed ....ME TO ..I was born on August 24th 1953..../ 12 but loved em at such a young age and my father grew to love them , though my mom was stuck on Elvis after Mitch Miller... LOL
time2act1001 9 months ago
@time2act1001 ah, so your 57, your kids think that this music is ancient, as are we eh, but they miss out on our times for music, the finest time to be around, but the kinks were one of the few bands i never saw mores the pity, but i have all their music, oh how i wish for a time machine to go back lol
dnorfed 9 months ago 2
@time2act1001 well it isn't very often you 'meet' someone born the same day, month, and year as you (meaning me), It is all good is it not?... How 'lucky' we were ... I mean imagine having a 15 year banquet of some of the finest music produced for the times... Anyone 20 yrs younger wouldn't have a clue... God Bless MR. 8/24/ 1953.... Ride On!!!
time2act1001 8 months ago
@time2act1001 did you see the 3 pt series on the 60's, there was a lot on the kinks, happy days
dnorfed 1 month ago
Different class.
TheWearsider 1 year ago
Hey, I want this for my ringtone lol.
TheMidnightBell07 1 year ago 2
Brilliant song 74sodapop ! pity the slideshow wasnt Muswell Hill...or North London at least, my Dad was in the same class at school with Ray Davies...London was crazy in them days
RockBuzzard63 1 year ago
GOD SAVE THE KINKS!!!!!!!
rocktenniscat 1 year ago 2
That's a nice slideshow.
kedgwell 2 years ago
gd song
sk8rmax1 2 years ago
I think the photo of the train station at 0:15 is just down the road from me, in Stretford, Manchester. You can tell cause it's raining. Great song, Great Video. Thanks for posting this, I love it.
APublicDomain 2 years ago 3
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constansavictrix 2 years ago
You never heard any rolling stones music.?. What the fuck are you two. Come on. You look up the kinks,but you don't know the stones. You are a fucking lying clown.
gethsenamane 2 years ago
This has always been one of my favourite songs by this wonderful band. The drumming is great. The guitar solo is short but perfectly crafted. The Kinks must be one of the most underrated bands ever. This is because they stayed true to their roots and never pretended to be anything that they were not. They kept their accents and their dignity. The Kinks are for me only a notch under the Beatles and equal to the Rolling Stones.
norrisonthespot 2 years ago 51
right on m8
although i think they r the same as the beatles : )
unfortunatley i havent heard any rolling stones music so i cant compare the two :(
jamreaper 2 years ago
@norrisonthespot - I saw the kinks back in the 70's - and believe me - NOBODY has ever rocked harder then them, for straight ahead classical rock. I saw the Stones, punk rockers, tons of other acts and the Kinks totally rocked hardest. Rock & Roll!
BostonRocker51 2 years ago
@norrisonthespot Well said! spot on
TravelingZeppelins 1 year ago
@norrisonthespot a notch under the beatles?
dude they were bloomin equals - i even like em slightly more - there isnt a single song of theirs tht i dont like - so u can take your "beatles" and your "rolling stones" im quite happy with these guys thank you very much
jamreaper 1 year ago 2
@jamreaper ''a notch under the beatles? dude they were bloomin equals - i even like em slightly more - there isnt a single song of theirs tht i dont like - so u can take your "beatles" and your "rolling stones" im quite happy with these guys thank you very much'' Kinks vids are filled with sad bastards like this where their love for the Kinks means they have to become stupid and place them above the Beatles as a matter of 'fact'. Probably all left-wing liberals too. Identical mindset.
Underground906 1 year ago
@Underground906 have you heard of something called opinions? its something all people are entitled to and something of yours that i do not want to hear - if you dont like kinks then dont listen to their music idiot - personally i like them more than beatles and rolling stones - if you dont like that then you can fuck off mate - oh and left wing liberals? - wow what an insult - the only person that would say that is an insult is a backwards right wing ignorant person
jamreaper 1 year ago
@jamreaper Fucking imbecil. Miss the point entirely. I like the Kinks. but can't watch their vids without encoutering the type of insufferable arsehole, who instead of being sensible and simply saying THEY like the Kinks better, it has to become the Kinks WERE better. Which is wholly ridiculous. The Liberal thing wasn't an empty insult. That obnoxious mindset is identitical to the Liberal mindset. And no I'm not right-wing. I've no political leaning either way.
Underground906 1 year ago
@Underground906 so im obnoxious because i like the kinks better? how much of an idiot are you? of course there will be people who will say that some bands are better than the others - its not you to say they are right or wrong - oh and it isnt rediculous that the kinks were better - just stop being such a tyrant ok? let people think what they want and fuck off - if you go to juustin beiber vids there will be people who say he is better than the beatles - go be an arsehole with them
jamreaper 1 year ago
@jamreaper shut your pipe hole dipshit, respect the stones....sure the kinks were awesome and all but they became a "scooby doo" band with village green, arthur, lola and shit...they were not longer with the times while the stones were blasting them with monsters like gimme shelter, jumpin jack flash. bitch and the exile era
theachtungtree 11 months ago
@theachtungtree look i cant remember what i wrote or how many centuries ago i wrote it. but yes the stones were great, but the kinks wrote music that they wanted to, i found their music amazing, they are the only british band that really had a british style e.g. arthur, village green ect., all others sold out and became so americanised.
now we all have different opinions so just grow up and stop trying to make an argument about something i said probably over a year ago
jamreaper 11 months ago
@jamreaper fair enough, both were awesome at least unlike beiber and shit
theachtungtree 11 months ago
@theachtungtree yeah your right!
thanks man
jamreaper 11 months ago
@jamreaper BUT i have to admit that creativily the stones weren't THAT impresive circa 64-67 in contrast to the kinks, the beatles, the byrds, the hollies, buffalo sringfield,jefferson airplane, etc....the stones were better at sticking to the roots on their late sixties early seventies hey day
theachtungtree 11 months ago
@theachtungtree they were all as good as each other, luckily for us they were all different too xD
jamreaper 11 months ago
@theachtungtree some of them just ripped off the beatles...others became their own sound ;)
theachtungtree 11 months ago
@norrisonthespot i agree
Korge100 1 year ago
@norrisonthespot Are you saying that the rolling stones are not on the same level as the beatles? O_o
psych0p4t3 1 year ago
@psych0p4t3 Yes I am but this is only a subjective opinion and should be taken as such. The Beatles were more inventive.
norrisonthespot 1 year ago
@psych0p4t3 They weren't. No one was. The Beatles set the pace as long as they were together. I'm glad norris kept it sensible with that comment and gave the Beatles their due, although the rolling stones are ahead of the Kinks too. This tune wouldn't have happened without the obvious Stones influence that this song took its nod from.
Underground906 1 year ago
@norrisonthespot Absolutely.Love the Kinks,but especially this little gem.
doglips1958 1 year ago
@norrisonthespot The stones had no business against the beatles, the kinks and several other bands like cream or hendrix around that 64-67 era when it comes to the whole "album" thing, and i say that as a stones fan, for me they kicked in blasting everyone on their later years (early later years)
theachtungtree 11 months ago
Fantastic photos in your slide...set to another Kinks classic... Great job!
jenzeppelin 2 years ago 5
awesome song. and big star's version is equally as awesome.
dharpe13 2 years ago 6
big star. wow. no, but really.
selfpres 2 years ago 3
The Kinks were bad asses
JoeyTheFatKid 2 years ago 5
under-rated song, under-rated drumming, under-rated lead guitar break. Killer little song!
LarryRickenbacker 2 years ago 6
One of the best songs of the 60's from one of the all time great rock n roll bands.
SavimbiUNITA 2 years ago 5
This is the kind of song that transformed 'most' of the clean-cut, momma's-boy rock & roll of the 50's into the 'listenable' rock & roll of the 60's, and beyond. Love it!
classiclistener01 2 years ago 2
No disrespect "classiclistener01", but you have to be out of your mind to think that the Rock of the 50's was "clean-cut, momma's boy" stuff. Have you ever listened to Bo Diddley or Chuck Berry? What about Carl Perkins or Gene Vincent? That was music to sharpen your switchblade to.
galaxyrock 2 years ago 17
@galaxyrock
No, man, no disrespect taken, but I wasn't writing about them - or Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, B.B. King, Elvis, or any of the "rockers" who influenced jamming 60's groups. I WAS MEANING EXACTLY WHAT I WROTE - "clean-cut, momma's-boy rock & roll of the 50's," like The Everly Brothers, Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, Dion, Wayne Newton, Gene Pitney, etc., - AS I WROTE!
classiclistener01 2 years ago
You already explained that to me like a month ago. You left a comment on my channel page. Amnesia?
galaxyrock 2 years ago
fantastic song..I met Ray Davies two years ago outside his studio Konk in London. I couldn't believe my eyes! he hasn't changed a bit..bless him ! :D
volothevolo 2 years ago 2
great song
789pequignot 2 years ago
Your videos are fun to watrch for the old photos.
Is that your sweetheart in each?
Heavy
Klattu 2 years ago
can someone tell me a ripping kinks song? I mean ass-kicking kinks! Other than the generic kinks.
MattDylan420 2 years ago
@MattDylan420 You could try "Party Line", from their "Face to Face" album. Should have been a single.
Galericulus 1 year ago
I am still waiting for somebody to catch on to this song as a stadium anthem, to replace the old, crusty "Start Me Up", "We Will Rock You" dreck. But no one ever said that life was fair....
carspiv 2 years ago
..the best of their early work.....
chatham43 2 years ago
How impressive...This song has everything and when you mind the time when it came out, no wonder people said that Rock was the devils' music...Killer song!!!
ForeverLoveForHate 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I remember hearing that Jimmy page did that solo. It's possible, he was a popular studio guitarist at the time.
chenalos 2 years ago
Ugh. No way. Jimmy Page never played lead on a Kinks track ever, OK? Why would anyone else play when you have Dave Davies? Enough already with this myth!
yaz08 2 years ago 5