Cool audio/vid of this Kinks Klassic. The British Invasion helped me get through high school & my weekend grocery store job. I do a humble tribute of 4 early Kinks numbers. Regards, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)
Beethoven better than Mozart? Chopin better than Debussy? Beatles better than Kinks? Crappy questions urge crappy answers! First of all "good" is what touches your heart and your senses, depending on the state you are in, your moods, your preferences. The Kinks have always been one of my favs as they just played honest little songs, describing daily life of average people, their needs and sorrows, their hopes and deceptions, never pretending "I'm not like everybody else"...
Yes i love the Beatles. but why does everybody have to compare this band to that band.. Why do they have to say the Beatles were better that the Kinks.. I hate that every time i hear that it make my blood run cold.. I dont believe in stuff like that.. I believe everyone has the right to make up their own mind what music and bands they like for different reasons. For instance sure i love the Beatles for their music. but i love the Kinks as well for their music.. Ray sings Girl and i melt.
@MermaidPrincess9 the beatles are better. that's my opinion so why does it anger you. the beatles are better. just because you like them equally doesn't mean someone else can't like one more then the other.
IMO the Kinks aren't a punk band. Straight-ahead rock, punk pop maybe, but not punk. That came about 10 yrs later a sad imitation. Punk makes me feel anxious, upset,...rotten. Kinks UNDO that.
"All them rock & roll writers is the worst kind of sleaze
Selling punk like some new kind of English disease
Is that the wave of the future? Oh, spare me please!"
--Frank Zappa, 1979
P.S. Every Kinks song is a classic. They're up there with the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and the Yardbirds
I've always considered this song to be a lost klassic. It's pure Kinks - punk rock years before its time. No wonder the Sex Pistols admired this band so much. I would love to hear a band perform this live today.
@barfinger This song seems to have trolled under the radar for years. I never heard it until the nineties, when so many bands started doing it on records or in live shows. It seems like the "starter song" for more than one band.
I first heard the Kinks in 1964 on TV. I believe it was Hullabaloo or something like that. I was in the 6th grade and I decided I wanted to be in a band. All the Day and All Of the Night was the song. I always liked other bands than the Beatles. There were so many of them. It doesn't matter how old you were or how old you are. Ev'rybody just rock.
Proof amoung other songs that thees guys were the first ever punk band.One of my Favorites of many by in my opinion the Best British band of the 60's.And that guitar solo kicks ass!!!!!!
They got so many good songs but anytime they are mentioned on TV or played on the oldie radio stations all you ever hear is "You really got me" which I am so sick of. Meanwhile The Beatles or the Stones and even that idiot Phil Collins get their whole catalogue played.
a blatant copy of all day an all the night// /but who the cares the best riff any one has played an ever will again//the kinks are the coolest band ever
@manxscum Page was sessioning at this time, before the Yardbirds, so its not out of the guestion that its him. The sessions were never noted, he did play for The Kinks, Stones,Them, Donovan and The Who but its not known exactly what on....... I'd say its Dave though personally.
oh my god a Burger Chef at 0:49? I am from Rumford Rhode Island. I worked at the one on Newport Ave. It was not a very big chain, maybe 5 or 6 stores as I recall, unless of course others used the same name. Looks a bit like the hotel that was next door too. The "New Yorker"? Can't remember for sure. Seems a bit larger than I recall, but was a few decades ago!
Great video!! The KINKS - Burger Chef burgers and the Drive-In Theater - how can you beat that?? Man am I glad I grew up back then!! Every night was an adventure!! Thanks for taking me back for a few minutes!!
Another great "power-chord" tune that rocks, but seems to have been left in the wind when it comes to air-play as with other Kinks' tunes. You'll rarely, if ever, hear this on the radio, but yet they'll play "Old Time Rock and Roll" five times a day, every day. Nowadays, most peoples' musical taste is in their ass!
Zeppelin built on the yardbirds really- they were called the new yardbirds at first afterall. I prefer the yardbirds a hell of a lot more than zep.
and as much as I know the kinks influenced music, there were a lot of bands playing in the same rhythm and blues and freakbeat style in the mid 60s they were. Of course though Ray Davies was a brilliant lyricist who put them ahead of a lot of their peers.
in 1971 i played this loudly over and over again,as a 14 year old trying to build the adrenaline to ring this girl up and ask her out. i made that call ,did she say yes ?Did she fuck.
i always have a headache after listening to this, probably from jumping up and down. talk about a headbanger, this song defines the genre. thx for posting.
The feedback from Dave's guitar in the opening caused some major headaches for the poor unsuspecting recording engineer. It's a wonder the engineer didn't run out into the street screaming, hee hee!
hey 74sodapop, thanks for echoing my same feelings about the Kinks, if they weren't perpetutal underdogs with a treasure trove of music, I don't know who is. I hope you appreciate their later work like Schoolboys in Disgrace and other great albums like Misfits and Give the People what they want, along with their melodic masterpieces of the late 60's, but always I go back to the early garage punk for a nice jolt now and then
I remember in 1965 when I flipped "A" side of "Set me free" and heard the beginning of this song. I thought something was wrong with my record player but I soon realized Dave Davies was experimenting with feedback which he explored even further on their next release "See my friends" THE KINKS WAS ALWAYS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME!
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actually the beggining feedback in this song was done by Jimmy Page in studio. He played on almost every album to be produced in london the early to mid 60's
JGZerbe, Jimmy Page was indeed a very busy session player in the first half of the 60's & he did contribute a few guitar parts on The Kinks' first album, however Page did definitely NOT play on this track, so the introduction feedback (as well as the rest of the guitar parts on this track) are all courtesy of Dave Davies;
In the old days, you always had to play the B side of a 45. Anyone who knows old music, knows that there is great, great stuff that goes unheard today. In all genres of music,especially 60s garage music. Nowadays, you hear the sh*t on the charts that shouldn't even make radio. Music out there in the last 10 years is so pathetic.
One of Dave Davies best guitar solos ever. To bad Ray took them in a softer direction later on. Dave is a rock GOD on the guitar, He could really have stepped out if he had asserted himself more over Ray. Dave you are the BEST.
The KinKs are right up there with the Beatles...how can anyone not like this fantastic,neurotic and extremely powerful song ?? Right up there with 'You Really Got Me ' and 'All Day And All of the Night'.... not to mention others as well !! What a perfect solo by Dave.
lock up all house owners, cause sooner or later some house owner going to crack go fucking berzerko and kill people, when this happens , lock up every single house owner,thats the same as some daft physco blaming his dirty deeds on a cannabis joint, and we all get nicked because of one nutty physco, so lock up home owners lol
the ve nicked our skunk like taking away the stones blues m8, rise up we dont want vietnamese crap,rise up, we need series drop in house price so the landlord is begging you to grow green green weed.
its official....all the best music either comes from Britian, or California. the kinks rocked more than the beatles. lets face it...there's no point in arguing that.
The Beatles used feedback first "I Feel Fine" was recorded in 1964 and "I Need You" was recorded a half year later. The Kinks were a underrated band and like the Beatles were a huge influence on Britpop.
the beatles were sucha huge emphasis on britpop even though all the bands after had a higher emphasis on bluesy intensity and much less emphasis on melody then the beatles (such as the Kinks, the Who, The Small Faces, etc etc)
The Kinks were this era. They were not the Beatles..but as far as definition and feeling these dudes were it. I loved them then and now...they were ahead and of there time at the same time...thank you Kinks
Excuse my posting twice but ... no one has mentioned yet the images in this "video": I for one think they add a lot -- it's especially refreshing that they're not all obvious shots of the Kinks! Somehow they really summon the *true* '60's feel I remember from childhood. Nicely done ...
I always wondered why this wasn't an A-side. It really is like the last part of a trilogy- You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, and I Need You.
And it seems the last one kicks hardest of all ... pure brutality, start to finish! Mick A. really pulled something off here, though it's hard to say exactly what. Of course Dave has that killer nail-bomb tone, and Ray the famous warbling delivery, but as a drummer I suspect the true secret of this song's power lies somewhere in the rhythm section's subtle push-pull -- the snare just a hair late, a la Bonham. Damn right the song's a gem ...!
I remember buying the single "Set Me Free" and not expecting much from a B side. When I flipped it over and that opening chord came blasting out of the speakers, it just kicked my ass. The garage band I was in at the time learned this song immediately at my insistence. This was a double A side single if there ever was one.Their albums Face To Face, Something Else, Kinks Kontroversy, and Village Green are criminally overlooked.
Cool audio/vid of this Kinks Klassic. The British Invasion helped me get through high school & my weekend grocery store job. I do a humble tribute of 4 early Kinks numbers. Regards, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)
OlRetro 23 hours ago in playlist #2 Brit. Invasion
Beethoven better than Mozart? Chopin better than Debussy? Beatles better than Kinks? Crappy questions urge crappy answers! First of all "good" is what touches your heart and your senses, depending on the state you are in, your moods, your preferences. The Kinks have always been one of my favs as they just played honest little songs, describing daily life of average people, their needs and sorrows, their hopes and deceptions, never pretending "I'm not like everybody else"...
VelezBlanco 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Kinks
The KInks are one of the greatest bands ever, and so underrated as well!
seraphima91 2 months ago in playlist the Kinks:ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT!
FUCKING VEVO FUCK OFF................EVERY FUCKING SONG YOU FUCKING RUIN IT FOR ME.....
croydonsbest 2 months ago
It's a tragedy that they split.
waitingformypopcorn 4 months ago
My house was brand new when this was recorded.
On another note, the kinks dont happen to be my favourite band, im not 11 and i came here to listen to the music, not get top comment...
SwanSongRecords 4 months ago
The kinks are not my favourite band, im not 11, and i came here to enjoy the song, not get top comment.
SwanSongRecords 4 months ago
FUCKING TUNNEE!!
aralmusic 5 months ago
Yes i love the Beatles. but why does everybody have to compare this band to that band.. Why do they have to say the Beatles were better that the Kinks.. I hate that every time i hear that it make my blood run cold.. I dont believe in stuff like that.. I believe everyone has the right to make up their own mind what music and bands they like for different reasons. For instance sure i love the Beatles for their music. but i love the Kinks as well for their music.. Ray sings Girl and i melt.
MermaidPrincess9 6 months ago
@MermaidPrincess9 the beatles are better. that's my opinion so why does it anger you. the beatles are better. just because you like them equally doesn't mean someone else can't like one more then the other.
scarface9000 3 weeks ago
WOW love this track, best band ever, Kinks & Beatles are my fav. saw Kinks & Kry in tunbridge wells, what a great night
atb Terry!!!!
gherkamum 6 months ago
very all day an all of the night ! still good !
43carruthers 7 months ago
IMO the Kinks aren't a punk band. Straight-ahead rock, punk pop maybe, but not punk. That came about 10 yrs later a sad imitation. Punk makes me feel anxious, upset,...rotten. Kinks UNDO that.
"All them rock & roll writers is the worst kind of sleaze
Selling punk like some new kind of English disease
Is that the wave of the future? Oh, spare me please!"
--Frank Zappa, 1979
P.S. Every Kinks song is a classic. They're up there with the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and the Yardbirds
hyjyljyj 7 months ago
tori elena, Not as bad as your spelling and if its that bad how come Ray Davies is still recording and playing to sell out concerts 45 years later?
Clearly he dont need you..
davlinful 7 months ago
3 people don't need you.
ChrisYonts 8 months ago
Still have my '45 - a side is all day and all of the night great tune!
bassandguitarguy 8 months ago
the earliest on the punk scene
danalovesjoe5555 8 months ago
Very ahead of its time, that raw guitar noise.
Picklesnipe 8 months ago 3
What makes you think people dont understand how marvelous this band is ?
cbkspa 9 months ago
I've always considered this song to be a lost klassic. It's pure Kinks - punk rock years before its time. No wonder the Sex Pistols admired this band so much. I would love to hear a band perform this live today.
alanmcquistin1 11 months ago
Our college band worked very hard to capture this sound, and to this day, it rocks me. One of several Kinks songs on our playlist.
barfinger 11 months ago
@barfinger This song seems to have trolled under the radar for years. I never heard it until the nineties, when so many bands started doing it on records or in live shows. It seems like the "starter song" for more than one band.
powergirl901 10 months ago
the kinks were the greatest keeps us all teenagers
budtab1 11 months ago
DAVE DAVIES is an amazing guitar player!
antonioferrari1965 1 year ago
wow..check out the punk rhythms!! Even more obvious on ''all day and all of the night''
Hard rock, punk, metal all came through the Kinks.
tatuco8 1 year ago
I first heard the Kinks in 1964 on TV. I believe it was Hullabaloo or something like that. I was in the 6th grade and I decided I wanted to be in a band. All the Day and All Of the Night was the song. I always liked other bands than the Beatles. There were so many of them. It doesn't matter how old you were or how old you are. Ev'rybody just rock.
dkd1954 1 year ago
Some of those images were disturbing, I'm shaking!!!!
RipARipeBanana 1 year ago
One of the best songs ever!!
IAmDoctorWhoniverse 1 year ago
Davies got his raw sound by taking a razor blade to his amplifier speaker.
In those days you had to be creative. You could say he was proto-heavy metal.
jab3785 1 year ago
Mid sixties Rock played by the most authentic band of all.. The Kinks!!!
jea241269 1 year ago
Who cares how old you are
BenJacksonization 1 year ago
Why do all the bands I listen to have a song called "I need you"?
Oh well. The beatles' is still the best.
necromanzer52 1 year ago
@necromanzer52 you obviously havent heard this one yet then
jamreaper 1 year ago
@necromanzer52 I think these songs are too different to really say that one is better than the other, but that's just my opinion.
alarasnowfeather 1 year ago
@necromanzer52
haha...i think you're right. Even Lynard Skynard has a song called I need you.
toriElena 1 year ago
@toriElena It's Lynyrd Skynyrd !
smithmarke 1 year ago
@smithmarke HOLY BATSHIT i misspelled it! Where's the firing squad!
toriElena 1 year ago
@toriElena It matters ! (to Skynyrd fans anyway)
PS. Skynyrd actually supported the Kinks in the US in early 70's
smithmarke 1 year ago
@smithmarke thats U.S.A. if you choose not to spell it all out.
toriElena 1 year ago
@toriElena I love the Kynks
smithmarke 1 year ago
@smithmarke me tew! lol
toriElena 1 year ago
@toriElena that was apawling
smithmarke 1 year ago
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toriElena 1 year ago
My favourite Kinks song, I think (difficult, though)... :-)
gotanigo 1 year ago
Proof amoung other songs that thees guys were the first ever punk band.One of my Favorites of many by in my opinion the Best British band of the 60's.And that guitar solo kicks ass!!!!!!
johnboymac2000 1 year ago
Cool song and I like this slideshow, it paints a picture of the time :)
g6playlist 1 year ago
They got so many good songs but anytime they are mentioned on TV or played on the oldie radio stations all you ever hear is "You really got me" which I am so sick of. Meanwhile The Beatles or the Stones and even that idiot Phil Collins get their whole catalogue played.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
a blatant copy of all day an all the night// /but who the cares the best riff any one has played an ever will again//the kinks are the coolest band ever
longfoxy 1 year ago
I friggin love the kinks and Im 12
4evergreendayfan 1 year ago
If you think Page played the main riff on this your a moron. And before spouting out get your facts right...
manxscum 1 year ago 3
@manxscum Page was sessioning at this time, before the Yardbirds, so its not out of the guestion that its him. The sessions were never noted, he did play for The Kinks, Stones,Them, Donovan and The Who but its not known exactly what on....... I'd say its Dave though personally.
maclennan73 1 year ago
3.5 million for YRGM, 1.8 million for All Day and All Night...and only 58,000 for what could be an even more earthshaking song than those classics
kinksboss1 1 year ago 3
this song is slammin' -- so are the period pics, 74sodapop -- thanx so much!!!!!
lakshmiluvsvishnu 1 year ago
Love Dave's guitar in this track. Amazing!
ni183able 1 year ago 8
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its actually jimmy page he played on the sessions
zog97xy 1 year ago
oh my god a Burger Chef at 0:49? I am from Rumford Rhode Island. I worked at the one on Newport Ave. It was not a very big chain, maybe 5 or 6 stores as I recall, unless of course others used the same name. Looks a bit like the hotel that was next door too. The "New Yorker"? Can't remember for sure. Seems a bit larger than I recall, but was a few decades ago!
gk10002000 2 years ago
The kinks are my favfret band and I'm 11
pietastgood 2 years ago 44
@pietastgood good on ya m8 :D
jamreaper 1 year ago
@pietastgood That's good, I'm 13 and have felt the same exact way about the Kinks since I was 4
TheKinksfanatic 1 year ago
@pietastgood smart kid, you are!!
renotsecniv 1 year ago
@pietastgood this was even before my time. I was born when this came out.
pictureisup1 2 months ago
Dave Davies is playing-Jimmy Page is just a myth as far as playing on this track
theglamkinks 2 years ago 6
thats bollocks
zog97xy 1 year ago
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Great song, if u like this, then check out this cover version by "The Rationals"
The Rationals - I Need You
RokyEricson 2 years ago
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covers suck i hate them
its just a way for rubbish bands to make people think they r good
i want them banned
jamreaper 2 years ago
mint tune, one of the best kinks tunes around,
TheSupersonics87 2 years ago 6
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This song sounds like the Kinks ripped themselves off. Sounds like All Day And All Of The Night
Swartenager 2 years ago
Swartenager--this is the Kinks trademark sound. It was what has distinguished them from any other British group.
I could listen to them for hours!
Cissy2cute 2 years ago 4
one from the great trilogy . quite possibly the very 1st punk riff.
stevebeagle 2 years ago 3
Invented Hard-ish Rock
Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath still invented Heavy Metal though
Nacho1888 2 years ago
The Kinks are awesome!
abcbeatle 2 years ago
The Kinks invented it way before Tommy lost his finger. Probably 4 + years so no that's not true. Hell The Kinks pre dated Hendrix as well.
jacme1219 2 years ago 3
led zeppelin are overated shite
THEBIGBADMUNKY 2 years ago 4
is this riff played on a "power" chord or a bar chord e shape 3rd fret?
MARTYCLFC 2 years ago
Great video!! The KINKS - Burger Chef burgers and the Drive-In Theater - how can you beat that?? Man am I glad I grew up back then!! Every night was an adventure!! Thanks for taking me back for a few minutes!!
nipsterstang 2 years ago 2
Another great "power-chord" tune that rocks, but seems to have been left in the wind when it comes to air-play as with other Kinks' tunes. You'll rarely, if ever, hear this on the radio, but yet they'll play "Old Time Rock and Roll" five times a day, every day. Nowadays, most peoples' musical taste is in their ass!
classiclistener01 2 years ago 3
There like a much, much better version of the early Beatles.
pinkstarburst95 2 years ago
what the hell are you talkin' about??
DeeckyCobennon 2 years ago
The KINKS are Awesome. Fantastic..
JanetMi1 2 years ago 2
whit only three songs (You really got me, I Need You, All of the day and all of the night), the Kinks invented Hard Rock!!!
valerock667 2 years ago 2
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nope...Led zepplin made hard rock mate =] this is rock'n'roll =D
ninjamage93 2 years ago
Kinks invented heavy metal, not Led Zepplin. This was years before Led even existed.
I do like Led Zepplin though, but Kinks and the Who got there first.
badgerfaye 2 years ago 3
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yes i know but led zepplin invented hard rock.
ninjamage93 2 years ago
Led Zepplin, in my view, just build on what the Kinks and The Who had already laid down. In fact, The Who gave them their name!
Don't want to put Led Zepplin down though, they were a great band.
badgerfaye 2 years ago 4
Zeppelin built on the yardbirds really- they were called the new yardbirds at first afterall. I prefer the yardbirds a hell of a lot more than zep.
and as much as I know the kinks influenced music, there were a lot of bands playing in the same rhythm and blues and freakbeat style in the mid 60s they were. Of course though Ray Davies was a brilliant lyricist who put them ahead of a lot of their peers.
fiendwithoutaface66 2 years ago 2
Zep might have been YOUR 1st taste of hard rock, but The Kinks, the Eyes, The Who etc had been hard rocking for years before them.
stOOpid68 2 years ago 33
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@stOOpid68 Page is playing this song
taygoo13 2 years ago
@stOOpid68 You said it!
Shakermaker1995 1 year ago 2
@stOOpid68 the who... the most overrated band of all time
scarface9000 3 weeks ago
Dani!!!!
TimmytheGeek2009 2 years ago
fuck yeah! this is awesome ...
We Are The Mods, We Are The Mods, We Are We Are We Are The Mods ...
Mod Pride til We Die!
Aarodin 2 years ago
i wanted to give this five stars but i have mistaken and i don't know how to mend this. One of my fovourite sixties punk-r&b tunes!!!
DrMandarino 2 years ago
in 1971 i played this loudly over and over again,as a 14 year old trying to build the adrenaline to ring this girl up and ask her out. i made that call ,did she say yes ?Did she fuck.
helltopay1 2 years ago 7
so i take that as a no?
ninjamage93 2 years ago
yep it was no, can still see her now, legs like a gazelle.
helltopay1 2 years ago
soz bro....well single is still being fun i guess
ninjamage93 2 years ago
nah single sucks its not like in the movies where single people go from girl to girl each night, single life sucks
Tystanaden 2 years ago
i think its fun im single i enjoy it
ninjamage93 2 years ago
You're single, you enjoy it?? You must be a guuuuuurl :-D
harfarhs 2 years ago
no lmfao xD im guy :)
ninjamage93 2 years ago
... and I guess they AMPHETAmean it, be sure! The fine English use-to-do of the 6Ts, very nice and me - I love (I LUV!!) it
again & again & again....
:D:DXD
grrrl ! !!
Ficklise 2 years ago
AND THIS WAS ONLY A B SIDE ROCK ON
MrMichaelhanratty 2 years ago 3
It can't be Jimmy Page - it's in tune with rest of the song.
CptPattern 2 years ago 3
Classic!
15chipshops 2 years ago
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I have reason to believe that Jimmy Page played that beginning bit.
Zoso11InTheLight 2 years ago
i always have a headache after listening to this, probably from jumping up and down. talk about a headbanger, this song defines the genre. thx for posting.
flibideegibbit 2 years ago 2
kinks kinks for everrrr!!!!!1
warriors95roma 2 years ago
K-GREATEST K-BAND OF ALL K-TIME!!!
thomasmantellwilliam 2 years ago
Love the Retro location pics!!! We had one of those Burger Chefs where I live... NEVER saw anyone in it tho.. I think they used horsemeat... LOL ;)
MeIancholyMan 2 years ago 2
the kinks forever
warriors95roma 2 years ago 4
The feedback from Dave's guitar in the opening caused some major headaches for the poor unsuspecting recording engineer. It's a wonder the engineer didn't run out into the street screaming, hee hee!
sbarr10 2 years ago 2
Dave Davies, is definitely the worlds first punk guitarist.
EmpZappa66 2 years ago 2
The Kinks Konquer!!!
hvymtlfn 2 years ago 3
i'M IN MY EARLY 20'S AND THIS SONG IS STILL AN INSPIRATION FOR ME.......rOCK N ROLL WILL NEVER DIE.
Portis1Luv 2 years ago 5
so true...
(hey hey my my) rock'n'roll can never die!!!
gotta love the kinks and the 60's!!!
andilovetheBeatles 2 years ago
This should have been the A side of Set Me Free, which was a carbon copy of Tired of Waiting. It has more energy and power.
FrankCajon 3 years ago 3
This bloody love this song!!
bluemeanie81 3 years ago 2
Cripes, this song rocks!
DaigoMoustache 3 years ago 2
kinks rule, but after listening to them for a while they can get a bit 'old"...but i suppose that goes with any music...
jackhackett80 3 years ago
listen to their album village green preservation society from 68 that album never gets old.
jayfey77 2 years ago 3
don't forget arthur!!! i personally prefer that. But they are both my favourite albums i think
flearulz 2 years ago
i met ray davies and he signed my arthur cd cover for me.i wonder how much its worth now hehe.
jayfey77 2 years ago
hey 74sodapop, thanks for echoing my same feelings about the Kinks, if they weren't perpetutal underdogs with a treasure trove of music, I don't know who is. I hope you appreciate their later work like Schoolboys in Disgrace and other great albums like Misfits and Give the People what they want, along with their melodic masterpieces of the late 60's, but always I go back to the early garage punk for a nice jolt now and then
kinksboss1 3 years ago
"W0rd of Mouth"- absolute fucking master piece.
That any band well into it's second decade could put anything at once raw & subtle like that out is beyond me.
The KinKs are timeless: they never get old.
7777srd 3 years ago 2
MEGA thanks my man joez,great post man 5/5 we need more stars to rate with lol......
reaybow 3 years ago
hey just wondering, 74sodapop, wat else (bands) do u like? just cuz ur style is great and i would love to be introduced to other bands...
KJNnews 3 years ago 2
I love it ! !! !!!
Ficklise 3 years ago
A punk garage classic
TheDoorsandFriends 3 years ago 4
I really like the '60's slideshow!
NilezII 3 years ago 2
Dave Davies was 18 years old!! Now that my friends is the definition of influential.
paddyo702 3 years ago 3
the kinks are one of my favorite bands too. i also like the beatles, jimi hendrix, and the rolling stones.
piemaster64 3 years ago 4
I remember in 1965 when I flipped "A" side of "Set me free" and heard the beginning of this song. I thought something was wrong with my record player but I soon realized Dave Davies was experimenting with feedback which he explored even further on their next release "See my friends" THE KINKS WAS ALWAYS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME!
hlhent 3 years ago 3
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actually the beggining feedback in this song was done by Jimmy Page in studio. He played on almost every album to be produced in london the early to mid 60's
JGZerbe 3 years ago
JGZerbe, Jimmy Page was indeed a very busy session player in the first half of the 60's & he did contribute a few guitar parts on The Kinks' first album, however Page did definitely NOT play on this track, so the introduction feedback (as well as the rest of the guitar parts on this track) are all courtesy of Dave Davies;
the55thbeatle 3 years ago 4
In the old days, you always had to play the B side of a 45. Anyone who knows old music, knows that there is great, great stuff that goes unheard today. In all genres of music,especially 60s garage music. Nowadays, you hear the sh*t on the charts that shouldn't even make radio. Music out there in the last 10 years is so pathetic.
monkeeman1966 3 years ago 3
One of Dave Davies best guitar solos ever. To bad Ray took them in a softer direction later on. Dave is a rock GOD on the guitar, He could really have stepped out if he had asserted himself more over Ray. Dave you are the BEST.
fritzy4kinks 3 years ago
Can someone out there in videoland please tell me why this song was not a hit single?
More powerful than You really got me and all day and all night...This song gets your blood exploding and man the kinks are the best...
ethifanman 3 years ago 2
You got that right. But we also might be so saturated with those songs you mention we've grown a little weary.
I love B sides.
dicksatan 3 years ago
The KinKs are right up there with the Beatles...how can anyone not like this fantastic,neurotic and extremely powerful song ?? Right up there with 'You Really Got Me ' and 'All Day And All of the Night'.... not to mention others as well !! What a perfect solo by Dave.
starsinmybeard 3 years ago 8
lock up all house owners, cause sooner or later some house owner going to crack go fucking berzerko and kill people, when this happens , lock up every single house owner,thats the same as some daft physco blaming his dirty deeds on a cannabis joint, and we all get nicked because of one nutty physco, so lock up home owners lol
colutd1 3 years ago
It annoys me when people spell "Psycho" to read: fizz-co.
dicksatan 3 years ago
whats this buy to let die in debt, or buy to let dont fret you could get a green lodger, any interested landlords for our new co op.
colutd1 3 years ago
the ve nicked our skunk like taking away the stones blues m8, rise up we dont want vietnamese crap,rise up, we need series drop in house price so the landlord is begging you to grow green green weed.
colutd1 3 years ago
Would Kathy Reynolds at 1:47 be from Paramus, NJ by any chance?
BigIronOnHipMan 3 years ago
great song
789pequignot 3 years ago
b-side of SET ME FREE super
kinkkinda 3 years ago
its official....all the best music either comes from Britian, or California. the kinks rocked more than the beatles. lets face it...there's no point in arguing that.
dong604 3 years ago
I agree.The band is awesome.Who'll Be The Next In Line,Party Line,64-66.Must have 30 awesome rockers.
74sodapop 3 years ago
grandissimi, cattivissimi, proprio come piacciono a me
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luporosso50 3 years ago
Dig the feedback opening and the bashing guitar noise of the lead solo. they're just trying to be as mean and nasty as possible!
powergirl901 3 years ago
The Beatles used feedback first "I Feel Fine" was recorded in 1964 and "I Need You" was recorded a half year later. The Kinks were a underrated band and like the Beatles were a huge influence on Britpop.
PROGBETA12 3 years ago 2
the beatles were sucha huge emphasis on britpop even though all the bands after had a higher emphasis on bluesy intensity and much less emphasis on melody then the beatles (such as the Kinks, the Who, The Small Faces, etc etc)
JimiyDoorsHamelech1 3 years ago
Do you think the Eurythmics heard this song before writing "Would I Lie to You?"
yaz08 3 years ago 2
the best kinks tune... yes, probably the first true punk band.
nero8151972 3 years ago 2
real simple,,real rock & roll as it should be.
it should affect ya from the neck down
stevebeagle 3 years ago 5
yeah ! they r well rad!!!! xx
myusernamesux321 3 years ago
the kinks, the first truly punk band.
xanthick 3 years ago
they rock
kickassfan 3 years ago 3
this is the idea, they really rock
Duenderelojero 3 years ago 3
yesss thaaanks so much 4 ur comment
kickassfan 3 years ago
I like this song but they use the Beatles technique of the intro feedback of "I Feel Fine".
PROGBETA12 3 years ago
i read somehwere they actually came up with that first, not sure if it's true though.
carlisrickjames 3 years ago
Another of those extremely cool B sides. Love the guitar Dave!
I'm Not Talking by the Yardbirds was another B side that kicked arse.
victhebassman 3 years ago 2
The Kinks were this era. They were not the Beatles..but as far as definition and feeling these dudes were it. I loved them then and now...they were ahead and of there time at the same time...thank you Kinks
JGUY1713 3 years ago
Yes,The Beatles were not The Kinks.Like my D.J. friend said, four guys with guitars, bass and drums just kicking ass.Love The Kinks.
74sodapop 3 years ago
Excuse my posting twice but ... no one has mentioned yet the images in this "video": I for one think they add a lot -- it's especially refreshing that they're not all obvious shots of the Kinks! Somehow they really summon the *true* '60's feel I remember from childhood. Nicely done ...
SirMikeyD 3 years ago
I always wondered why this wasn't an A-side. It really is like the last part of a trilogy- You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, and I Need You.
Nobody rocked back then like the Kinks.
gbj11 4 years ago 2
And it seems the last one kicks hardest of all ... pure brutality, start to finish! Mick A. really pulled something off here, though it's hard to say exactly what. Of course Dave has that killer nail-bomb tone, and Ray the famous warbling delivery, but as a drummer I suspect the true secret of this song's power lies somewhere in the rhythm section's subtle push-pull -- the snare just a hair late, a la Bonham. Damn right the song's a gem ...!
SirMikeyD 3 years ago
What a band.The Kinks 64-66 songs are just awesome.I want to have them all.
74sodapop 4 years ago
I remember buying the single "Set Me Free" and not expecting much from a B side. When I flipped it over and that opening chord came blasting out of the speakers, it just kicked my ass. The garage band I was in at the time learned this song immediately at my insistence. This was a double A side single if there ever was one.Their albums Face To Face, Something Else, Kinks Kontroversy, and Village Green are criminally overlooked.
yourtubesteak 4 years ago