@9bukowski Woh! Tone down the oppresive vibrations man. I'm (we) are just saying that there are definitely some discriminating vibes going on with this song. Peace out.
@luminousbulb oppressive vibrations? Discriminating against who, the relatives of Lord Greystoke? Did you even listen to the song in its entirety? Its about escaping from an oppressive/repressive society and living a simpler life also The Kinks already had issues with using "Coca-Cola" in a song and probably didn't want to go thru the same thing by using "Tarzan" in a song.
@luminousbulb Then you are getting it wrong! The song is about leaving all the everyday sh*t behind and going back to basics... No more no less...!!!
Ray Davies is not a racist and some of his biggest (musical) heroes are the old black blues guitarists/singers... People he has worshipped since early childhood!!!
Although I feel Ray Davies is a tad smug this is my favorite Kinks' song..Saw the band 1974 at college, John Carroll University in Cleveland. They played maybe..maybe 45 minutes..Okaaaay, Ray..
@801liveable Too bad they shorted Cleveland. I saw them twice in Detroit, early-mid seventies (Schoolboys In Disgrace tour and another) and they played their asses off, doing a whole "concept" performance plus a bunch of their hits. Love 'em, and love this song.
@naginudnod L Okay, so maybe I exaggerated. It was probably about an hour..Hey, I like Ray and Dave Davies too. I like their peculiar hooks. It just seemed like they didn't really care when I saw them. Maybe they didn't like Cleveland...
This was my favorite song when I was about five years old, (I had a cool older brother who played for me all the classic bands) and now some 30-odd years later it's my favorite song again!
It's a shame that Ray Davies and his brother Dave just never get along with one another because The Kinks from the early 60's to the early 90's just put out some great music in their days together as a band.
It's soooooooo true. I prefer to live as an apeman. I will now smash this device and return to what is true. Fuck you computer. Give me the gorgeous open fields and blue s . . . wait.. . it's cold out. .. . I want some wine. . . and entertainment. . . damn.
the only kinks song to have the word fuck in it at exactly 2:09 its a bit muffled for the live performance but that is what he says well he actually says fucking
the kinks wer the top 60's band alongside the who, ray davies wrote all his own songs and thats the sign of a real performer,unfortuately his later tracks were not quite as good
Hi all, saw the Kinks live in Dallas (just travelling thru, thanks) in 78 or 79.........great show, great band, great tunes....thanks for posting that great song. They are such original artists; any Muswell Hillbillies fans, or fans of their "rock opera" Preservation Act 1 &2 ? (have to find those in my disorganized music collection.....Stay beautiful, Kinks fans, laura
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@seaeagles64 Sorry for your loss, but you must realize his body was just a shell, and it broke down whatever way it happened, he is probably not RIP, the outer shell is, but I bet he is up and dancing with these songs in Heaven! He's young again, and enjoying the dancing and singing as loud as he can when Lola starts to play! He is enjoying the music when you play their songs, dancing and singing! Angel Hugs to you and yours FGoodroe
My hat has been off to Ray Davies and the band since the " British Invasion " obviously between the stone s and beatles, but in my book, THE KINKS WERE AND WILL ALWAYS THE BEST!!!!!!! William
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I think you're overlooking the obvious. One line about war in a song all about longing for the simple life doesn't make for a 'serious' song! The gorilla at the piano should tell you that much, surely? Great song anyway!
I met Ray Davies back stage at Irvine Meadows 1985 the Kinks 'Under the Stars" tour - Ray was not a cool or nice guy at all ,....still, I love and respect ray and the kinks forever ,..they are rock's most amazing band of all time ,..with the greatest most experienced songs - easily my favorite band ,...
I met Ray at a bar, or as the Brits say , a "pub" when they were in the U.S. in the early 80s. I bought him a beer, or as the Brits say, a "pint". A right smashin' bloke!
Could that be Elton John playing the piano? There's something about the way he moves and plays and the timing is right. I'm sure that 'Your Song' his first UK hit [I think] was released in 1970. Or did Rocket Man come first - I'm sure someone will put me right. Anyway - brilliant song, brilliantly performed - as always.
Every time I see woman driving with cell phones pressed to their heads,every annoying TV commercial(they are worse than ever),every sporting event or small gossip that attracts undue attention,every time i set foot at work or am driving on the road,etc etc...I want to get the hell away from these stupid apes around me.
This song is about anti-technology, going back to a simpler life, it is the normal experience of remembering a fonder period when you whee younger. Look, my grandparents didn't understand the fade of radio; my parents didn't understand the obsession with TV; and I don't understand why the internet controls so many people. It is fun watching old videos, and looking at sports, that's about it...Younger people have a different view.
@candyrn16141 It's sheer randomness, yet relevant to your comment: I work at a school, and don't carry my purse around bc am with kids all day, playing/teaching. I don't wear a watch, so I usually tuck my cell phone under my bra strap. THEN on Monday this past week the teacher whose class am working in saw me put it there AND SHE FREAKED! Told me she used to do the SAME THING for YEARS and ended up with a GIANT TUMOR in THAT. VERY. SPOT.
This song is about anti-technology, going back to a simpler life, it is the normal experience of remembering a fonder period when you where younger. Look, my grandparents didn't understand the fade of radio; my parents didn't understand the obsession with TV; and I don't understand why the internet controls so many people. It is fun watching old videos, and looking at sports, that's about it...Younger people have a different view.
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mk1161- wtf are you talking about you tard, this song has nothing to do with racism. if you dont like the kinks then why are you posting stupid comments on their videos? jus go back to jerking off over your crappy punky pre teen whiny bands ya douche
@jackmyers12 ...Excuse me, I think you have the wrong 'poster' - I'm the one who said the song has NOTHING to do with race, you tard! I think you're response was meant for @JUDGEDREGZ. In a reply, the name at the BEGINNING is who the reply is TO; the little blue name at the BOTTOM of the reply denotes the person who made the comment...!
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i love this song ..... it may sound like a toe tapping diddy because of the rythm of the song and the way Ray sings it with that Rastafarian accent...I dont know any cuter Rastafarian... then Ray... but in truth the lyrics are quite profound...on many levels we are no more evolved than our predicesors or accestors the Caveman in the way we still kill for food kill for clothes and kill for self defense....killed for greed or power but we kill just to KILL./ WE are evolved technology n artistic
What's racist about this song? Tarzan was the "Apeman," and he was a white guy. Man, some people are really uptight. It's rock 'n' roll, dude, have some fun!
Great song by Ray Davies and The Kinks. I particularly like the lyrics: "I don't feel safe in this poxy world no more, I don't wanna die in a nuclear war". Those lyrics remained relevant - and easy to identify with - for years (if not DECADES) after the song was released, in late 1970.
Personally, I don't think that this is a racist song at all. It may appear that way to some zealous members of the 'politically correct' fraternity ... but they tend not to be objective in their judgement.
@JUDGEDREGZ GOOD NAME!! So you are JUDGE JURY AND EXECUTIONER? Newsflash!!!!! It is a Fucking Song With NO rascism behind it!!! It is you that are a racist if you are even thinking that!And your liberal minded --ooooooohhh i have to be PC!!! can Jump in a puddle.Nonsense,Crawl back to the Rocks you came from -Gollum! This band has done nothing but put smiles on faces worldwide for Decades! And you? Go inflate HATE ,like there aint enough already!. You new name is now IHATEMIRRORS! cant look!!
@pistolsfan961 I didnt 'listen to it'-I clicked on 'Stop Download' the moment this racist video begins,and then typed my comments.Its not rocket science,you soft Cunt.
@JUDGEDREGZ What's the point? No one's gonna listen to you if you keep trolling and don't put up a good argument. We know you hate the song, but why? Why is it racist?
@JUDGEDREGZ ...The point is, ya big goof, that if you believe in evolution (as opposed to God) then we are ALL "apemen." This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with race! If you happen to be one of those unfortunate people who doesn't understand that we are all created by God, and you instead think that we simply 'evolved' from lower creatures, then you believe that we evolved from ape-like precursors - you know, Homo erectus and the like...
@mkk1161 You are a complete and utter idiot.This song was written at a time when racial tension was overblown due to immigration of black people.The punk movement smashed these flimsy 'racist bands' to smithereens.The Kinks are a complete and utter shit stain of a band,who tried to emulate the Beatles (This very song is a theme copy of 'Civilization' by the Andrews Sisters).The Kinks were the biggest frauds in rock music history.
John Lydon had CUNTS like the Kinks sussed out from day one.
@JUDGEDREGZ ... Are you kidding me?! Who is more in the forefront of civil rights and equality for all than "artsy" types, like singers, artists, and actors?! I fully admit that I know nothing about the Kinks' politics; maybe you do, but I find it utterly ridiculous that ANYONE would take the song to be racist, just on its own merits (or lack thereof). If anything, the song tries to take us ALL a rung or two down the evolutionary ladder...
Lola sent me.
GUIDOBRAT 3 days ago
This is the most awesome music video I have ever seen. I love these guys. Sail on, Nicky and Pete. We appreciate & miss you.
julietaron 5 days ago
I am getting some racial vibes from this song :(
luminousbulb 6 days ago
@luminousbulb I'm getting some WTF are you talking about vibes from your comment.
9bukowski 6 days ago 5
@9bukowski Woh! Tone down the oppresive vibrations man. I'm (we) are just saying that there are definitely some discriminating vibes going on with this song. Peace out.
luminousbulb 6 days ago
@luminousbulb discriminating agasint who??
hashpipe17 5 days ago
@luminousbulb oppressive vibrations? Discriminating against who, the relatives of Lord Greystoke? Did you even listen to the song in its entirety? Its about escaping from an oppressive/repressive society and living a simpler life also The Kinks already had issues with using "Coca-Cola" in a song and probably didn't want to go thru the same thing by using "Tarzan" in a song.
9bukowski 4 days ago
@luminousbulb WHATever!!!!
BAHulvey 5 days ago
@luminousbulb Then you are getting it wrong! The song is about leaving all the everyday sh*t behind and going back to basics... No more no less...!!!
Ray Davies is not a racist and some of his biggest (musical) heroes are the old black blues guitarists/singers... People he has worshipped since early childhood!!!
kloppedeklop 4 days ago
Great I am Ape man too.
1starmanman 1 week ago
Although I feel Ray Davies is a tad smug this is my favorite Kinks' song..Saw the band 1974 at college, John Carroll University in Cleveland. They played maybe..maybe 45 minutes..Okaaaay, Ray..
801liveable 2 weeks ago
@801liveable Too bad they shorted Cleveland. I saw them twice in Detroit, early-mid seventies (Schoolboys In Disgrace tour and another) and they played their asses off, doing a whole "concept" performance plus a bunch of their hits. Love 'em, and love this song.
naginudnod 1 week ago
@naginudnod L Okay, so maybe I exaggerated. It was probably about an hour..Hey, I like Ray and Dave Davies too. I like their peculiar hooks. It just seemed like they didn't really care when I saw them. Maybe they didn't like Cleveland...
801liveable 1 week ago
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must have been a lame crowd... Ray feeds off the crowd Deyo!
221balrog 22 hours ago
This was my favorite song when I was about five years old, (I had a cool older brother who played for me all the classic bands) and now some 30-odd years later it's my favorite song again!
mrskujellifeddy 2 weeks ago
wish I could sail away and live like an apeman
robbooey 2 weeks ago
It's a shame that Ray Davies and his brother Dave just never get along with one another because The Kinks from the early 60's to the early 90's just put out some great music in their days together as a band.
MrReilly067 2 weeks ago 2
tHE kINKS ARE THE MOST UNDERRATED BAND IN HISTORY
xxxrockstar86xxx 3 weeks ago 13
@xxxrockstar86xxx I agree and so is Roxy Music...
801liveable 2 weeks ago
@xxxrockstar86xxx they're not underrated though?
gards2 2 days ago
94 apemen don't like this
blackfire5432112 3 weeks ago in playlist The Kinks
It's soooooooo true. I prefer to live as an apeman. I will now smash this device and return to what is true. Fuck you computer. Give me the gorgeous open fields and blue s . . . wait.. . it's cold out. .. . I want some wine. . . and entertainment. . . damn.
MrBeautifulba1 3 weeks ago
Even my young sons adore this song and request it constantly! I love it!
irene1ization 3 weeks ago
Let's hope we all can sail away, from our ignorance and self indulgence! Happy New year
guruartist 3 weeks ago
um...
boxingsinger 4 weeks ago
Why the long face LOL
ChinkyWincky 1 month ago
Merry christmas everyone! I woke up with this song in my head. How bloody random is that!
GigglesClifton9 1 month ago
@GigglesClifton9 it's new years day and I woke up with this song in my head! no idea where it came from
analoguemike 3 weeks ago
This is an amazing song and video. Spot on in so many ways. Seen em but not at The Grandeballroom :) Detroit will rise again I love Rock City
japzbene1562 1 month ago
"I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized, 'cos I'm a strict vegetarian"
These guys have some of the funniest lines in music history.
BatmanOneOhOne 1 month ago 2
top of the pops- i was 7 yrs old just had moved to Scotland with my folks, but remember the guy with the gorilla mask... Terrific memory-, thanks....
ragozhin 1 month ago
Thank you thank you thank you. I so love this song. Am passing it on. Yeah!
msTmattole 1 month ago 2
The message of the song is clear, we ignore it at our peril. Droughts in the winter, 160 mph winds is Scotland is just the beginning....
wincanton2 1 month ago
Hey Kinks...yeah!. R.I.P. my brother Adam Leslie. He loved you guys....have a nice day...
runawayvealmusic 1 month ago
Got to see them at the Eastown Theater in Detroit on December 11, 1970.
Went to see Bob Seger and didn't know the Kinks were playing.
What a great concert, Kinks, Quatermass, and Bob Seger for $4 cover.
Now that was the place to see a band in concert.
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grandeballroom1968 1 month ago
hehe Im here 4u
ReneaJadaoe832 2 months ago
Jesus not only slapp's Gods dick, it slapp's the bass as well.
Multi-talented Jesus is on fire tonight.
ridgeback69z 2 months ago
is that Jesus on the left?
MissMyb 2 months ago in playlist Stuff to LIsten to at work
@MissMyb Jesus is slappin' the bass!
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ARothFan 1 month ago
@ARothFan actually the pianist i dressed like an ape, the bassist just look like jesus
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Dave is soooooo hot in red!!! Those sideburns! Oh those sideburns!!!
LittleArabellaGumby 2 months ago
Just did this tonight with the band I'm in-great song to play.
iknowwhyyouare 2 months ago
the only kinks song to have the word fuck in it at exactly 2:09 its a bit muffled for the live performance but that is what he says well he actually says fucking
pootube1974 2 months ago
@pootube1974 Fogging up my eyes?
LeicesterGuy123 2 months ago
@pootube1974 Pretty sure he's saying "a-foggin" which is the correct lyric there.
iknowwhyyouare 2 months ago
the only kinks song to have the word fuck in it at exactly 2:09 its a bit muffled for the live performance but that is what he says
pootube1974 2 months ago
the kinks wer the top 60's band alongside the who, ray davies wrote all his own songs and thats the sign of a real performer,unfortuately his later tracks were not quite as good
pootube1974 2 months ago
Cool song for you Colin
ducklave 2 months ago
Wow... that's 1970 for you
TechnoPath99 2 months ago
yeah, " some of you are animals
wearing human skin"
momskid 2 months ago
I can't imagine a world where all men had hair like that!
LeicesterGuy123 2 months ago
Amen to that!
smith077906 2 months ago
Dedicated to my good friend Ronny Sexsmith!! ~ Thanks for introducing me to this classic!!!!
CanuckBoy1957 2 months ago
Hi all, saw the Kinks live in Dallas (just travelling thru, thanks) in 78 or 79.........great show, great band, great tunes....thanks for posting that great song. They are such original artists; any Muswell Hillbillies fans, or fans of their "rock opera" Preservation Act 1 &2 ? (have to find those in my disorganized music collection.....Stay beautiful, Kinks fans, laura
hilfri1 2 months ago
lool Im a student living by herself
22melisafriesens22 2 months ago
MY VERY FIRST RECORD, I WAS 10.
PHEW!
THANKYOU KINKS IN MY BRAIN
CLASSIC
KIMWHITE777 2 months ago
the original punk band. thanks kinks.
ctown67 2 months ago
Albert sent me here
HeeeyMacarena 2 months ago 10
@HeeeyMacarena me too :)
papaloca1234 2 months ago
@HeeeyMacarena Who's Albert?
LeicesterGuy123 2 months ago
@LeicesterGuy123 Albert Hammond Jr, guitarist from The Strokes
HeeeyMacarena 2 months ago
The air pollution's a-fuckin' up my eyes
MightyQuinn2021 3 months ago 2
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a foggin' up my eyes
greenmorris37 3 months ago in playlist 1970's Music
@greenmorris37 On the album version he says it less clearly. It is more awesome because of that
MightyQuinn2021 2 months ago
@greenmorris37
Foggin'?
Methinks you should clean the pollution out of your ears.
wasack17 2 months ago
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Try reading the lyrics and footnotes to Lola v the powerman
greenmorris37 2 months ago
This is a most favorite song to me! Thank The Kinks, thank you all!
warchildren1 3 months ago
I bought this 45 when it came out, put my record player on repeat and after about eight hours even I was sick of it!
delamitri100 3 months ago
this song puts me in a good mood, everytime :D
Oxidized181 3 months ago
this was actually recorded in 2011..
sretherf 3 months ago
2:05 his eyebrow does the worm!
mitchblegh 3 months ago 2
@mitchblegh LMFAO it does, iv never noticed that but it's funny
Oxidized181 3 months ago
BIZARRE SONG..RAY MUST HAD HAD BIPOLAR EPISODE WHEN HE PENNED THIS ONE......
GIZOKS 3 months ago
for some reason I am craving a banana....
whoadude1959 3 months ago
my dad showed me this song when i was really young and i have been looking for it ever since thank you god,fritz51177, and youtube
galactuskev 3 months ago
86 people must be apewomen
gjoe111 3 months ago
love this song - had it stuck in my head all day!
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ThisMeansWarRecords 3 months ago
This song speaks to my soul.
TheDaddyandTheBaby 3 months ago
My uncle Colin Welsh was the biggest Kinks fan In History,, unfortunately he died last year.. RIP COL
seaeagles64 3 months ago 22
@seaeagles64 Sorry for your loss, but you must realize his body was just a shell, and it broke down whatever way it happened, he is probably not RIP, the outer shell is, but I bet he is up and dancing with these songs in Heaven! He's young again, and enjoying the dancing and singing as loud as he can when Lola starts to play! He is enjoying the music when you play their songs, dancing and singing! Angel Hugs to you and yours FGoodroe
fgoodroe 2 months ago
@seaeagles64 R.I.P. Uncle Colin. Long live the Kinks...Cheers!
FortyGordy 1 week ago
Hey im an Apeman
Trojanman152152 3 months ago 2
Strange genius at play. These guys were great!
toucantango1 3 months ago
fuckin sick sooo good i love this guys brain ray is brilliant
thekohlton 3 months ago
My hat has been off to Ray Davies and the band since the " British Invasion " obviously between the stone s and beatles, but in my book, THE KINKS WERE AND WILL ALWAYS THE BEST!!!!!!! William
TheWilliam916 3 months ago 2
hihi Your little princess is here to please you
545juanitabirde4 3 months ago
Awesome! Listen to the words, so true!!!
Thylovely4you 3 months ago 2
That ape on the keyboards is superb! Well-trained. I wonder how many nanas he's paid per gig.
JohnnyCxviii 4 months ago 2
Amazing how kool the kinks are and how relevant this song is all these years later
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I think you're overlooking the obvious. One line about war in a song all about longing for the simple life doesn't make for a 'serious' song! The gorilla at the piano should tell you that much, surely? Great song anyway!
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geckoboy70 4 months ago
A serious song - in 1970 - a nuclear war was "in the air" - KUBA-crisis a.s.o.
softie461 4 months ago
One of my favorite songs of all time.
dligas 4 months ago
this makes me think of Chris from skins
MsBubbleblaster 4 months ago
I met Ray Davies back stage at Irvine Meadows 1985 the Kinks 'Under the Stars" tour - Ray was not a cool or nice guy at all ,....still, I love and respect ray and the kinks forever ,..they are rock's most amazing band of all time ,..with the greatest most experienced songs - easily my favorite band ,...
GreenhouseEffectGE 4 months ago
@GreenhouseEffectGE That is AweSome!!!!!!!!! I wish i could've met him
Triwertyy 4 months ago
I met Ray at a bar, or as the Brits say , a "pub" when they were in the U.S. in the early 80s. I bought him a beer, or as the Brits say, a "pint". A right smashin' bloke!
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Is this video racist?
SUNRISERICH 4 months ago
hair twirl at 1:47... so cute. (Y)
kellyspaghetti1 4 months ago
is Ray Davies a Jew?
MrJohnthegreat22 4 months ago
@MrJohnthegreat22 he's English buddy
rogcuadra 4 months ago in playlist rogcuadra's Favorited Videos
Could that be Elton John playing the piano? There's something about the way he moves and plays and the timing is right. I'm sure that 'Your Song' his first UK hit [I think] was released in 1970. Or did Rocket Man come first - I'm sure someone will put me right. Anyway - brilliant song, brilliantly performed - as always.
99Quench 4 months ago
Oh, and the line is "the air pollution is *fogging* up my eyes." Odd, I always heard something else.
IngotAU 4 months ago
Thanks for posting... man, do I ever heart this song. Never saw it performed.
IngotAU 4 months ago
this whole song and the video are fantastic...
but may I say 1:44 to 1:49 is just o_o'
tojoinbobdylan 4 months ago
hehe i luv this
thepurpleapeman 4 months ago
dave does the flippy hair: panties drop.
9paperbackwriter 4 months ago
30 people aren't ape men
theADHDband1 4 months ago
Kinks = overrated? Impossible. Couldn't happen, regardless of the immensity of accolades.
JohnnyCxviii 4 months ago
@JohnnyCxviii ok which idiot says that the kinks are overrated?!!!
rockingwhiterabbit 4 months ago
@rockingwhiterabbit Don't worry. I took care of that guy. We won't be hearing from him again.
JohnnyCxviii 4 months ago
**He moves away from the mic to breathe in
HerrDesMondes 4 months ago
"I'm a King Kong Man, I'm a Voodoo Man - I'm an Ape Man."
tanksbb 4 months ago
Everybody's having so much fun :]
anartismal 4 months ago
lumina . . Thats sweet! majorhoop . . . Simple isnt it . . Genius indeed!
SimonYoungJames 4 months ago
I love this song
PCGotGames 4 months ago in playlist PCGotGames's Favorited Videos
Fantastic song!
vk1drums 4 months ago
Where they gay? Just wondering.
JoeAverage000 4 months ago
@JoeAverage000 Both Davies brothers are married, but very gay friendly. Like many other English rock stars, they're also big fans of Jayne County.
petercrowley41 4 months ago
"I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane,
I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane."
ray davies------genious
majorhoop 4 months ago 2
My dad used to play this song for me and my brother as kids. He used to tease us and call us little monkeys and say this song was for us. :]
lumina1313 4 months ago
Every time I see woman driving with cell phones pressed to their heads,every annoying TV commercial(they are worse than ever),every sporting event or small gossip that attracts undue attention,every time i set foot at work or am driving on the road,etc etc...I want to get the hell away from these stupid apes around me.
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spentonmediocrity 4 months ago
This song is about anti-technology, going back to a simpler life, it is the normal experience of remembering a fonder period when you whee younger. Look, my grandparents didn't understand the fade of radio; my parents didn't understand the obsession with TV; and I don't understand why the internet controls so many people. It is fun watching old videos, and looking at sports, that's about it...Younger people have a different view.
candyrn16141 4 months ago
@candyrn16141 It's sheer randomness, yet relevant to your comment: I work at a school, and don't carry my purse around bc am with kids all day, playing/teaching. I don't wear a watch, so I usually tuck my cell phone under my bra strap. THEN on Monday this past week the teacher whose class am working in saw me put it there AND SHE FREAKED! Told me she used to do the SAME THING for YEARS and ended up with a GIANT TUMOR in THAT. VERY. SPOT.
I bought a watch.
Technology = danger.
:-(
idadudenmanner 4 months ago
This song is about anti-technology, going back to a simpler life, it is the normal experience of remembering a fonder period when you where younger. Look, my grandparents didn't understand the fade of radio; my parents didn't understand the obsession with TV; and I don't understand why the internet controls so many people. It is fun watching old videos, and looking at sports, that's about it...Younger people have a different view.
candyrn16141 4 months ago
This song is best for our world leader.
Adoraa1 5 months ago
Fantastic rock song here ! kinks live forever !!
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vividDC 5 months ago
2,600 th like. Yee-haw!
roppasmoka 5 months ago
I just got home from watching rise of the planet of the apes and the first things I did was listen to this song.
Zoulvisia 5 months ago 22
The bassist is so chill :D
RakyunKim 5 months ago
I love love love Ray Davies. This song just makes me so damned happy (and it's just as relevant today as it was 40+ years ago)
popomatic1970 5 months ago 5
At the time of this comment, 29 people have not yet evolved to the level of ape.
TheSentientParadox 5 months ago
I love the dude in the gorilla costume. Damn, if only they would play the White House. I'd like to see O'dumbo and Mis-hell dance to one.
gck1953 5 months ago
back then..i had a hot girlfriend and she loved me to bang her to this song...she called my johnson "the apeman"...
"give me the apeman....split me in half with your apeman"...
she'd scream....
those were the days....summer of 1970...and amy beggin me for "my apeman"
wonder where she is today....rather remember her as she was...
ChiroQuacker 5 months ago
papa chango lives in puerto escondido.
alfwada 5 months ago
this song will make any day better
drumhead58 5 months ago
mk1161- wtf are you talking about you tard, this song has nothing to do with racism. if you dont like the kinks then why are you posting stupid comments on their videos? jus go back to jerking off over your crappy punky pre teen whiny bands ya douche
jackmyers12 5 months ago
@jackmyers12 ...Excuse me, I think you have the wrong 'poster' - I'm the one who said the song has NOTHING to do with race, you tard! I think you're response was meant for @JUDGEDREGZ. In a reply, the name at the BEGINNING is who the reply is TO; the little blue name at the BOTTOM of the reply denotes the person who made the comment...!
mkk1161 5 months ago
29 chimps dint get it lol NO BANANAS FOR YOU!
foggygoggle 5 months ago
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what a great song. the kinks are awesome. if your a fan of them check out my kinks top 10 list. its the most viewed one on youtube. Also if you are a fan of classic rock my channel is dedicated to it.
rockthe60s70s 5 months ago
Ray Davies is one of the sexiest men alive...if not the most sexy!!!!
ginettebreton 5 months ago
I don't feel safe in this world no more, I don't want to die in a
fatoldsun98 5 months ago
I'm an APE WOMAN!! :)
BullCricket75 5 months ago 2
you know the only time I feal at ease is when I'm swinging from the coconut tress too! and I luv bannanas!
babylonbob 5 months ago 3
bet they were stoned to thee dick wen they made this man :L
Chambers1187 5 months ago 2
Thumbs up if you are listening to this in 1845.
nathanielselby 6 months ago 4
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this song is about niggers.
NASIMNASIM 6 months ago
Ray is the Man! Saw him acoustic @ The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City NJ.
tjgates4888 6 months ago
AWESOME SONG
sepulthrax 6 months ago
best song about
MegaEternally 6 months ago
i love this song ..... it may sound like a toe tapping diddy because of the rythm of the song and the way Ray sings it with that Rastafarian accent...I dont know any cuter Rastafarian... then Ray... but in truth the lyrics are quite profound...on many levels we are no more evolved than our predicesors or accestors the Caveman in the way we still kill for food kill for clothes and kill for self defense....killed for greed or power but we kill just to KILL./ WE are evolved technology n artistic
MermaidPrincess9 6 months ago
DAN STAMP!!!!
attackofjoe5366 6 months ago
What's racist about this song? Tarzan was the "Apeman," and he was a white guy. Man, some people are really uptight. It's rock 'n' roll, dude, have some fun!
chipgower 6 months ago 3
Great song by Ray Davies and The Kinks. I particularly like the lyrics: "I don't feel safe in this poxy world no more, I don't wanna die in a nuclear war". Those lyrics remained relevant - and easy to identify with - for years (if not DECADES) after the song was released, in late 1970.
Personally, I don't think that this is a racist song at all. It may appear that way to some zealous members of the 'politically correct' fraternity ... but they tend not to be objective in their judgement.
TheEctomorph 6 months ago
the police sing in a jamaican accent they white and not rascist
katdavoo12 6 months ago
@katdavoo12 Well said.
TheEctomorph 6 months ago
shut the fuck up an enjoy the music
katdavoo12 6 months ago 2
The Kinks, what a great band!
I like them more than i like the Beatles.
pauldr1000 6 months ago
great song!
angie4josh 6 months ago
in my opinion ther singing how they would like to live in the jungle and leave the city and live happly like an ape man
katdavoo12 6 months ago
@katdavoo12 ....Yeah,and they just happen to be singing it in a 'fake' jamaican accent.
JUDGEDREGZ 6 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ yh
coolmaker1011 6 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ GOOD NAME!! So you are JUDGE JURY AND EXECUTIONER? Newsflash!!!!! It is a Fucking Song With NO rascism behind it!!! It is you that are a racist if you are even thinking that!And your liberal minded --ooooooohhh i have to be PC!!! can Jump in a puddle.Nonsense,Crawl back to the Rocks you came from -Gollum! This band has done nothing but put smiles on faces worldwide for Decades! And you? Go inflate HATE ,like there aint enough already!. You new name is now IHATEMIRRORS! cant look!!
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 I speak unspeakable truths.YOU talk nothing but shite.So toddle of son,or i'll beat the living hell out of you.You utter CUNT. lol
JUDGEDREGZ 6 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ Why do you listen to this if all you can do is troll? lol....
pistolsfan961 6 months ago
@pistolsfan961 I didnt 'listen to it'-I clicked on 'Stop Download' the moment this racist video begins,and then typed my comments.Its not rocket science,you soft Cunt.
JUDGEDREGZ 6 months ago
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pistolsfan961 6 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ What's the point? No one's gonna listen to you if you keep trolling and don't put up a good argument. We know you hate the song, but why? Why is it racist?
pistolsfan961 6 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ ...The point is, ya big goof, that if you believe in evolution (as opposed to God) then we are ALL "apemen." This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with race! If you happen to be one of those unfortunate people who doesn't understand that we are all created by God, and you instead think that we simply 'evolved' from lower creatures, then you believe that we evolved from ape-like precursors - you know, Homo erectus and the like...
mkk1161 5 months ago
@mkk1161 You are a complete and utter idiot.This song was written at a time when racial tension was overblown due to immigration of black people.The punk movement smashed these flimsy 'racist bands' to smithereens.The Kinks are a complete and utter shit stain of a band,who tried to emulate the Beatles (This very song is a theme copy of 'Civilization' by the Andrews Sisters).The Kinks were the biggest frauds in rock music history.
John Lydon had CUNTS like the Kinks sussed out from day one.
JUDGEDREGZ 5 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ ... Are you kidding me?! Who is more in the forefront of civil rights and equality for all than "artsy" types, like singers, artists, and actors?! I fully admit that I know nothing about the Kinks' politics; maybe you do, but I find it utterly ridiculous that ANYONE would take the song to be racist, just on its own merits (or lack thereof). If anything, the song tries to take us ALL a rung or two down the evolutionary ladder...
mkk1161 5 months ago
@JUDGEDREGZ You are a but a little hater.And i doubt you have much of a vocabulary besides "CUNT"