Ray Davies is a legend and a genius songwriter. And he's still got it up there on the stage. I miss him and Dave playing together. Dave is an awesome guitar player and their voices, though very different, complement each other.
The man wrote what was perhaps the three most influential garage rock anthems in history. "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," and "Tired of Waiting For You," -- all, while the Rolling Stones were covering Beatle songs like "I Wanna Be Your Man." The Stones are great, and always will be, but The Kinks are right up there shoulder to shoulder in enduring influence.
Ray Davies in my opinion has always been up there with the best rockers & blues artists of the boomer era. He made it all fun somehow to watch and listen. And performing here with the choir is a great version of a great song by a great man. And he sounds himself for a man in his mature years as the same as he always did.
The drummer is, as the Brits say, kind of a douche.
denofcool 2 weeks ago
He's still got it!
ZenMaster1992 2 weeks ago
Ray Davies is a legend and a genius songwriter. And he's still got it up there on the stage. I miss him and Dave playing together. Dave is an awesome guitar player and their voices, though very different, complement each other.
omanichickiebabe 3 weeks ago
Ray Davies is a legend. I miss Dave and he playing together.
omanichickiebabe 3 weeks ago
The Kinks' version was a jet fighter, Van Halen's was a rocket ship - but I like both, of course!
SpiritKnob 1 month ago
kinks are made my day
leodileodileo 1 month ago
The man wrote what was perhaps the three most influential garage rock anthems in history. "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," and "Tired of Waiting For You," -- all, while the Rolling Stones were covering Beatle songs like "I Wanna Be Your Man." The Stones are great, and always will be, but The Kinks are right up there shoulder to shoulder in enduring influence.
lastrada52 1 month ago
one of the great pioneering, and possibly most influentual Kinks tracks, that set the
PRECEDENT for heavy rock
darkmossie633 5 months ago
That was a devastatingly bad version
duracell777 5 months ago 2
Wooooooaah! Sending shivers up my spine!
trebange 6 months ago
That is fuckin´g music
Livetraveler 6 months ago
That drummer is awesome.
24hoursayear 7 months ago
@24hoursayear Mike Avory should have been there.
deadwoodgulch 7 months ago
what happend to the kinks ray
zephiemolla1999 7 months ago
This is so bad it hurts, Ray, please stop this madness
PhilmsMovies 7 months ago
@PhilmsMovies . how bout fuck u retard.what have you done. nothing!!! respect this man!!
islander658 5 months ago
@islander658 guy can't have an opinion?
cokeworthy 4 months ago
@cokeworthy ,Ye if its a silly comment, that puts this man down. then that guy should fuck off !
islander658 4 months ago 3
Why does the bloke in the choir on 00:30 need to check the lyrics, Every human being on the planet knows those lyrics.
Crackin version of the song none the less!
lutonboy18 7 months ago 4
Ray Davies in my opinion has always been up there with the best rockers & blues artists of the boomer era. He made it all fun somehow to watch and listen. And performing here with the choir is a great version of a great song by a great man. And he sounds himself for a man in his mature years as the same as he always did.
LordofDublin4 8 months ago 2
@LordofDublin4
Couldn't agree more :)
tomorocko 8 months ago
the drummer is amazing
BeduffKidAli 11 months ago
WHO CAN DISLIKE THIS, WHO!?!?!?
TheJacob98 1 year ago 13
@TheJacob98
people who don't like this song accompanied with a choir. It was really nice on the other songs, but it sounds goofy on this one.
someotherself 5 months ago 2
Great Stuff,all the more so for seeing the Choir`s facial expressions...they were so INTO it...any info on them ?
TravellinBilly 1 year ago
actually it was1964, quite a difference, but who could have dreamed then, this would happen in 2010.?... not me....same goes for Youtube.
jantjeharing 1 year ago
Smokin'
tpreitzel 1 year ago
ray, band, choir-they real good!
hansbriel 1 year ago
1 person missed like
33hamster33 1 year ago
As good in 2010 as it was in 1963!!!!
memusic1947 1 year ago 25
I got my Boston ticket!!!!!!!
theredsox333 1 year ago
You really got me, Ray!
nogrouchy 1 year ago
EXCELLENT!!!
setenteromusic 1 year ago 6