The Kinks - Some Mother's Son

[TomVanDeusen]

Dick Cheney should be required to listen to this song every day for the rest of his life. Oh yeah, and spend the rest of that life in prison.

[warley1138]

Play this on the radio you motherfuckers.

[dougrhon]

Greatest anti-war song ever. No anger, no hatred. Just sorrow and sadness.

[Elchupacabra169]

Don't really understand why everybody seems to be comparing the Kinks and the Beatles in all of these videos, I didn't grow up in that time. For me, it's no contest; I've only recently started listening to the Kinks, but all of their work from this era is deep and meaningful. Most of the Beatles songs' that I've heard are just superficial and quite hollow.

[sharonra2000]

this song surely will humble you to the core!

[GreenhouseEffectGE]

Some mothers' son is lying in a field - ..... Somewhere - someone is cryin' .... just too epic of a anti-battle hymn ,....

[kinksboss1]

how can this song have only 11,438 views on January 15 2011?

[BeatleFloydZeppelin]

The beatles and the kinks ar both amazing, although I like the beatles slightly more simply because the kinks didn't have the same consistancy in the 70s and onwards. But it is to bad that the kinks never reached the same amount of popularity as the beatles, stones, beach boys and other great bands back then, they desirved it for sure.

[mannewskie]

Naw, it's not Sgt. Peppers. It's Pink Floyd. Think about the war songs in the Wall or the Final Cut. This precedes all of them. And arguably beats them all. Just devastating stuff.

[64098]

This has been running through my head all morning. What a powerful piece.

October 16, 2010

[COPMMUSIC]

the kinks  are the greatest band ever

[AcidDroog]

one of their best... makes me cry sometimes.

[kittyprydekissme]

Possibly the greatest song about war ever.

[mobyboy]

wow ! i didnt hear this song for ages

[MIK415]

Gee, one day our empire will have a band like this ... "Look, Mommy, the emperor's naked!!!" -What a pistol you were, Ray, aimed right for their heads.

[richgrim]

Universal

[kirkwallboy]

The mid/late 60's had some artists who went back to their childhood, in a drug fogged haze. And some even captured that essence. What the Kinks did here was to mix innocence with the life changing, or ending, face of war. "Two soldiers fighting in a trench, one soldier glances up to see the sun, and dreams of games he played when he was young, and then his friend calls out his name, it stops his dreams, and as he turns his head, a second later he is dead"  It's very moving stuff.

[sionimaesyrhandir]

Ray davies is a genius ...ray davies is welsh!

[goodolesouth]

@sionimaesyrhandir

Yes, but little do you know that he is really half owl half man and half gypsy

[MissLeigh78]

Alex says Ray Davies is most certainly NOT Welsh!

[sbarr10]

Arrrggghh! This song gets to me!

[jenzeppelin]

indeed this song brings tears...the lyrics are so emotional...i always break down at the part:

"but in his mother's eyes he looks the same...as on the day he went away..."

[jenzeppelin]

very Floydian

[notaphaser]

....granted, Waters-dominated Floyd, but it's a fair comparison. never noticed it before, interesting. Thing is I'm rather sure Roger would've listened to this record at some point, it very well could've influenced how he wrote of his father....

[jenzeppelin]

i never compare the Kinks with anyone, dear God, that would be near sacrilegious for me... however, with that said, the theme of this song, and, even its melody and vocal ranges are reminsicent of Floyd. it strikes me time and time again, enough for me to have noted it. :)

[skateboarding118]

I wouldn't say it's like the floyd so much, it's more like waters

[skateboarding118]

heh, sorry didn't see notaphaser's comment and yours

[jenzeppelin]

you're right, it's the Waters influence of Floyd I hear in this song. it could have fit well on The Wall, or, even moreso on their album The Final Cut.

[mwells219]

@jenzeppelin this is the antithesis of pink floyd. pink floyd became about grand bombastic arena psychedelia. the kinks turned away from that and made songs with very personal lyrics and melodies influenced by english music halls of the early 20th century.

[jenzeppelin]

@mwells219 I wasn't comparing the two bands at the core. Just this particular song reminds me of something Roger would have stuck on The Wall or The Final Cut.

[AdmiralNelson78]

yossarian u berk the kinks are great, so r the beatles they r both timeless u fool! Who can disagree with that?!

[marcogalvezcampos]

Mi banda preferida! The kinks

[yossarian9]

Now - quickly - listen to Sgt. Pepper's. The difference? This work is timeless. It's as fresh and powerful as it was thirty years ago, the day it was cut.

[romelovesdan]

Never fails to bring a tear to my eye as well. Really gets me when I think that could of been my Grandfather and I would of never of existed...or loved,laughed, or cried.

[c0ckad00dl3d0]

i cried, top ten greatest albums ever, listen to mr churchill said

[electricman8889]

Unbelievable forgotten album. I wouldn't have ever heard of it without youtube. Thanks CoolPomegranate.

[ROADKILLL91]

<3 i love u LOVE MEEEEE q

[athrough0]

I need to buy this album.

[damnthatchainsaw]

i bought it on cassette(o gawd!!) and it changed my life....dont delay its a classic.

[MrSifter8]

Brilliant.