The Kinks - see my friend (1965)

To TheSaintJohnGuitar: you nailed it. I concur wholeheartedly.

All this time I thought the first proto-psychedelic song was either "Rain" or "Paint It Black". Good Christ the music the bands on both sides of the Atlantic were making were a hell of alot better than the crap that one can listen to these days.

See my Friend is one of those incredible gems that I can listen to over and over yes Indian drone influence!!

One of my favorite songs :)

A great song from a great band. But the first psychedelic song by a major band?

Yes. Well, at the very least proto-psychedelic, and certainly the first raga-rock tune. And the first rock song with homosexual overtones. The Kinks really pushed the envelope back then.

This song is the first psychedelic song released by a major band. It was released in july 65, 6 months before "8 miles high" and a year and a half before Strawberry Fields Forever. You gotta give them props. That and the fact that You really got me now is pretty much the first hard rock song is why the Kinks are important.

...Well - that's part of what was so remarkable about the Times :

...It were both Pop & Art
- like: Pop Art
...all colliding.

...Trying to get it all into 2:30 (minutes/seconds) was pretty much what drove Brian Wilson mad - !

...& like Roger Daltrey said:
- When you get a Hit - you don't fight it - !...

this song allways,allways "guts " me. shouldnt listen really

Everyone knows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts in regards to the Beatles. They didn't record better separately (not that their solo stuff is bad, it's great). If you think the Beatles weren't mature until Sgt Pepper, then you haven't listened to Rubber Soul, that sure wasn't boy band shit.

Lyrically the Kinks were so ahead of their time, kudos to Ray.