The Kinks - One Of The Survivors (Single Edit) [CD Reissue]

Artist: The Kinks
Album: Preservation: Act 1
Released: 16 November 1973
Song: One Of The Survivors (Single Edit) [CD Reissue]
Track-No: 13/13


The Album:

Preservation: Act 1 and Preservation: Act 2 are a 1973 concept released as separate albums in 1973 and 1974 by the English rock group, The Kinks.

The Preservation albums were not well-received by critics and sold poorly (the first one peaking on the Billboard 200 at #177), though the live performances of the material were much better received. Many hardcore Kinks fans were alienated by Ray Davies' melodramatic songwriting during the Preservation project era, resulting in albums that played more like the soundtracks to a piece of musical theatre than rock albums.

However, more recent reviews of Preservation: Act 1 have been more sympathetic to its ambitions. In particular, All Music's Stephen Thomas Erlewine has declared "Sweet Lady Genevieve" to be the "real candidate for Davies' forgotten masterpiece".

The CD reissue of Preservation: Act 1 includes the single versions of "Preservation" and "One of the Survivors", neither of which are available on the original vinyl release. The latter briefly charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart peaking at #108.


Lyrics:

(Sung by Johnny Thunder and Chorus)

See Johnny Thunder sitting on his motorbike
Riding along the highway,
Rock and Roll songs from the nineteen-fifties
Buzzing around in his brain.
Johnny Thunder he's one of the original bebop generation
And he's got no time for complicated music or too much sophistication.

He's one of the survivors,
The motorbike riders.
You ought to see Johnny Thunder riding down the highway
One of the rock and roll survivors,
Twelve bars flowing through his brain.
He digs Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion and The Belmonts,
And Johnny & The Hurricanes.

He plays Hound Dog, Oh Boy, and Great Balls of Fire
And Boppin' At The High School Hop.
And he's got no time for phonies or posers
'Cos they don't know how to reel and rock.
and he plays Little Egypt and Ooh Poo Pah Doo,
And he plays Poison Ivy and Blue Suede Shoes,
The Hollywood Argyles, Danny & The Juniors,
Dion & The Belmonts, Johnny & The Hurricanes.

He's one of the survivors,
The boppers and the jivers,
Yeah and he rocks all day.
Johnny & The Hurricanes, Johnny & The Hurricanes.

Got my freedom riding along the freeway.
I ride a hundred miles an hour but I don't mess up my D.A.
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 'n' roll.
You can't stop rock 'n' rollin' music play.
(repeat last two lines)

Feel those vibrations flow in my brain.
Got my freedom riding down the highway,
Keeps me sane, feel alive,
I'm one of the survivors.

Feel all right.
First gear, second gear, third gear, fourth gear, all right.
Old Johnny Thunder looks a little overweight,
And his sideburns are turning grey.
But he still likes to bebop, boogie and jive
To his worn out seventy-eights.
Johnny Thunder.
He's alright.
He's one of the survivors,
Twelve bars flowing through his brain,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion & The Belmonts,
Johnny & The Hurricanes, Johnny & The Hurricanes

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rock
• beat
• british invasion
• 70s
• kinks
• Preservation Act
• One
• Of
• The
• Survivors

[RManFlint]

@baggaratz How's my DA look, brother?

The Kinks among the top ten bands of all-time.

[RManFlint]

@baggaratz How's my DA look, brother?

[baggaratz]

Holy crap. Only 5,700 views? One of the best rock 'n roll songs of all time. Love the Kinks!

[jamreaper]

@aprilshowers495 fell for what?

[boxfitter]

This song would be on my top ten rock songs of all time list. And I've never seen them do it live. However, there is an awesome live version of this on Wolfgang's Vault.com from Santa Monica, California.

[POORLESTER]

I was with Johnny and the Hurricanes when we recorded Live At The Starclub, Hamburg. We always did a kinks number and included it in our album. Funny thing..the Kinks song You Really got Me, came out after we put it on our album.

[aprilshowers495]

wow i cant beleive i fell for this