THE KINKS - Lola | FIRST TIME REACTION

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[Colin-]

I absolutely love that look on peoples faces……Once the penny drops!😬
Great tune & reaction. There’s so many to choose from……but give “Waterloo Sunset” a listen.✌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[southernbella]

The reaction at the 2:00 min mark says it all :) The kinks wrote this after a true event, its a great story . great reaction :)

[laurallama]

Ohhhh, maaan!!! Love this song! My fave by The Kinks. 2nd fave is Father Christmas! You’ve gotta check that one out! You’ll love the song and vid! 🥳🎅🏼🎸🎄🎶🎶🎶

[maraboo]

The Kinks were among the greatest in the 60s. A lot of wonderful songs in many different styles but always Kinks. And their topics were more than simple songs of boys in puberty.

[GinMae]

Thanks, Critical... this a a great song.. supposedly based on the band being in a bar and a naive roadie.. who was drunk and "fooled"... but a great song with sensitivity ... so much fun... Hope you listen to more from the Kinks... they have great humor and diversity in their tunes... thanks!

[eturfrey]

Way ahead of their time. So many sleazy clubs and bars in 60s/70s Soho. There were the guys with the raincoats in the strip joints and the drag queens frequented the bars.

[marie_d]

Better Things is the most beautiful comforting song. Ray Davies is a brilliant writer.

[davescurry]

The Kinks are one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time. Period. They pretty much invented hard rock with "You Really Got Me" and "All Day And All Of The Night", before the band's principal songwriter Ray Davies turned his head towards more cynical and often scathing observational writing that often produced classic songs with dark lyrics coupled with very catchy melodies. Arguably Britain's greatest songwriter and it's hard to think of another group who had a writer of his equal. Maybe Pete Townshend. Maybe.

Some other Kinks material to check out: "Waterloo Sunset", "Shangri-La", "Sunny Afternoon", "Days", "Celluloid Heroes", "20th Century Man", "Picture Book", "Dead End Street", "See My Friends", "David Watts" just to name a very, very small selection of their enormous catalogue.

[davidrauh]

Yea, this was a hit all around the world. One of their managers was so drunk one night he was dancing with a Transvestite without even realizing it. So Ray Davies wrote a song about it. Also, check out the song Apeman from the same album.

[RegenaCox-yyrl]

The look on your face when you caught the meaning of what the singer was talking about in the song was PRICELESS. Loved it.

[lauraulnye]

You really got me❤
All day and all of the night ❤ are both great songs by the kinks also😊

[cdfdesantis]

The Kinks were a great '60's-'70's rock band, always innovative, quite tongue-in-cheek at times. Thanks for your reaction.

[DannyD]

this is such a fun song live. several times during the show the first strums of the song are played only to stop short with ray saying, "nope you're not ready yet". teasing the audience and building anticipation for when they finally break into it. he'll also lead the crowd in call and response like "way-oh!" after strumming the first notes only to once again say, "no, not yet". it's great fun.

[ed.z.]

The Kinks hit “You Really Got Me “ is responsible for creating more garage and basement bands because every kid musician heard it and said, “I can play that”. And some kids became really fine musicians.

[MikeFisher-]

I think the killer line is 'I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola!" Wonderfully ambiguous, but we know what he's

[ohfour-seven]

The Kinks have been around a long long time. They were pumping out top 40 hits in the early days of The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys and The Bee Gees. A great number of their albums were concept/rock operas. This song is from the album, Lola vs. Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, which as a concept album, taking on the recording industry. From this album, The Contenders and Got to be Free are great, other songs: Victoria and Australia from their Arthur album, 20th Century Man and Demon Alcohol from Muswell Hillbillies, and from top 40 radio, Come Dancing, You Really Got Me (probably the first song with a grunge guitar), Well Respected Man, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Sunny Afternoon, I can go on and on. The Kinks are incredible.

[dianedavies]

Love The Kinks! You have to listen to “Waterloo Sunset”, the British have adopted it as their own national anthem. A great rabbit hole to go down. ✌️♥️🎶

[andrewclayton]

The Kinks were a great band, quite a few hits, and always fun. Their lives in and around London often feature on their hits, this one mentions Soho, another huge hit is Waterloo Sunset. Come Dancing is about a local dance hall. Lazy Sunny Afternoon is good too.
I remember Lola in the early 70s - caused a few questions over its gender alignment. But the music was lively with a banging tune so we didnt care. The Beeb always insisted on the Cherry Cola version, so I was a tad surprised when your track had the phrase Coca Cola in it. Just not used to it. That caused more consternation than the cross dressing. Yeah more Kinks please!

[andyshan]

One of the greatest bands of the sixties and early seventies, credited for pioneering hard rock and also writing one of the greatest songs in music history, Waterloo sunset. Loads of great songs in their back catalogue.

[mikefetterman]

The Beatles came over in February of 1964, a few months later, the Animals showed up. A couple months later, the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits, and the Kinks came across the pond. That was the start of the British invasion.