My mom has a parrot named Lola. Every time I go home to visit, I pull out my guitar and sing this song to her. She gets really happy and starts flapping her wings and screams “Lola “ 😊
11 years ago we got a dog and we were trying to come up with a name for her when this song came on the radio. Tonight was Lola's last night on earth. Rest in peace you wonderful pup.
Except now they are teaching kids to be trans in elementary school. In the 70's we'd just hear about it on the radio and say, "what a weird and crazy song- glad I don't have to see weirdos like that in real life."
@@realityobserver7521 Yes. Millennials were lucky not to have this garbage ideology spoon fed to them by the media but many of them seem to have taken the bait and are on board with this trans cult. Biden hung a "Progress" flag in a position of central prominence above Old Glory and sent America a message: Patriots, we are coming for YOU.
My grandmas nickname was Lola...when she was bedridden with anzheimer I would sing her this song and her eyes would light up and she would smile and shake her head dancing. Love you grandma!!!
Too sweet. Love this. Music is the best medicine you can give anyone. However, my heart is sorry for your grandma's health. May music and love help you.
Timeless classic, has gotten me through some hard times, sometimes music is the only remedy you need to turn things around! ❤ If you're listening to this in 2023 you sir/madam are a legend!
@@vanplq8841 nope sorry punk was invented in ny by the rammones then the english started copying them but the rammones predates and found the punk sound.
What still blows my mind about The Kinks is most of their songs could have been written yesterday and I would believe they were....the sound is relevant, they lyrics are relevant.... amazing talent. What a gift to the world...
@@Valley0fDeath chacun y va de son interprétation , de son imagination et de sa conclusion . le chirurgien utilise des instruments et le boucher des outils .
Not at all, it came out at just the right time. If it had come out today, many would be complaining about "forced inclusion", "indoctrination" and other nonsense.
no it wasn't; stuff like this was common place as a joke. What is different today is how it is so heavily pushed by the elite class, by all institutions, and academia, and if you don't agree with their delusion, they try to destroy your entire life
The guy who wrote the lyrics, which are based on his real experiences, was once asked in an interview whether Lola was a man or trans, and he answered: "I don't know, all I know is that Lola was all right" I always thought that was so beautiful
I've always loved this song. I used to sing it with my dad all the time. Now, he's gotten his leg amputated and he's not the same person anymore, and I can't listen to this song without crying. Love you, Dad.
Hey dad my heart goes out to you Ive got titanium everywhere in my body ive got new arteries You will find a way start with singing this wonderful song with your boy ❤
@@andrewgurnett6183 you will be the only arse who thinks you to be funny What a plank! Or is it Dick There's so many words to describe you Shite being the most suitable💩
Mann I'm sorry to hear about your pops. I heavy relate to that, my pops showed me this song and as of lately he's been going through a hell of a battle with alcohol addiction, he hasn't been the same in a while and it kills me when I hear this song and all the memories of childhood come flooding in.. I hope all is well in your end of the world 🖤
as a gnc classic rock/ proto punk fan, songs like lola and walk on the wild side always make me really happy. its like a little reminder that people like me have always been around :)
Well there one of my top 5 and the Rolling Stones didn't make the cut. Love this song named my dog Lola and sang this to her all the time she became a bigger Kinks fan then me.
***** Think of how "Creepy" it would have been if I had named her Lola because of the song Copa Cabana and she had become a Barry Manilow fan NOW that would be creepy.
One of my favourite songs, loved it from the very first time I heard it on a big old radio in my parents’ rec room as a teenager. It will go on forever! Thanks Ray! You made a lot of people happy with this great tune!
This tune is a stroke of genius plain and simple! Reaction videos to it are fantastic! 50 years old or so but way way ahead of its time. Greatly appreciate Kinks and Ray Davies!
I've listened to this song for years now and with every listen I fall more in love. Shout out to The Kinks for creating such subversive and entrancing music so long ago.
You have no idea @@monotech20.14how much will be banned thanks to your unfettered degeneracy. The pendulum ALWAYS swings and it Will pin to the opposite direction. And you'll have nobody to blame but yourselves
And yet today The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is their biggest-selling album. Says a lot about whether quality will prevail in the end.
@@Bioniking I feel as though if there hadn't have been a touring ban they would have reached a popularity level much higher than they did. They were great musicians and ahead of their time with creativity and talent surpassing their rivals of the era.. in my opinion.
"Girls will be boys and boys will be girls..." Best part of the song, most poignant line. It cut thru my jumbled, early adolescent attention like a laser & I instantly fell in love with this band. It wasn't like the other classic rocks songs I'd heard. Not even like "You Really Got Me!"
Everyone's mother found their music disconcerting. Its the stupidity of humanity that each generation thinks the joys of the next one are evil or somehow wrong. At least that is my opinion.
The Kinks one of the BEST rock groups! The British Invasion of the 60's was the GREATEST thing that came into being! No music like this EVER again to be had! Rock On!
I had an incredible dream last night. I was a senior in high school again. It was 1971, I'm pretty sure. I haven't heard or even remembered this song since then until it was played on the radio in my dream. The dream was a continuous dream that seemed to last all night. I won't even try to understand why this song was in my dream. Something in my memory was apparently opened up. I woke up and this song was still in my mind and after I laid in bed remembering the tune, I remembered it, try to put the words together and did. I went right to my lap top to be sure. There it was. It was an an outstanding song way back then, risky but become a big hit. Wow. I'm still in a gaze.
I remember when it was released an became an instant hit. There was so much controversy about it's meaning. I was 12 years old and it's still one of my all time favorites.
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola. Couldn't have said better myself. What great lyrics. Kinks are kickin it.
10 Reasons to be a Kinks Fan: 1. They have lots of music: 24 studio albums and 5 live albums. 2. They cover 4 decades: sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. 3. They have many popular songs: 26 Top 40 hits. 4. They have a wide variety of music styles: rock, pop, R&B, ballad, music hall, hard rock. 5. They have concept albums! 6. They were key members of the British Invasion of the mid 60s 7. Dave Davies: inventor of the “hard rock guitar riff”. 8. Ray Davies: master of social commentary and hero of the working class. 9. You can dance to The Kinks! 10. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
I love these classics they bring back a troubled childhood where parents were junkies and everyone else was the same.looking back on it now the musics is amazing and having my children present listening along its nice to know that I broke the generational curse and that ive always been there to show them I love them and when they get older and i depart the earth as my parents have.they will have better memories than I have had.and my job will have been complete!!! Love and peace to you all....
Good job, your family tree will only get stronger now. I have always sworn that if/when i have kids i am going to break the cycle of violence against my familys abuse of children, and both my parents tell some harsh tales about the whip or willow switch and even grandpas hands, both my grandfathers were abusive and short tempered, as a result i too was beaten if i did something someone didn’t like. Kids should never have to wonder wether or not they are going to be abused over trivial nonsense, or be a punching bag. Good on you
Greatest rock band of all time (once you've listened to "The Way Love Used To Be" and "Days" and "The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains" and "Funny Face" and "Waterloo Sunset" and...).
this song really was ahead of its time. i love that the lyrics don't make jokes at lola's expense-- she's beautiful and the singer loves her, and that's all that matters. also the guitar just sounds incredible
@@r.w.9631 no he doesn't. He has a brief moment of shock when he initially finds out Lola is trans with the "i pushed her away, i fell to the floor..." lines but then he looks into her eyes, realizes her beauty and accepts his love for her with the "and that's the way that I want it to stay and I always want it to stay that way for MY Lola" line. Further driving home the narrator's acceptance of her and her identity with the best and most ahead of it's time lyric in the song "girls will be boys and boys will be girls it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola."
@@rodneystanger1651 The *correct* line, not the one you quoted, is deliberately ambiguous. "I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola." Is Lola a man? Is Lola glad that he's a man? Or is Lola glad that the *singer* is a man?
@@pronkb000 Yes, you're right, I got that wrong, but that being said "I' know what I am, I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola" simply means he's glad he's (the singer) is a man, but has figured out Lola is too, and like I said, isn't gay and the naive kid has just figured that out. I think at that time it would've been far too racy for it to mean anything else. That's what I think, but you're not wrong.
"It's a mixed up , muddled up , shook up world except for Lola." Words so true then as they are today.. Ray... Thank you for the Days of music.. Also it is evident in all of their wonderful music how much they have stayed close to their roots . Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)
The opening chords immediately put me in a time machine to a place I would like to be again. Even after nearly 50 years it never gets any less. Good times.
The first time I ever heard this song was early one morning on a pond where some friends and I were camping. I was in my kayah on the pond where we were canping, this came on the radio now every time I hear it it takes me back there. One of my favorite songs ever, this started in the summer of 1970 it was a magical time for me. A year later I was in the Air Force.
It might have something to do with you entering a sexually charged "coupling" as it were....though at this point it is not clear if you were the "enterer" or the "enteree". Plz explain your role and omit nothing. We are here to listen and not to judge.
Sitting’ in the school library,(1970), listening to this track. Didn’t care if it was Cherry or Coka Cola, just such an absolute buzz! Cheers for helping me grow up Ray, JaneR
Way ahead of its time. Yep I was 14-15 year old and man this spoke to me! I felt for both of the people in the song, in was or falls in love with a guy dressed like a girl and I thought, "what's wrong with that"!!! What amazed me was I was thinking about their relationship and I thought the world should change. Never forgot that feeling. Love is love!
My granny's name was Lola, I never met her becouse she died before I was born. My mum says that she loved this song and everytime I heard it, it reminds me of her. I'm so proud to have the same name as her
@@kathleengleason9805 "British invasion /empire my dear one some day soon you'll see the way it ought to be my pretty sweet my dearest one oh how I long for you to wake up.
I WAS 17 YEARS old when this classic came out now im 74 ,,,ive been in love with the Kinks ever since ,, what a pure utter genius talent they had lol xx ps long loive the 60s era
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, *except for Lola* Respect to the Kinks for understanding all those decades ago that it's about knowing who you are, damn what society may think of it, society is fucked up anyway.
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My mom has a parrot named Lola. Every time I go home to visit, I pull out my guitar and sing this song to her. She gets really happy and starts flapping her wings and screams “Lola “ 😊
Your mom sounds pretty cool - most moms don't have wings.
@@martignyvalais9635 LOL
Awww! 😍😍😍
@@martignyvalais9635 LOLL
AWWW
11 years ago we got a dog and we were trying to come up with a name for her when this song came on the radio. Tonight was Lola's last night on earth. Rest in peace you wonderful pup.
flyman140 sorry for u loss
So sorry for your loss +flyman140! (Lola singing with other pups and pets in their 'doggie' Heaven)
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Back when this was still played more regularly on the good old radio. I'm sorry.
flyman140 Sorry for your loss. Great name for your furry loved one!
I worked for the Kinks live back in the late 1980's. Every time they played this the audience erupted!
Who wouldn't ❤
Of course you did.
@@jackhandey3290 It's not that rare, lots of people work behind the scenes
@@GMPOFloyd Right, of course he did.
@@jackhandey3290 A lot of us did things like that. What's wrong with you
Wrote down the chords and lyrics at least 40 years ago. Recently played it again and the song seemed relevant today as ever. A gem.
Genius song, like an O. Henry short story
So true
Except now they are teaching kids to be trans in elementary school. In the 70's we'd just hear about it on the radio and say, "what a weird and crazy song- glad I don't have to see weirdos like that in real life."
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017aid the same thing listening to this song in the 90s. Times sure have changed
@@realityobserver7521 Yes. Millennials were lucky not to have this garbage ideology spoon fed to them by the media but many of them seem to have taken the bait and are on board with this trans cult. Biden hung a "Progress" flag in a position of central prominence above Old Glory and sent America a message: Patriots, we are coming for YOU.
My grandmas nickname was Lola...when she was bedridden with anzheimer I would sing her this song and her eyes would light up and she would smile and shake her head dancing. Love you grandma!!!
She would laugh so hard too
Ruben Vangas Music is food for the soul!
my great grandmother's name too! she was my grandmother's mom on my dad's side
Too sweet. Love this. Music is the best medicine you can give anyone. However, my heart is sorry for your grandma's health. May music and love help you.
God bless man.
The Kinks, inspired me to go from acoustic to electric!!! I'm 71, still learning
🆘 Hallo Mother and Father of all creation are here on earth in person showing the way , healing, phone home today🎉
...teach an old dog new licks...
If you never stop learning you never grow old!!😊
Love u jeanie xxx❤❤❤❤
Kinks were great.Van HaI ens first Hit Single was U really Got me.
Timeless classic, has gotten me through some hard times, sometimes music is the only remedy you need to turn things around! ❤ If you're listening to this in 2023 you sir/madam are a legend!
i loved that song then and now
U know how it is, U when some & U lose some.
You do realize this song is about two men ???
I'm gonna one-up that legendary status... I'm listening in 2024!!
I'm not a sir and listening in 2024
From the fall of 1970. I was 17. This song was at the top of the charts. A clever song that brings back memories!
Sorry to disappoint but this is the greatest song never to have reached the top of the charts peaking at #2.
"Clever" is a good description for this song!
I was 17 that year too! I have loved this song all these years.
I was 16
I am 17, just discovered
One of the greatest songs ever written.
"The Kinks" indeed...
No punk rock without The Kinks.
Saw them in Poughkeepsie NY in 1977. Great show, great memories 😘
Absolutely 🤗
The Who pioneered punk
@@vanplq8841 nope sorry punk was invented in ny by the rammones then the english started copying them but the rammones predates and found the punk sound.
What still blows my mind about The Kinks is most of their songs could have been written yesterday and I would believe they were....the sound is relevant, they lyrics are relevant.... amazing talent. What a gift to the world...
ThompsonRB22 way ahead of their time
Absolutely, Thommo. Timeless.
Their songs are way to good to have been written yesterday.
The Davies brothers were geniuses!
@@Valley0fDeath chacun y va de son interprétation , de son imagination et de sa conclusion . le chirurgien utilise des instruments et le boucher des outils .
Love this song. Never ages. Way ahead of its time
I would say timeless... 😀
THere is no one today that could do a song as great as this is. No one.
They call it Classic Rock for a Reason.............................................
How is it ahead of its time
@@deanfarr3249 It was the only song at that time that was done about a transgender man, called Lola. No one else would sing a song like that.
This song was way ahead of its time, as we are witnessing today.
Its called programming. Celebrities have always been transgender we just didn't know it back then
Not at all, it came out at just the right time. If it had come out today, many would be complaining about "forced inclusion", "indoctrination" and other nonsense.
🆘 Hallo Mother and Father of all creation are here on earth in person showing the way , healing, phone home today🎉
Helll yea 🚀🙏🍻🍻👽👽👽👽🎸🎸🎸👣🥵🍻🍻
no it wasn't; stuff like this was common place as a joke. What is different today is how it is so heavily pushed by the elite class, by all institutions, and academia, and if you don't agree with their delusion, they try to destroy your entire life
70s... they put out this MASTERPIECE in 1970.. the balls they had...
so did Lola
So did Lola
@Juan Perez transvestite and transgender are completely different, cross dressers aren't the same as transgenders (plus its an outdated word)
Do people think this song is in any way empowering transgender people? It’s just supposed to be funny song
@Juan Perez are you on crack
The guy who wrote the lyrics, which are based on his real experiences, was once asked in an interview whether Lola was a man or trans, and he answered:
"I don't know, all I know is that Lola was all right"
I always thought that was so beautiful
My name is Lola!
Ray Davies is his name
nice share mate.... classic.. lol
@@cathalsweeney6 really! ah nice one... takecare you lovely human being :-)
That's what my mom always said
Music and movies. Nobody can ever replace the original classics.
I've always loved this song. I used to sing it with my dad all the time. Now, he's gotten his leg amputated and he's not the same person anymore, and I can't listen to this song without crying. Love you, Dad.
Fake and gay
Hey dad my heart goes out to you
Ive got titanium everywhere in my body ive got new arteries
You will find a way start with singing this wonderful song with your boy ❤
You could rehash the song ....leg la la la leg la la la
@@andrewgurnett6183 you will be the only arse who thinks you to be funny
What a plank! Or is it Dick
There's so many words to describe you
Shite being the most suitable💩
Mann I'm sorry to hear about your pops. I heavy relate to that, my pops showed me this song and as of lately he's been going through a hell of a battle with alcohol addiction, he hasn't been the same in a while and it kills me when I hear this song and all the memories of childhood come flooding in.. I hope all is well in your end of the world 🖤
as a gnc classic rock/ proto punk fan, songs like lola and walk on the wild side always make me really happy. its like a little reminder that people like me have always been around :)
You sound like an inbred clown lol
❤
we've always been here, and as far as I see it, we're not going anywhere. your comment really made me smile :D
Damn right ♥️
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….we’re here. Ts.
The Kinks - A timeless British band...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks
MsCpcheats Indeed! I didn't bother replying since the claim so so outlandish!
Well there one of my top 5 and the Rolling Stones didn't make the cut. Love this song named my dog Lola and sang this to her all the time she became a bigger Kinks fan then me.
***** Think of how "Creepy" it would have been if I had named her Lola because of the song Copa Cabana and she had become a Barry Manilow fan NOW that would be creepy.
CJ carp No half as creepy as if his name was actually Humbert...
How the hell did I have missed that song in all those years I have been listening to music?! What a song!
Because you were born long after it was played on the radio? Anyway, welcome!
Happy 80th birthday Ray Davies!!!
Lola 🎉
Listen to this bad boy in headphones. Wow, amazing engineering, every instruments pops and is so well mixed. Awesome song.
That's the goddamned honest truth
@@couplakooks laquelle ?
Definitely one of my favorite bands EVER!!!! Still get goosebumps listening to this song. Grew up with the Kinks, and am glad I did!!!
When the subject of conversation is how the Beatles and the Stones weren't all that...we talk about the Kinks.
Ditto
Me Too
I'd shift a few years, but yeah, you do still get goosebumps hearing some of the good songs.
The kinks are my favorite band
Kinks never got the credit they deserved.Stones and Beatles were great but kinks wrote brilliant songs.Any comments folks.
I love the Kinks.
Yes, for me the kinks finish 3rd in the sixties...!!
you are fucking right. Dont forget the one of the first metal songs, "you really got me".
Soo true u my friend seem like a man of wisdom
FACTS
One of my favourite songs, loved it from the very first time I heard it on a big old radio in my parents’ rec room as a teenager. It will go on forever! Thanks Ray! You made a lot of people happy with this great tune!
For me the "Masterpiece" of the Kinks.
This tune is a stroke of genius plain and simple! Reaction videos to it are fantastic! 50 years old or so but way way ahead of its time. Greatly appreciate Kinks and Ray Davies!
You rigth my son real talent real music 💊😂⛽🤘🍻🍻🍻👽
I've listened to this song for years now and with every listen I fall more in love. Shout out to The Kinks for creating such subversive and entrancing music so long ago.
yes fall in love with a song bout T's
@@SuperPenguin5495 yeah it's good
Now rightwingers would and probably do want this song banned from radio.
You have no idea @@monotech20.14how much will be banned thanks to your unfettered degeneracy.
The pendulum ALWAYS swings and it Will pin to the opposite direction. And you'll have nobody to blame but yourselves
It's subversive today according to the American Republican Party.
For my friend I lost during the Paris attacks. For Lola and the other innocent people. Peace,love and rock n roll.
So sorry for your loss
thanks for your support ..
im so sorry to hear that.... i dont even know u, and it hurts me
thanks for you support .. This song reminds me her so much .. she was only 17 ..
Peace, love, and a sunshine trip!
Never get tired of this incredible song by the Kinks.
This is the best comeback song in history, the kinks were off the grid for like 3 years when this came out in 1970
And yet today The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is their biggest-selling album. Says a lot about whether quality will prevail in the end.
Was that during their US touring ban? When they appeared to disappear?
Maybe in the USA. The ban in hindsight is the best thing to happen to them. Without that, we wouldn't have gotten 4 classic albums.
@@Bioniking I feel as though if there hadn't have been a touring ban they would have reached a popularity level much higher than they did. They were great musicians and ahead of their time with creativity and talent surpassing their rivals of the era.. in my opinion.
I can't explain the extent to which I love this song. This IS one of the TOP 5 culturally significant songs since 1954.
One of the best songs ever written. I'm getting older but still gets me on my feet.
Isug tis song at full volume while driving 😮
Singthissong
"Girls will be boys and boys will be girls..." Best part of the song, most poignant line. It cut thru my jumbled, early adolescent attention like a laser & I instantly fell in love with this band. It wasn't like the other classic rocks songs I'd heard. Not even like "You Really Got Me!"
🆘 Hallo Mother and Father of all creation are here on earth in person showing the way , healing, phone home today🎉
It cut right through my gender identity. Man or woman? I don't not know.
A brilliant and timeless song - the subject matter was so way ahead of its time for 1970.
What is the subject matter?
I was born in 1960. This is the first piece of music that I loved. My mother found it disconcerting.
Everyone's mother found their music disconcerting. Its the stupidity of humanity that each generation thinks the joys of the next one are evil or somehow wrong. At least that is my opinion.
It's concerting that yer Mum found it disconcerting! :-)
look at the world today i think this is a prediction he nailed it
@@annerenwick6822 well, he nailed something. 😎
@@waynej2608 they didn't call themselves the Kinks for Nothing. Drop the mic.
A song ahead of its time!
Only if you weren't around at the time...
Phil Taylor lol
"Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls, its a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola" is one of the best lines ever written.
Well stated !
Would ye all go on to the ole whisle test because youre all getting on me nerves 😅
I wouldn't mind some early Talking Heads though
Yep. That line resonated with me in ways I wouldn't understand until I was 19. If you know you know
Ahead of their time on predicting that now.
The Kinks one of the BEST rock groups! The British Invasion of the 60's was the GREATEST thing that came into being! No music like this EVER again to be had! Rock On!
There must have been something magical in the water back then....the 'invasion' rocked my world !!!
The Kinks always had the wittiest lyrics of all the 60's bands. Music was damn catchy too...
I had an incredible dream last night. I was a senior in high school again. It was 1971, I'm pretty sure. I haven't heard or even remembered this song since then until it was played on the radio in my dream. The dream was a continuous dream that seemed to last all night. I won't even try to understand why this song was in my dream. Something in my memory was apparently opened up. I woke up and this song was still in my mind and after I laid in bed remembering the tune, I remembered it, try to put the words together and did. I went right to my lap top to be sure. There it was. It was an an outstanding song way back then, risky but become a big hit. Wow. I'm still in a gaze.
Not matter what you think, this is song is beautiful..... just like you, who's reading this comment ❤
🆘 Hallo Mother and Father of all creation are here on earth in person showing the way , healing, phone home today🎉
Thank you !
I'm not, I'm a right minger
Me,69yrs old, love it.
Great song
ah yeah
A bunch of people singing this dressed up as road construction workers
@@deanfarr3249 no sir it's not that this is a cult classic the freedom of sound and your surroundings.
@@harleydavidsonandmarlborom5711 i know it's good old music
@@harleydavidsonandmarlborom5711 i replayed this song many times for the last 2 days I'm all lola'd out😂
This song is seriously way ahead of its time.
fixed it.
I remember when it was released an became an instant hit. There was so much controversy about it's meaning. I was 12 years old and it's still one of my all time favorites.
Very much so!
and it still is up to this day!!
Definitely! 😂
The song isn't ahead of it's time. Social acceptance of people is just lagging far behind.
This song makes my cheeks hurt from smiling. What a precious little thing.
@Mitch Conners jesus christ this made me cry laughing
@Mitch Conners great minds think alike!
I’m sure Lola’s cheeks hurt to from not so little things
I feel this 😂😂
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I saw these guys with the Pretenders at the Budakon in Tokyo, 81 I believe when I was in the Navy, excellent show 🎉
Loved it since 1st heard....70 /71. Love it now just as much
SAW KINKS IN 70,s,AND 80,s.COULDN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALBUM OR LIVE.RAY DAVIES HAS A GREAT VOICE. ANOTHER GREAT BRITISH BAND
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola. Couldn't have said better myself. What great lyrics. Kinks are kickin it.
First rock and roll show I ever took my kids to -- The Kinks. Hooray!
The fact that this is based on a true experience by the band is the icing on the cake
The Kinks were a so far ahead of their time. They came at a time when they should have exploded to the top.
Probably one of the most underated bands ever
Pure class
Thank you The Kinks. This was, and always will be, an amazing song. I was alive when you released it and it is still amazing to me. :-)
Absolutely one of their best.I dont think it has dated and this is lockdown 2020
Lynda O'Neill are you listening in 2020 too?
Sure am Tim and thoroughly enjoying the great music.
Lynda O'Neill you an me both Lynda what a crazy time
@@m250398w sure is but great to have all this cheery music and memories, love it.
yeah the layering of the instruments is ridiculous. almost unbelievably - forever classic
A song ahead of its time...
ultimaetsolder r u for real.....clickkk rackkk clickkk
ultimaetsolder hi
You said it !
A song ahead our OUR time.
Way ahead of its time
10 Reasons to be a Kinks Fan:
1. They have lots of music: 24 studio albums and 5 live albums.
2. They cover 4 decades: sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.
3. They have many popular songs: 26 Top 40 hits.
4. They have a wide variety of music styles: rock, pop, R&B, ballad, music hall, hard rock.
5. They have concept albums!
6. They were key members of the British Invasion of the mid 60s
7. Dave Davies: inventor of the “hard rock guitar riff”.
8. Ray Davies: master of social commentary and hero of the working class.
9. You can dance to The Kinks!
10. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
WORD!
And how many times were they on American Bandstand and Midnight Special?
Many.
They're in the hall for a reason good sir.
R&RHoF is not impressive considering the snubs and the political aspect.
6?
wtf
In my opinion their best Song. Very original and modern, malicious full of Joy and Energy. Pure gold
I love these classics they bring back a troubled childhood where parents were junkies and everyone else was the same.looking back on it now the musics is amazing and having my children present listening along its nice to know that I broke the generational curse and that ive always been there to show them I love them and when they get older and i depart the earth as my parents have.they will have better memories than I have had.and my job will have been complete!!! Love and peace to you all....
It's so sad that you didn't enjoy the childhood you experienced but it has obviously made you a better adult x
My childhood was awesome. The psychologist back then was my dad's slipper, I hated it but it helped.
Good job, your family tree will only get stronger now. I have always sworn that if/when i have kids i am going to break the cycle of violence against my familys abuse of children, and both my parents tell some harsh tales about the whip or willow switch and even grandpas hands, both my grandfathers were abusive and short tempered, as a result i too was beaten if i did something someone didn’t like. Kids should never have to wonder wether or not they are going to be abused over trivial nonsense, or be a punching bag. Good on you
Bless you, those that don't learn from their parents mistakes are stupid.
There is a reason for the butt cheeks design😂.
a fantastic song my dad was a kinks fan who died of lunge cancer on 29th june this year this ones for you popps rip
:-(
yeah was he made by tourqflite
Rip
hey man, my mom passed June 28th. she also loved this song
What an intelligent comment - must have taken a while.
This is one of the great pieces from my time...Glad to hear it again.
No punk rock without The Kinks.
Ray and Dave, genius songwriters they are, The Kinks certainly produced quality music during the 60s and 70s. Still a joy to listen and sing along to.
I thought this was an awesome song when I first heard it 50 years ago. Still love it to this day.
Good for The Kinks for making this song... It went over so many people's heads.
Went over mine until just today. I am 56 yrs old and just figured it out. Love the song even more now.
GOD--How good is this.
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
Amazing sounds from an incredible group.
Saw the Kinks in San Diego in 1976. Loved em them. Love them now. Lola has always been a favorite. I'm trying to learn it on piano. Wish me luck.
Song kicks your ass. Just brilliant in its use of rising tension.
Greatest rock band of all time (once you've listened to "The Way Love Used To Be" and "Days" and "The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains" and "Funny Face" and "Waterloo Sunset" and...).
Best way I’ve ever heard it described
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Surely you’ve never heard Mozart’s D Minor Keyboard Concerto. Talk about rising tension.
The Kinks will always be one of my favorite 70's bands and yes, they do kick some serious butt!
This Lola sounds pretty badass
Sounds like a dude
@@hubbahubba5887 and?
@@eleven-hopper i have a 7 inch long penis
hubba hubba ... DONT WORRY.. we can’t all be big lads 👍🏻🤣
Great ass, actually....
this song really was ahead of its time. i love that the lyrics don't make jokes at lola's expense-- she's beautiful and the singer loves her, and that's all that matters. also the guitar just sounds incredible
What are you talking about he ditches her the moment he figures it out.
@@r.w.9631 no he doesn't. He has a brief moment of shock when he initially finds out Lola is trans with the "i pushed her away, i fell to the floor..." lines but then he looks into her eyes, realizes her beauty and accepts his love for her with the "and that's the way that I want it to stay and I always want it to stay that way for MY Lola" line. Further driving home the narrator's acceptance of her and her identity with the best and most ahead of it's time lyric in the song "girls will be boys and boys will be girls it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola."
@@SGlongboard "I know what I am and I'm a man and so is Lola". He's not gay, he ditches him.
@@rodneystanger1651 The *correct* line, not the one you quoted, is deliberately ambiguous. "I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola." Is Lola a man? Is Lola glad that he's a man? Or is Lola glad that the *singer* is a man?
@@pronkb000 Yes, you're right, I got that wrong, but that being said "I' know what I am, I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola" simply means he's glad he's (the singer) is a man, but has figured out Lola is too, and like I said, isn't gay and the naive kid has just figured that out. I think at that time it would've been far too racy for it to mean anything else. That's what I think, but you're not wrong.
The most underrated band in history
The Small Faces too!!!!
The best concert I've ever been to. Ray Davies connects with the audience. It's not just a performance.
Nooooo... Limp Bizkit
Ewwwwww@@hurleyinc686
"It's a mixed up , muddled up , shook up world except for Lola." Words so true then as they are today.. Ray... Thank you for the Days of music.. Also it is evident in all of their wonderful music how much they have stayed close to their roots . Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)
50 years - and I'm not tired of L-O-L-A , Lo Lo Lo Lo LOLA .
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lol me too
I bet
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This is one of the first classic rock songs I heard, I was in the car with my dad, this song makes me miss my dad
serina sommer sorry for your loss❤️
he didn't die, my parents divorces so I never see him.
@@RinaRanThatWay See him cause when he's gone it will be too late.
He is your only father, call him, search for him!
Find him where ever he is before it is to late
Loved this when it first came out and I'm still loving it at 66 !!
Brilliant pop rock story song with tongue firmly in cheek and yet getting it all SO right.
One of the greatest songs ever written.
"The Kinks" indeed...
Love Ray Davies.
Arghhh my ballss 😂🤘🍻🍷 🚀 my glory days operation from behind helll yeah 🤘🎸🍻🎶😂😂🍷🍷🍷🚀
Pennut butter here we come 😱👽 🍺🤘🚀 Mexican style 🌮👽😂🍻🎸
The opening chords immediately put me in a time machine to a place I would like to be again. Even after nearly 50 years it never gets any less. Good times.
I'm 53 and this still pumps me up!
The first time I ever heard this song was early one morning on a pond where some friends and I were camping. I was in my kayah on the pond where we were canping, this came on the radio now every time I hear it it takes me back there. One of my favorite songs ever, this started in the summer of 1970 it was a magical time for me. A year later I was in the Air Force.
It doesn't matter how drunk I am, there's something about this song that just anchors me back into reality.
That, and that big "adam's apple" she has, huh?
thought you were goiing somewhere else with that comment
Fucking brill!
It might have something to do with you entering a sexually charged "coupling" as it were....though at this point it is not clear if you were the "enterer" or the "enteree". Plz explain your role and omit nothing. We are here to listen and not to judge.
@@evanmorrow1234 lol ! Dude, you wanna know too much ! Let someone have his little secrets 😀
my great grandmas name was lola. she died 4 years ago and this song makes me cry. i have her name tattooed on my chest
yeh song really doesn't matter its just that it says her name and brings back memories!
Must have lived quite a long time though for her to still be alive when you were growing up, lol.
***** she was 86! at the time i was 15, my mum was mid 40's, my grandma was in her 60's. my nan would now be in her 90's
James Carmody I had two great grandmas who got to 87 and 88 but I was still pretty small when they passed.
Sloef da Senior thank you so much! lovely words
Sitting’ in the school library,(1970), listening to this track. Didn’t care if it was Cherry or Coka Cola, just such an absolute buzz! Cheers for helping me grow up Ray, JaneR
Sitting here beer in hand in lockdown listening to the ray and the boys awesome
Hi Georgina from Sydney Australia
Same from Manchester UK
Snap lol, having a vod in Scotland smashing the Kinks tunes. Have a listen to Powerman, amazing.
Ha, doing the same in lockdown South Africa .. cheers mate ..
what a great way to make a lockdown tolerable in Massachusetts. think i'll dig out some of my Kinks vinyl. great idea.
This is one of the great pieces from my time...Glad to hear it again.
This is a fun song to crank while driving with the windows down.
indeed...
+Sean Young Just won the internet.
+i2aymond hah, no you're right. I live under a rock
+CPWindsorsub At first i thought this read "This is a fun song to be on crank while driving with the windows down."
+John Eastman Lol I have never even seen any drugs like that in person let alone use them. Especially while driving.
One of the greatest rock songs ever written
After years of having forgotten about this music, UA-cam recommend me it and I'm grateful for that
Way ahead of its time. Yep I was 14-15 year old and man this spoke to me! I felt for both of the people in the song, in was or falls in love with a guy dressed like a girl and I thought, "what's wrong with that"!!!
What amazed me was I was thinking about their relationship and I thought the world should change. Never forgot that feeling. Love is love!
What a tune. Will never get old. Unlike me.
My granny's name was Lola, I never met her becouse she died before I was born. My mum says that she loved this song and everytime I heard it, it reminds me of her. I'm so proud to have the same name as her
Outstanding lyrics from these guys; I can just picture everything they sang about. Great stories set to great music 💜😎🎶
Right on 😎✌🤘🎶💞
:D 💜😎🎶
No punk rock without The Kinks.
FNA !
No heavy rock either
No rock without the English invasion sorry Elvis them dudes had it going on for sure lol
@@kathleengleason9805 "British invasion /empire my dear one some day soon you'll see the way it ought to be my pretty sweet my dearest one oh how I long for you to wake up.
I’d say The Who had more of an influence on the popularity of punk rock
I wish the change at 2:17 was longer. I love that switch up.
wspaniały utwór, pamiętne lata 70 te, szkoła internat, pierwsze miłości , to były czas "The Kinks" the best song
I didn't' realise this song was as old as it is.. but it's a hell of a story he's telling.
this song never fails to make me smile.
I love this song
Madonna mia...come si dice in italiano... E un BRANO senza TEMPO... Mi crea la voglia di vivere ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I WAS 17 YEARS old when this classic came out now im 74 ,,,ive been in love with the Kinks ever since ,, what a pure utter genius talent they had lol xx ps long loive the 60s era
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, *except for Lola*
Respect to the Kinks for understanding all those decades ago that it's about knowing who you are, damn what society may think of it, society is fucked up anyway.
Yup
I know who I am...I'm a man, I'm a man...and So is Lola...
You are aware this was a joke right? Written about the drummers experience after a show.
@@melissagheen5272👍
Don't ruin woke person's interpretation of the song, you might upset them@@bjellison905
50 years ahead of its time
Quirky fun song from October of 1970. I was driving into Boston to college and listened to this on the radio.Great times!