@@wm9482 yes their grandfather was from Rhondda valley with roots from a small town called Llanbrynmair in Powys which I was startled to discover my grandmother was from!
One of many, many awesome Kinks songs. They were my favorite band when I was in college and I'm still crazy about them. Ray Davies is a genius songwriter.
This great song deserved to be included in the Something Else album. The Kinks were (along with The Beatles) one of the two Best British bands of the 60s.
Ray Davies is a genius. He is probably one of the few who can ironically convey the nostalgia of the Great Mother of the World of the British Empire and how easy it is to be nice when you don't have to worry about drinking bad tea and eating stale toast and this is your dinner.
@Mark McGonnell you and I agree that he's one of the best, but he's often looked over by music journalists and fans alike. That's what makes him underated.
@Mark McGonnell the same can be said about mike bloomfield being revered by several legendary guitarists. They're both still largely underdiscussed and underrated my music journalists and music listeners/fans
@Mark McGonnell I personally think Davies is better writer than Lennon was, he just never got the fame to match Lennon nor Mcartney. Dave at least got some due recognition for his guitar talent
Lyrics Lyrics Oh Mr Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant? I hope the world is treating you right, And your head's in the air, And you're feeling so proud, 'Cause you're such a success, And the whole wide world is on your side, hey hey. How are you today? People say Mr Pleasant is good, Mr Pleasant is kind, Mr Pleasant's okay, Mr Pleasant don't mind. As long as Mr Pleasant's all right, hey hey. How are you today? How's your father, how's your mother? How's your sister, how's your brother? How's your brand, new limousine, Twenty-four inch TV screen? Did you like prosperity More than you liked poverty? Life is easier, so much easier, Life is easier now. Oh Mr Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant? Did you know she was flirting around With another young man, And he's taking her out When you have to work late? And it's not so pleasant after all, hey hey. How are you today? People say Mr Pleasant is good, Mr Pleasant is kind, Mr Pleasant's okay, Mr Pleasant don't mind. As long as Mr Pleasant's all right, hey hey. How are you today? Mr Pleasant is good, Mr Pleasant is kind, Mr Pleasant's okay.
Dave seems pre-obsessed with his image ( as wonderful as it is ) during filming . Love them all so much and even got to share a coffee with Dave a couple of weeks ago ….
Didn’t know Ray been in the music industry that long I discovered him in the greatest decade ever the 80s of course he just popped on my mode while at the DMV listen to this song and my last name just happened to be Pleasant love it
Ja, ich war in den 60-igern ein großer Fan der Kinks und finde es super, dass man sich jetzt die Band und die Lieder ansehen/ anhören über UA-cam kann.
Between their tongue in cheek lyrics - and the flasher (!) and Dave unable to keep a straight face -- Kinks were in a class by themselves...still are. They were the prototype.😍
i just listen to the kinks all the time , way more than the beatles. Don’t get me wrong the beatles are probably the greatest rock band ever but for me I prefer the kinks they just speak to me more on a level I can better relate . Genius band
LOVELY memories of this Song I have; it was the ‘B’ Side to 'Autumn Almanac’ - neither of which I think ever appeared on an LP. This was the best Record The Kinks ever made in my opinion - and would most certainly have given them another Chart Topper. It really deserving of a release as an ‘A’ Side Single. (the guy on the Drums is REALLY fit!!)
Early '67 'Mr.Pleasant' was released as a single all over Europe and a big hit . For a while it was indeed the b-side to 'Autumn Almanac' in the U.K. which later on became 'David Watts'.
Ray Davies sure has a penchant for sarcasm. Even before the end of the song, with all those weird chord changes, it sets about a rather cloudy feeling, which really tells you something isn't right.
Woke up feeling lonely as ever this morning, then in my head I started humming this song, now I can’t get enough of it, it kinda manifests the quirky loneliness I’m in rn Thank Christ for music I swear, I wouldn’t want to live without it
Hey, I'm hoping you awoke this morning in a better frame of mind & that you continue to do so! I agree with sentiment you posted, where you gave thanx for music & the amazing way at certain times, it can just lift one & the mood one is in. Gb George!!!
Die Kinks gehören zu den allerbesten Beatgruppen, die die damalige goldene Zeit hervorgebracht hat. Schade, die würden heute noch super Songs spielen. Aber vielleicht auch besser so: Wir sollten sie so in Erinnerung behalten, wie sie für uns waren: Die Größten. die Kinks!
Что меня, кроме музыки, когда услышал их 50 лет назад и сейчас могу видеть порожает, так это скромность. Как не странно. Это касается всех и Битлов, Роллигов и Кинкс. Что сейчас твориться на эстраде не то. В основном понтов много, а не дотягивают до звёзд. Поэтому и видно не вооружённым взглядом глядя в космос музыки.
.... And Dave Davies having fun, strumming the chords on his Flying V, the same guitar he was seen with on TV in 1964 or '65, and I think some of the hits had that guitar on them, too.
I always love the kinks. 1st album I Purchase was so tired of waiting. I Had gone to buy a beatle Never stop listening to them. Amazing Death and weight. I'm still hope for new material and a tour. I think it coming. Right now Ray busy counting his money. He deserves every penny of it.
En 1967,,cuando cumplí,13 yers old,mi primo,su padre tenía una tienda de fotografía y discos,todvia lo conservo en un EP español,con Waterloo Sunset,y todavía me gusta mucho,cuando tengo cerca de 70 años
Always 🤔 who that guy that played piano remind me of. By the way he holds his hands while he's playing and he sets at the piano. Remember the Charlie Brown cartoon. Lionel that play the piano i believe. 🥰. Always loved The Kinks. Always enjoyed watching the piano player. He has a unique style playing his piano. Very cool 🥰♥️✌️
I don't think so. Even in 1967 Hopkins had longer hair than this chap. It wouldn't make much sense to ask a session man travel to Germany to appear on a mimed recording, either. If you watch the pianist's hands and listen to what the piano on the recording is doing, I don't think he's even miming properly.
@@innocentoctave Yeah, you're right. It's just weird they went to the trouble for that anyway for a mimed performance. I mean the host miming the trombone is funny, but the "pianist" looks stock serious, like maybe he's a stage hand they shoved out on the stage and he's nervous to be there.
@@stephendoriankutos4429 I have a strange suspicion that he's German. That might account for the stolid demeanour: music is art, therefore serious. Or he might, in his own way, be mocking the ridiculous thing he's been asked to do: which is to account for the presence of a piano in a performance that is supposed to be live (but is clearly not) by faking piano skills he seems not to possess. (Or does he?)
@@innocentoctave Not Nicky Hopkins, not German, but that’s Grenville Collins, one of the Kinks’ managers at the time. I don’t know why he looks so serious. Additionally, the trombone is ‘played’ here by Dave Lee Travis whilst it was John Beecham (of the Mike Cotton Sound) on the original recording
@@neyshil2895 So that's Grenville! I've been wondering what he looked like as he (obviously) figures quite prominently in Ray's book X-Ray, which I've almost finished. Very posh looking bloke, he was. Thanks for the informative comment.
Ray Davies a true genius at the same highest as Lennon, Townshend, Brian Wilson, Nash and Brian Jones.
A better lyricist than any of them.
They could have been bigger if they weren't banned from playing in the USA.. lol
Nash LOL
Alexander Valle my god you put him in the EXACT group that I would have put him in as genius. And thanks for mentioning Brian Jones!!!
Definitely better than Townshend, Nash and Brian Jones!
The most English of all the English bands. They were GREAT.
Nah, more British really considering the Davies brothers Welsh/Irish heritage and London upbringing
@@dream-67 i didn't realize that they had welsh heritage, neat.
@@wm9482 yes their grandfather was from Rhondda valley with roots from a small town called Llanbrynmair in Powys which I was startled to discover my grandmother was from!
@@dream-67Sure, like the British accent!
One of many, many awesome Kinks songs. They were my favorite band when I was in college and I'm still crazy about them. Ray Davies is a genius songwriter.
Absolute masterpiece!! A melody that’ll never die. It’s for true musical appreciation!! Long live Sir Ray Davies!
This great song deserved to be included in the Something Else album. The Kinks were (along with The Beatles) one of the two Best British bands of the 60s.
Idk man there was the who, the stones and stuff
And don't forget Syd Barrett.
Ray Davies is a genius. He is probably one of the few who can ironically convey the nostalgia of the Great Mother of the World of the British Empire and how easy it is to be nice when you don't have to worry about drinking bad tea and eating stale toast and this is your dinner.
It's the funfair backbeat and ivory tinkling.
I love how they are goofing on the fact that it is prerecorded.
Dave and Pete have their guitars hooked to each other. :D
@@tedkrauss9745 before this video I had never considered hooking my guitar up to my mate's bass. clearly the tone produced by it is top notch.
Ray Davies, is vastly underrated as a songwriter.
@Mark McGonnell you and I agree that he's one of the best, but he's often looked over by music journalists and fans alike. That's what makes him underated.
@Mark McGonnell the same can be said about mike bloomfield being revered by several legendary guitarists. They're both still largely underdiscussed and underrated my music journalists and music listeners/fans
@Mark McGonnell but how many people really know or can easily recall either artists music?
@Mark McGonnell I'd have to listen. I never really paid much attention to blur.
@Mark McGonnell I personally think Davies is better writer than Lennon was, he just never got the fame to match Lennon nor Mcartney. Dave at least got some due recognition for his guitar talent
Lyrics
Lyrics
Oh Mr Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant?
I hope the world is treating you right,
And your head's in the air,
And you're feeling so proud,
'Cause you're such a success,
And the whole wide world is on your side, hey hey.
How are you today?
People say Mr Pleasant is good,
Mr Pleasant is kind,
Mr Pleasant's okay,
Mr Pleasant don't mind.
As long as Mr Pleasant's all right, hey hey.
How are you today?
How's your father, how's your mother?
How's your sister, how's your brother?
How's your brand, new limousine,
Twenty-four inch TV screen?
Did you like prosperity
More than you liked poverty?
Life is easier, so much easier,
Life is easier now.
Oh Mr Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant?
Did you know she was flirting around
With another young man,
And he's taking her out
When you have to work late?
And it's not so pleasant after all, hey hey.
How are you today?
People say Mr Pleasant is good,
Mr Pleasant is kind,
Mr Pleasant's okay,
Mr Pleasant don't mind.
As long as Mr Pleasant's all right, hey hey.
How are you today?
Mr Pleasant is good,
Mr Pleasant is kind,
Mr Pleasant's okay.
One of my favorite tracks by the Kinks!
Can somebody please tell me the name of the msn who plays piano in this video? He looks very familiar.
@Rolf Ek I don't know, it certainly doesn't look like Nicky Hopkins.
Seriously?
@@ianofliverpool7701 Let me guess. You automatically assume that because I'm black, I listen to rap?
Spoiler alert: NOT ALL blacks liaten to rap!
@@malcolml309 Been a black fan of the Kinks myself since the 60's.
Ray Davies is an absolute god in music and so underrated 🌞✨
A gem from one of the finest rock bands ever👍❤️🎸🎹🥁
Dave seems pre-obsessed with his image ( as wonderful as it is ) during filming . Love them all so much and even got to share a coffee with Dave a couple of weeks ago ….
De verdad? Un café con Dave Davies ? Que genio es uno de mis ídolos
Yet another great song from Ray, he really is up there with the all time greats.
Didn’t know Ray been in the music industry that long I discovered him in the greatest decade ever the 80s of course he just popped on my mode while at the DMV listen to this song and my last name just happened to be Pleasant love it
This video is so genius. Rays grin, daves handsomeness petes dialogue with the trombonist and avorys chill vibes. But the pianist is the best.
Ja, ich war in den 60-igern ein großer Fan der Kinks und finde es super, dass man sich jetzt die Band und die Lieder ansehen/ anhören über UA-cam kann.
Ich auch ...
Alles schöne Erinnerungen……lange her.
0:04 Great display of the Gibson SG bass' neck dive
😛 yes
The Kinks. The great band ever
Insanely catchy Music Hall whimsy from the marvellous Kinks!
Probably my fav song of them
I had completely forgotten about this song, but it's great!
This gives me good vibes
i am staggered that this video has only 18,000 views , what a band they were
And not even 1.5k likes
9000 of them are by me !!!
Half of them are mine.🥶
Wonderful Kinks.
Lmao i didnt know a song with my last name exist
Such a great upbeat melody for a downer of a story, love it!!!
Between their tongue in cheek lyrics - and the flasher (!) and Dave unable to keep a straight face -- Kinks were in a class by themselves...still are. They were the prototype.😍
i just listen to the kinks all the time , way more than the beatles. Don’t get me wrong the beatles are probably the greatest rock band ever but for me I prefer the kinks they just speak to me more on a level I can better relate . Genius band
You are right. The Beatles are the greatest rock band of all time, just, after the Kinks
I'm sorry, but it's hard to believe that you really think that... it's crazy @@eneDK5594
LOVELY memories of this Song I have; it was the ‘B’ Side to 'Autumn Almanac’ - neither of which I think ever appeared on an LP. This was the best Record The Kinks ever made in my opinion - and would most certainly have given them another Chart Topper. It really deserving of a release as an ‘A’ Side Single. (the guy on the Drums is REALLY fit!!)
😆
Check the compilation Kink Kronikles.
Early '67 'Mr.Pleasant' was released as a single all over Europe and a big hit .
For a while it was indeed the b-side to 'Autumn Almanac' in the U.K. which later on became 'David Watts'.
Mick Avory on the drums.
God I love these guys!
Я тоже
Such beautiful melancholy
This is a song you listen to with a smile not a frown it's that likeable
How good they were! Homesickness for the sixties.
Show host Dave Lee Travis blowing the trombone, and Nicky Hopkins jangling the ivories.
Ray Davies sure has a penchant for sarcasm. Even before the end of the song, with all those weird chord changes, it sets about a rather cloudy feeling, which really tells you something isn't right.
Y’all don’t understand, this is the greatest band EVER!!!!!
Woke up feeling lonely as ever this morning, then in my head I started humming this song, now I can’t get enough of it, it kinda manifests the quirky loneliness I’m in rn
Thank Christ for music I swear, I wouldn’t want to live without it
Hey, I'm hoping you awoke this morning in a better frame of mind & that you continue to do so!
I agree with sentiment you posted, where you gave thanx for music & the amazing way at certain times, it can just lift one & the mood one is in.
Gb George!!!
@@georgejamestaylor7572 thank you George, feeling much better, still got a bad addiction to the kinks tho ;))
@@theroamer2355 There is nothing wrong with appreciating the Kinks catalogue of music.
They where/are a talented group!
1967 war ein gutes Jahr für unvergessliche Songs !
Die Kinks gehören zu den allerbesten Beatgruppen, die die damalige goldene Zeit hervorgebracht hat. Schade, die würden heute noch super Songs spielen. Aber vielleicht auch besser so: Wir sollten sie so in Erinnerung behalten, wie sie für uns waren: Die Größten. die Kinks!
absolut !
Brilliant band, brilliant songwriter. His influence can heard today and this reminds me of Mr Soft by Cockney Rebel.
Что меня, кроме музыки, когда услышал их 50 лет назад и сейчас могу видеть порожает, так это скромность. Как не странно. Это касается всех и Битлов, Роллигов и Кинкс. Что сейчас твориться на эстраде не то. В основном понтов много, а не дотягивают до звёзд. Поэтому и видно не вооружённым взглядом глядя в космос музыки.
My daughter born in 2014 loves this song
Love them all
Davies mixes old elements of forgotten English history as in this song.
.... And Dave Davies having fun, strumming the chords on his Flying V, the same guitar he was seen with on TV in 1964 or '65, and I think some of the hits had that guitar on them, too.
Watch Dave hilarious 👍👍 the kinks the best 👍👍
dave in this omf how cute
i know!! 😭❤️
I love this song
Fantastic, sounds like elements of a Lennon and Wilson song also.
Ray Davies o e of best songwriters of his Tim underrated nearly every KINKS song is a classic if which "Mr Pleasant " is one 👌.
Old music, very good to remember the past! Thanks.
Muita saudade dessa grandiosa banda que agitava com suas musicas ótimas.
How do the Kinks keep writing these weird awesome originals ???
Talent - a unique talent as well.
I always love the kinks. 1st album I
Purchase was so tired of waiting. I
Had gone to buy a beatle
Never stop listening to them. Amazing
Death and weight. I'm still hope for new material and a tour. I think it coming.
Right now Ray busy counting his money.
He deserves every penny of it.
It doesn't hurt to have a great drummer. Does anyone know that?
En 1967,,cuando cumplí,13 yers old,mi primo,su padre tenía una tienda de fotografía y discos,todvia lo conservo en un EP español,con Waterloo Sunset,y todavía me gusta mucho,cuando tengo cerca de 70 años
I'd forgotten about this song.............such a good one too......
Excuse me. This can't get much better.
great song used to listen to this song with bikers in nottingham.
Not a song I'd associate with bikers haha
nowdays. the world is full of mr and mrs pleasants .
Thoses days will never combac
Musical Genius and very funny and good looking . Very philosophical and friendly. The kinks
Powerful. Just lays it all out.
Very pleasant song indeed.
Absolutely adore that backing vocal countermelody
Always 🤔 who that guy that played piano remind me of. By the way he holds his hands while he's playing and he sets at the piano. Remember the Charlie Brown cartoon. Lionel that play the piano i believe. 🥰. Always loved The Kinks. Always enjoyed watching the piano player. He has a unique style playing his piano. Very cool 🥰♥️✌️
Brilliant :)
True talent and lyrical underrated genius's and my favorite song ..of relationship lol....oh have a pleasant one...... 😉
I love the Kinks.
Pure Gold !
Brilliant.
My Kinks in 1967 with four years...ha ha so good.
Love the satire in this classic.
superbe chanson bravo
Superb song
Ray's such an odd looking dude and 1:24 cracks me up. No hate tho. Love the band!
Thanks
0:56 Bass and guitar are plugged into each other lol
Omg great observation 😂
The piano player is damn good, a session player I suppose. Watch his hands and fingers, all over the place.
Bellissimo l' intervento del trombone.
The world was once so fun and free
Yes I agree: I put Ray up there with Brian and John Lennon for sure.
Were we ever that young?
Kinks and DLT !!
VERY VERY GOOD SONG OLD ONE.................................
The kings es calidad mucha calidad
NO HAN SIDO RECONOCIDOS PERO PARA MI LOS MEJORES EN SU EPOCA
Oh... please They r The KINKs !!!! 😊
Merci.
Good school memorys.
The piano player is the best
Un capolavoro!!!
I wasn't this song included in Something Else? It's so good, one their bests
Definitely an influence on Blur; Paul Weller etc
Did they convince Nicky Hopkins to make a tv appearance?
I don't think so. Even in 1967 Hopkins had longer hair than this chap. It wouldn't make much sense to ask a session man travel to Germany to appear on a mimed recording, either. If you watch the pianist's hands and listen to what the piano on the recording is doing, I don't think he's even miming properly.
@@innocentoctave Yeah, you're right. It's just weird they went to the trouble for that anyway for a mimed performance. I mean the host miming the trombone is funny, but the "pianist" looks stock serious, like maybe he's a stage hand they shoved out on the stage and he's nervous to be there.
@@stephendoriankutos4429 I have a strange suspicion that he's German. That might account for the stolid demeanour: music is art, therefore serious. Or he might, in his own way, be mocking the ridiculous thing he's been asked to do: which is to account for the presence of a piano in a performance that is supposed to be live (but is clearly not) by faking piano skills he seems not to possess. (Or does he?)
@@innocentoctave Not Nicky Hopkins, not German, but that’s Grenville Collins, one of the Kinks’ managers at the time. I don’t know why he looks so serious. Additionally, the trombone is ‘played’ here by Dave Lee Travis whilst it was John Beecham (of the Mike Cotton Sound) on the original recording
@@neyshil2895 So that's Grenville! I've been wondering what he looked like as he (obviously) figures quite prominently in Ray's book X-Ray, which I've almost finished. Very posh looking bloke, he was. Thanks for the informative comment.
this song kicks so much ass
God save the Kinks!❤
Amazin band , amazin song , such fun 😊
I was 16 years old when this was realeased.😎
Lucky I wasn’t even born😢
Love it !
Pete Quafe's bass looks like an epiphone.They are supposed to suffer from neck dive.Look at his bass at the very beginning.
En España salio en un EP con Waterloo Sunset,desde entonces,1967/8,es una de mis favoritas de The Kinks