Perfection. Possibly the best single from what was probably the best year in what was definitely the best decade of English pop. Paul Weller says this is the song he wishes he had written. David Gilmour I believe likewise. Damon Albarn adores it. Bob Geldof said he had been "chasing that sound for years". It just has something, I don't know what. If I knew what, I'd bottle it and sell it. God save the Kinks.
ctboy1989 0 seconds ago i was born in november of 1989. mid november. my parents were born in 53,54. thank you to my parents for nurturing the English in me as well as my love in 60s bands. how much i would love to go back to these times when people were proud to be ENGLISH. MAY WE NEVER FORGET WHO WE ARE. ENGLAND WILL RISE AGAIN
Such an atmospheric song that really encapsulates a time and a place. As an Australian who always dreamt of traveling to London, but didn't manage to travel until their early 50's a few years back... I knew I was in London when I stood at Waterloo Bridge at sunset humming this song to myself with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Absolutely love this song and the kinks, they are so under rated... although, I am a Beatles gal 😉 💜
I know, me too. When I visited London for the first time on 2014. Went on the tour, crossed Waterloo Bridge, thought of Ray and Dave, and I was filled with joy.
1967 I was 10 years old, remember listening to this, whilst staring out of the lounge room window. I am 66 years old now and the memory is still vivid. Moved to Australia when I was 14. Still regard the Kinks as one of the greatest bands ever and Waterloo Sunset as possibly the greatest song ever written
A Great song. Lyrically it could be written about any city that has a river running through it. My city is Melbourne Dirty old river ( Yarra River) Melbourne's sunsets fine!
The mersey. Song was originally called "Liverpool Sunset" as a kind of Beatles homage/tribute whatever. But Waterloo sunset sounds better. But you are right of course, could apply to any old city with a river through it that the person listening happens to be in.
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling Flowing into the night? People so busy, make me feel dizzy Taxi light shines so bright But I don't need no friends As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise Every day, I look at the world from my window But chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine) Terry meets Julie Waterloo station Every Friday night But I am so lazy, don't want to wander I stay at home at night But I don't feel afraid As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise Every day, I look at the world from my window But chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine) Millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground But Terry and Julie cross over the river Where they feel safe and sound And they don't need no friends As long as they gaze on Waterloo Sunset They are in paradise Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine) Waterloo sunset's fine
Even as a French born I really liked that song... The kinks were really underrated as a group, Beatles and Rolling Stones aside, they were fantastic, 'You really got me' is still one of my favorite song of all time !
This takes me back to when I worked in London in the mid 60s - sitting on the Waterloo to Weybridge train late afternoon, with this song playing in my head and looking at the Thames, with the sun starting to go down... brings tears to my eyes - oh those lovely memories. ❤ Thank you for those days!
Masterpiece, lyrical perfection, vocally perfection. One of the greatest ever records made in Britain, a true masterpiece by Ray Davies. Waterloo Sunset sums up London in 1967 and for me The Kinks were the amongst the very best British bands of the 1960s, if not ever.
Beautifully haunting song. Video put together with thought and sensitivity. Even down to "Terry and Julie" and using Julie Christie and Terence Stamp the "It" actors of the 60s in film clips from Far from the Madding Crowd. Aaaah those were the days, when singers could sing and actors could act.
You might know, but it actually was them - the famous Terry and Julie - that Ray Davies saw meeting every Friday for a few weeks from his flat overlooking Waterloo Bridge.
This song stirs up so many emotions for me My uni experience at Kings right near Waterloo bridge, meeting new friends and feeling a sense of belonging I am invested in Terry and Julie… hope they stayed together
I remember i used to fall asleep to this sometimes when me and my family was on road trips and it wasen’t like that i was already pretty tired and i found it so calming anyway i’m 18 now and i still love it so much thanks guys
Years since I last really listened to this song. An absolute gem. Many thanks @ablackcockatoo and @Jaime Velez for sharing the link to the original video. Pure gold.
Released one week after my 15th birthday. I loved it then and I love it now. One of the best songs ever written, it evokes all sorts of emotions. Ray Davies is the master of observational lyrics. Simply a truly beautiful song.
Ray fuggin Davis is a songwriter with no equal (Sorry McCartney its true) I was 12 when this came out. 1967 also saw "Whiter Shade of Pale" These 2 songs WERE EVERYWHERE that year. Two popular songs of perfection. LONG LIVE THE KINKS
What a terrific song. What a fabulous time it was. London in the swinging 60s. Plus the face of Julie Christie, so cool n glamorous. And i was a teenager in the East! Unforgettable.
chacun ses avis...peut être la plus jolie chanson pop anglaise ! Ray Davies est un merveilleux poète , témoin de son temps ...groupe phare des sixties ! j'adore !
Best song ever ! impossibly good originally called Liverpool sunset , but he knew so little about Liverpool it end up as this. love Terry and Julie in the video defo about them .
Perfection. Possibly the best single from what was probably the best year in what was definitely the best decade of English pop. Paul Weller says this is the song he wishes he had written. David Gilmour I believe likewise. Damon Albarn adores it. Bob Geldof said he had been "chasing that sound for years". It just has something, I don't know what. If I knew what, I'd bottle it and sell it. God save the Kinks.
Smashing totally agree ❤
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i was born in november of 1989. mid november. my parents were born in 53,54. thank you to my parents for nurturing the English in me as well as my love in 60s bands. how much i would love to go back to these times when people were proud to be ENGLISH. MAY WE NEVER FORGET WHO WE ARE. ENGLAND WILL RISE AGAIN
Robert Cristagau called it the best song of that period hands down.
Perfection sums it up. I think 'God only knows' is along side it with 'Strawberry Fields forever.'
Could imagine what it would have ended up sounding like with EMI got hold of Waterloo Sunset. 🎷🎺 Thankfully they didn’t!
This song was described on a kinks CD as "impossibly perfect"-I totally agree
So many musicians state its their favorite song, and Pete Townshend says he can't put into words what listening to this song does to him.
Hard to argue as possibly, the greatest single of all time!
Definetly
Such an atmospheric song that really encapsulates a time and a place.
As an Australian who always dreamt of traveling to London, but didn't manage to travel until their early 50's a few years back... I knew I was in London when I stood at Waterloo Bridge at sunset humming this song to myself with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes.
Absolutely love this song and the kinks, they are so under rated... although, I am a Beatles gal 😉 💜
lucky you didn't get stabbed.... good luck from the Uk.....
@@locodriver601 you should have seen what I had to fight off... 😉
Stay well
I’m from Texas and I feel the same about London. When I’m in London I feel like I’m home. I seldom get through this song without shedding a few tears.
@@paulahunt5621 I get you, me too 💜
I know, me too. When I visited London for the first time on 2014. Went on the tour, crossed Waterloo Bridge, thought of Ray and Dave, and I was filled with joy.
1967 I was 10 years old, remember listening to this, whilst staring out of the lounge room window. I am 66 years old now and the memory is still vivid. Moved to Australia when I was 14. Still regard the Kinks as one of the greatest bands ever and Waterloo Sunset as possibly the greatest song ever written
You're so right my friend,I'm a year younger than you,but this music means and sounds so much better the older I get.
One more thing my friend I live a lot closer to London than you,but hey we love London.
One of my favourite songs of all time. It just has an amazing beauty to it.
Just imagine if he had given the lyric a second pass to get rid of the clumsy parts
@@docsavage8640 what clumsy parts?
I totally agree with you..... Just one word describes these song : fabulous
@@docsavage8640 That was savage doc
My sentiments exactly 👍
An wonderful brilliant , pop song , it is so evocative, of childhood memories .
Ray Davies , is an songwriting genius , an poet of our tinea .
Best ballad ever. I have listened to it hundreds of times since it first came out. Never get tired of it.
When I was ’bout ten years old The Kinks walked into my heart and they have never walked out. Thanks to Ray Davies. - jon fisher
the one of best songs ever !
for me in the 10 best of the 60´
Still love this song
Great song from a truly great band.
This song should be the British national anthem
Agreed 👍 let’s start a petition for this as our national anthem
Asked the old man when I was about 13 in 50 now beatles or rolling stones and he said the kinks but the other 2 wasn't bad
this is one of the best in the 60´´
in my house it is!
It was the unofficial anthem of the London 2012 Olympics.
A classic - makes me feel melancholy every time I hear it.
The most beautiful song ever, those harmonies Wow
Really?would get rid of them personally,worst aspect of the song,very dated sound
Masterpiece
Cheers from germany 😀🎉🍷🍀
Nobody wrote a song like that before the Kinks. Love it
A Great song.
Lyrically it could be written about any city that has a river running through it.
My city is Melbourne
Dirty old river ( Yarra River)
Melbourne's sunsets fine!
The mersey. Song was originally called "Liverpool Sunset" as a kind of Beatles homage/tribute whatever. But Waterloo sunset sounds better.
But you are right of course, could apply to any old city with a river through it that the person listening happens to be in.
How England was great with their White middle class youngs boys....
They were all council escapees
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night?
People so busy, make me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day, I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Terry meets Julie
Waterloo station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day, I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Millions of people swarming like flies 'round
Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And they don't need no friends
As long as they gaze on
Waterloo Sunset
They are in paradise
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
Remember spring of 1967 , this beautiful song was number one in UK charts.
I saw the kinks in around 1972 to 1974 back when 3 bands were on show for maybe 10 to 12.00 dollars or less .
Was on a boat today..going under Waterloo bridge..so love this vid.❤
Even as a French born I really liked that song... The kinks were really underrated as a group, Beatles and Rolling Stones aside, they were fantastic, 'You really got me' is still one of my favorite song of all time !
Our wedding song in 2013... beautiful.
Year I was born. Great days.
Thanks 🎉. A good Feeling for London is created by this song❤
true .. but Waterloo Station was kinda dumpy, so the irony isn't lost with this one
This takes me back to when I worked in London in the mid 60s - sitting on the Waterloo to Weybridge train late afternoon, with this song playing in my head and looking at the Thames, with the sun starting to go down... brings tears to my eyes - oh those lovely memories. ❤ Thank you for those days!
Wonderful reminiscing.
No words to describe. the Genious
one of the most important songs of its time & one of my absolute favorite song...great song
Classic. From maybe the finest band England has produced
No maybe about it.
Another 3-Minute-Masterpiece from the great Songwriter Ray Davies! This is the ultimate Song about this place, this time, this topic, this atmosphere.
frickin amazing band
I am in awe of a 1967 music icon. Listening to this beautiful song makes me feel like a teenager in love...
Masterpiece, lyrical perfection, vocally perfection. One of the greatest ever records made in Britain, a true masterpiece by Ray Davies. Waterloo Sunset sums up London in 1967 and for me The Kinks were the amongst the very best British bands of the 1960s, if not ever.
Beautifully haunting song. Video put together with thought and sensitivity. Even down to "Terry and Julie" and using Julie Christie and Terence Stamp the "It" actors of the 60s in film clips from Far from the Madding Crowd. Aaaah those were the days, when singers could sing and actors could act.
They still can.
@@gordonbennett5638 I don think so.
Agree, the video is so well created, fits the song perfectly
You might know, but it actually was them - the famous Terry and Julie - that Ray Davies saw meeting every Friday for a few weeks from his flat overlooking Waterloo Bridge.
The song Dave Gilmour wishes he'd written. High praise indeed.
Pete Townshend said in an interview about this song, "It's divine, it's a masterpiece"
@@ablackcockatoo And Bowie ... and Weller, who said it is the ultimate song by which all others should be judged!
The finest song that ever came out of the 60s
This song stirs up so many emotions for me
My uni experience at Kings right near Waterloo bridge, meeting new friends and feeling a sense of belonging
I am invested in Terry and Julie… hope they stayed together
Few pop songwriters can be called poets. Ray Davies is.
I remember i used to fall asleep to this sometimes when me and my family was on road trips and it wasen’t like that i was already pretty tired and i found it so calming anyway i’m 18 now and i still love it so much thanks guys
Childhood memories ❤
Years since I last really listened to this song. An absolute gem. Many thanks @ablackcockatoo and @Jaime Velez for sharing the link to the original video. Pure gold.
Such a lovely song it’s not just the melody itself but the words it’s a story
I've never seen this clip . What an epic for Brittain, an ironic sub-plot of a 70s couple and sheer brilliance.
Released one week after my 15th birthday. I loved it then and I love it now. One of the best songs ever written, it evokes all sorts of emotions. Ray Davies is the master of observational lyrics. Simply a truly beautiful song.
first lp i evver bought face to face
Just sublime keep rockin cheers Dan
This song and Squeeze's Up The Junction. Dang
The greatest rock song ever
It evokes sadness, melancholy and happiness almost at the same time, is that not musical genius.
can you just imagine writing this song, and knowing its gonna be the song of the 60s
Ray fuggin Davis is a songwriter with no equal (Sorry McCartney its true) I was 12 when this came out. 1967 also saw "Whiter Shade of Pale" These 2 songs WERE EVERYWHERE that year. Two popular songs of perfection. LONG LIVE THE KINKS
Masterpiece x
A wonderful song from better times
yeyes yes it was ace and will always be ace.
Thank you zoomer radio in Toronto for letting me find this gem that's been lost to the decades 👍
A song worthy of William Blake
Reminds me of someone know gone. Rest in peace Tony who liked this song.
I was 13 years old when this song topper the charts. Now at 68 I still love this song!
You can't be from the UK, because this song didn't top the charts there, it only topped the charts in one country.
The perfect song. Hands down.
Beautiful beautiful mod🇬🇧😎😎😎😎🇬🇧 superb🎯Englishnesstastic🎯 Mojo x
Pure class.
The best Kinks song.......
+1
When I hear The Kinks I can almost forgive the Brits!
Ein wunderbares Lied !
Great memories this song brings back.
Yep
I used to love the kinks music I liked both brothers still love songs especially LOla
What a terrific song. What a fabulous time it was. London in the swinging 60s. Plus the face of Julie Christie, so cool n glamorous. And i was a teenager in the East! Unforgettable.
So do I.
What a great video. Thank you. I hope terry and Julie get to see it.
Every time I hear that song at first I think it's the Beatles. There is no other song in the world. That sounds more like the Beatles than this.
Wonderful song, Davies brother's really super..............
Yep
Amazing enjoying the oldies.
So sorry that england has become such a different place. Bastard politics
#PrayForAmerica
😍😍🤩🤩👍🏻👍🏻👌👌👏👏♥️🇧🇪
Que hermosa canción, la adoro 😍
My ring tone. So I have now heard it maybe 10,000 times...Still as good as the first time. Apparently you (I) just can't get tired of it.
If that is your ring tone, do you ever answer your phone?
chacun ses avis...peut être la plus jolie chanson pop anglaise ! Ray Davies est un merveilleux poète , témoin de son temps ...groupe phare des sixties ! j'adore !
Best song ever ! impossibly good originally called Liverpool sunset , but he knew so little about Liverpool it end up as this. love Terry and Julie in the video defo about them .
Stil listening in 2024
Cool, cooler, The Kinks,,,,,,,,,,,,
No group comes across as being more British than the Kinks.
excellent
wonderful song
(●´,^ω^)＜I think "The world's best ballad song ever".
A song created by the genius gifted by God . . ."Waterloo Sunset".
Thank you so much, from Japan
up there with anything the beatles wrote..need i say more
Well written catchy song love it
i named my baby chihuahua lola after this song, way before it’s time gender bending song happy 70 yr old with my my 4 month old puppy
They don't make music like this now
Les kinks mon groupe préféré dans les années 70 ,et je sais pourquoi !😊😊😊
Beautiful song !!!!
Ray Davies looks like Roger Federer here
The original Terry and Julie: aka General Zod and Lara
It’s a actually about the Mersey river not the Thames
Special song Special band x
The Kinks were so much better than the Beetles.
And I don't feel afraid. Those days are well gone!!
Cool, very nice wonderful
Perfect observation of life in the 60s
Not a good recording? Or perhaps it’s stereo 🤷🏼