Me too, fam! I'm on my regularly scheduled Kinks binge and just listened to this one, (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, 20th Century Man and Last of the Steam Powered Trains and on to even more. The Kinks are easily one of the most underrated bands in rock music history! 🤘
I was 25 when this song came out, and at age 78 I still love it to this day. I’m just a year younger than Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, and I feel blessed to have shared a generation with him and The Kinks along with many other great bands from that era. I’d like to do some things over in my personal life, but musically I wouldn’t trade that time period for anything. Music has never been more fun than it was in the 60’s and 70’s. It was a great time to be young.
With so many storylined songs, the Kinks are pretty much the only band that can recieve this vivid comic adaptation. As for the song, it plainly and truly rocks.
Como EEUU, igual de ridículo que el lugar que lo desprecia. Parece mentira que el sitio con la democracia supuestamente más limpia y auténtica del mundo, sea también a su vez el lugar donde más chorradas se cometen el nombre del gobierno y la ley....🤯🤮 Salud y Suerte ♣ It is completely incomprehensible that the democracy most internationally acclaimed for its authenticity compared to the rest of those implemented in the world throughout the History of Humanity, could eventually come to be governed by legislation as irrationally restricted and dictatorial as that applied in the case at hand, violating, without a doubt, fundamental human rights and bordering, therefore, on the most absurd and insane ridiculousness, as you clearly state in your present comment, when referring to the media censorship applied in the United States on this published audiovisual work...😬🤦♀ Health and Luck ♣
Well, in case you hadn't heard...Ray's bro in the band was gay-o. As much as I wanted it to be a regular song, I must admit, I WAS WRONG!😂😂 Ever see "The Crying Game"?
@@Pseudotsuga "so is Lola". It could mean 2 things: Lola is also glad that he's a man, or Lola is also a man. You can never know what the intent was from that line alone.
Really? Here's a nice summation of the Kinks from Wikipedia: The Kinks have had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. In the UK, they have had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four Kinks albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and the band have sold 50 million records worldwide. Among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music." In 1990, the original four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005. (Plus, Ray was knighted a few years ago.) Underrated? Not by a long shot.
I used to sing this when I was little riding my bike down the street, having no idea what the lyrics meant😂😂 I loved the hippy era, great time to grow up and hear amazing songs☮️🌟
are you sure you know what the lyrics mean NOW? I find it a bit ambiguous... which I suppose is the way it was meant to be....but what is your interpretation of what the lyrics mean?
@Victoria was riding around with a group of my friends in a car shortly after the song came out I tried to tell him what the lyrics meant they didn't believe me.
I bought this album when I was 16, on the day it came out in November of 1970, along with George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album, which was released the same day. 💝
For me, even though I'm a rocker, the song September by Earth Wind and Fire does that for me. You cant hear that song and be in a bad mood at the same time
The Kinks are one of the best, underrated English Rock n Roll bands of all time. Ray and Dave Davies ate genuises in writing the music. It endures forever and it help me as I was growing up as a teenager in the 60's. The Kinks rock forever. 😀🎼🎶🎸👍
This comic adaptation is why the kinks are so great. They are able to tell a whole story through a song and it's fully understandable and told in such a fantastic way.
I don't think I've ever heard a song by a mainstream band that's about finding a trans woman attractive, about delighting in our sexuality. More than that, I love the line "It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world / Except for Lola." It'd be so easy to treat her gender as her being mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up, but it's not. She's just a hot woman with a deep voice and strong muscles.
What lol? No, Lola is clearly a man. He even says outright that Lola is a man. Yes, he may have found her attractive, but then he found out Lola is a guy. That is why he "shoved her away and walked to the door." He was proud that Lola stood up for himself and shoved back, showing Lola doesn't take shit, but he also clearly states that there is nothing that is going to be happening between the two now that he knows Lola is a man. The song isn't about Trans rights or acceptance or anything like that. It is just a song about the first time a country boy gets to the big city and encountered something he never would have seen where he is from and how he goes about processing that awkward turn of events. Lou Reed did the same thing.
@@aaronalexander4928 I genuinely don't get how you read it that way - he continues to refer to Lola with "she" to the very end, even after pushing her away. But more than that, he says "that's the way that I want it to stay" after looking her in the eyes, knowing what she's got in her pants. More than that, when she continues to come on to him at the end, there is no rejection in the lyrics. He calls her "my Lola". You're right that it's not about trans rights. It's about a country boy discovering a gorgeous woman in the big city. Said woman just happens to have a low voice and is strong and is probably trans.
@Ellen Baker he can refer to Lola however he chooses, but he still unquestionably says, "I am a man, and so is Lola." I guess I will politely agree to disagree.
Ray Davies is a masterful writer. Another example is from the song The Money Go Round from the same album as Lola: "They don't know the tune and they don't know the words but they don't give a damn".
I had always thought that meant that Lola was a woman and was glad as well that he was a man, not that they both were men. Took way too many years for me to figure this song out
I remember when I was in 2nd grade, 1964-1965, I asked my mom, who taught in high school, what high school kids were listening to. "Oh, the Kinks" she said. Not the Beatles? She said "No, that's their parents' music. All the cool kids listen to the Kinks."
Yes! My dad always said he preferred The Kinks to The Beatles! Mind you, he did live in Muswell Hill at one point, so he might have been a little bit biased!
This song very much saved the group financially cause many groups would've packed it in but The Kinks very much soldiered on and continue to make great records but Lola definitely was the biggest record they done.
@@michaelabraham8873 nah. They were good looking and so were a lot of other bands. They had a good timing, and yes, they were something else. Just listen to their albuns from 63 to 64 and compare to the other bands around at 63-64, and later with them working even more with George martin just made everything incredible
I'm a younger woman, this was old before I was born but my parents liked it and kept playing it and it grew on me. I have very fond memories of my family and picnics in the 89/90's with 60's music.
I can tell from the whole thing it's not like deep deep love right? It's just, an encounter, and him thinking, wow, what a person, what a beautiful person. This song is so moving.
I was born in 1961, in the back streets of Leeds. My sisters were Beatles but fans two of my older brothers played guitar and they were Rolling Stones devotees, I always preferred The Kinks but it wasn't me who controlled the Dancette record player... just had to get out the house. Thanks guys for giving me the confidence to go out and face the world all by myself.
Well I was born in 2006 and I love all the band's you have mentioned. I as Well like The. Beatles They are my favorite I was looking for more classic rock bands that have the same aesthetic This is one of them and they are truly underrated I am going to stick around for this one
Like many people from my generation, Weird Al Yankovic first exposed me to this song. "Yoda" is without a doubt my favorite of his parodies. Whether you're a young man in a club or a Jedi out to save the galaxy, this song will give you some serious feels!
I can't even begin to tell you how much it warms my heart to see so many people still digging a song from 52 years ago about a guy getting over himself and proudly loving a trans woman.
you need to listen to the song, at the end he acknowledged she was a man and no he wouldn't go home with her, but still had fun conversating and dancing, so yes it's acceptance for sure
@@ginahanford3020 yeah he had fun, but was tricked by the bloke and soon as he realized he was out of their! " I pushed her away" he was preyed on by a pervert trying to take advantage of his innocence. I bet he got home and scrubbed himself in the shower for hours. That's what the song describes.
I loved this song as a child and still do...obviously I didn't understand the context when I was young, but the melody, harmonies, guitar, all of it. A unique song in many ways...
@@BigSky1 No??? The Kinks are on the same level of The Beatles and Rolling Stones, but they didn't even have half the fame and recognition that they did. People usually just know Lola and You Really Got Me, and they've had a plenity of other songs of excellent quality, like Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset. In addition, they made masterpieces albuns like Village Green Preservation Society, which few know about. Aren't they underrated?
@@beatlesss9592 Underrated by who. Not by those who know. They are highly rated. They just didn’t have the PR and exposure that some bands had. Not being able to tour the U.S. from ‘65 until Nov ‘69 didn’t help.
They were intentionally kept from the British invasion due to their in fighting and apparent outrageous behavior on and off stage. They were literally banned from touring america and it cost them dearly. However, thats one of the things I love about them, fuck the who
My architecture teacher in 8th grade played this song all the time in class. I never ended up pursuing architecture as a career but he helped me develop appreciation for architecture as a whole. He retired after a went to high school. I like to think that’s he’s traveling all around the world to see some architectural masterpieces.
Great to see this fun comic of the classic “Lola!” In my imaginings Lola is in drag wearing a clingy pale dress. Lola is tall, brown skin, medium length Afro, broad shoulders, lean and powerful. And of course, Lola has a dark brown voice
This was very educational for me as a young teen in the late 70's. Ahead of it's time in some ways. And I like the way they leave the ending ambiguous...sometimes that's the best art.
I don't care if Pink Floyd hated this song. I absolutely love it. I love Paintbox too. I listen to both regularly when I listen to Pink Floyd, my favorite band for the last 23+ years.
I met her in a club down in old Soho Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like coca cola C-O-L-A, Cola She walked up to me and she asked me to dance I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola L-O-L-A, Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine Oh my Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand Why she walked like a woman but talked like a man Oh my Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Well, we drank champagne and danced all night Under electric candlelight She picked me up and sat me on her knee And said "Dear boy, won't you come home with me?" Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy But when I looked in her eyes, well I almost fell for my Lola La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola I pushed her away I walked to the door I fell to the floor I got down on my knees Then I looked at her and she at me Well, that's the way that I want it to stay And I always want it to be that way for my Lola La-la-la-la Lola Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola La-la-la-la Lola Well, I left home just a week before And I'd never ever kissed a woman before But Lola smiled and took me by the hand And said "Dear boy, I'm gonna make you a man" 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 is Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola Lola / La-la-la-la Lola / La-la-la-la Lola
A classic for sure. I was at the car dealer for a car inspection and they were playing a mix of hard rock and rock from the 60's -80's on a new music system system. It brought back some good memories, I had forgotten the inference of the words to this one! Not sure why this looped twice but now it's stuck in my head. Among the numerous songs played was Magic Carpet Ride! 🙃
I totally agree! While the song surely deserves all the praise I can't praise the illustrations in this vid highly enough either. What talent, integrity and humor went into them. Amazing.
I saw the kinks in concert.. So glad i did... the Give The People What They Want tour. i wore the tee shirt with the short sleeves rolled up. My favorite t-shirt for years...I thought it was bad ass I thought I was for catching the concert. I dont even know who i went with, I do know I liked thier music. Greatful they came to Hampton Virginia i had to see them live since they were going to be there. Lola still has meaning today. Always will. Good song to play.
Haha yeah. Forcing them to change it to "Cherry Cola" in the UK was kinda dumb. I mean I get that it WAS product placement, but it's not like Coke was actually paying them or sponsoring them in any way.