A song 50 years ahead of its time. Amazing band!!!
Excellent animation.
I was always a Beatles fan but the Who, Stones, Kinks and Yardbirds were amazing in their own right - the latter the most technically talented group from the British wave.
60 years ahead of its time. I think the Beatles had a song with similar sentiments back in 1969. Maybe the Brits were onto something.
Outstanding!
Excellent!
I had a violin teacher named Lola, she was numbered in germany while at camp during ww2
Prescient song.
Poor kids don't know what it's like to bomb around in a muscle car and hear a DJ say, for example, here are the Doors with their new single: “Light My Fire.” Or this:
I’m a little confused by the lyrics:
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
Does “And so is Lola” mean (a) Lola is also a man or (b) Lola is also glad I’m a man.
The brit scene...
I dug American music and American performers. Power rock was cool, early Mersey beat, Zep... the later stuff, Deep Purp and Cream with offshoots... but those cheeky groups who were keen on being hip... nah... no thanks.
The Beatles?
Not really into them.
Ringo seems like a regluar bloke.
Saw Ray Davies about 15 years ago at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. Notwithstanding the fact the backing band was just ok, it was still a good show. He played a solid 2 hours, not including a 20 minute break. Of course, at 2 hours, he had to skip some really good Kinks songs. Davies was a total ham, he loved being onstage and cutting up in front the audience. And of course he played Lola.
Rowdiest concert I ever went to. My first time ever seeing punk rockers.
Love this band and this song! The Kinks headlined the very first concert I ever attended. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1971
They reprised it on Destroyer….”Met a girl named Lola and I took her back to my place…”
Ahh, back in the day when transgender stuff was merely hip and not universally compulsory.
Drummer Mick Avory came to my 50th birthday party at a pub in Twickenham. He even sang “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” with the house band and sat in on drums for a few songs. Really nice guy who loved to party.
I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S-O-D-A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said “Yoda”
Y-O-D-A, Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda
Well, I’ve been around, but I ain’t never seen
A guy who looks like a muppet, but he’s wrinkled and green
Oh, my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda
Well, I’m not dumb, but I can’t understand
How he can lift me in the air just by raising his hand
Oh, my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda
. . . .
The Kinks had a resurgence in popularity with their video on MTV, Come Dancing (1983).