The Kinks - Lola (Official Lyrics Video)

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[DallasBiff]

The Kinks - ‘Lola Versus Powerman’ - a brand new version of the ‘Lola’ track, remastered from the original tapes

[Manic_Episode]

Saw The Kinks perform Lola in 1980. 2nd row! Robert Palmer opened.

Rowdiest concert I ever went to. My first time ever seeing punk rockers.

[Bubba_Leroy]

All these years I never realized that the song was about a kid who got drunk and tried to pick up a tranny.

[D_Idaho]

Love this band and this song! The Kinks headlined the very first concert I ever attended. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1971

[Big Red Badger]

‘Little Confused’,,,
Don’t be .
Lola always Creeped me out.

[dsrtsage]

I was always partial to Zap Brannigan’s cover of this song “Leelah”

[dfwgator]

I remember they teased the first few chords of Lola, then Ray stopped and said they wouldn’t play it, and of course after the audience groaned he said, “Ok we’ll do it!”

[hoagy62]

Does “And so is Lola” mean (a) Lola is also a man or (b) Lola is also glad I’m a man?
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And THAT, FRiend, is the $64,000 question....

[week 71]

‘It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world’

[dfwgator]

They reprised it on Destroyer….”Met a girl named Lola and I took her back to my place…”

[dfwgator]

My favorite Kinks song, thanks to The Sopranos, is “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”

[shadowlands1960]

The organist was Alan Price. He was also Dylan’s organist when he toured the UK. Alan Price was only on the first two albums and some of the third. He had a fear of flying and when the Animals became popular and had to tour the States, Price bowed out. That original band with Price on keyboard and of course Eric Burdon’s vocals was as you said ‘amazing.’

[11th_VA]

I’d rather not disclose as it would threaten my reputation as a conservative here.

Must be the Dixie Chicks

[11th_VA]

Or Abba

[Rinnwald]

Saw The Kinks perform Lola in 1980. 2nd row! Robert Palmer opened... My first time ever seeing punk rockers.

Did a punk group open second? Neither Kinks or Palmer were punk.

[newfreep]

Yep.

I knew the story of Alan Price and his fear of flying. IIRC, after the Animals, he became involved in producing.

As an entrepreneur, my business interfaces with the music industry and I’ve been fortunate to receive mastering credits on iconic & classic albums that have been re-mastered for gold CD and 180g vinyl.

That’s where I heard the Alan Price/producing story...but it was quite some time ago and sometimes the old memory chip sputters a bit.

[newfreep]

The Kinks had so many hit singles - hard to choose a favorite.

That said, if I had to pick one it would be “Celluloid Heroes” and the story it tells...especially since I lived in Hollywood many moons ago.

But these daze, “Catch Me Now I’m Falling” captures our current hell.

Live version (1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThj7x0X3MI

[The_Harlequin]

Ahh, back in the day when transgender stuff was merely hip and not universally compulsory.

[oldvirginian]

Neither of those.
It must’ve been “HOT” ROD STEWART!!!!
https://youtu.be/Hphwfq1wLJs

[Apparatchik]

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.

[FoxInSocks]

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

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