Pick of the Week
“You Really Got Me”, The Kinks (1964)
If you think about what else was playing on the radio in August of 1964, at the time, when the Kinks came out with “You Really Got Me”, it must have seemed very radical. It is like Michael J. Fox playing electric guitar in ‘Back to the Future” at the grad – he starts playing like Hendrix and Van Halen and the band and audience are wondering what the hell is going on. The heaviest pop songs out in 1964 were “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”.
