the best rock band ever. I am 100% die hard Who fan my favourite band ever. But The Kinks are the best. For people my age 58 they have easy 30 classic hits. Greatest band ever. LONG LIVE THE KINKS

*Todd* been watching & liking your work for well over a year, I just never comment.! I'll just say this.... as a former { long time ago }, working musician and a DJ, you really are the gold standard for how music reactions *SHOULD BE DONE* .! Having viewed probably a hundred or more reaction channels over the past 3 years there are 2 I feel so justice to the medium, and your one of them.! You don't need me to tell you that but it's so rare I kind of felt compelled to speak up.! Bravo young Turk.! My opinion, change nothing about how you orchestrate these, your already in the zone my friend.! Shoutout to Bakersfield voice....David .....

The Kinks most beautiful song

He's describing a lover's meeting on Waterloo Bridge in London while the commuters pass by

One of my top 10 favorite songs of all time. Flawless!

I remember I had this record as a single, brings back memories. I think the record, audio version sounds better. The Kinks have so many hits. Enjoy it! 👍

Give The Kinks "Dedicated follower of fashion" a listen ,it's a tongue in cheek look at the 70's

Please react to "Celluloid Heroes" by The Kinks. Arguably the greatest song lead singer Ray Davies ever wrote!!

The Kinks were a major influencer to UK music in the 60s along with the Who and Small Faces. So many bands leaned their craft from these legends.

Waterloo sunset, often voted Britain's best pop song of all time. The kinks didn't do well in the USA because they refused to stop singing about British things, but many US singers quote the kinks as huge influences. Waterloo sunset, a picture if London, outside Waterloo train station.

This song is both simple & deep. I'm sure we all have those trance like moments when you see the true beauty of an everyday scene we usually ignore. Beautiful.

One of the best songs ever.

Classic song. I would have recommended listening to the studio version first.

Your observations on this song are spot on!

Ray is a cool guy. This is probably his best song. I got into his later solo album “ Workingman’s Cafe” with the great track, “Imaginary Man”, which is also the name of an excellent documentary about him.

Since Summer is approaching I recommend: Sunny Afternoon.

One of my very favorite Kinks tunes.

A gorgeous song I'm happy to see reach a new audience.. I miss playing this one too. Next, "A Rock and Roll Fantasy"? Later, a conversation it seems between vocalist Ray Davies(pron. Davis) and lead guitarist, perfect vocal foil brother Dave on the question of perhaps finally hanging it up. It didn't happen right away, anyway, thank heavens, gods, whoever, whatever. ;'>D

I absolutely loved the Kinks and Ray Davies' voice - and this song is beautiful. Thanks for covering it! ❤ As for your comments on not needing to be 'perfect' live, that's absolutely spot on. And applies to all art forms, I think, as we're humans, not machines, and art expresses human experience - which is messy! It's the authenticity that matters. It can still be skilful, but doesn't need to be 'note-perfect' at all.

Lovely 1960’s song. Sir Ray Davies actually goes to a local pub near me. A charming man

Never heard this live version -- but it's pretty true to the studio vibe and sound. Studio version's a bit cleaner but l won't say "Dammit Chod you should do the studio version!" coz that's not the case here. Anyway, the Kinks have a pretty versatile catalog of songs. Ray Davies was a master songwriter. When you say, "just get up there and be you" -- that's precisely what you get from the Kinks, on good days and bad ones.

I recommend "Sunny Afternoon" for your next Kinks song.

Saw them perform Schoolboys in Disgrace. Fantastic show.

If you haven't already done so- check out their earlier hits- You Really Got Me and All Of The Day And All Of The Night. They are rockers.

LOVE this song! Old memories.

"Come Dancing" - late Kinks, and another classic.

Sir Raymond Davies is a real master and can do literally any style of music. The Kinks were a great live band and were amazing performers. Vastly underrated by the public but universally respected in the industry and a major influence on modern music and many famous musicians. The list of other major artists who have covered their songs is truly astonishing and much too long to catalog here. The prototypical Kinks guitar riff is ubiquitous in modern music. Thank you for your reaction.

When you hear the voice great song sounds great the best

This is a fine performance but the studio version is perfection itself. It's #42 on the Rolling Stone list of top 500 greatest songs. From Wikipedia: Pop music journalist Robert Christgau has called the song "the most beautiful song in the English language". Pete Townshend of the Who has called it "divine" and "a masterpiece". AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine concurred, citing it as "possibly the most beautiful song of the rock and roll era". I think it's the best song Ray Davies ever wrote, so contemplative, you have to wonder what the singer is thinking as he stares out at the world from his window. Such a beautiful melody too. I've heard it said that it should replace the UK national anthem. Give a listen to the studio version.

Ray and Dave Davies...killer.......! Thanks man!

Well Respected Man would be a good reaction. by the Kinks

The Grass Roots. Temptation eyes 👀

One of my favorites and the live version is decent but the studio version has some nicer effects. A must listen

Another belter

Love Dave Davies' sublime playing.

Yes you are so right about live music! The great ones were able to perform live even better on stage when they would add a solo or something different fro the studio recordings!

Waterloo is an underground train , subway , station in London , England .

Strangers is my favourite Kinks song. It's proper fucking good.

Tis a love song to London ⭐

And if you want to see another completely different (and still amazing) side of the Kinks - try something from their Muswell Hillbillies album. Some tracks you might try from it are: 20th Century Man, Skin and Bone, Have a Cuppa Tea, and Holloway Jail.

The Soft Parade by the Doors Chod plz 😖

Classic

Between 1964 and 1983 The Kinks had 25 Top 40 hit singles in the uk 13 of which reached the top 10 and 3 reach the number one spot.

Considered by some to be the perfect pop song.

First to comment, Whoo-hoo!! I agree, different kind of song for them. Hmmm... How about more Prince? You talked about theatrics the other day - he's a master of that ya know. Live 1984 - Baby I'm a Star - nothing like it.

This is a lovely song. It's a celebration of what I think was then a less fashionable area of London (South of the river) and an ordinary young couple, Terry and Julie, that he sees outside his window. After moving on from early rockers like _You Really Got Me_ Ray Davies did a lot of songs like this, character vignettes and observations of the world around him. Check out _Dedicated Follower of Fashion,_ about the more fashionable side of Swinging London. Also, _Dead End Street_ and _Sunny Afternoon._

This is one of the best songs ever written. Waterloo Station is a place in London. It's not that deep in that way. It's Ray who is so deep.

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One of my favorite Kinks songs, and I hate to be that guy, but this particular live version doesn't match the studio version, IMHO. Love the channel, but check it out on your own time, and I'd be surprised if you don't agree.

I’m sure they were first, but I thought the beginning sounded like Neil Sedaka’s Laughter in the Rain 🤷🏻‍♀️ Anybody else??

David Gilmour was asked if there was a any song he would have liked to have written, the only one he could think of, was this one.

Love Ray Davies' voice.

Hi Chod! There's not so much a deep meaning here, it's more a nostalgic song about Waterloo in London. There is the train station and then the Waterloo Bridge that eventually leads you to Covent Garden Market. So this is about someone who likes to watch everyone moving about from his window, he sees a romantic couple but his desire is just to observe what is going on around him and the sunset over Waterloo Bridge. It was one of the songs that was featured in the London Olympics Open Ceremony in 2012.

Nice live version. But the studio version is better for a first listen.

Go away and write the perfect pop song - The Kinks we give you "Waterloo Sunset" - and the world says thank you. To me it's just amazing. Waterloo Station/Bridge are in London right at the river Thames. It's a story about watching the world go by from your window but not wanting to get involved. He does nothing but the world still carries on just like the dirty old river.

21st Century Man, "Don't want to get myself shot down By some trigger happy policeman", Sleepwalker, Do It Again, Catch Me Now I'm Falling, Low Budget, Superman, Stop Your Sobbing

The lover's Terry and Julie are actor's Terence stamp and Julie Christie,far from the madding crowd 🎸🎶

its live and its recorded in the 60s.... sound quality sucked all the way around back then.... the Kinks are LEGENDS

Frank Sinatra, when he was old, famously would forget the lyrics in the middle of his songs, he would just shrug it off. Nobody minded. He stll sounded fine. Another Kinks song would be "You reeally got me" great mid 1960s rock song

It finally just hit me that Matt Bellamy of Muse sounds a little like Ray Davies. Or is it just me, lol.

Nice mellow track. Try jukebox music next.

Ray Davies clearly didn’t trust his falsetto in the bridges i.e “”But I don’t need no friends,” “But I don’t feel afraid” and “But they don’t need no friends.” The recorded version has him singing “need” and “feel” as a high note, which he avoids in this live version. Shame really.

ok Brother how about some good old Rock for us old dudes like some Leon Russell A Song For You it's just Leon and his Piano great song

my bad... recorded in the 70s.... mha

I generally always prefer the studio versions and this one is no different.

Studio version is superior.

Please check out Cat Stevens “Where Do The Children Play?”. I think you’ll like it.

An extremely English song about English sensibilities and observations.

Terry and Julor are Julie Christie and Terence Stamp London based film stars. They were together as lovers in Far From the Madding Crowd

Elliot Smith did a pretty good cover of this before he killed himself. RIP buddy.

I'm certainly old enough, and I do like the Kinks, but I have NEVER heard this song before. Not that I don't like it, but I don't hear anything special - lot's of their stuff I prefer over this. I heard "Sunny Afternoon" the other day and I couldn't remember when it was released - shocked me to see it was 1966! It sounded more like their late 70s/early 80s stuff.

I think what you hear is what you get with this song. I don't think there's a deeper meaning.

I agree, original single is better.

should have done "lola," or "sunny afternoon...."

Dave Davies stop throwing blues licks in man! The melody in this song is far better than that!

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