[1960-1964 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100, 1964, #78
That sound you're hearing is called DISTORTION, and this would be a lesser song without it. You Really Got Me brings that desperation and urgency you ultimately see in the Animals, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin.
Van Halen covered this song in 1978 for one of their first hits, and again it sounded ahead of its time. I still meet people who think that's the original. It's almost like the Kinks created a song in 1964 specifically for what music was going to sound like in the 1980s.
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