![]() ![]() I wanted to write something about “You Really Got Me,” and there’s a track called “Little Green Amp,” and the guitar riff is “You Really Got Me” backwards. It covers a lot of different topics at length. I really enjoyed writing the songs and getting the arrangements together. Keep a lot of edge in it and the flaws in there, and the guitar is quite prominent. ![]() It took me about two years to make it and took about a year to write it. Kevin Dodds (Austin, TX): What’s your experience been like recording and releasing your 2013 solo album I Will Be Me?ĭave Davies (New York City, NY): I had such a ball making it. He was gracious enough to give me nearly an hour of his time to discuss in great detail: the origins and impact of “ You Really Got Me,” the influence of The Kinks on Van Halen, the effect of Van Halen’s covers on The Kinks, and Dave’s full thoughts on all of Van Halen’s Kinks work. I was fortunate to secure Dave for a telephone interview on Thursday, October 24, 2013. In the past, Dave has been quoted as saying unflattering things about Van Halen, but those can all be set aside now. The Kinks are almost as famous for their music as the rocky relationship between Dave and his brother, Kinks lead singer Ray Davies. If that wasn’t odd enough, Van Halen not only returned directly to The Kinks for inspiration on Diver Down, they made their cover of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone?” the first track on that album.ĭave Davies of The Kinks is the man who sliced the speaker cone in his “little green amp” with a razor blade to get the incredible distorted sound found in the critical electric guitar lines of the original “You Really Got Me”-and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee (class of 1990). However, you have never heard David Lee Roth introduce the song as a Kinks song. The fact that it is coupled with “ Eruption” on record, and now on the radio, makes it an even more vital component of Van Halen’s catalog. “ You Really Got Me” is synonymous with Van Halen. And, in an odd way, Van Halen essentially secured partial ownership of the song. “ You Really Got Me” is a critical part of Van Halen’s radio and live repertoire-perhaps the one song that the band has performed the most. Listen: Van Halen – You Really Got Me (1978)Įvery Van Halen fan knows why The Kinks are landmark in the VH legacy. Those of course are “Where Have All the Good Times Gone?” and the classic “You Really Got Me,” which features one of the definitive riffs in all of rock and roll.īy VHND contributing writer, Kevin Dodds, author of Edward Van Halen: A Definitive Biography Listen: The Kinks – You Really Got Me (1964) “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” by The White Stripesīecause kicking those dead, fallen leaves under your feet on a dreary autumn day deserves a kick-ass song too.Īutumn leaves get plenty of love in songs, but only Guns N’ Roses had the intuition to write about the cooooooldddd Noveeeemberrrr raaaaaaaaain.The Van Halen News Desk recently spoke to The Kink’s Dave Davies, who shared with us what he thinks of Van Halen’s cover versions of two of their original songs. “Leaves that are green turn to brown” kinda says it all, no? “Leaves That Are Green” by Simon & Garfunkel But even if there were more odes to a harvest moon, they probably wouldn’t be as perfect as this one. (OK, the other football.)Ĭonsidering harvest moon is one of the absolute best things about the fall, there’s an unforgivable lack of songs about the autumnal full moon. Songs about the fall can be major-league bummers (those dead leaves sure make for some depressing metaphors), but “Autumn Almanac” is the upbeat tune for all fall enthusiasts who look forward to the same things as the Kinks: good food, good friends and football. It should be acknowledged that this song is perfect year-round, but it should absolutely be listened to in November. Listening to Yo La Tengo is already the musical equivalent of being wrapped up in your favorite cozy sweater, and this song all but amplifies that. “The autumn days swung soft around me/ Like cotton on my skin/ But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared/ My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within.” Hail Fiona, our Autumnal Queen. It doesn’t feel like a sorrowful song about hoping September comes and goes quickly should be a perfect autumn track, but it’s as melancholy and contemplative as the very month in the title. “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day If this doesn’t magically transport you to a crisp, romantic fall afternoon in Central Park, then we can’t help you. “Autumn in New York” by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong ![]() In honor of the musically overlooked season, these are 10 of the best songs to listen to in the fall. Playboi Carti Plots Global Antagonist Tour: See the Dates ![]()
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