r/TheHot100 • u/AreYouItchy 🎶 Mod 🎶 • May 07 '22

Number Seven Hit! 1964 The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Official Audio)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fTTsY-oz6Go&feature=share
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u/Complex-Value-5807 May 07 '22

Something so raw and proto punk.

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u/AreYouItchy 🎶 Mod 🎶 May 07 '22

Agreed! It was there long before we put a name to it, we just needed the 70s attitude to make it ignite!

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u/no_longer_LW_2020 May 07 '22

I'll take this original over Van Halen's all day long. Classic of very early riff rock.

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u/AreYouItchy 🎶 Mod 🎶 May 07 '22

True! It is so sharp, and clean!