Talk:You Really Got Me
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[edit] Session Musicians
According to Ray Davies, the piano player on the song was Arthur Greenslade, not Jon Lord, and most sources say the drummer on the record is Bobby Graham, not Clem Cattini. There was also a third guitarist doubling (tripling?) the riff who Shel Talmy says was Jimmy Page, but Ray remembers being named Vic or Al, depending on which interview you're reading. He's adamant that Page wasn't on the session, though.
Both Page and Lord were on the You Really Got Me album, though.4.167.227.107 06:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other Cover
Oingo Boingo also covered this song on their album, Only A Lad.
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[edit] Power chords
It was the first hit song built around power chords (Walser 1993, p.9).
- "Rumble" by Link Wray (1957). Not sure if it was the very first, but it predates YRGM. Skyraider 20:04, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- "rumble" includes no power chords ([1]). Joeyramoney 21:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- Walser is a very poor musicologist and his books often contain major factual errors; among them, he claimed Les Paul was dead when, surprise surprise, he was not. Not the best source to cite.--70.38.5.59 05:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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- What sortof proof do you offer that Walser is a poor musicologist? Hyacinth 18:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] riff origin
My pal Kaptainrok, a rock bore or aficionado has said that this line is inaccurate/plain wrong: " It was a variation on the similar chords used two years early by The Kingsmen with their hit "Louie, Louie", which was a major number in the Kink's stage act at the time.
Should this claim be amended?? -- max rspct leave a message 23:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't really see a great similarity either. I'm not a music theorist, but the songs' rhythms seem pretty different to me, and the riffs are totally unalike: "You Really Got Me" is F5-G5-G5-F5-G5, and "Louie Louie" is A-A-A-D-D-E-E-E-D-D.--Jacj 04:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
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- Agreed; I removed it. Equalpants 01:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
The riffs to the two songs are similar in that both of them use stop-start rhythms. Going off an an tangent, "Wild Thing" combines the two by being a variation on Louie Louie for most of the song, but throwing in variations on "You Really Got Me" in a couple of places.
The statement that Ray Davies wrote the song while trying to work out the chords to Louie Louie doesn't sound right. Ray once said that it was influenced by Mose Allison more than anything else. http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/Kinks/UnravelsTheKinks001.html 4.173.240.101 03:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] remix
Pick'n'Mix: An Assortment To Suit All Tastes by Hexstatic has a remix of it, if you want to mention it somewhere on the page. --Midnighttonight 08:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] less female-friendly and more adult
What is the less female-friendly and more adult part supposed to mean? It sounds like a big generalisation and I take particular offence at the less female-friendly part "It was, however, the instrumentation which would catch the ear - more adult, less female-friendly than The Beatles and pre-empting the toughness of contemporaries the Rolling Stones, who were emerging at the same time but had initially relied on stage flair and cover versions to establish themselves."
- It's bollocks, and thankfully it has been edited out. The impression I get is that the article was written as an essay back when Wikipedia was new, and is very slowly and painfully being transformed into an objective, sourced encyclopaedia article. -Ashley Pomeroy 18:48, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jimmy Page Controversy
just to stir things up, i had dinner at an indian restauraunt last night, and who should walk out but Larry Page, ex-manager of the kinks, and he confirmed it was Jimmy who recorded the solo. myth busted. haha. interestingly, he claims it was his idea for the bands name. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Harwood (talk • contribs).
- Big Jim Sullivan probably made a contribution as well Overzeal 08:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC).
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- Right....and I'm Donald Duck Grymsqueaker 06:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 18:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Cover versions
I have reduced these as brief entries under a single subheading, overcoming the problem of having section headings for just a sentence or two of text and treating more appropriately those versions that list little more than the release date and the fact that it was a different style to the original. I have also deleted album covers, which don't illustrate the subject of the article, and removed what I assume to be the No.1 singles before and after the NZ version's chart success. That chart sequence isn't relevant to an entry of the Kinks song. Grimhim 05:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- I have deleted the Van Halen infobox, because it seems redundant. Apart from the mention of a successive single, it contains no more info than the text to the left of it. I sought comment at [Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs] under the subheading "Articles should be about singles, not songs", and the one response (!) supported my view that it wasn't helpful. Grimhim 09:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
