You Really Got Me
Song by The Kinks
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Sep 25, 2026
Handren SeaveyHOST
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Josh ShakespeareHOST
It's right at the bottom right there, you know? You really got me? Leather Kinks, right there? Oh, yeah, yeah.
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You really got me going.
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You got me going.
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, I have.
CookieHOST
And up six places to this week's number three went the Four Seasons with Ragdoll.
CookieHOST
Down from last week's top spot to this week's number two went the Kinks with You Really Got Me.
CookieHOST
And up two places to this week's top spot... ..went Herman's Hermits.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Woke up this morning feeling fine.
LouieHOST
I mean, I think they get cited as, like, an early, like, metal influence or hard rock, you know? I mean, just the
RyanHOST
riff on You Really Got Me, I mean, Van Halen, you know? Well, yeah, there we go, yeah, yeah.
RyanHOST
So it kind of really elevated the kinks, you know?
LouieHOST
Yeah, they're considered to be the riff rock pioneers.
7 MINS LATER
RyanHOST
Here you
LouieHOST
go, Ryan.
LouieHOST
Famously created his raw distorted guitar tone on You Really Got Me by using a razor blade to slash his speaker cones of his amplifier.
LouieHOST
True or false?
Doug LeafHOST
That was their thing, was being really loud.
Doug LeafHOST
But, like... that's why they're kind of ahead of their curve like this song like is basically a pop a punk song almost the way that like the kinks you really got me is which may come up tonight like that's also from this year like there's a few of these bands that are like right on the vanguard of where rock's gonna go and just like yeah this is like a great like if this is where the who is at in 1964 wait till you hear them in you know 71 you know where they're gonna be you know in a few years from now like So, yeah, it's an awesome track.
Doug LeafHOST
I don't know, and I'm sorry.
Doug LeafHOST
That's
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speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
day and all of the night All day and all of the night I believe that you and me last forever Of course everyone knows this one.
Rich BakerGUEST
I like
Kyle LiebermanHOST
this one a little bit better than You Really Got Me.
Kyle LiebermanHOST
You Really Got Me is very iconic, but there's something about this one that makes me like it more.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In my work as an archivist and a reissue producer, yada, yada, yada, somebody I made the acquaintance of, and very glad to, was Shel Talmy, a legendary American producer who spent most of the '60s and '70s in the UK, and really was single-handedly responsible for kind of upping the ante in British music with, uh, his productions by The Kinks and The Who, various other artists.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so I got to, to know Shel, and one of our earliest conversations, sitting in his office at his home, talking about The Kinks and a legendary early version of You Really Got Me that, uh, has been documented in a lot of places, but never heard.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I just asked him casually, "Do you think you might have a copy?" The interesting thing about Shel Talmy is that he was blind.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was actually going blind in the '60s.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So a lot of this stuff he literally had not thought about because he couldn't see it for decades.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
At that moment, his wife, Jan, came into the room and said, "Well, there's some records in the closet here." So I opened up doors, started going through, and there was a, just an embarrassment of riches.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fantastic stuff by The Kinks, The Who, The Creation, and all the other groups that Shel was famous for working with in the '60s, but you know, no You Really Got Me, unfortunately.
Alec PalaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, um, then I moved on to some more, and then that's when I came across a twelve-inch lacquer acetate, which was sort of like the one-off records they made back then to audition music.
James CampionHOST
But then you could say the same thing about the kinks.
James CampionHOST
You Really Got Me is really a metal song or a punk song or something to that effect.
James CampionHOST
But go ahead, please.
James CampionHOST
Sure.
speaker_0HOST
Question number 30.
speaker_0HOST
What 1960s group sang Lola and You Really Got Me? Was it The Kinks, The Who, or The Birds? The correct answer is the kinks.
speaker_0HOST
Question number 31.
speaker_0HOST
Where in the human body would you find the medulla? Is it heart, brain stem, or eye? The correct answer is brain stem.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Okay.
Elio CannellaHOST
Because the Kinks, okay, they have that song, You Really Got Me, but the remotes have more.
Elio CannellaHOST
They have, like, Blitz, Creep, Bop, they have Teenage Lobotomy, they have Pinhead.
Ben PearceHOST
Yeah.
Jack RabidHOST
There would be 93 covers of that very early second hit for the Kinks.
Jack RabidHOST
That one in You Really Got Me obviously put them on the map and led to their fame, justifiable fame for all corners of the universe.
Jack RabidHOST
The Remains version we heard today was about the seventh or eighth cover of those 93.
Jack RabidHOST
So again, in real time, oddly, the second version ever The second cover ever that is after the Kinks was Gary Lewis and the Playboys, but their version isn't that great, as you'd imagine, isn't that bad either.
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