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"You Really Got Me" is a rock song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 written by Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
 and performed by his band, The Kinks
The Kinks

The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
. It was released as the group's third single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
, in August 1964, and reached Number 1 on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
 the following month, staying there for two weeks. It was the group's breakthrough hit, and established them as one of the top British Invasion
British Invasion

File:The Beatles in America.JPGThe British Invasion was the term applied by the news media?and subsequently by consumers?to the influx of rock and roll, beat music and pop music performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States, Canada and Australia....
 acts in the United States, reaching Number 7 there later in the year. It was later included on the Kinks' debut album, The Kinks
The Kinks (album)

Kinks is the self-titled debut album by the England rock and roll band The Kinks, released in 1964. It was released with three tracks missing as You Really Got Me in the United States....
.

"You Really Got Me" was the first hit song built around power chord
Power chord

In music, a power chord is a note plus the note a Perfect fifth above, usually played on electric guitar. Theorists are divided on whether the term chord is appropriate, with some requiring the third of the chord for it to be considered an actual chord....
s (parallel 5ths and octaves) , and was heavily influential on later rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 musicians, particularly in the heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 genre.






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"You Really Got Me" is a rock song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 written by Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
 and performed by his band, The Kinks
The Kinks

The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
. It was released as the group's third single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
, in August 1964, and reached Number 1 on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
 the following month, staying there for two weeks. It was the group's breakthrough hit, and established them as one of the top British Invasion
British Invasion

File:The Beatles in America.JPGThe British Invasion was the term applied by the news media?and subsequently by consumers?to the influx of rock and roll, beat music and pop music performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States, Canada and Australia....
 acts in the United States, reaching Number 7 there later in the year. It was later included on the Kinks' debut album, The Kinks
The Kinks (album)

Kinks is the self-titled debut album by the England rock and roll band The Kinks, released in 1964. It was released with three tracks missing as You Really Got Me in the United States....
.

"You Really Got Me" was the first hit song built around power chord
Power chord

In music, a power chord is a note plus the note a Perfect fifth above, usually played on electric guitar. Theorists are divided on whether the term chord is appropriate, with some requiring the third of the chord for it to be considered an actual chord....
s (parallel 5ths and octaves) , and was heavily influential on later rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 musicians, particularly in the heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 genre. One critic wrote that it is, "the track which invented heavy metal" while critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic writes, "'You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 and heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 arsenal."

The Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
 magazine placed the song at number 82 on their list of list of the 500 greatest songs of all time
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
 and at number 4 on their list of the The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. In early 2005, the song was voted the best British song of the 1955-1965 decade in a BBC radio poll. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 9 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. In 2004 the song managed to be voted into the bottom end of the Kerrang! Rock 100 best music videos of all time, by readers of the magazine and viewers of the TV station. This can be considered surprising as the magazine has never mentioned the band, the magazine concentrates on heavy metal rock acts, grunge
Grunge music

Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area....
 or emo genres. In 2009 it was named the 57th best hard rock song of all time
VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs

VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs was a program on VH1 Classic provided by VH1. Hosted by Bret Michaels, it was a five-part program that first aired from December 29, 2008, to January 2, 2009....
 by VH1
VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
.

History

The song was recorded by the Kinks in a number of styles in the summer of 1964 before the final sound was achieved. The group was under tremendous pressure for a hit from their record company Pye
Pye

Pye Ltd. was an electronics company founded in Cambridge, England and is currently wholly owned by Philips....
, after their two previous single releases failed to chart. Ray Davies in particular was stubbornly persistent in forcing the Kinks' management and record company to take the time and money needed to develop the record's landmark sound and style. Davies' efforts on behalf of the career-making song effectively established him as the leader and chief songwriter of the Kinks.

the Kinks You Really Got Me Riff
The influential distortion sound of the guitar track was created after guitarist Dave Davies
Dave Davies

David Russell Gordon Davies is an English rock musician , most well known for his membership with the England Rock music Musical ensemble The Kinks....
 sliced the speaker cone of his guitar amplifier
Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed to make the signal of an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar louder and modify the tone by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain frequencies and/or by adding electronic effects....
 with a razor blade and poked it with a pin. The amplifier was affectionately called "little green," after the name of the amplifier made by the Elpico company, and purchased in Davies' neighbourhood music shop, slaved into a Vox AC-30.

The guitar solo
Guitar solo

Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
 on the recording is the source of one of the most controversial and persistent myths in all of rock and roll: that it was not played by the Kinks' lead guitarist Dave Davies, but by then-session player Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
. The solo was undoubtedly played by Dave Davies
Dave Davies

David Russell Gordon Davies is an English rock musician , most well known for his membership with the England Rock music Musical ensemble The Kinks....
 (then seventeen years old), as everyone involved in the July 1964 recording sessions for the track has always maintained. Although an effective and integral part of the song, it is essentially a faster variation of the "Louie Louie
Louie Louie

"Louie Louie" is an United States rock and roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop music and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists....
" guitar solo, and did not represent a great technical or stylistic achievement on par with that song's driving three-chord rhythm backing (save for the method of playing the pentatonic scale
Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitch per octave in contrast to an heptatonic scale scale such as the major scale. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, including but not limited to Celtic music, Hungarian folk music, West African music, African-American spiritual , Jazz, American blues music a...
 in a manner that "seems" sloppy; this technique is a major watershed in the history of rock and roll, arguably an influence on punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
). However, the story has circulated for decades that the solo was played by Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, who later joined The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
 and Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
. Page was in fact hired by Kinks producer Shel Talmy
Shel Talmy

Shel Talmy is an American record producer, songwriter, arranger best known for his work in London with The Who and The Kinks in the 1960s.Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, "My Generation" by The Who, and "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats.He also played guitar or tambourine on some of his productio...
 as a session rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
ist on a handful of tracks on the Kinks' first album, but those sessions took place several weeks after the "You Really Got Me" session. Page has always denied playing the song's guitar solo, going so far as to state in a 1977 interview that "I didn't play on 'You Really Got Me' and that's what pisses him (Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
) off." Rock historian and author Doug Hinman makes a case that the rumour was begun and fostered by the established UK Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 community, many of whose members were resentful that an upstart band of teenagers such as the Kinks could produce such a powerful and influential blues-based recording, seemingly out of nowhere.

Several session musicians did play on "You Really Got Me": The piano was by either keyboardist Jon Lord
Jon Lord

Jon Douglas Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms....
 of Deep Purple
Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
 or Arthur Greenslade In the same interview, Davies says that there was a session guitarist doubling his rhythm part, but that it wasn't Page. At the behest of producer Shel Talmy
Shel Talmy

Shel Talmy is an American record producer, songwriter, arranger best known for his work in London with The Who and The Kinks in the 1960s.Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, "My Generation" by The Who, and "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats.He also played guitar or tambourine on some of his productio...
, session drummer Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham

Bobby Graham is a session musician drummer.Graham insist that he was chosen by Brian Epstein when it was decided to remove Pete Best from The Beatles....
 played drums on the recording, rather than regular Kinks drummer Mick Avory
Mick Avory

Michael Charles Avory is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the British rock band, The Kinks, joining them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remaining with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies....
. Graham went on to play the main drum part on many of the Kinks' early recordings. Interestingly, both Jon Lord and Shel Talmy claim Jimmy Page did play on "You Really Got Me". Talmy credits him for the rhythm guitar and Lord for the solo.

According to Ray Davies, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of The Kingsmen
The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen were a 1960s garage rock / frat rock band from Portland, Oregon, Oregon. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard magazine charts for six weeks....
's "Louie Louie
Louie Louie

"Louie Louie" is an United States rock and roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop music and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists....
." The Kinks' use of distorted guitar riffs continued with songs like "All Day and All of the Night
All Day and All of the Night

"All Day and All of the Night" is a song by the United Kingdom band The Kinks from 1964. It reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 on the United States Charts....
," "Tired of Waiting for You
Tired of Waiting for You

"Tired of Waiting for You" was a hit 1965 rock song by the British Invasion band The Kinks. It reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart and #6 in the USA....
," and "Set Me Free
Set Me Free (The Kinks song)

"Set Me Free" is a song by Ray Davies, released first by The Kinks in 1965.External Links*...
," among others. Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend , is an English rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career....
 of The Who
The Who

The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
 has stated that their first single, "I Can't Explain
I Can't Explain

"I Can't Explain" is a song released by English rock music band The Who in 1965 in music, written by Pete Townshend and produced by Shel Talmy. It was released as the A-side of the first single the band released as "The Who" ....
," was an intentional soundalike of The Kinks' work at the time (The Who were also produced by Shel Talmy
Shel Talmy

Shel Talmy is an American record producer, songwriter, arranger best known for his work in London with The Who and The Kinks in the 1960s.Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, "My Generation" by The Who, and "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats.He also played guitar or tambourine on some of his productio...
 at that time).

The Kinks would go on to perform successfully together as a band for over 30 years, through many musical styles, and they would always play "You Really Got Me" in concert. Both Ray and Dave Davies still perform the song in solo shows, generally as a closing number.

Cover versions

"You Really Got Me" has been recorded by many artists, with the 1978 version by Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
 receiving airplay on classic rock
Classic rock

Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station radio format which evolved from the album oriented rock format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large playlist of songs ranging from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with some stations including a limited number of current releases....
 radio rivaled only by the original. In addition to solo versions by the Kinks band members and brothers Dave Davies
Dave Davies

David Russell Gordon Davies is an English rock musician , most well known for his membership with the England Rock music Musical ensemble The Kinks....
 and Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
, as of 2008 Allmusic lists dozens of cover version
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
s. 13th Floor Elevators, 1966 The 13th Floor Elevators
13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas which existed 1965-1969. During their career, the band released four LPs and seven 45s for the International Artists record label....
 covered the song in 1966. A live version is included in the 2003 re-release of their album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators is a 1966 album by 13th Floor Elevators. The album's sound is notable for its use of the electric Jug , as featured on the band's only hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me"....
.

The Human Instinct, 1969 New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct
The Human Instinct

The Human Instinct were a New Zealand Blues-rock band active from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. The band's commercial peak was from 1969 to 1971, when albums featured the Jimi Hendrix-inspired guitar work of Billy Tekahika, professionally known as Billy TK....
 included a slow blues version of the song on their 1969 debut album, Burning Up Years
Burning Up Years

Burning Up Years was the debut album by New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct. It was released in 1969 and reissued on CD by Ascension Records in 2001....
. It also appeared as the B-side of their single "I Think I'll Go Back Home" the same year.

Mott the Hoople, 1969 On Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
's debut album, they did an all instrumental version of the song. A vocal version is included on several later compilation albums.

801, 1976 From a short-lived progressive/glam-rock supergroup featuring Roxy Music
Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
's Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera

Phil Manzanera is a musician and record producer. He was the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America....
 and Roxy alumnus Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
, 801
801 (band)

801 were an England experimental rock Band that were originally formed in 1976 for three live concerts by*Phil Manzanera *Brian Eno *Bill MacCormick ...
's debut LP '801 Live' included a version of "You Really Got Me" in the mode of the noisier uptempo songs on Eno's early-1970s rock albums.

Robert Palmer, 1978 In 1978, Robert Palmer released his solo album Double Fun
Double Fun

Double Fun is Robert Palmer 's fourth solo album, released in 1978. Self-produced, this pop music album is influenced by multiple genres including blue-eyed soul, disco and heavy rock but maintains an overall consistency of production which holds it all together....
, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock which included a down-tempo and syncopated version of "You Really Got Me". The album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard charts.

Van Halen, 1978

Probably the most famous non-Kinks version of was by the US hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 band Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
, who recorded the song for their 1978
1978 in music

Events*January to May - The Bee Gees dominate the singles and album charts as Saturday Night Fever becomes a cultural phenomenon. At one point, the album was selling 1 million copies per week....
 debut album, Van Halen
Van Halen (album)

Van Halen is the eponymous debut album by United States hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1978 in music....
. It was a popular radio hit, and jump-started the band's career, just as it had done for The Kinks 14 years earlier. On the radio, it is usually played together with "Eruption
Eruption (song)

"Eruption" is an instrumental by Van Halen from their first album, Van Halen . Written and primarily performed by Eddie Van Halen, this electric guitar solo showcase is considered one of the most influential rock instrumentals of all time, appearing on many 'greatest guitar solos' lists, including a recent Guitar World poll....
," the instrumental that precedes it on the album.

This version of the song was put in the 2003 video game Karaoke Revolution
Karaoke Revolution

Karaoke Revolution and its many sequels are video games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360, developed by Harmonix Music Systems and Blitz Games and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games....
 and the 2006 video game Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II

Guitar Hero II is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the Guitar Hero and is the sequel to Guitar Hero ....
.

This version was the soundtrack of the 1995 award-winning Nissan commercial Toys in which "Nick
G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe is a line of military-themed articulated "action figures" produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S....
", driving a toy Nissan 300ZX
Nissan 300ZX

The Nissan 300ZX, also known as the Nissan Fairlady Z, is a sports car that was produced by Nissan. It comprises the third and fourth generations of the Nissan Z-car line-up, respectively given the chassis designations Z31 and Z32....
, entices "Roxanne
Barbie

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by Mattel and launched in March 1959. USA businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a Germany doll called Bild Lilli doll as her inspiration....
" out on a date, much to "Tad"'s dismay. Mattel sued.

Dalek I Love You, 1980 Dalek I Love You
Dalek I Love You

Dalek I Love You may refer to:* Dalek I Love You, a synthpop group* Dalek I Love You , the group's self-titled album* Dalek I Love You , an audio play broadcast on BBC Radio...
's version, on their 1979 album Compass Kumpas, is very different from the original; it features a mixture of A cappella
A cappella

Acappella music is vocal music or singing without musical instrument accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance music polyphony and Baroque concertato style....
 vocals and synth-pop instrumentation.

Oingo Boingo, 1981 Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
's 1981 version differed markedly from the original, similar in style to Devo
Devo

Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
's twisted covers. It was included on Oingo Boingo's 1981 album Only A Lad
Only a Lad

Only a Lad is the full-length debut album by Oingo Boingo, following their Oingo Boingo . The album's musical arrangements, by vocalist Danny Elfman and guitarist Steve Bartek, complete the group's switch from cabaret act to New Wave music band ....
.

Sly & The Family Stone, 1983 Sly & the Family Stone
Sly & the Family Stone

Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
 covered the song in their last studio album, Ain't But the One Way
Ain't But the One Way

Ain't But the One Way is the eleventh and final album by Sly & the Family Stone, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1983. The album began its existence as a collaborative project between Sly Stone and George Clinton , a sequel to Stone's appearance on the 1981 Funkadelic album The Electric Spanking of War Babies....
.

Toots & the Maytals, 1998 A ska
Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and Calypso music with United States jazz and rhythm and blues....
 cover leads off the CD Ska Father.

Superdrag, 2001 American power-pop/alternative rock band Superdrag
Superdrag

Superdrag is a power pop/alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band had a hit with its 1996 single "Sucked Out" off their album Regretfully Yours for which a video clip was broadcast regularly on MTV....
 covered the song on their 2001 album Greetings from Tennessee
Greetings from Tennessee

Greetings From Tennessee is a ten-song album from Superdrag released by Arena Rock Recording Co. and Two Children Records in 2001. Greetings From Tennessee contained four new songs and six re-recorded songs....
.

Cactus Jack, 2002 Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack
Cactus Jack (band)

Cactus Jack is a Serbia hard rock band....
 released an "All Day and All of the Night" / "You Really Got Me" medley
Medley (music)

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumental....
 on their 2002 live album DisCover
DisCover (album)

DisCover is the first album by Serbia hard rock band Cactus Jack . Album features nineteen cover songs. Album was recorded on Cactus Jack concert in Coupe club in Pancevo....
.

Eve 6, 2002 The song was also covered by the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 band, Eve 6
Eve 6

Eve 6 is a rock band from Southern California who was most well known for their hit "Inside Out " and the slow anthem "Here's to the Night ". They disbanded in 2004 and reunited with two of the three original members in October 2007....
. They put their cover on the soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 of the 2002 motion picture, The New Guy
The New Guy

The New Guy is a 2002 in film United States teen comedy directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of a high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison....
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BoyBand, 2006 In 2006, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 radio station The Edge
The Edge (radio station)

The Edge FM is a New Zealand youth radio network, playing predominantly pop music and contemporary R&B. It is owned by MediaWorks NZ....
 created New Zealand's first ever manufactured boy band in a promotion. This group released one single in their promised "15 seconds of fame", a version of "You Really Got Me". This single spent one week at number one in the RIANZ New Zealand Singles Chart.

Robots In Disguise, 2006 The female electro punk duo Robots in Disguise
Robots in Disguise

Robots in Disguise are an England, now Berlin-based, Electro band. The group is composed of Dee Plume , Sue Denim , and a rolling live line-up of backing musicians....
 covered "You Really Got Me" on their 2006 album, Get RID!
Get RID!

Get RID! is the second album by Robots in Disguise.This album contained, not only a song composed mainly of song references, but also a song entirely in french....
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Sanjaya Malakar, 2007 Sanjaya Malakar
Sanjaya Malakar

Sanjaya Joseph Malakar was a finalist on the American Idol of American Idol. Malakar gained national attention on American Idol, advancing to 7th place with public votes despite being badly received by the show's judges ....
, a controversial contestant of American Idol
American Idol

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's sixth season
American Idol (Season 6)

The sixth season of American Idol premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on January 16, 2007 and ran until May 23, 2007. Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson returned to judge once again, and Ryan Seacrest returned as host....
, sang "You Really Got Me" during an episode of the show, which got mostly negative reviews.

Alvin and the Chipmunks, 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks did a cover of this song in 2007. It was so far only heard in their video game, Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks (video game)

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Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)