Chords for The Kinks - You Really Got Me | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo

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Girl, [E] you really got me going
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
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[Gm] I've been playing it, I've seen you playing it all my life, [E] I was born playing it.
To me, whenever I play You Really Got Me, we played [B] it last night and we might play it tonight,
we never know if we're going to play it or not.
Always, [Em] it's like the first time.
I think that's the secret to make songs last forever,
[F] is to imagine the first time you [G] played them.
_ Yeah, you really got me now
Got me so I can't sleep at night
_ [A] Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
I did a show in New York last year, at Madison Square Garden,
[Ebm] Metallica were my backup band.
Can you give me one second?
Can you [N] shut up?
Thank you.
_ _ Metallica played with me and it worked out really well.
They played You Really Got Me and All Day and All The Night
and they said they'd like to be involved in [E] this collaborations album.
Went to dinner, talked about what [Gb] we were doing and [G] then pressed the button.
And there it was, You Really [D] Got Me.
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't sleep at night
You really got me, you really got me, you really got me
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And I think the song [Gb] is a good one to do for them
because it's kind of the origins of You Really Got Me with the Kinks
were like the [F] origins of, I guess, the big riff which turned into heavy metal.
[N] James, the lead singer, said that's what he felt.
He [E] felt I was a first punk.
I don't know if I can be classified as a first punk.
I think my brother was a [Bb] first punk.
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[E] _ _ _ _ The Kinks were [Em] not pretty boy bands, [F] we were just an aggressive band.
[Eb] We were unlike any other band that was around.
It was thought to be something really different at the time.
Now there's so much power music around, power rock, it kind [F] of got absorbed in it.
There's still something about that magical riff when my brother plays it on [A] the original.
_ _ _ I wanted to write a blues song, southern blues, like Big Bill Brunzi, that's all I wanted to do.
[Gb] And there's an element of jazz influence, I liked a lot of [D] jazz that was around at the time,
so the slipping and sliding [C] sound.
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_ Then we went into the recording studio, and my baby brother
played the guitar on the sound, and he [D] stared at me just for a moment.
_ And he smiled.
[F] Before turning into the corner of the studio to play himself [D] and my band into [A] rock and roll history.
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My brother was 16 years old when he made it, so it was a youthful aggression,
trying to bust out of the world and explode.
There was that element to it, and I guess that gave it the [Ab] energy.
I _ _ _ _ _ wanted it to [Gb] sound very similar to the way we played, and we played it in a very distorted_
[Abm] I think it was more like trying to sound like [Ab] John Lee Hooker,
[D] because his guitar was [Eb] mainly distorted.
We didn't have boxes to make it sound distorted, or technical things [Gb] like today,
so we got speakers, and we cut [Eb] the speakers with razor blades to [Bb] make them vibrate more,
and that's how it got the sound. _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ Can you apologize to [Ebm] the road crew, because I didn't understand what they were doing.
They were talking all the way through the [Eb] interview. _ _ _
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