Sunny Afternoon
The Kinks Lyrics

@OURNOTEBOOKLOVE1144

Hope you're still with us 😊 friend 😊💯🌹🙏☮️

@moonbeamchaos

You’re not far ahead of us — keep on having fun. “They” can’t take our music away from us!

@marcuslin8816

I am listening to this now in 2024. Beautiful as always.

@peternissen9760

A few years ago, I was in the ICU at a hospital suffering from Encephalitis and was in a coma. On day 10 my family was advised to say goodbye as my life expectancy was estimated at 2 hours. Wrong - I lived. On day 11 my son visited and played "Sunny Afternoon" to me as he knew I loved this Kinks classic and thought I would recognize it and the familiarity might wake me up. I started to move my eyes and lips and the Nurse who sat by my bed called the Doctor. By the time the Doctor arrived, I had opened my eyes and the next day I was in a Ward watching football on the TV. Thanks to The Kinks. My son and I always will remember and love "Sunny Afternoon".

@withabeat6584

I'll have to remember to try that next time I am suffering from encephalitis.

@ancientmariner3077

Great story. Stay safe...
!

@chanisealexis8400

Sons 💗

@NK-ox9uo

WOW! Great story❤️

@goldensloth7

damn!

@user-kx6fw2zi1c

I'm listening to this in 2024, brilliant tune.

@user-fl5vv1sp4f

Great harmonies that's the kinks for you

@AkiraShu

If your listening to this in 2024, you’re a legend

@tinahorkan

I’m a legend for sure!

@lauramarsh5658

Listening as I read your reply!

@silviabolivar

Yes, I am

@deniseschug-lattwein9

The kinks are the best❤

@user-fl5vv1sp4f

Thank you

@VorpalSpiritedAway

Probably the most underrated band in history. The amount of talent and creativity alone, just outstanding.

@caraculo1077

Better than the Stones and the beatles for surr.

@daliaburgoin2308

They had soooo many hits. Ppl remember the hits but not the band name as much

@mcdeadsquirrel

Spot on!!!! I can't even add more to your great comet....!!!

@SundaeExpress

@@caraculo1077 *sure
And no, they weren't.

@SundaeExpress

They're highly revered and critically acclaimed and have sold millions of records and won tonnes of awards. Explain to us again how they're underrated? 🤔

@ernst2225

When the Kinks sang this song, I lived with my parents in a four-family tenement house.There was a pretty girl living below us and I was in the school choir.I used to sing this song for fun when I went down to the basement to get coals for our furnace. At one point she opened the door and asked me if we could go for a walk and if I could sing the KINKS song to her again.I was happy but I didn't sing the song to her; I didn't get around to it.Today at over 70 years old I am still learning to play the guitar and I think back to that girl and the time when the Kinks, the girl and I were young.

@alessandropolicarpo

That's a beautiful memory, Ernst! A hug from Brazil. :)

@drowningfish8047

sus link

@ernst2225

@@drowningfish8047 If you write a little more, I'll do a 30° - bow. Thank you !

@ernst2225

@@toddblanksI agree with you, memories of something beautiful can hurt, although that is a contradiction!!!!
Often it is the youth that one remembers positively. The sky was open and you yourself were open to everything and you just have such feelings in your youth and later you remember these past times. It's terrible when you didn't have such a beautiful, exciting, wonderful youth.Time can't be turned back.When you're young, everything you live is normal, you don't realise during youth that life is something special.Of course, you get youth for free, you don't have to do anything for it.You only realise the value of our music of that time much later, when this music belongs to "your" long history and then comes the pain of loss.What also hurts me is the brutal present when I see icons of POP ageing. I saw Ray and Dave Davies as they look today.Actually I didn't want that.I wanted to remember them as they look on old record covers.For me the defining years are the 60's when the Kinks and other groups started, for you, it's the '80s.
Everyone becomes a grandfather or grandmother one day and that is always connected with nostalgia and, at worst, with the death of the idols.
I'm happy that there is always music that moves me like back then, that I find beautiful, like the Kinks a long time ago. The music of the Kinks will always be current.

@bomajk5489

@@ernst2225 I'll be 24 soon. It's kind of rude to be asking this question since you are over 70, but I just wanted your advice. How did you feel at 24? Can you remember? Are you still considered young at that age? What do you think of that from this current perspective you have, having lived a long and, I would say, a good life? :)

@samizdat_

The Kinks deserved just as much fame as the Beatles imo. They are highly underrated

@sadie3665

Anirban Ganguly so true they are so underrated

@hd4t6

simmer down,,,,,

@shailesdahal8742

So true

@IAmGrafX

Indeed, they sure did!

@ethereal_winterly

@K Even more true

@gavinator8018

Good music never dies, good people do.

@marcok.6734

👏👏👏👏

@anothertime1282

And they live on in the music, so everything is fine.

@richardharrison1855

stuff your cheap comments...pretty vacant

@bronwynkirwan2368

If your listening to this is 2021 your an absolute legend:)

@deadly_danegaming5610

hopefully 2121

@roberthuber3518

Thank you 😊

@TrySomethingDifferent.

Finally someone agrees

@jbliv831

It's a constant thing, but thank you!

@jdcompany2019

Then i am

@user-kx6fw2zi1c

2024 and I am still listening

@drrobert4062

This Era of music was easily the best. We are lucky to be able to have the opportunity to listen to great songs like this, among others! Great jam!

@andari7467

Dude.....u must be high....

@tommyboytomtom6848

THIS SONG SOUNDS LIKE MY LIFE KINDA FUNNY BUT TRUE IN THE SUMMER TIME WOW TRIPPY KOOL OLD SCHOOL

@Onward_and_Rword

u would say that if u weren't around for the 1600s music scene

@davidtriton1666

U 2

@Justaspacedude

Anyone here in 2024?

@ianthomas2289

Most underated band of all time. A statement, not a question.

@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393

way better than the beatles who were forced into front of audiences

@rodsimmons9337

Saw them in concert. 👍👍👍

@KateBates22zabu

@Dan Dugan nice

@craigstevens9351

@@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 riigghhht. or audiences just loved the beatles way more. beatles sold what, 10xs the amount of albums?

@maurom9654

No doubt

@patriciagough8385

Their music is timeless. This was one of my first albums purchased when I was in the 7th grade. I still have it and I’m going on 72 years old. Still love their music ❤

@USCG.Brennan

ME too on that!!

@mbear709

@ 65 I am still rocking to great ol music like this.

@amrhu5563

@@mbear709 im 20 and rocking

@lilmembrane5207

This is amazing

@captainkeyboard1007

I was in the fifth grade, but I am 70 years old in this year, 2023.

@philjames6206

The Kinks, Small Faces, Beatles, Stones, Who. That will do for me. Ray Davies genius.

@cubsdude7460

I thought Faces was a straight up rock band also

@10mel210399

Add The Doors, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and you have the greatest Bands of all time

@jlaurence3519

You forgot Leapy Lee!

@valg4510

Beach Boys? Queen? Nirvana?

@drewgab3172

@@valg4510 Those are from different eras and genres, especially Nirvana :|

@leviticus9278

2023 and still loving the kinks

@andrewmarcellis2007

Hey you should look up a band called The Doublejumps if you like The Kinks

@Nomoya86

2024 here! ❤🎉

@JAYPCARS

56 years on and this song still rings true.

@anneoliver8890

I love this song! I was living in Norwalk, Connecticut when I first heard this song. The song is just as fresh today 2023, January 02 as it was then. Good music develops a NEVER ending longevity.

@captainkeyboard1007

I am in Brooklyn, New York at where I grew on to this music [as a Black male], and I enjoy it on YouTube, as I am 70 years old.

@joejames18

It's 2023 and I'm still rocking to this song!

@patrickmcauley3212

If you’re watching this in 2022 you have exceptional taste in music

@user-mg6fq1kf5b

Hope you heard this dad didn't know that was your favourite song miss you dad ❤

@holmeed

'My girlfriend's run off with my car,
And gone back to her ma and pa,

Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty' best lyrics ever lmao.

@joshk2181

truly

@TehGoldd

Now I'm sitting here

@tdsims1963

Isn't it? This song is such a classic. I never tire of listening to it.

@jamesheyworth3566

holmeed ,
I'm happy with folk with their Stones and their Beatles but the Kinks are mine.

@chemcokeith6533

absolutely

@davidr1620

This song has aged very well. Even many great songs of this era don’t sound quite as good as they once did.

@marcgonzalez5256

Best songs of 60 aged well thab a lot of hits of 00s

@ldg8640

Facts

@mikefitton3724

Ear wax?

@samparker266

Timeless

@sdgakatbk

I agree. And early Kinks still sound good.

@repartonorte8620

Te kinks are the kings

@K2shadowfax

Epic!

@odoyipper3839

My favorite Kinks song. There's nothing like it. And Ray is an underrated genius. I saw him twice solo in a small club and he didn't disappoint. A brush with greatness!

@caralynbryan323

I've seen ray also.brilliant

@DrBitchcraft.

my favorite song from them is "This time tomorrow" but love this one too.

@minxkitten1

You are so right.. Brilliant writing...

@colefreeman4093

ODO Yipper this really influenced the gorillas. The vocals on this song and feel good inc are super similar

@BrianCarnevaleB26

the best thing about Florida, endless sunny afternoons!


#norain #sunnyday

@musiccollector

Their best song, hands down. Puts me in a summer mood.

@genobutler2711

Waterloo Sunset beats it imo

@liamyoung1299

So many to choose from ...

@greghatton1787

Apeman s pretty damn rad

@richardharrison1855

Pure bullshit. Waterloo sunset pisses all over this

@MegGus23

I see you on the dark side of the moon

@bridgettstephens5582

This song takes me back to my teen years; getting stoned at the beach and mellowing out for hours in the sun. Oh the days before all this adult responsibility; how I miss my youth😪

@chrisvesy7245

I'm retired now...back to the Beach playing the same music I played before I entered the work world! ...(I just don't jump off the high rocks anymore or drink cheap wine...🍷

@jordancressley7385

The kinks are so underrated! I wish more people liked them

@cachaco1956

I was almost 10yrs old when this was first released and, unlike me, it has never got old. I LOVE it!

@ML-dy8sh

Love ur attitude. amazing. you go girl.

@hughjarse3808

I`m the same .Born in `57. Where did the time go? Better days , then , with a lot less than weve got now. Good luck and good health .

@royshalom7675

I am currently 14 years old.

@colmanarchant6189

I was 16 and met my one and only love sitting outside on a big lawn with her.

@hinatashoyo2425

@@royshalom7675 same nice music taste 🤭

@John-wd8be

Everybody listening to this in CURRENT YEAR are legends

@troblesomegentleman4438

And most important. Listening in a sunny afternoon

@robertthacher2660

The superb Kinks who make quirky, funny songs did not dissapoint with this 1966 song. I had the record as a kid!

@jstitt13

The kinks are very underrated.

@ThePowerpointMaster

The Kinks are one of those bands that could have come out in the 90s or even today and still get big.

@sdgakatbk

I think that's probably true. I also think they are later bands that could go back in time and make it big.

@Boilingfrogg

So true.

@Talisman09

All you can really try to measure this by is musical ability. Their music would not be the same if they were born at a later time (and still all somehow met up with one another, lol). And as for contemporary artists going back in time and still being successful..that's even trickier to speculate about - who would their influences be? It would be impossible for them to have the exact same catologue of songs

@ThePowerpointMaster

@@Talisman09 I mean they could have written some of their songs at any time and still get big: Wicked Annabella, You Really Got Me, Sitting By The Riverside, Picture Book... etc

@Talisman09

@@ThePowerpointMaster I love those songs but they sound like their era. If they were released today they would be called 60s throwback songs, and the market just wouldn't be anywhere near as big for them. Have you heard what most of the kids are listening to today?

@earthling148

Grew up with Kinks, think they're so underated. I'm guilty I appreciate them now more than ever

@theseustoo

This song takes me right back to the late sixties... Long live the Kinks! 😀

@robertthacher-ro6bh

What a tremendous song from 66. Wonderful lyrics and a well played! Ray Davies was a genius!

@colinjennings3661

Just an absolute classic . Perfect song in every possible way.

@nickagriesti6708

They are arguing that they shouldn't have to put effort into the relationships they themselves choose to cultivate. Perfect? Sure, if you're a self asshole or a Boomer.

@bostrickland4970

So true even in 2020

@bobtaylor170

@@nickagriesti6708 , it's satire. You can read what Ray Davies says about it in the Wikipedia entry about the song.

@nickagriesti6708

@@bobtaylor170 there is a difference between satire and flippant framings of gender relations. This is the latter.

@nickagriesti6708

@@bobtaylor170 it's a tone running through the entirety of Boomer culture. None of you seem capable of respecting the nature of relationships. All you do is joke about how your husbands are worthless losers that you can't use, or how your wives are nagging harpies who won't let you do whatever the fuck you want. No wonder 50 percent of your marriages have failed. You're a bunch of selfhish, self-centered shitbags.

@RobertoZadik-en8zc

Elegant, ironic and melancholic eternal Song. One of the half 60s Masterpiece from a fantastic english band, Ray Davies was an Amazing poet and Singer..Oh wow

@mikehersh6192

Still 🎹🎵🎼

@morganophelia5963

this is like my fave kinks song my ex and my best friend Seth loved this song <3 R.I.P.

@scottmurphy6044

2024... Still Takes Me Away !!! ✌️✔️

@petertimowreef9085

Gotta love all the pseudo-hipsters in the comments. "Oh my God I'm the only one on the entire planet who listens this, first time I heard it was during the Jurrasic period"

@seanyoung3605

hah! spot on, spot on

@JediDoc

I listened to it in the mesozoic age!

@mellowrockmusic

+Peter Timowreef fuck so are people who bitch about em

@petertimowreef9085

Chad Olmstead
So you're bitching about people who are bitching. Solid plan there Chad.

@petertimowreef9085

***** But they don't admit to being hipsters. I guess hipsters in denial would've been a better term.

@Albert-Mag...

This song just soothes the soul..The feeling it puts me into never gets old, My mind is the same, it's my body that is old, shrunk and painful ..but the music ....It's the magical fountain of youth....

@leotimm6633

Early in morning, surprised O had a good night's sleep for once. Found myself humminghis tune out of recesses of my mind. As always, attributed it to Beatles. UTube set me straight. Thank you Kinks!

@theseustoo

Ah... memories! When you get to our age, it's probably all we have (that makes any sense, anyway!) :D

@franksessions4346

I love you KINKS !!!

@LucySkywalker99

Forever cool...!❤

@livelongandprosper70

You forget how great this song is until you hear it again 👌

@elizabethbarringer2791

I've never forgot how great this tune is

@travishanks4176

Agreed, Ms Barringer. After 1st listen, it became 1 of my very favorite songs ever.

@vmbrown

The Kinks are the most underrated band in history and Ray Davies is a genius. This is a masterpiece of songwriting!

@MrGoldenthroat

One of the greatest songwriters in music history, Vincent, was named Michael Brown for the group THE LEFT BANKE -check them out!!

@obtomSD

Sweet summer memories.

@nickhettelsater4769

This has always been my favorite song of the Kinks.

@Foxtrot760

"Blazing on a sunny afternoon."

@Snodog622

+Foxtrot760 Always fun

@goblin1474

I heard Lazing

@Foxtrot760

Do you know what blazing is?

@goblin1474

Foxtrot760 Yea and it makes sense in the song, but I've always heard the word lazing

@yoboimichproductionsinc.2948

It's lazing bro

@michaelcampin1464

A great song. Never gets old it's 2022 now.

@brucewalters8635

YES I AM! ❤

@user-lc9uk3qx4s

Yes

@terri369

My favourite song in the world, this is the song of my life.

@USCG.Brennan

I grew up with you guys in the '60s. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR GREAT MUSIC AND MEMORIES!!

@donhosmer8159

66 years young
Love the Kinks !!!
August 2023

@andrewmarcellis2007

Hey you should look up a band called The Doublejumps if you like The Kinks

@cmendoza9255

I love this song. My mother and l sang along with the Kinks when this came on the radio. Good memories.

@IsaacWale2004

Such a cool song.

@phucknuts

A phenomenal timeless masterpiece

@bobsmith-ih7ol

Like fine wine.

@siriuskame9298

Perfect Days brought me here ♥️♥️♥️

@stevelarge

I was 14 the following month, when of course England would win the World Cup. Am not English, so could not really celebrate as others did. However being a teenager during the 1960s was, and still is, something to celebrate. At this time, I began to notice girls and what a combination - girls on a sunny afternoons in the summer time listening to, Kinks, Beatles, Who, Beach Boys, Stones, Sandy, Lulu, Dusty, Cher - Now where's that time machine???

@richardyoung7415

12.00 MID-DAY 7th JUNE 2023 AND STILL LISTENING TO THIS MASTERPIECE FROM THE KINKS. PEACE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@dixieanderson2276

65 years and still a rock n rolla - this makes me smile!

@hugswims

Listening to it now on June 23rd 2023. It’s a gloomy, rainy day so this brightens it a bit!

Listend to this on radio caroline when thy were anchored off the isle of man . Fantasti time.

@haraldssongs264

Was für ein super Song !

@crazycatlady3946

My Dad loved this song 🥰

@SacWebDeveloper

The Kinks - Greatest Re-discovery of 2019

@oneminutereviews25

Indeed sir. Thank you so

@TheChannel999999999

Blazin on a sunny afternoon

@leegiannangelo6073

It just jumped into my head as I woke up...at 7 AM...after not hearing it since it was released and I was a kid. 72 yrs now. It's in my Playlist now. Lol. Great lyrics....Fun to hear.

@joeyoung1498

I'm 6 month old 300 pound midget and I love this song in like 2018 and whatnot!!

@AnnebelBuntOnline

Joe Young it's even in your name

@rhysowens1

Happy birthday

@Bruh-ii4lf

I love this comment 😂

@kingsizehomer

Joe Young you fat fucking midget

@jerboa4090

Your a obese midget holy shit

@buddytackett4635

Kinks...still spinning their music 2022.

@jessicafitoo

All the good music is in space.

@virginiawiseman665

My daughter is 23..and was raised on 60's music...The Kinks are her favorite band from that time

@dontworrybehappy4423

Virginia Wiseman no one cares

@owen9057

i care

@flatearth317

I care also. My kids and grand kids also know and appreciate the 60's music. As well as their own stuff.

@kateeigs6457

@William Fairfield not really lol. I know a couple of girls who like the new stuff and all the old stuff. No one really makes fun of you, only if its country music, I guess.

@motnosniv

Well done Virginia

@michaelb.w.nelson2084

I never understood why the kinks had lesser fame than the beatles or the stones. They deserve still more attention!!!

@kramalerav

Some believe the Kinks may have missed their window of opportunity to be a huge act in the midst of the British Invasion because of that Dave Davies-Mick Avory tussle that sent the latter to jail for a brief spell. The band at the time had difficulty obtaining a work visa for a U.S. tour because of that. By the time they could tour the States a couple years later, it was too late what with psychedelic rock being the latest craze in pop.

@noikloi

They remind me of the Beatles alot honestly

@vowelsounds6312

Timing and management. Look what happened to the Fab Four after Epstein killed himself… accidentally.

@jnstonbely5215

@@noikloi
I’ll put Ray Davies up against
George Harrison, John Lennon, & Paul McCartney,
any day as equal if not better, at least in many of his outstanding lyrics and musical compositions !
WITHOUT A DOUBT !

@MisterM4n

Mumble rappers are the same and generally have bigger fame than singers or bands who actually sound good, but we won't let that stop us

@elliot1991mood

Finally i find back this cool song by the band

@randallkennedy2066

Great writer

@tonisukles858

Perfect quarantine music

@valdirbergamobergamo5396

Even today I cannot believe why Kinks did not become so famous and powerful as Rolling Stones and Beatles. They lived in the same epoch and had the same powerful energy. What a talent!

@leotimm6633

Agreed

@worldorthoorthopaedicsurge6147

Probably to do with management, remember the brilliant manager the Beatles had?

@valdirbergamobergamo5396

@@worldorthoorthopaedicsurge6147 Brian Epstein. Not so intelligent, he committed suicide in their apogee.
Better luck was reserved to Col. Parker, that made the truckdriver Elvis Presley the king of Rocn.n.roll.
So smart a guy, he knew how to dissipate and survive the British Invasion. One thing is sure: after Epstein's death and the inauguration of Apple, things darkened. They needed Brian E., they lost their financial control. So, it came Yoko Ono and... Kinks manouvered much farther than they.

@user-kx6fw2zi1c

1976 is the year of my birth still love this tune

@jamiefinlayson9441

I'm sorry best band ever!!!

@randallkennedy2589

One of the most profound lyricists in Rock.

@Lilaeth

Mum and Dad loved this song, even though they were the rock n roll generation. Still remember Dad chortling when it came on the radio. Miss you Dad!

@pjduffy6529

2023 still timeless ❤

@patrickwalker3568

My favorite Kinks song!!! I'm Dingle.

@rainstein3680

I agree that The Kinks were absolute legendary!! So many amazing tunes.....what groovy memories!!!

@lynnmcguire4760

I grew up with The Kinks music in the 60s. Love them! Those halcyon days are sadly long gone!

@rossmanifold5259

Absolutely wonderful I love them I'm 75

@amoreebellezza.lartecisalv1042

Quanto ho sognato con questo brano!

@reenavadgama8665

Love "Sunny Afternoon" still listening to it in '23 & will continue to listen to it in future years to come. 🌞

@hotblonde9882

This is greatness in a bottle.

@user-cp5cy2rr2n

Great song

@andrewmarcellis2007

Hey you should look up a band called The Doublejumps if you like The Kinks

@Mrfacts_ge

Christ......!❤❤❤awesome

@martinedagnicourt1624

I was 13 years old !!! I loved so much.....I am 66 and I love so much !!!!!

@afrmalatesta5196

Ditto

@rachelfiona5613

One of the bands with the best lyrics… such storytellers. No wonder they made a musical from their songs

@stephendistaola9312

Love the KINK's

@johnmcdermitt1693

Blazin on a sunny afternoon!! 💨🔥😎

@Dlanorepmart

My favorite Kink's song. Since 1966.