You Really Got Me – The Kinks

Appears On

• The Best Ever Footy Album(1999)
• Elite Rock Collection(2002)
• Son of Frat Rock(1988)
• The Complete Collection(1991)
• 16 Original Superhits of the 60's: House of the Rising Sun0
• Greatest Hits: Includes 6 Mod Anthems(1983)
• Heartbeat: The Official 10th Anniversary(2002)
• The Hit Box(1991)
• All the Hits ... and More(1993)
• Rock Anthems, Volume 2(1996)
• The Sixties Album(2008)
• 21 Great Songs by 21 Great Artists0
• The Spirit of the 60s: 1964(1990)
• Songs from the Peach Pit0
• 200 Fab Sixties Favourites(2001)
• The Definitive Collection(1993)
• The Rock Album(2017)
• You Really Got Me / It’s All Right(1964)
• Fifty Number One’s of the 60’s(1995)
• Greatest Hits: The Kinks Are Well Respected Men(1989)
• Rock Explosion(1997)
• The Best of The Kinks: You Really Got Me(1999)
• Kinks Kollekted: Complete History 1964–1994(2011)
• The Best of the Best Air Guitar Albums in the World… Ever!(2005)
• Greatest Hits(1984)
• Sixties Beat(1992)
• Flower Power, Volume 2(1994)
• Heartbeat: The 60’s Gold Collection(1999)
• Capital Gold: Sixties Legends(2002)
• You Really Got Me(1991)
• Torhout Werchter 20: 1977–1996(1996)
• WRDU 106 FM Classics 10
• The File Series: The Kinks(1977)
• 35 Years of Rock and Roll(1992)
• The Pye History of British Pop Music: The Kinks(1975)
• 65 – 75 העשור שלא יחזור, Vol. 2(1995)
• Guitar of the Millennium II(2003)
• 60 Number Ones of the Sixties(1990)
• Goldmine - 12 No.1's of the Sixties0
• Kate Moss for Longchamp(2010)
• The Kinks Greatest Hits!(1966)
• Teenage Rebels! - Silver Machine(1992)
• 25 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll: 1964: 20 of the Year’s Greatest Tracks(1988)
• Suited & Booted: Essential Mod & Ska(2005)
• 20th Anniversary Box Set(1984)
• Classic Rock Superstars(1998)
• 25 Years: The Ultimate Collection(1989)
• Beat, Beat, Beat, Volume 3: Mop Top Pop(2002)
• Minions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack(2015)
• The Kinks(1996)
• Fetenhits: Rock Classics(1998)
• Flower Power, Volume 3(1991)
• Sixties Summer Mix(1997)
• The No.1 DJ Collection: 60’s, Volume 4(2006)
• Golden Memories of the 60s(1987)
• The No. 1 DJ Collection: 60s (Digital Collection)0
• Hits of the World 1964/1965(1987)
• She’s Out of Control: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album(1989)
• American Dreams: Original Soundtrack 1963–1964(2003)
• The History of Rock, Volume Seven(1982)
• Party Power Pack, Volume 4(1995)
• Lux & Ivy's Favorites, Volume 3(2009)
• The Anthology 1964–1971(2014)
• The EP Collection(1990)
• Ü40 Rock Classics(2005)
• Brit's Blitz(1987)
• Anthology of Recorded Events, Volume One(1970)
• Rock Times, Volume 05: 1963-1964(1991)
• Super Oldies Collection0
• Rock Giganten(1992)
• Now That’s What I Call Classic Rock(2015)
• Super Hits of the Sixties(1994)
• Kinks / Kinda Kinks(1993)
• Single Hits 1964–1970(1991)
• The Kinks Collection, Volume 1(1992)
• Flower Power: Groovin’(2007)
• Hits of the 60’s(1991)
• Greatest Hits(1989)
• Gold, Vol. 1, No. 6(1992)
• Sixties Mania(1996)
• 50 Hits of the Sixties and of Woodstock Generation(1997)
• Geschichte der Pop Musik(1998)
• Milestones: 32 Great Rock Classics(2001)
• Greatest Hits(1993)
• 20 Rock Shots: 1964–1967(1994)
• The Kinks Story(1990)
• Empire Made(1998)
• Backtrack to the Sixties 60’s(1994)
• The Best and Kollektable Kinks(1993)
• Greatest Hits(1991)
• Star‐Club Oldies(2001)
• Don Kirshner’s 60 Greatest Hits of the 60’s(1990)
• The Best of Kinks 1964–1971(2014)
• 100 Huge Hits of the 60s & 70s(2007)
• Explosive Rock Groups(2017)
• Don’t Think, Feel!(2008)
• Recollections: 14 Classic Hits(1989)
• Wild Turkey: Too Good To Keep Cooped Up!(1997)
• The Early Years(1994)
• Kinksize Hits(1965)
• Goldies0
• The No. 1 Hits 1964(1994)
• Dreamboats & Petticoats: The Golden Years(2018)
• The Century of Rock: The Greatest Ever Hits of Rock(1999)
• Howzat!(2005)
• Cigarettes and Alcohol: 40 Modern Anthems(2000)
• Jeans Rock: Born to Be Wild0
• Top Gear: Seriously Rock & Roll(2009)
• No.1 Evergreen Hits Vol.2(2006)
• Rock Line(1991)
• A224 Inside Music(2011)
• Kinks(1991)
• The Kinks(1992)
• 30 Years of Number 1s, Volume 4: 1963–1965(1989)
• Flower Power: The Music of the Love Generation(2007)
• Sunny Afternoon: The Very Best Of(2015)
• Capital Gold Guitar Legends(2004)
• The Best Sixties Album in the World… Ever! II(1996)
• The Singles Collection / Waterloo Sunset(1997)
• Guitar Rock(1990)
• Classic Rock: The Immortals(2000)
• Swinging Sixties(2005)
• 100% Rock(2005)
• The 60’s Collection(1988)
• Media’s affenstarke Oldtimer II(1989)
• Golden Stars International(1990)
• Sounds of the Sixties (disc 1)(2000)
• Hard To Find Jukebox Classics, 1960-64: 30 Amazing Stereo Hits(2016)
• Kitsch Lounge Riot(2003)
• The Legendary British Hits(1992)
• Simply the Best 60s(2001)
• The Best Rock Album in the World… Ever! II(1995)
• The EP Collection(1998)
• Hits of the Sixties(2005)
• Party Pack(2003)
• Time life Presents The '60s(2017)
• All Things Mod(2004)
• Mod and Beyond(2002)
• Classic Rock: 1963–1969(1998)
• Millennium 60’s Rock Party(1999)
• Golden Hour of The Kinks(1971)
• Stereoplay, CD 25: Yesterday’s(1987)
• Greatest Hits, Volume One(1997)
• Larry präsentiert: Party Rock(1990)
• Joey Vendetta Presents: 300% Pure Rock(1996)
• Death of a Clown: 20 Greatest Hits(1989)
• The Best Singles of All Time(1999)
• The Best Jukebox Album Ever(2000)
• The Days EP(1996)
• Sixties(2002)
• Mod Anthems(2015)
• The Very Best Of(1997)
• British Beat(1987)
• The British Are Coming, Volume 1(2001)
• Million Sellers 8: The Sixties(1992)
• 20 Golden Top Singles(1987)
• VH1 Classic Tracks(2002)
• The Journey: Part 1(2023)
• Beat of the Sixties0
• A Portrait of The Kinks(1994)
• The Essential Kinks(2014)
• Classic Rock: 1964(1987)
• Million Sellers, Volume 4: The Sixties(2006)
• The Ultimate Collection(1989)
• The Only Classic Rock Album You’ll Ever Need(2013)
• The Star Collection(1993)
• Rude Boy Revival(2002)
• Greatest Hits(1984)
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People(2008)
• Battlefield Vietnam: Original Soundtrack(2004)
• The Time‐Life History of Rock ’n’ Roll: The British Invasion 1964–1966(1993)
• The Vorspiel Collection 2(1994)
• Kinks(1964)
• Born to Be Wild(1999)
• The British Invasion: The History of British Rock, Volume 1(1988)
• Music Legend Collection ‘Rock’(1994)
• British Invasion: 36 All‐Time Greatest Hits(1998)
• Esta Noche Cruzamos el Mississippi(1996)
• Classic Rock: 60's(1997)
• Rock Classics(2007)
• Backtrackin’(1985)
• A Compleat Collection(1984)
• 20 Golden Greats(1978)
• The Ultimate 60s Collection(1990)
• Best Of(2021)
• Die ultimative Chart Show: Die erfolgreichsten Rock-Hymnen(2012)
• Dick Clark’s All‐Time Hits, Vol. 3(1990)
• The Best of ‘The Best Ofs’(1990)
• The British Beat: Best of the ’60s(2007)
• On the Road Again(1995)
• Power Chords, Volume 1(1997)
• British Rock Giants(1993)
• Sir Price(1996)
• 40 Years of Top Ten Hits(1992)
• The Very Best of Legends(2004)
• The Mono Collection(2016)
• Absolute Rock Classics 3(2003)
• The British Invasion: 1963–1967(2004)
• You Really Got Me: The Very Best of The Kinks(1994)
• Pure Party(1993)
• Heartbeat Number 1s(2007)
• Kinks Greatest Hits(1971)
• Yop’n’Roll Fever0
• Flower Power: The Woodstock Generation(1999)
• Heroes: The Anthems(2004)
• Anthology: Unfinished Business(1998)
• The Greatest No. 1 Singles(2001)
• The Kinks Story, Volume 1 · 1964–1966(1992)
• 100 Hits Kings of Beats(2004)
• Mastermix Professional Engineered for DJs C: 50s 60s 70s(2007)
• Rock Legends(2004)
• The Hit Makers(1964)
• The ’60s Rock Experience(2005)
• You Really Got Me(1994)
• Rock School(2004)
• Spotlight on The Kinks(1981)
• 100 Hits Paint It Black(2004)
• Our Friends in the North 1964–1995(1997)
• British Rock, Volume 2(1991)
• Mai 68(2003)
• And the Beat Goes On: No. 1 Hits(1996)
• Entertainment Presents0
• Gold: Greatest Hits(1993)
• Waterloo Sunset: Hits of the 60’s(1996)
• Classics: The Best of The Kinks(2014)
• The Rock ’n’ Roll Album(1991)
• Maximum Power 2(1996)
• Brit's Blitz: The Very Best of British Rock0
• Drakkar Noir - Best of Rock, Volume 10
• Best of the Best Classical Oldies(1992)
• Chart Toppers(2022)
• Air Guitar Anthems(2016)
• The British Invasion0
• Picture Book, Volume 1(2008)
• The Kinks Collection(1985)
• The Best Rock Anthems… Ever!(1998)
• Boots Rock Collection, Volume 1(1990)
• The Best Sixties Party(2004)
• History of British Rock(1976)
• Only Rock’n Roll 1960–1964(1994)
• The Best No. 1 Singles in the World …Ever!(2004)
• The Marble Arch Years(2001)
• Ready Steady Go! The Number One Sixties Album, Volume II(1998)
• The Weekend Starts Here!(2008)
• 50 Years of No. 1 Hits(2002)
• Best of The Kinks: 1964–65(1989)
• Q‐FM‐96 Classics, Vol. 1(1987)
• Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies(2012)
• Wheel of Knowledge Sampler0
• The Kinks Remastered(1994)
• NOW 100 Hits: Classic Rock(2019)
• Hifi Visionen: Oldie-CD 7(1988)
• Greatest Hits(1989)
• Bacobens Rock Top 500(2007)
• Le Top des Sixties(1989)
• Greatest Guitar Solos(2005)
• 60 Number Ones of the Sixties(2000)
• 1964 World Hits(1994)
• Golden Groups of the Sixties(2000)
• Video Hits Classics(1990)
• Kinks Best: You Really Got Me(1986)
• 50 Years of the Greatest Hit Singles: Platinum Collection(2003)
• Fab Forty: The Singles Collection 1964–1970(1991)
• The Best Air Guitar Album in the World… Ever!(2002)
• Times of Our Lives, Volume 1: 1960–1965(1993)
• The Golden Age of Rock ’n’ Roll: 1964(1997)
• The Cavern: The Most Famous Club in the World(2007)
• 16 Golden Originals, Volume 1(1991)
• Heavy Metal: The First 20 Years(2006)
• The Kinks in Mono(2011)
• Chart Toppers: Rock Hits of the 60s(1998)
• Flashback 60s: The Brits(1991)
• Heartbeat: Number One Love Songs of the Sixties(1996)
• Now That’s What I Call Rock & Roll(1988)
• Backtrackin’, Volume One(1986)
• 1000 klassiekers, Vol. 10(2018)
• Now That’s What I Call Rock(2021)
• 100% Rock Classic(2001)
• The Complete Singles Collection 1964–1970(1993)
• The Radio Essential Series(2000)
• De Pre Historie 1964, Volume 2(1993)
• It’s The Kinks(1999)
• Well Respected Kinks(1966)
• Dancing in the Street(1996)
• Mastermix Classic Cuts: The Sixties Box(2003)
• Die ersten 20 Chart-Hits(1991)
• The Pye Album Collection(2005)
• Rockbox, Volume 20
• Keep On Running(1990)
• The Ultimate Collection(2002)
• The Kinks Collection(1980)
• WOM - UK Hits from the 60's0
• Maximum Rock(1996)
• The Best of the Kinks0
• The Singles Collection(2001)
• No.1s & Million Sellers(1993)
• You Really Got Me(1980)
• The Story of The Kinks(1995)
• The Number One Collection(1998)
• Bowers & Wilkins EQ*(2003)
• The Very Best of The Kinks: Diamond Star Collection(1991)
• The Kinks(2002)
• Songs for My Ute(2003)
• Beverly Hills 90210: Songs From The Peach Pit(1996)
• Unfinished Business: Dave Davies Kronikles, 1963|1998(1999)
• The Best Sixties Album in the World …Ever!(2009)
• Rock Hits(2005)
• Tired of Waiting for You(1995)
• Colorful Fruit(2016)
• Galaxy Power Hits(1992)
• Hit Singles(1987)
• NOW That’s What I Call 60s(2017)
• Der “alte Ami” Rik DeLisle präsentiert: Das 3. große Super‐Oldies‐Paket(1997)
• The 60's Collection(1995)
• Songs That Shaped a Decade: The Sixties(1993)
• Manta Manta - Der Soundtrack zum Film(1991)
• Friday on My Mind: The Sound of the ’60’s – Part 2(1988)
• Toute la pop, rien que de tops 60s & 70s0
• Time Life Music – Rock Classics: Roots of Rock(2007)
• It’s Called Rock(2003)
• 80 Super Back Tracks0
• Tour of Duty 6: The Strongest Popclassics From the 60’s & 70’s(1993)
• The Rock Box: Part 2 The Rock Continues(1989)
• What Happened to Rock and Roll0
• Sixties Jukebox Classics: 54 Jukebox Smashes From the 60’s(2002)
• Picture Book(2008)
• Männermucke(2009)

Writers & Composers

• Ray Davies(composer)

Composition

Recording of You Really Got Me

Other Recordings (20)

• You Really Got Meby Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby 13th Floor Elevators
• You Really Got Me (The Kinks at the Rainbow, 1972)by The Kinks
• You Really Got Meby Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• You Really Got Me (2015 remastered version)by Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby The Kinks
• You Really Got Me (The Kinksʼ Christmas Concert, 1977)by The Kinks
• You Really Got Meby Genesis
• You Really Got Meby Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby David Essex
• You Really Got Meby Ray Davies
• You Really Got Me / Cabo Waboby Van Halen
• You Really Got Meby Helen Schneider
• You Really Got Me (live at the Old Waldorf)by Iggy Pop
• You Really Got Meby Robert Palmer
• You Really Got Me (Top Gear, 1964)by The Kinks
• You Really Got Me / All Day and All of the Night (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1977)by The Kinks
• You Really Got Meby Bruce Springsteen