Overplayed Classic Rock Songs I'm Not Sick of (Yet): Lola (#6)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62120)
United States
March 19, 2018 8:48am CST
Monday morning to you all! Poor Monday, it's so hated. The only good Monday is the one where you don't have to get up and go to work. I did, so I'll make the best of it. Hopefully Monday will do the same. At least we can listen to some good music. Here's a song that's played every day on classic FM rock stations but I'm not sick of it.
#6: Lola - Kinks
You can add pretty much any "overplayed" Kinks song to this. I'm thrilled that I got to see this band live.
Here we have CONTROVERSY!!! (Calm down, Prince fans, not that "Controversy." 
) This song was banned in a number of places, and for a number of different reasons. Our friends "down under" didn't like the subject matter (this was 1970, remember) of a man having a date with a cross-dresser. On the other hand, the BBC didn't like the mention of "Coca Cola" in the song. The latter issue was much more easily resolved: they issued the single with "cherry cola" in Coke's place, and the BBC played it.
The story is that the Kinks' manager went out (and home) with a woman that turned out to be a guy. As the Brits have a little more humor about themselves than we do in the States, it spawned a lighthearted song ("I'm a man, I'm a man, and so is Lola") about the incident.
It's a Kinks Klassic. It's overplayed, but it's a great song.
Lola
Written by Ray Davies
Recorded by the Kinks
From Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, 1970
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls:
) This song was banned in a number of places, and for a number of different reasons. Our friends "down under" didn't like the subject matter (this was 1970, remember) of a man having a date with a cross-dresser. On the other hand, the BBC didn't like the mention of "Coca Cola" in the song. The latter issue was much more easily resolved: they issued the single with "cherry cola" in Coke's place, and the BBC played it.
The story is that the Kinks' manager went out (and home) with a woman that turned out to be a guy. As the Brits have a little more humor about themselves than we do in the States, it spawned a lighthearted song ("I'm a man, I'm a man, and so is Lola") about the incident.
It's a Kinks Klassic. It's overplayed, but it's a great song.
Lola
Written by Ray Davies
Recorded by the Kinks
From Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, 1970
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls:
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Mar 18
I suppose you listen to this song all day and all of the night.
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@FourWalls (62120)
• United States
19 Mar 18
You really got me there! But I have to, I'm on a low budget.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Mar 18
@FourWalls I am just living a rock and roll fantasy on a sunny afternoon.
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@FourWalls (62120)
• United States
19 Mar 18
@JohnRoberts -- sunny afternoons can lead to Waterloo sunsets!
(You set me up for that one, didn't you?)
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@dgobucks226 (34356)
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21 Mar 18
I second that classic song! The song was a predecessor for later tunes by Bowie and Lou Reed that dealt with homosexuality and transgenders, ie, "Walk On The Wild Side."
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@FourWalls (62120)
• United States
21 Mar 18
Richard Thompson did a song called "Woman or a Man?" which is more or less a re-telling of this song.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
22 Apr 18
Then there is the Scorpions' "He's a Woman, She's a Man."
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
22 Mar 18
Good song, and one that personally I am not tired of either
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
22 Apr 18
Yes! How can you get tired of "Lola?" I heard it in a store the other day. I was like, "Yes!"
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