THE SINGLE BEST STRATEGY TO USE FOR THE GREATEST SONG EVER MADE

Confident the band’s prior two singles had flopped because they have been way too pristine, the Kinks went into your studio in the summertime of 1964 to file this deliberately raw rave-up, written by Ray Davies over the piano in his moms and dads’ lounge. But the original recording nonetheless felt far too shiny, and the band needed to borrow Â