For this week's #threetunetuesday, as inspired by 
For the most part, everyone knows All Day and the Night and You Really Got Me, but this b-side all features those Kink harmonies and chainsaw guitars. I'm always preferred All Day as my favorite of this time the band, but I Need You is a close second.
I don't know if this one was inspired by the Beatles or not, but this song harks back to those piano licks in the background and ringing guitars on the time-change chorus. Not a Rickenbacker sound, whatsoever, as they kept the protopunk sound in place for this b-side. Another easy one they probably wrote in a day or two, and then recorded in another day or two. I have no idea, but they could definitely generate material in their day.
For the last one, I wanted to share Dave Davie's I'm Not Like Everyone Else. This one sort of fits the year it was made: 1966. With pop music pushing boundaries every day of that year, the Kinks kind of gave a big "f you" to everyone and let the world know they were going to do their own thing. Which they pretty much did for most of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Always one to march to their own beat, and for the most part, not get the same kind of attention as the Stones or Beatles or even the Who, the Kinks were quintessential 1960's Brit pop. This song, like most of their work, is a testament to that fact of their originality and stubbornness.
