THE KINKS - “Tired Of Waiting For You”
(20th February 1965)
Pure mood - a boy, an absence, a wait. There’s barely a context, only the most abstract of frames, all that really lingers is the melancholy chorus, and this gives the single a mystique that the better-known songs around it maybe lack. Before I came to play the song back this morning I was convinced it was a good deal more psychedelic than it is - I remembered exotic instruments, tricksy studio play. They don’t exist but it has some of the lazy, half-dreamt feel of English psychedelia. The bubble is popped for me by Davies’ curiously flat, nasal voice - he’s never a singer I’ve particularly enjoyed but he’s usually much more expressive and convincing than this. 6
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FT's SteveIson on July 20th, 2008
The sighing sublime mood changing melodic bit ‘Its your life and you can do what you want’ is the winning thing for me on this-a real trademark of Ray Davies’ writing..He does a similar thing on Days ‘I wish today could be tommorow’…8