Metallica: 10 Best Songs You Haven't Heard

10. You Really Got Me

Legendary outfit The Kinks released this absolute bop in 1964 and it has since become known as a staple of The Kinks' back catalogue as well as an Neanderthal-level rooted link to punk rock and heavy metal, owing to the song's use of power chords.

While Ray Davies was tasked to write a song that was set to challenge the Beatles, brother Dave wrote the now iconic riff more influenced by the British rhythm and blues explosion of the time, later saying "'You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids."

The song has been covered or adapted by over 100 different artists since it's release, including the likes of Van Halen, Iggy Pop, Oingo Boingo, David Essex, and even by members of The Kinks themselves in solo performances. In the case of Ray Davies, he enlisted the members of Metallica for his 2010 collaboration album See My Friends.

While the song largely remains the same structurally, it does feature a signature Met' crunch in the tone, Kirk Hammett doing Kirk Hammett things to the solo, vocal trade-offs between Ray and our lord and saviour James Hetfield and the obligatory "ye-ah!" from same.