Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby album

This has some of Reed's best vocals. I like how he's not in the cool, bad ass hipster mode, but just being Lou.

I need to hear those bonus tracks.

whoah some of these bonus tracks are clearly proto-Street Hassle in sound/delivery. Doesn't work so well on "She's My Best Friend", but "Leave Me Alone" is great!! "Downtown Dirt" too. Can't decide if the alt. versino of title track is better than the official one or not - some sweet stuff here, muchas gracias!

lolz this review is great

You can play on my team any day, Lou.

"Keep the fuck away from my ass, Lou."

When I die, please bury some talisman of Lou Reed with me. Just some symbol of him, anything. A tiny shred of his album cover, anything. When I die, he's going to be there, man. He's gonna wave to me and smile, and I'll know my life wasn't in vain.

^^^

holy shit

aw. poor bim. this album sounded rilly good to me recently. felt like an old friend i hadn't seen in a long time.

Coney Island Baby is probably (at least sometimes) my favorite Lou solo album. And now it means just a little bit more.

Lou is gonna be King Neptune and Laurie Anderson Queen Mermaid in the 2010 Coney Island Mermaid parade

http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml

The Coney Island Parade King and Queen, Lou and Laurie look so cute in the photo...

yeah, this is the best Lou Reed solo album, in my opinion.

lol at King Neptune Lou Reed.

Anderson looks adorable. Lou looks like poached salmon.

He is Neptune after all

even after all these years, they still seem like a weird couple. when are they going to do a reality show. "I Love Lou"?

^^^

holy shit

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this is too much.

RIP Bimble.

Its always a tough choice for me, but Coney Island Baby is steady in there for my favorite Lou Reed platter. I'm also a supporter of Street Hassle, Sally Can't Dance, the Blue Mask, Berlin, and New York. Depends on my mood I guess. I can also say that I actually LIKE Metal Machine Music. Speaking of Lou & Laurie, their recording with John Zorn is absolutely great, unlike the grande snoozefest that is Lou's recent ambient tribute to a river.

haha waht

Lou's recent ambient tribute to a river

seriously, haven't heard word one about this

it was like music he used for tai chi iirc

He sang Laurie Anderson to sleep by imitating a flowing river.

you know you want it
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/l/lou-reed/album-hudson-river-wind-meditations.jpg

That font is so 1998.

the album's ok. if it was a stars of the lid record or something, people on ILX would be all over it.

I heard a great Lou radio interview recently. Mostly about his photography, but he spent a loooooong time talking very seriously about how he just got some special shoes that simulate being barefoot. Totally the kind of conversation I find myself in within 3 minutes of meeting a friend of my mom's. Kinda made you realize how dude is pushing 70 hard.

he spent a loooooong time talking very seriously about how he just got some special shoes that simulate being barefoot

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/Urban-Archaeology/March-2010/The-Next-Horrible-Shoe-Fad/vibram-fivefingers-classic-shoes.jpg

???

those look damn comfy.

omg lou reed is almost 70...that's so scary

Really? I thought he'd be older!

please let him start wearing those shoes onstage

if he's 70, that makes him 27 when VU & Nico comes out - seems about right doesn't it? Maybe a couple of years older and they figure 70's a fair enough cheat

he was born in '42

http://www.loureed.com/new/news/imgs/kungfu.jpg

the secret of hung men

shoes that simulate being barefoot

Well, at least I'm consistent. I find Stars of the Lid a bit boring too. If it sounded more like My Cat Is An Alien, I might've gotten a bit more out of it.. I only gave it one listen [to be fair] & it could well be something that reveals interesting details w/ repeated spins.

ha, yeah, i mean, Lou's ambient album isn't really meant to be *interesting* -- he made it specifically to be background music while he did his tai chi things.

It should be Lou & Rachel in the Mermaid Parade. Laurie Anderson stole Rachel's Coney crown! Lou & Rachel 4eva!

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1751.jpg

Gay Lou was the best Lou.

This is one of my favorite Lous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeM6UqtGBdM

He scared me away from drugs! and while it doesn't say explicitly that it's anti-drugs, Lou's twitching suggests that he's done enough rails to stab himself.

Also I was convinced at that time that this was what all New Yorkers were like.

this album is still my favorite

yes

glory of love

like a good wine it's better as it grows older

When I first heard the old doo-wop version of "The Glory Of Love" I was taken aback by the bitter speech at the end about the "fine, fine, superfine career" (which I guess Lou arch-enemy Frank Zappa quoted on Ruben and the Jets) but then I realized that this was a perfect Lou antecedent.

Wish I could remember or find the wording of the old Lou quote about how everybody else was playing blues licks but he was more interested in people like The Spaniels.

When I first heard the old doo-wop version of "The Glory Of Love" I was taken aback by the bitter speech at the end about the "fine, fine, superfine career"

wait... what? whose version of Glory of Love are you talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9R9soGl6Yw

must be this one I guess

Yep.

weird, never heard that before

No doubt you were too busy with your fine, fine, superfine career to pay attention.

to me, this record is what real american rock n roll is

There are other shots from the Mick Rock photo session that I think would have been better, but I like how on the actual cover shot Reed looks simultaneously 20 and 90 years old.

the bad cover is pretty perfect

I like the ones that Reed described as "look(ing) like an android, programmed to assassinate", but the carnival barker shot fits the mood of the album better.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/22/a9/fc/22a9fc9a5fe2dd051e4e0d2f7b9b0872--source-of-inspiration-private-life.jpg

^You’d like to send this one out to them, right?

Well, yeah.

Actually I just picked up another used vinyl copy of this album to replace my already pretty tapped out $1 garage sale one, and found that shot while trying to find a pic of the former's back cover, which is one of those budget versions that's different from the original in kind of a dumb way.

My new used copy used to belong to this radio station, which apparently has gone under a format change since then:

https://www.radiolineup.com/stations/WPRG-FM

I feel like its pretty clearly a joel grey reference

I’d like to send this one out to HOOS and Jor-El.

"your old man was the B&E man down on the street'