Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby album

ha yeah -- i mean, same thing with lester, whenever a lot of these dudes start writing about lou, they just end up writing about themselves. it is interesting -- is CIB a "gay" record? The cover is camp, there's his shout out to Rachel, there's the "you really are a queen" line, but w/o context you might not even think about the gay aspect. would you?

it's funny, i have a recording of laughner where he opens with "crazy feeling." maybe he changed his mind.

90% of the gay stuff certainly went over my teenage head, although I did obviously register "Kicks" as transgressive, if not explicitly gay

being a really serious Lou Reed fan in the 70s must've been weird.

then again, being a serious lou reed fan is weird in any decade.
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Peter Laughner really must've thought being an alcoholic loser asshole was the coolest thing in the world.

yeah he really sounds like an idiot. good guitar player though.

(She threw an ashtray, a brick, and a five foot candelabra at me, but I got her down and sat on her chest and beat her head on the wooden floor.)

yeah the idea that this is even remotely funny is just... man

i just read this anectdote about Sterling Morrison, i'll throw it here:

When his denied brother wrote Sweet Jane and premiered it to him, in a hotel room while on tour, Sterling's first reaction was the usual in him, to answer a question with another. "So what's with the fourth chord, Lou?".

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5prkgget11qzvcy3o1_400.jpg
i've seen this photo before, but never this caption.

They said I was to little too light weight to play line-backer
So they put me on the track team. Goddamn assholes...

Those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel.
And you know something? They were right. What a bastard...

I am the waterboy

I love women, I think they're great

and, naturally, girls...

As for the immediate future, Lou has no plans, EXCEPT GOING TO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

And attending several sessions of electro-convulsive therapy in a bid to curb his aberrant sexual desires, unnaturally boys

Sent that yearbook entry to a friend, who emailed back:

"How tall is he really? The internet suggests 5ft 3, 5ft 4, 5ft 5, 5ft 8, 5ft10, 5ft 11. Some of those figures are not so tall. He does act a bit short, sometimes, I think, but maybe he hunches intermittently."

Let us no praise famous death dwarves... who might actually be tall.

now praise
gah, Freudian

"How tall is he really? The internet suggests 5ft 3, 5ft 4, 5ft 5, 5ft 8, 5ft10, 5ft 11. Some of those figures are not so tall. He does act a bit short, sometimes, I think, but maybe he hunches intermittently."

Yes, I've always assumed he was quite short tho I remember reading an interview where he said he was 5ft 11 - but, hey, it's Lou Reed, that's no guarantee of veracity.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/16210467/The+Velvet+Underground+VU05.jpg

About 3-4 ins taller than Warhol.

And if Lou is 5ft 11, John Cale is 6ft 5

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/146-006-MIKE-ROCK.jpg
Reed seems to be about the same height as Bowie in this picture, and his height is usually quoted as 5'9" or 5'10".

GrowYouQuicklyBoots.

Wait, are you suggesting that people in the glam rock era might have worn platforms?

Next you'll be claiming that's not Iggy's real hair colour.

i 'served' david bowie in a shop, once, and can confirm that he is really quite short (i wld guess abt 5ft 5). he wasn't wearing platforms.

5' 7" is usually quoted for Bowie

His passport (from 1969) says 5'10"!http://www.davidbowie.com/bin/images/html/1969_passport_open_480w.gif

That includes his hair

this album rules

ooh baby ooh, baby oooooh, baby ooh ooh ooh

Morgan M. Page has a promising new podcast series on transgender history, and her first episode focuses on Rachel, Lou's partner in the mid-70s, to whom he dedicated the title track: https://soundcloud.com/onefromthevaultspodcast/oftv-1-whatever-happened-to-rachel-1

nice, thanks for the heads up

i wanna play football for the coach

kicks is so weird still

so, the morning of the show

when will we get the isolated tracks of "kicks" so we can find out what happened on the morning of the show.

Kicks vs. All Through the Night vs. the Murder Mystery

Never heard this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYO3F1oNkA

Oh yeah.. me either. It has a touch of extra guitar and a different lead vocal take? Also those strange whispered bits, don't care much for them. I think i prefer the LP mix, i always loved the song. I always wondered if the 'punch her face in' line was what kept it from the radio/ being a hit. Actually it's weird with Lou, from the mid 70s onwards no-one bought his singles at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed_discography#Singles

Yes, LP version is better, but this is the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up as a bonus track on a CD somewhere... maybe it will now Lou is, uh, out of the picture. I was going to say "Crazy Feeling" might have made a better single - because of the punching Sharon in the face bit - but then I remembered what that song is about!

wow bizarre that that wasn't included on the expanded CD reissue w the demo tracks. agree that the whispered bits don't add much. thx for posting tho, I've never heard this either.

Huh
http://r.duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-KgKs0OY4tQ

Goddammit
https://youtu.be/-KgKs0OY4tQ

Lou Reed - "Coney Island Baby Album"

guy's vocals don't do the material any favors but it is kinda cool to hear something with that same sound as Coney Island Baby

yeah, i've given this album a try and haven't really loved it ... weirdly alex chilton covers a song from it on a recently released tape from 1976.

missed that single version of "charley's girl" -- pretty good!