Lou Reed Solo

SING ALONG WITH LOU

"She was the first girl
in her neighbourhood
to get raped in Tompkins Square...
real good"

Lou too bored to sing along with Lou

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i listened to sally can't dance a couple weeks ago -- pretty good! worst thing is the sax on "billy".

lol that's one of the only songs I like on the album

i think the song is ok, but man, that dude playing the sax! like he runs out of ideas about 15 seconds in and has to keep playing for another three minutes.

standard lou reed operating procedure!

not denying its essential cheeseball Saturday Night Live-ness

earotic sax

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think i'm going to listen to ecstasy on the bus ride home

I was listening to the "Sally Can't Dance" this morning for the first time in forver and it was a lot better then I remember. Something about the sleazy bar-band r&b combined with Lou "Lou-ing" really makes for something...odd.

"Animal Language"!

I can only imagine how Lou zig-zagged around the beat singing these songs live

new sensations is kind of a jam throughout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgLn4zo-wA&feature=kp

I really can't stand the overall sound of Sally Can't Dance. I've only kept three songs from it (guess which ones)

can't stand the sound of Rock n Roll Animal either tbh

I used to hate Rock N Roll Animal, I remember just cringing the first time I heard it when I was in college, but I've really come around to it. Esp in the last five yrs or so.

My wife, a die hard Velvets fan, who doesn't have much time for solo Lou considers RnR Animal to be a crime against nature

yeah i'm still on the "why no i dont recall wishing lou would replace the velvets with the silver bullet band" side when it comes to rnr animal

i mean i may turn around on it, lou reed with the silver bullet band does sound not unamusing

but basically any "lou aims for cobo hall" re-arrangement of a velvets song/demo <<<<<<< the velvets song/demo

i forgive 70s critics for being kinder because they were coming from a "why ISNT lou more successful, maybe female background vocalists will do the trick" pov

also it was hard to hear VU before Lou Reed when VU hadn't come out

For me it scratches a certain itch, when I think of those songs I don't usually think of the RnR Anminal vers but it's cool to hear them in a different context.

I saw Jandek a few days after Lou passed and I really, really wanted him to come out and just do a note perfect vers of "Sweet Jane" from RnR Animal.

That, sadly, did not happen.

None other than Sterling Morrison himself nailed what the problem was with that album, more or less, saying something like "these guys use the same guitar tone on every single song from beginning to end, same tone, same volume, they never switch it up." Of course it doesn't help that it is a guitar tone I hate with the heat of a thousand suns.

lol at da croupier

i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe.
speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9ZlE3ymZY

i found a fernando saunders solo lp on the street for a buck a few months ago but still haven't gotten around to playing it

this one

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXAYRBxibrs/TbCYdnk8CbI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Mkc0jZvXBos/s400/Fernando%2BSaunders%2B-%2BCashmere%2BDreams.gif

bah

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXAYRBxibrs/TbCYdnk8CbI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Mkc0jZvXBos/s400/Fernando%2BSaunders%2B-%2BCashmere%2BDreams.gif

haha, man, if light in the attic put that out, people would be creaming over it a la this lewis dude.

the rare album to feature both s. porcaro and l. reed in the writing credits

Only thing I like about R&R is when it is name checked on Street Hassle.

Re: Fernando S. Sorry, but I never really learned to love the sound of fretless bass. For me it falls between two stools. Decide whether you want to play upright or electric, don't try to play both at once. Don't even mind if you double track. *Bows to Herbie Flowers*

also you gotta dig this

PRODUCED BY : FERNANDO SAUNDERS FOR FERNANDO'S HIDE-AWAY MUSIC, LTD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_QrTTNkl8

allmusic review has some choice lines:

- "a highly listenable disc which contains flavors of Prince without a testosterone overdose"
- "Great album cover has Saunders in a dream state flowing into some otherworld"
- "The two songs produced by Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro actually(!) have Jeff Porcaro on drums and Steve Lukather on guitar"
- "one of those records radio should be chastised for not seeking out and playing on its merits"
- "Perhaps this is where Paula Abdul got the idea for her hit of the same name, "Opposites Attract," which appeared just a year later."

an antidote to prince's rampant testosterone

i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe.
speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird band

I saw that band once in '86 (on the Amnesty Int'l tour). I was still relatively new to Lou, and I assumed it was de rigueur for 60s feedback monsters to eventually settle down with some nice session musicians (see also: Pete Townshend). The drumming was dull, I never got into the sound of fretless electric bass, and the saxophonist was awful, moreso in retrospect (Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?)

But not having Quine meant that Lou took the solos. In the set I saw, there was only one solo, at the end of "Video Violence," but holy fuck, it was mindblowing.

B-b-but is there enough estrogen?
(Xp)

I assume everyone here knows that Fernando Saunders' son represented Hungary at this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

the "street hassle" from that 1986 concert is fucking bizarre -- they seem to want to turn parts of it into a singalong: "Hit and Run! Hit and Run!" "Bad Luck! Bad Luck!"

Excellent post, Tarfumes, especially

Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?

FERNANDO SAUNDERS FOR FERNANDO'S HIDE-AWAY MUSIC, LTD

looooooool

If someone were to ask me which Marshall Crenshaw album was my least favorite I would have to say: the one with Fernando Saunders on it. Graham Maby runs rings around him.

Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?
heh heh, well, lou loved doo wop, he probably thought he was gettin' some honkin' sax action.

goddamn that is an impressive mullet on that sax player in the live show you posted

is that Dave Koz?

yeah it's kinda of funny how some of these guys wanted some hot horns in their tunes and thought they were gonna get some serious muscle and it just ended up like

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xp it's apparently a dude named rick bell.
hilarious that the keyboard player is named Woody Smallwood

Hey Lou, at least your arch-rival Frank Zappa hired Don "Sugarcane" Harris.

lol @ Woody Smallwood.

Haim is covering that Fernando Sauders album in it entirety at the next All Tomorrow's Parties