― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
And say what you will be MMM is so relaxing.
― andrew b (klik99), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Also likely everyone here knows already I'm insane over Take No Prisoners so that version bears mention too. There's one more song on the Street Hassle album, though, that I want to mention...must pull it out to see...you know I'm not sure which one it is. I'll have to play it again to figure it out.
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Look I had a bad dream about Hitler last night give me a break.
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
this was a lie, hoorah! wonderful what a half-decent turntable will do.
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I love this alb - there's something abt this sound of this rec, the vocals and shit, that's unique in Lou's discog - pisses all over any of his 80s albs (blue mask, r. quine solos and all, is SERIOUSLY overrated, esp. the stuff abt him getting outing his ouija board to contact delmore schwartz, now that's what i call bad luck)
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Unfortunately H2-H4, my own turntable has broken as of a few days ago. Suddenly wouldn't pick up the needle off the record. I can still play records, but if I forget to pick it up off the record before the end, I risk scratching the entire record and ruining my needle. Oh joy.
Thank goodness I have Street Hassle on CD.
― John Cougar Mellencamp sucks and you know it (Bimble...), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
1) For the record I believe I was the first person to go by Suzy Creamcheese on this board, though I did spell it entirely differently than whoever posted above.
2) The Bruce Springsteen part of SH totally rules and I hate Springsteen with a passion.
― John Cougar Mellencamp sucks and you know it (Bimble...), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
2) Bruce's part still sucks, and I'm totally indifferent to BRUUUUUCE
― JamesyCreemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I <3 this album.
― Tape Store, Sunday, 25 May 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
esp. the title track
― Tape Store, Sunday, 25 May 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yeh, this record is beautiful. i have no further insight at the moment, regrettably.
― dell, Sunday, 25 May 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my god I could talk about this song all day.
― Bimble, Sunday, 25 May 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to this for the first time today... the opening track is funny but pretty much a mess production-wise (Lou's layered vocals sound terrible! multi-tracking that croaking voice attempting to hold a vibrato produces sad results). The title track is fantastic, I don't have anything to add about that apart from it being so weird for me to come to it so late - I feel I already knew it from Spacemen 3/Spiritualized ripping it, and having it prick up my ears in the Squid and the Whale
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I have been on a real VU/Lou Reed kick lately... eventually I will get around to testing Alfred's early 80s trilogy theory (haven't heard the blue Mask since at least '92...?)
Always thought the weird version of "Real Good Time Together" on here was Lou's attempt at a kind of Suicide thing
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm, never thought of suicide with that track, but now that you mention it. is that song the last instance of Lou dipping into his old unreleased VU songs for a solo album? anyway, i always had a soft spot for this album, though it is certainly, er, spotty. obviously the title track is one of his career highlights, but the trashier stuff is fun too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Also recently gave a listen to his first s/t debut - an album that apparently no one ever listens to or references or reviews (and that has been out of print for decades now...?) Really weird album - comprised mostly of shitty versions of leftover VU material, over-played way to straight (choice of Rick Wakeman as a sideman = wtf, for obvious reasons). It has its moments - the end of Ride Into the Sun, Wild Child (did Wild Child get re-cut on a later album?) The version of Berlin is virtually unrecognizable from its later re-interpretation but is still not very good, and overall the sound of the album is really thin and boring. Have no idea if Lou Reed even plays guitar on it at all... I do find it odd though, for a guy whose later career missteps are habitually pored over and re-evaluated that this album is basically never discussed, by ANYBODY. Its like it never even happened. Even though less than a year after its release, Reed would be killing it with Transformer.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been reissued tons of time AND talked about! Agree about the thin sound, and sometimes inapt accompaniment but some of it's great!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i like it a lot (or i did prior to the VU release that more or less made it irrelevant). then again, i don't think much of Transformer.
xp
― "I'ma lose my religion and go secular on you, boy" (Ioannis), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i kinda like "Ocean" on the s/t album ... haven't listened to it in forever. Oh, "Lisa Says" is nice too. Neither of those songs are a patch on the VU versions, but I like their slickness. that album does make it painfully clear that Lou had no idea what direction to take his career in at that point.
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Those are my two least favourite tracks on the album!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
had no idea about the reissues - I've never seen one, and cruising blogs looking for a post of the album took a while.
agreed that the version of Ocean is at least interesting - its chugging as opposed to dreamy
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, well there you go. xpost
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
it IS crazy how somebody convinced Lou (or Lou convinced himself) that he shouldn't be playing guitar on his own records. that's really a big thing that's missing from most of his 70s records.
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing how shitty those hotshot British session men were are playing rock 'n' roll, esp. the drummer!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Makes you realise how great Sterling Morrison was for one thing!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't steve howe play on the first one too?
― velko, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i used to have this bizarro reissue of the s/t album that shuffled the tracklisting and added tracks from Lou Reed Live! weirdness. are the more recent reissues better sounding? i remember reading that it was mastered all wrong originally. something to do with dobly recording. :)
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
very true about the inexplicable inability of british session guys to rock appropriately. Definitely a "too many notes" situation.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
he shoulda used the spiders from mars for that record!
― "I'ma lose my religion and go secular on you, boy" (Ioannis), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
A too many of everything situation. Never got that with Sterl and Mo.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I've played this version of "Real Good Time Together" for a listening party, and you can't help but do an imitation of Lou being coked out of his mind singing this.
"we're gooo-NA have a REAL. GOOD. TIIIIME. tooo-GETHA!" *sniiiiiiiif*
― obamaloverholeinyohead (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've been on a real VU/Lou kick lately as well, Shakey. Played Berlin again yesterday after not hearing it some years and still don't think a whole lot of it. I think Street Hassle as an album has enough high points to make it worthwhile. I've never heard his first solo album...kinda scared to hear it, actually.
I've fallen in love with these videos on You Tube of him live in Paris, '74...but when I d/l this album entitled "The Olympia Theatre Paris, '74" the sound quality is absolutely horrible. Anyone know how I can get around this and find some more stuff like that?
― Bimble, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I think Berlin is pretty spotty myself. Ezrin's about as much of a mismatch for Reed as Wakeman in terms of overdoing things.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
eventually I will get around to testing Alfred's early 80s trilogy theory
Get around to it!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I will check the sausage before I put it in the waffle, so to speak
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Legendary Hearts is a great record that desperately cries out for remixing/remastering. burying Quine's guitar is never a good idea, imo. still great, tho. "Home of the Brave" has always been my fave.
― "I'ma lose my religion and go secular on you, boy" (Ioannis), Thursday, 9 October 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
wow this album is a total mess! so weird how disjointed and un-together a lot of the performances are. "Real Good Time Together", for example, has this fantastic guitar sound but any kind of steady tempo is completely undetectable for the first half or so while Reed fumbles around with the words/melody. "Wait" sorta drifts off aimlessly at the end. The band totally is not together on the opening track, the drummer stumbles in several places. The title track is fairly amazing but apart from that yeesh, I dunno... its kinda fascinating how completely unreliable Reed has been throughout his career.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 October 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Doesn't anyone like "Shooting Star"? I do.
― Polka-Dotted Bullshit (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Friday, 10 October 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
If only one of you watches it this year my posting here will not have been in vain.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
It's got everything: hippies, punks, teen idols, Allen Garfield, Ed Begley, Jr., Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov. A lost Lou Reed song with Robert Quine on it, or so it seems!
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
Unless it's Lou soloing, either way.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
uh hey James
Allan Arkush here- the Director of Get Crazy. I am happy to let you know that there will be a GET CRAZY BLU_RAY in early 2021. I am in the process of compiling the extras, since you are such a big fan, any thoughts? –aark✧✧✧@m✧✧.c✧✧
(from that Make Mine Criterion link, in the comments)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Ah, cool, thanks!
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Just the Lou Reed scenes (albeit in shittier quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMEbY7vGRmE
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Also his scenes from Blue in the Face (which I can't recommend, but it has its moments, particularly Jim Jarmusch's bit on smoking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduERw9BSns
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
Just looked at the personnel for Reggie’s band. Pretty interesting.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Love how the absolutely dead mic on Lou’s vocals gives the feeling of him in some shitty dimly lit studio at 3am trying to get it together. Such a nighttime album.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 September 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link