Bimble Says: The Lou Reed Memorial Velvet Underground and Solo Careers Poll RESULTS THREAD

TS: "Underneath the Bottle" vs "The Last Shot"

Ooh ooh wee...son of a b!

oh ha, i guess lou is on the cover of legendary hearts (in the reflection).

That's such a "lol the 80s" cover

I also think it's hilarious, though I can obviously understand how the lyrics can be offensive. I do think the song is making fun of the narrator, not sympathizing with his lol/awful viewpoints.

there was a piece about snoop, maybe an interview, in either nme or melody maker in the early 90s which opened unironically with "i know what lou reed meant when he sung 'i wanna be black'."

hey two of my picks! I voted for "Darling, I Need You" - mostly on the strength of the awesome BBC session performance from the 70's. also voted for Wild Child because it is great, although I have never heard a version that really lives up to the core of the song. that 1st solo record is recorded so strangely.

Just got here..."Day of Niagara" and "Sun Blindness Music" are two droney pieces that don't do much for me. Not really sure why, with a lot of this stuff you just either get into it or you don't ime.

i am one of the uber goth "roses in the snow" voters
oooh so evocative! love that song. she sounds so medieval!

no more today?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/31290231/John+Cale.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/31290211/John+Cale.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UpV74LGYRbU/UnjxJluGFVI/AAAAAAAAF3o/PNZNXZdjjFc/s1600/John+Cale.jpg

sorry had a bunch of work-shit to do

TIE
65. Nico "It Has Not Taken Long"
3 votes, 81 pts

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

Nico "Afraid"
2 votes, 81 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqT4ELCNgiA

64. John Cale "Heartbreak Hotel"
5 votes, 83 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewXubUm2-3s

woah only two votes for "Afraid"?

63. John Cale "Pablo Picasso"
3 votes, 84 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtBsikiY50

bears more than a passing resemblance to the previous entry...

sorry there were three votes for "Afraid" actually. if it makes you feel any better.

ha, i was one of those three. i figured that'd be the one (along with "these days") that'd be the go-to nico song for people who don't really like the uber-goth nico.

that's ok then, I guess xp

QUADRUPLE TIE
62. John Cale & Terry Riley "The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles"
4 votes, 85 pts

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

John Cale "Amsterdam"
3 votes, 85 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCu1okRPcA

The Primitives "The Ostrich"
4 votes, 85 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r998weOUiM

John Cale "Sylvia Said"
3 votes, 85 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0eqW7612KU

TIE
61. Lou Reed "What's Good"
4 votes, 88 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTkTukfjZM

Loe Reed & John Cale "Hello It's Me"
4 votes, 88 pts.

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

TIE
60. Lou Reed "Women"
5 votes, 91 pts

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

Lou Reed "Make Up"
3 votes, 91 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TFb03PmScY

59. Lou Reed "Charley's Girl"
4 votes, 92 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHYE0D6FjXw

Xp Women love MakeUp!

<3 the charley's girl groove

it's pretty playful for a song about punching a girl's face in

TIE
58. John Cale & Lou Reed "Nobody But You"
3 votes, 93 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCIxMZ8hY8

Lou Reed & Metallica "Brandenburg Gate"
3 votes, 93 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yQif1hIUuw

57. Lou Reed "Legendary Heart"
4 votes, 95 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15y63U3LM9Y

56. Lou Reed "Hangin' Round"
5 votes, 97 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz74Dj1v3FM

55. Lou Reed & John Cale "Open House"
4 votes, 99 pts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN48QnUZl1Q

allright that's it for today

"The Ostrich" is the one song i was really mad at myself for forgetting to vote for. glad "Brandenburg Gate" made the cut! i mostly only know VU and i guess virtually all of their songs are still to come.

VU song results will be posted separately

haha
i read that as VU song results will be praised separately

but we voted for them together? this is so confusing

I like it. It's a good idea

it's not that complicated. this way I get to list a bunch more solo results, basically. points were allotted using the scale described, then I just separated the resulting list into two lists - one for VU tracks and one for solo stuff. If you were to assume (rightly, as it turns out) that pretty much every VU song was gonna get votes, that meant that 60+ some slots would be taken up by VU material. If I was to do a 100-song results rollout based on that, that would mean that the vast majority of solo material stuff that people voted for wouldn't even place. I suppose I could have made it a 200-song results rollout, with the majority of solo career stuff coming in at the bottom.

But this way is cleaner and more interesting, imho.

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I was hoping the solo votes wouldn't be swamped, so I appreciate the separate rollouts.

sensible, Solomonic

"Open House" is a very beautiful song.

Just seeing this for the first time. Nice call separating solo and VU.

The Gun wuz robbed!

^^^ don't touch don't touch him

surprised at the strong showing both for various nico and for drella tracks.

also curious if "Caroline Says I" will place, or if people just prefer the incredibly depressing one over the upbeat one with depressing lyrics.

i remember being really taken aback by how graphic "II" is, but now it feels almost too ostentatious in its shock value.

Can't believe I used to listen to a song on the regular where "but she's not afraid to die" is like the most positive sentiment in the entire thing.

It's cool to see the Nico love. I picked up that Frozen Warnings set Rhino UK did used last year and subsequently slept on it. Listening for real over the last few days has been a real eye-opener. The peaks on The Marble Index could've been recorded tomorrow, which (at least in my case) isn't something you necessarily think about when listen to the VU or related material.

A few of my picks have made an entry here: The Gun, The Soul of Carmen Miranda, Pablo Picasso, Hello It's Me, Make Up, Charley's Girl.

I find "Hello It's Me" to be really touching. It may have been late coming, but it's nice to hear Lou own up to being a jerk to Warhol despite loving/owing him so much.

so much of Lou's work is tied up in this weird public persona he developed (much like Dylan) that when autobiographical details do pop up they tend to attract extra attention

^OTM.

"Brandenburg Gate" is not so bad. I've never been that keen on 'Tallica, so it's hard for me to take the project seriously.

Surprised nobody's mentioned one of the all-time great Lou Reed lyrics, from The Last Shot.

"I shot a vein in my neck and I coughed up a quaalude"

^^^ don't touch don't touch him

Tell the lady to lie down

yeah "Hello It's Me" is one of the peaks of Drella; love sappy Lou

dividing the lists was a great idea. hyped for this!