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

^^^ 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!

Monitor, monitor, are you paying attention?

We know it's fucking raining out

Sorry for the delay guys, home with sick kid at the moment

Which track did he say that on? Oh wait, I see, sorry.

Get well soon, Shakey Jr

Awwww, we wait for Son of Shakey, no questions asked!

or daughter (sorry for the sexist slip!)

more alliterative than sexist, surely

that's true, was trying to follow up on Shakey Jr.

okay back on track

so "Open House" was actually tied with

Lou Reed "Sad Song"
5 votes, 99 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTrG9z2AWxQ

54. Mo Tucker "Hey Mersh!"
3 votes, 102 pts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V8wAf_fxnY

that's Lou playing guitar on previous entry btw

53. Lou Reed "Underneath the Bottle"
5 vptes, 104 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vsS01qqu08

I voted for "Hey Mersh!" Love the guitars.

52. John Cale & Brian Eno "Spinning Away"
3 votes, 105 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INeMspNSQ0

feels more like an Eno track to me, not sure what Cale did on it

yeah I took it off my ballot for that reason

it is great though

I included no Eno-Cale tracks for that reason.

xxpost

Cale plays and harmonizes though.

this was one I didn't know prior to the poll

51. John Cale "Perfect"
4 votes, 109

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

spinning away is super amazing but didn't vote for it for the above reasons

wrong way up and songs for drella are both so great

lou reed shoulda done an eno album to complete the set

TIE
50. Lou Reed "My House"
6 votes, 111 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYq2kPjdBDw

Nico "Evening of Light"
4 votes, 111 pts

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

I can't really picture Reed tolerating any of Eno's bullshit tbh

this poll has also confirmed my suspicions that the vast majority of Nico's solo career is odious bullshit btw

harsh!

his poll has also confirmed my suspicions that the vast majority of Nico's solo career is odious bullshit btw

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier

true except for the "odious" part

49. John Cale "Graham Greene"
3 votes, 114 pts

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

"The Ostrich," what the hell u ppl

true except for the "odious" part

I dunno something about the relentless Teutonic tragedian posing combined with her narcissistic junkie racist personal life (something I would usually be able to divorce from an artist's work) really grates on me. there's an aesthetic there that has some underlying politics that I just cannot get with.

Getting into the really good stuff now. Evening of Light scares the bejeesus out of me.

underlying politics helps make it interesting though! like, this is what sad nazi music could sound like. totally get why that would not appeal

"The Ostrich," what the hell u ppl

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:22 PM (6 minutes ago)

Shut up and dance, Granddad.

Lou Reed "The Kids"
5 votes, 115 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_i-R2ldyA

I was surprised at how few votes Graham Greene got - Paris 1919 gets a lot of love around here and that's definitely one of my favorite tracks on the album but even so it placed lower than I expected.

argh "the Kids" is 48.

obviously

Hey Mersh is definitely a front runner for the most Velvet-y thing an ex-Velvet ever did.

Hi-5 to Alfred and the other Hey Mersh! voter.

high 5!