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

20. Nico "I'm Not Sayin'"
7 votes, 261 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdZFnZ6M0k

Jimmy Page on guitar, produced by Brian Jones, written by Gordon Lightfoot

the arrangement is...something. I guess I like it, but it's not Nico.

She didn't see to think so, either:

I still cannot listen to it, because everything I wanted for that record, they took it away. I asked for drums, they said no. I asked for more guitars, they said no. And I asked for simplicity, and they covered it in flutes! [...] They added strings and – I didn't like them, but I could live with them. But the flute! The first time I heard the album, I cried and it was all because of the flute.[4]

that's it for today

part of me is glad a flute made Nico cry sadnazi.jpg

but man, I'm Not Sayin', what a tune. superior to Lightfoot's version imho, just gorgeous folk pop from start to finish. Oddly, the (reunited) "Replacements" recently covered it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwfTGxg_KE

Yeah Chelsea Girl less for the production and more for the song itself and her delivery is great

Check out Elliott Smith cover version if you can as well.

I better not find out I coulda voted in the VU poll but not the solo careers one, that's all.

In case you didn't get it before, here's that Lou Reed 1979 guest DJ show. If it was a track I would've voted for it. http://ow.ly/r1qh4
bonus track here -- http://ow.ly/r1vOI

I better not find out I coulda voted in the VU poll but not the solo careers one, that's all.

you coulda made an all Velvets ballot if you wanted so joke's on you pal

ooh bonus call-ins!

"Lou, I just want to say that I really like the sound of the Roland synthesizer and I'm looking forward to the show at the Bottom Line."

"is that Jeff Beck feeding back or us?"

In case you didn't get it before, here's that Lou Reed 1979 guest DJ show. If it was a track I would've voted for it. http://ow.ly/r1qh4
bonus track here -- http://ow.ly/r1vOI

― tylerw, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:17 PM

It's the greatest--so captures the times. I love when Lou chastises the guy for swearing on air

Only a handful of people heard Lou's 1979 guest DJ spot on WPIX-FM when it first aired but every one of them became James Redd or a Blecch.

haha, exactly
hey speaking of nico's chelsea girl (the song) i kinda always liked this bootleg rehearsal version with a very fuzzy guitar thing happening. i don't think it's actually lou playing guitar though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4_oXGsr5V0

lol @ Lou hanging up on a whole bunch of callers in a row

That reminds me, I heard an episode of Rockline a few years ago where the guest was Joe Satriani. The host announced, "We have a special 'guest question' for you tonight," and it's Lou (on tape) asking Joe what tips he would give guitarists just starting out.

Reed was a fan of Neil Young's "Danger Bird"

This list is introducing me to a ton of stuff I'm not familiar with. Has anyone started a Spotify playlist yet?

"I'm Not Sayin" is so great, coulda been on the Rhino girl group hatbox - I blew it off in the voting though.

Spotify can fuck right off, I'm not doing that

Glad to see "Kicks" place relatively high and TWO Lulu songs make the list. If I remembered to vote I woulda thrown some points "cheat on me"'s way

Springsteen will be making an appearance soon. Could he be top 5? Tramps like us, we were born to pay.

I've been waiting for the other half of this...of my four solo picks, "I'm Not Sayin'"'s there, two are still to come, and I guess one didn't make it.

Spotify can fuck right off, I'm not doing that

Found that kind of refreshing. Not directed at you, intheblanks, not directed at anyone, and I realize it's a convenience, etc., etc. It's just that the call for a Spotify playlist has become so ubiquitous in these polls. I've had this vision of two people standing there at Woodstock, and one person asks the other person if anybody's put together a Spotify playlist yet.

this is going by so fast

Fair enough. I want to reiterate that, as someone unversed in post-Velvets solo work, this double roll-out has brought a lot of great material to my attention. Thanks Shakey!

There will be no talk of fucking Woodstock on the Velvet Underground thread!

I think you can head talk of a spotify playlist somewhere in between the Pernod orders on the expanded Live At Max's Kansas City.

we need a Don-Glenn exchange pronto.

DON: What's so great about Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground? All their songs were about whores and drugs and transvestite whores on drugs.

GLENN:Yeah, we kept that stuff in our personal lives and out of our lyrics!

DON: Well, yeah.

^^^ totally believable

lol

There will be no talk of fucking Woodstock on the Velvet Underground thread!

Little-known fact: if you watch the film closely, you can spot Lou dancing backstage during Country Joe's set.

Only VU member to perform at Woodstock was Angus Maclise!

Wow really? Did he join Quill or something?

nm, Unterberger clarifies all

Hetty Maclise on Woodstock and other notable boho events: http://www.phantomlyoracula.com/2008/10/america-here-i-come.html

I think we'd better ixnay on the Woodnay (or however you'd say that)--someone's going to be angry.

very very cool article, thanks! xp

http://www.mrzdoinferno.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lou+Reed+++Woodstock-300x180.jpg
"Is that Angus?!"

Was waiting for that photo to show up!

hahaha

one of my fave lou photos

I'll sing when you shut the fuck up

19. John Cale "Hedda Gabler"
9 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 268 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9A8midx5KA

18. John Cale "Buffalo Ballet"
8 votes, 277 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBkBtunec0

17. Lou Reed & John Cale "Style It Takes"
11 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 298 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzzgFOLa63A

Yay, I voted for both Hedda Gabler and Buffalo Ballet, neither of which I had heard before this poll. So good job ilx.

my #1, #11, #20

have a feeling like the top 10 will have at most one cale song though

Buffalo Ballet and Style it Takes are both amazing...The "sleeping in the midday sun" bit is my favourite single line from any song in this poll. Ok, maybe 2nd favourite after "you're a ghost la la la la la la la la".