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

my #1!!! xp

lol shakey

clearly inferior to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxyIs8MkmU

j/k

the REAL no. 2 is

2. John Cale "Fear is a Man's Best Friend"
21 votes, 720 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iAAe_7_HOw

yay

i think this is the first cale solo song i ever heard. it remains amazing.

pretty amazed that beat 'perfect day' among other things

This is kind of surprising. I was sure Street Hassle was going to be first by a Gimme Shelter-esque landslide.

1. Lou Reed "Satellite of Love"
27 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 785 pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXESfMD01h8

haha, weird... that is not the song i would've though would be at #1!

Nice! I do love Satellite of Love, though I voted for the Velvets version instead.

thx for doing this shakey -- and glad the thread title has a bimble shout out as well...

I was not expecting to see two Cale songs in the top three.

Satellite won just by virtue of appearing on a majority of ballots. Other solo songs may have been higher on individual voters' ballots but there wasn't as wide a consensus - Fear was close but no one had it as their number 1, for ex.

Total Solo Results:

79 The Dream Syndicate Day of Niagara
78 Lou Reed The Gun
77 Lou Reed Families
76 Nico Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
75 Lou Reed I Want to Boogie With You
74 Lou Reed I Wanna Be Black
74 John Cale Antarctica Starts Here
73 The Dream Syndicate Sun Blindness Music
73 Nico little sister
72 John Cale Darling, I Need You
71 John Cale The Soul Of Carmen Miranda
71 Lou Reed Set The Twilight Reeling
70 Lou Reed Caroline Says II
70 Lou Reed A Gift
70 Lou Reed New Sensations
69 Lou Reed Big Sky
69 Nico Roses in the Snow
69 Lou Reed The Bells
68 Lou Reed Wild Child
67 Lou Reed & John Cale Smalltown
66 Lou Reed The Last Shot
65 John Cale Afraid
65 Nico It Has Not Taken Long
64 John Cale Heartbreak Hotel
63 John Cale Pablo Picasso
62 The Primitives The Ostrich
62 John Cale Sylvia Said
62 John Cale Amsterdam
62 John Cale The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles
61 Lou Reed & John Cale Hello It's Me
61 Lou Reed What's Good
60 Lou Reed Make Up
60 Lou Reed Women
59 Lou Reed Charley's Girl
58 Lou Reed & John Cale Nobody But You
58 Lou Reed & Metallica Brandenburg Gate
57 Lou Reed Legendary Hearts
56 Lou Reed Hangin' Round
55 Lou Reed & John Cale Open House
55 Lou Reed Sad Song (Lou Reed)
54 Mo Tucker Hey Mersh!
53 Lou Reed Underneath the Bottle
52 Brian Eno & John Cale Spinning Away
51 John Cale Perfect
50 Lou Reed My House
50 Nico Evening of Light
49 John Cale Graham Greene
48 Lou Reed The Kids
47 Lou Reed & Metallica Junior Dad
47 John Cale Mr. Wilson
46 Lou Reed the bed
46 John Cale Cordoba
45 Lou Reed Dirty Blvd.
44 Lou Reed Men of Good Fortune
43 John Cale Thoughtless Kind
42 John Cale Guts
41 John Cale Big White Cloud
40 Lou Reed Egg Cream
39 Lou Reed She's My Best Friend (Lou Reed)
38 Nico It Was A Pleasure Then
38 Lou Reed New York Telephone Conversation
37 Lou Reed Crazy Feeling
36 Nico Janitor of Lunacy
35 John Cale gideon's bible
34 John Cale The Endless Plain of Fortune
33 Lou Reed Halloween Parade
32 John Cale & Terry Riley Church of Anthrax
31 Lou Reed I Love You, Suzanne
30 Lou Reed Romeo Had Juliette
29 John Cale Leaving It Up to You
28 Lou Reed Kicks
27 Nico The Fairest of the Seasons
26 John Cale Dying on the Vine
25 John Cale Ship of Fools
24 John Cale Andalucia
23 John Cale I Keep A Close Watch
22 Lou Reed The Blue Mask
21 Nico Chelsea Girls
20 Nico I'm Not Sayin'
19 John Cale Hedda Gabler
18 John Cale Buffalo Ballet
17 Lou Reed & John Cale Style It Takes
16 John Cale A Child's Christmas in Wales
15 Lou Reed Andy's Chest
14 John Cale Gun
13 Lou Reed Metal Machine Music
12 Lou Reed Waves of Fear
11 Nico Frozen Warnings
10 John Cale Hanky Panky Nohow
9 Lou Reed Vicious
8 Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side
7 Lou Reed Perfect Day
6 Nico These Days
5 Lou Reed Street Hassle
4 Lou Reed Coney Island Baby
3 John Cale Paris 1919
2 John Cale Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
1 Lou Reed Satellite of Love

The points for the top five were a lot closer than I expected, but I guess that's what happens when these votes get split from the rest of the poll. All those down ballot votes would have been top tens (plus more number ones) in a real solo VU poll.

Great rollout, Shakey.

Now I need to get on the Cale foot.

i'm glad an upbeat cale tune + one with universally felt lyrics is at the top even if the song is technically about men
good results! thanks shakey!!

Fear is Cale's Martha My Dear

the number ones by my count

Nico: Janitor of Lunacy
Cale: Hedda Gabler, Gideon’s bible, Leaving It Up to You
Cale/Reed: Style it Takes
Reed: Coney Island Baby (twice), Satellite of Love

could we use a different thread for rolling out the VU results? my computer is dying from all these youtubes.

Martha My Dear indeed!

would need to get this thread renamed if I started another one just for the VU results

I turned images off, that helps with the thread loading

xp - but the lyrics are better

the youtubes can be links right? like in the r kelly thread. don't how to do this though.

keep the images!

great job all around by the way

youtubes automatically embed as images, unless I'm mistaken?

if you add the url tag then the youtube link doesn't automatically embed iirc.

also, set your browser so it doesn't automatically load flash (the setting will be "click to load flash content" or something like that). then you can load only the youtubes you want to play.

ah ok thx

testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXESfMD01h8

hrm that didn't work. nm

Some Text

or use the "share this video" youtu.be link:

http://youtu.be/bkG9BKgDvNI

huh, those code tags didn't do what I expected

I would have bet money on "Fear" or "These Days." Maybe sentiment was worth a few points.

Nico's racism cost her votes, along with the obvious Jackson Browne/ Eagles/Wes Anderson/Gwenyth Paltrow connections.

Jackson Browne +2
Eagles -5
Wes Anderson +4
Gwenyth Paltrow (--)

She comes out ahead on those four, it must have been the racism that did her in.

what did she have to do with the eagles and the movie ppl?

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

i like this scene! sue me.

xp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Tenenbaums_(soundtrack)

Actually, I agree on the Eagles--neither her nor the song has any connection to them, right? (Did the Eagles cover it too?)

Jackson Browne wrote "These Days" and also a handful of Eagles songs.

I know about Jackson...pretty tenuous on the Eagles, though. Carole King wrote Tony Orlando's first hit, but I wouldn't blame her for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." (Though you may be right that it all blurs together for some people.)

now envisioning Nico's version of Hotel California

Xp It's a proximity thing involving ilx straw people.

SCTV did that K-Tel parody commercial once, "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written." A Nico equivalent would be perfect. "Sugar, Sugar," "Get Ur Freak On," "Truckin'", "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," just about anything's funny to think about.

we need to make this happen

Ahhh I saw Tenenbaums but it was 1 zill yrs ago. And I knew J Browne wrote that song, just wasn't sure where the gd eagles fit in!

Just finished reading Uptight and had mind blown that Nico's accompanist before Browne was pre fame Tim Buckley. And that Browne was only on the scene bc he was a huge fan of pre fame Tim Buckley and was following him around the country?!?

Tim Buckley + 3

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