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

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

OTM

Nico Plays More Sad Nazi Hits

Enjoying the rollout so far -- thanks for running this one, Shakey.

While we're waiting for the man, here's a scene from our dining room last night.

http://vimeo.com/80119982

Since we're in the waiting room for the VU rollout and this is the VU thread on SNA right now, can I ask-- what is happening starting at 6:30 in the Boston Tea Party live version of sister ray (the one tyler linked from doom and gloom). It sounds like Cale sawing on his viola but of course it can't be given the date.

Holy crap, that rules, tipsy.

People POLL into the stratosphere

xp it's probably just some Reed feedback madness -- those 1969 sister rays are so incredible to me, just endlessly enjoyable.

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VELCOM TO DE HO-DTEL KALI-FOHNYA

making me laugh so much inside, thank you shakey

While I generally find her unbearable, I voted for Nico's "These Days", mostly for the last line which seems too apt in her case, and sung with an awkwardness that seems somehow heartfelt. I bet she hadn't forgotten them.

btw I repeat, no motherfuckers alerted me to the fact you were going to separate the solo tracks (who the fuck cares) from the VU tracks

I'm sure it was decided after a 5-day debate, but some ppl have lives

Keeping up with ilx is an exercise left to the student.

This is all explained upthread multiple times morbz. Plenty of people submitted all VU ballots

When you run a poll you can do things your way

Took my total ballot, stripped out the velvets songs, and got my solo-only ballot as follows:

1. (I Keep A) Close Watch -- Cale
2. Fear is a Man's Best Friend -- Cale
3. Hanky Panky Nohow -- Cale
4. Cordoba -- Cale
5. Perfect -- Cale
6. Coney Island Baby -- Reed
7. Metal Machine Music -- Reed
8. Thoughtless Kind -- Cale
9. Andalucia -- Cale
10. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -- Cale
11. Chelsea Girls -- Nico
12. Style It Takes -- Reed, Cale
13. Paris 1919 -- Cale
14. The Power of Positive Drinking -- Reed
15. Frozen Warnings -- Nico
16. Guts -- Cale
17. Mercenaries (Ready for War) -- Cale
18. Growing up in Public -- Reed
19. Outta the Bag -- Cale
20. Gun -- Cale
21. Caroline Says I -- Reed
22. Buffalo Ballet -- Cale
23. On a Wedding Anniversary -- Cale
24. How Do You Think it Feels -- Reed
25. Darling I Need You -- Cale
26. Satellite of Love -- Reed
27. Original Wrapper -- Reed
28. Baton Rouge -- Reed
29. Egg Cream -- Reed
30. The Ballad of Cable Hogue -- Cale
31. Dying on the Vine -- Cale
32. Street Hassle -- Reed
33. The Last Shot -- Reed

The big difference between my ballot and the results seems to be that in in the results, the Falklands Suite isn't represented at all!? Also, but less surprising, no Growing Up in Public I think. As far as lush orchestration and reed go I think it only comes second to Berlin?

I was tempted to vote for "Kicks" but man is it absurd.

yeah nothing from Growing Up in Public got a lot of votes, think you and Alfred are alone on that one

nothing from GUWP in my ballot

right I just meant in general. or am I misremembering something

growing up in public might be the lou reed album i've listened to the least...

nothing from the first album, Berlin, R&RH, SCD either iirc

ah all explained upthread after the polls have closed, i see

(no sweat really -- i wouldnt have had time to vote anyhoo)

Pretty surprised by Berlin's showing in this poll

i think i only voted for "caroline says II" but I love it overall -- just hard to pick out single tracks, i generally like listening to it as a whole. The recent live re-recording of it is quite good, too, the little switch ups work really well for the most part.

Yeah, I'm not super-familiar with post-Velvets solo work (just lurking here for places to start). I've only heard Berlin once I think; I just know that it's always been held up as one of Lou's best.

yeah, it is, though it is markedly different (at least in terms of production) than anything else he did -- i can certainly see why someone who loved Transformer or even the later stuff wouldn't be that into Berlin.

also not really a singles album

I don't really like it.

it is pretty unpleasant, i'll admit.

I had The Kids on my ballot cuz I think that track works the best but in general its like the overblown prog sdtrk to a bad Fassbinder movie

haha, i know what you mean but "the overblown prog sdtrk to a bad Fassbinder movie" is a really appealing description to me.

i came out of my crash course in solo Lou so much more interested in Berlin (and The Blue Mask) than Transformer

in a funny way, Lou's solo albums are all aberrations. none of them are like one another until he hits on the Saunders-Quine-Maher combo at the end of the decade.

I hadn't heard Berlin until the day after Lou died. Got immediately hooked on it, and almost put the whole record in my ballot.

ANYWAY y'all ready for some Velvets results now

I had "The Kids" at #3, I believe, on my overall ballot (behind two VU songs). It's overblown, sure, but it destroys me every time.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5513/10916137594_ef63db90d2.jpg

TIE
51. Coyote
1 vote, 50 pts

url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aW9QVrbhc

Sweet Sister Ray
1 vote, 50 pts

url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVA6vp_DAM

hmm wait that last youtube isn't right

is this it?
url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFaOyQbDTKs

hahaha my #1 vote for Sweet Sister Ray has paid off

I really truly love the song - the last major thing they they did with Cale aside from the 1968 studio session. Endless replay value, serious guitar work from Sterling especially, jamming til the cows come home, and a wonderful laid back vibe throughout. I may have played this track more than any other Velvets song over the course of my life,

Sweet Sister Ray went to a movie
that had come around
It was the biggest movie
that had ever come to town

Why this is the weirdest movie
I've seen in my days
I've never seen a stranger film anywhere

Why I must be dead
'cause I never felt this way ailve
Oh I've never felt this way
since nineteen fifty-five
Just then Sister Ray
felt a hand on her knee
[I'm] a young crippled orphan
and I come here constantly

Why it's just like a mental hospital
those don't have any locks
Just then comes in the doctor
giving us electroshocks

All the vaseline on your forehead
makes you feel so nice
My hair stood up on end
and I thought I'd been froze(?) with a knife
Oh I'm so pretty
purple earrings and all
No one knew you were crazy
That you told 'em

Just then I saw
a hole in the ground
And I jumped right in
'cause there was no one around

[long instrumental break into "Sister Ray"]