Lou Reed Solo

Plus, general public impressed by any old nonsense. "Look he plays some stuff on those strings! Not everybody can do that!" When the truth is more like, nobody wants to hear it so a lot of guys just aren't allowed to do it.

Saunders justifies his presence in Lou's band with the "Waves of Fear" opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vi9iLZ4vYs

He was better with Bohannon

... of course, he didn't play fretlesss then

Rototoms! Man I love Lou with Quine so much.

i mean i may turn around on it, lou reed with the silver bullet band does sound not unamusing

Seger doing a 14-minute "Hollywood Nights" with VU (or at least The Feelies) would be pretty good, too.

Is everyone playing a game of "Let's see how far this thread can go without anyone mentioning The Blue Mask?"

Guess I lost.

waves of fear video posted an hour ago

Ah. My search skills are lacking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuTittAIp18

aaah was wondering how that went!!

sounds pretty good.

Hi, guys.

Is "Better Back Off" from the Crenshaw album with Saunders and Kenny Aronoff? That tune rules

Someone should do a Lou tribute night playing nothing but Saunders-backed tunes

so there's tons of weird odds and sods of lou's soundtracks stuff, cameos, etc on spotify...compiled them on this spotify mix

he had a song on the Friends soundtrack that should have been a hit!

http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/5y0XbLc0mNz0Qwm8WUbJUn

good idea! i remember looking at the friends sdtk in tower records wondering if i should buy it because of the lou reed song. the 90s.

sounds like a Set the Twilight Reeling outtake.

yeah it probably was...was it actually on the show?
friends sdtk is nuts

"I'll Be There for You"—The Rembrandts
"I Go Blind"—Hootie & the Blowfish
"Good Intentions"—Toad the Wet Sprocket
"You'll Know You Were Loved"—Lou Reed
"Sexuality"—k.d. lang
"Shoe Box"—Barenaked Ladies
"It's a Free World, Baby"—R.E.M.
"Sunshine"—Paul Westerberg
"Angel of the Morning"—The Pretenders
"In My Room"—Grant Lee Buffalo
"Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)"—Joni Mitchell
"Stain Yer Blood"—Paul Westerberg
"I'll Be There for You"—The Rembrandts

"I Go Blind" got airplay.I know "Sexuality" from the k.d. lang album released at the same time, and the Pretenders' Juice Newton cover was a b-side? I think it was the b-side for "Night in My Veins."

funny that westerberg got two slots just like on the singles soundtrack.
anyway, i recommend this lou boot from 1979. just listened to it today. terrible jokes during sweet jane. i think an audience member gets arrested, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeN_DqtN-wg&feature=youtu.be&list=UUMYTXrkONWxR_z8Y5Bf5rHw

'stain yer blood' is from the one where tribbiani murdered someone who was competing with him for a part in a commercial

good idea! i remember looking at the friends sdtk in tower records wondering if i should buy it because of the lou reed song. the 90s.

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Could you be more 90s?

good chance i was wearing a breeders t-shirt at the time

how lou doin'

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1153216/how-you-doin-o.gif

"It's a Free World, Baby" was also on the coneheads soundtrack

so funny! i was about to bring up westerberg and the singles soundtrack and how the nananananana NA NA song sounded like the friends theme song and how much i thought that sucked at the time but you guys did it for me!
lol the 90s indeed

The only one of those Westerberg songs on either album that doesnt suck is Stain Yer Blood

Friends soundtrack - feat. THE ORIGINAL WRAPPER + others

his fucked up cover of "This Magic Moment" from the Lost Highway soundtrack is great too, speaking of 90s things

yeah that is so good.
not sure how lou made it into this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2KOV2tZPg

Hornsby, master of the white man funky overbite

i recently met EZ Snappin irl and he had some Bruce Hornsby stories I will never forget!

HI DERE

Trying to work out the kinks in my screenname. Sorry it took a while.

We saw your Cowboys on TV today
They never let Philadelphia have the ball for a minute

You ought to give other people just a little channce

Hmmm: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/20/lou-reed-walk-wild-side-transphobic-lyrics-canada

Discussed here: The Coddling Of The American Mind (Trigger Warning Article In The Atlantic...)

Worth noting that the student group seems to have deleted the original post pretty quickly so this is probably all over nothing much. Possibly, they thought about the lyrics, saw a potential issue, apologized, realized the initial reaction was ott, and moved on.

Interestingly, this column in the trashy right-wing Sun tabloid is the only coverage I see of this in Canadian media, while the mainstream UK press and American conservative blogs seem to have run with it

Oh, I missed it, thanks.

getting into sally can't dance for the first time. lol @ how comprehensively sleazy this thing sounds, lou barely singing above a whisper, everything seemingly half-assed and gross and swaggering at the same time. and then it gets abruptly devastating on the second side with "kill your sons" and "ennui" and "billy"

i can see why ppl thought this album was trash but i find its loucheness alluring

I love that louche Lou mode

Sit yourself down, take off your pants, don't you know this is a party?

"N.Y. Stars" reminds me of the stuff Amon Düül II was recording around that same time...

Lou was v aware of the deep irony of such a lazy half-assed record that generally smothers him also turned out to be his best-seller. These days the only tracks I return to from it are the title track and the aforementioned "Ennui" and "Billy". "Kill Your Sons" I just don't really like the sound of.

The title track is on that "Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed" collection (one of the first tapes I owned as a kid)... I remember loudly singing the bridge lyrics in the middle-school football team locker room, and other kids being like "wtf"

"Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed" collection (one of the first tapes I owned as a kid)

yup me too. lou solo stuff was only intermittently available to high school me. I did fortuitously stumble on an LP copy of Coney Island Baby, which I still have.