Best song Lou Reed ever wrote?

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"What Goes On" and "Strawman" (for the guitar solo)

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 18 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

who loves the sun and Wild child

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 18 September 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

corretion: make it - Oh! sweet nothin' and Wild Child

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

venus in furs, candy says. tie

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop blasting Waves of Fear.

Show you where my state of mind is.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Should be a POV, at least... torn between "Venus In Furs" and "Pale Blue Eyes".

"Thought of you as my mountaintop / Thought of you as my peak / Thought of you as everything / I had but couldn't keep" is a hall of fame lyric.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely "Rock and Roll," with "Perfect Day" not far behind.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

'perfect day' is my favourite lou reed solo track.

there are about 5 velvet tracks that jump in ahead of it however

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Charley's Girl" is another one of my favourites!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

I can think of many best songs.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:40 (eight years ago)

good list, you not a fan of Drella?

― piscesx, Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:46 (eight years ago)

I am but I prefer Cale's tunes.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:57 (eight years ago)

live in italy version of "betrayed" has always been one of my fave moments of RQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plh-3ej1t0M

― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:05 (eight years ago)

didn't mean to embed, sry

― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:06 (eight years ago)

I really think 'Legendary Hearts' is one of Lou's most beautiful songs.
A bit of a 'Everybody Hurts' sentiment going on, but then, I love grand sweeping gestures.

― campreverb, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:24 (eight years ago)

One of my favorites is "Busload of Faith". I always really dug how the New York album, as it's real stripped down and live sounding.

― earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:39 (eight years ago)

can think of many best songs.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 2, 2018 6:40 PM

Taste is taste; but the positioning of “Coney Island Baby” on that list almost leads me to conclude you are trolling

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:45 (eight years ago)

Perfect Day and Stephanie Says.

― treeship 2, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:56 (eight years ago)

Not very exciting answers but you know. I find halloween day parade really affecting too.

― treeship 2, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:56 (eight years ago)

aste is taste; but the positioning of “Coney Island Baby” on that list almost leads me to conclude you are trolling

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp)

Don't take lists too seriously. The song made it, you're good.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:59 (eight years ago)

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-mH9ZjnuM

― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:59 (eight years ago)

pale blue eyes

― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:40 (eight years ago)

Alfred, Our House is called My House.

And this should be on your list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveePL9Ft2Y

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:53 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4FI88FkQU

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:54 (eight years ago)

There's a white prism with phony jism

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:55 (eight years ago)

Man, what an impossible question. But at least sentimentally I guess I always come back to "I Love You" (where I think he might be being sincerely loving) and "Perfect Day" (where I'm pretty sure he's being deeply biting). . . "The Bed" really cripples me, and "Street Hassle" always wows me, too.

― Soundslike, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:24 (eight years ago)

Oh, flappy, yeah, "Pale Blue Eyes" is waay up there, too

― Soundslike, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:24 (eight years ago)

I love that line in “My House” —

I really got a lucky life
My writhing, my motorcycle and my wife

— and particularly how the “life/wife” rhyme echoes the long-ago rhyme in “Heroin” (in a very different context).

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:54 (eight years ago)

* that’s ”writing,” not “writhing” (wtf)

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:55 (eight years ago)

It would have been 'writhing' if he'd written it a ten years earlier or later.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:32 (eight years ago)

lol

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:36 (eight years ago)

VU era: some kinda love
solo: coney island baby

― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:47 (eight years ago)

I love that line in “My House” —

I really got a lucky life
My writhing, my motorcycle and my wife

— and particularly how the “life/wife” rhyme echoes the long-ago rhyme in “Heroin” (in a very different context).

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:54 (five days ago) Permalink

Also a testament to Lou I had to really stop and think "wait is it writhing?" for second there

Anyway the correct answer is Rock Minuet

― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:23 (eight years ago)

that is a very dark song

I'd choose something lighter, he was a humanist at heart right?

― niels, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:40 (eight years ago)

What Goes On, Rock and Roll, I'm Waiting for the Man

Waves of Fear, Coney Island Baby, Mad

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:52 (eight years ago)

And special love to The Last Shot for the most insane Lou lyric ever (and that's saying quite a bit)

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:54 (eight years ago)

VU: Sweet Jane
70s: Coney Island Baby
80s: Waves of Fear
90s: Hello It's Me
00s: Modern Dance
10s: Junior Dad

― niels, Saturday, 10 March 2018 20:02 (eight years ago)

I couldn’t even pick a “best song” from "The Blue Mask" alone. That album is extraordinary...

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:05 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

Covers comp coming: https://acerecords.co.uk/what-goes-on-the-songs-of-lou-reed

― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:46 (five years ago)

'walk like an egyptian'

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:52 (five years ago)

oh wait, that's the bagnles

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:52 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Sorry, it was Prince

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:54 (five years ago)

Oh he wrote more profound tunes, but when I just put the question to myself the first tune I heard was "She's My Best Friend". It is one of those songs that sounds like the whole song is a chorus.

― earlnash, Sunday, 2 May 2021 22:19 (five years ago)

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