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― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
Picked this up today — it was the only thing I wanted from the RSD list. Sounds effin great! I don’t think I’ve heard this since about 1994. Turns out, after some confusion, that the run was indeed 8500 copies, which probably means I’ll be buying a few more copies at half price somewhere down the road.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
streaming free through the 19th.
https://stannswarehouse.org/show/lou-reed-john-cale-songs-for-drella-a-fiction-1990/?utm_campaign=586306_Drella%20Talks%2011%2F13&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&dm_i=63KQ,CKEA,5KDQYY,1B3GI,1
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 15 November 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
awesome. Thanks for the link!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 15 November 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
I only got/heard this within the last year or so and recently re-listened, pretty damn good. I look forward to spending more time with it.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 15 November 2020 07:17 (three years ago) link
The new 4K restoration of the film, screening in New York this week and next week
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/films/songs-for-drella/
― piscesx, Monday, 4 October 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
Coming to a streaming service near you!
https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/unearthed-lou-reed-and-john-cale-songs-for-drella-concert-film-coming-to-streaming-137643/
― piscesx, Friday, 25 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
I revisited this album last week (after several decades)… it’s really a masterpiece
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Friday, 25 March 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
I discovered it over lockdown. Love it to death.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Saturday, 26 March 2022 09:56 (two years ago) link
Yes it's a late masterpiece. Supposedly the movie is made from the footage also available on Youtube? Would love to see it in high quality.
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 26 March 2022 10:11 (two years ago) link
Managed to avoid listening to this all these years but maybe tonight is the night.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
I think there was a laserdisc and VHS of the performance, but I'm not sure if it made it to DVD.
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 27 March 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link
OMG never mind, I watched the trailer for the restored version and it looks INCREDIBLE, the version I have is terrible by comparison.
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 27 March 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
Never heard of MUBI… anyone have experience with it?
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Sunday, 27 March 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
I have subscribed for years and think it’s great although am always a little disappointed when something is streaming in the UK and Ireland but not the US.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
Fascinating interview with original director of the Drella film Ed Lachman, lots of technical detail about the new restored version. Lachman has a pretty amazing CV; cinematographer for Carol, Far From Heaven, The Virgin Suicides etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADENLtNXoBw
― piscesx, Monday, 28 March 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
I don't listen to this much, but I still quote it. I think Lou would think that sufficient.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 March 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
This is pretty well-done and fun to listen to after watching the doc. Surprisingly good meshing of latter day Lou and John. In particular enjoying wordy Lou lyrics more than expected.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 March 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
Is “Trouble with Classicists” based on some stuff Andy actually said?
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link
I can’t believe you never listened to this, James!
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
Lou called me a rat and I fired him.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
But Billy saidBoth those nerds are dead
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
https://mubi.com/films/songs-for-drella
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
Ah brilliant!
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
The story behind the restoration:
https://filmmakermagazine.com/112486-a-haunting-symbiosis-on-ed-lachmans-newly-restored-lou-reed-john-cale-concert-film-songs-for-drella/
I was pretty cool towards the album, but I found the movie on YouTube (a LaserDisc rip) and surprisingly it made a huge difference for me. Something about it made the whole project much more affecting - everything from the projected backdrops to just seeing John and Lou's faces. Probably helps that Lachmann is one of the great cinematographers and that comes through too in the lighting and composition.
Scanning from the original long-lost negatives makes a huge difference. Glad it's streamable but definitely see it projected if you can. I hope this gets a Blu-ray release as well.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Enjoy, MUBI UK and Ireland subscribers!
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
John channelling the dreaming Andy is incredible.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
xp Can we license the UCAN rights for ILX TV?
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
Could be. Have to get back to you.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
God. Haven't watched the restored live show but like a fool I decided I'd listen to the album while I did some work this afternoon, now I have a great ball of grief welled up in my chest, what a fantastic record and so emotionally complex.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 25 April 2022 05:41 (two years ago) link
Criterion Channel's got the remastered concert film streaming now.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 October 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Cale hair in classic form.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
I love this line from Dave Connolly’s AMG review of words for the dying:Perhaps Cale's own unusual hairstyle (which resembles a book of carpet samples more than anything) led him to re-evaluate the impact of an actress who could dance with ten pounds of fruit on her head.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
might be my favourite reed, favourite cale
i had no idea it was considered "lost", i had on (terribly recorded) videotape for years
― mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
"but I have some resentments that can never be unmade"
vmic
― mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
Loved this v much.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
All the more moving for Lou’s unwillingness to emote. But “A Dream” just kills me every time.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link
This is an interview with Lachmsn btw.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/14/they-didnt-go-round-the-corner-for-beer-lou-reed-and-john-cales-songs-for-drella
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
*Lachman
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
lol @ at that url
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NbbJuZB.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
It's like one guy has hair where the other needs it, and vice-versa
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
My Songs For Drella statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my Songs For Drella statement. pic.twitter.com/qZkO5LXhIW— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) November 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
classic drella tbh, coaxing two highly stormy ppl into the same art space to see what trasnpires
the factory was a drama factory, it's all good fun until some loses a lung
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
Now reminded somehow of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) and thinking they should have worked that into Patriot somehow. #onethread
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link