― gary k (gary k), Friday, 21 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Friday, 21 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Of course, the title track is simply beautiful and its one the few times in his solo career where Lou is actually is good as he thinks he is.
― Dadaismus, Saturday, 22 March 2003 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
Still not a big fan of the album, but I'm having an earwig moment right now with the title track. That "it's called bad luck" moment keeps me coming back.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, what the hell is Bruce Springsteen muttering about?
― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jack L., Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― reacher, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
When Lou sings "I need you baby" it's the most pathetic sound in the world.
Classic.
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't mind Lou Reed, Sally Can't Dance, Rock N' Roll Animal, Legendary Hearts, etc. but I wouldn't call these albums "must-gets", but I would say that of the above four.
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
It's been a regular listen for me. Great just before bed.
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, you mean once or twice a month? But, this thread isn't about MMM. But, as long as we're talking other LReed albums, I think that Coney Island is kind of awful, aside from the KLASSIC title track.
And I hate to say it, but I think the Bruce bit at the end might be dud. It's an interesting artifact, though.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
And I love the Take No Prisoners version .. especially "know what it's called? ...Bad Luck... (BASS)"
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
And does it make a difference to people that it's Springsteen circa 1978, when you could find him lounging on a LES couch struggling through some French Symbolist poetry? I never carp about the cameo at the end b/c Springsteen sounds so blokey. Eh, I can live w/ it if everyone else can.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link
The bad luck line is unfortunetly true.
― Tom Canick, Friday, 28 April 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I got love for you Alfred but if you mean The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts and New Sensations then wtf
the middle one there has maybe two good songs on it
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
And say what you will be MMM is so relaxing.
― andrew b (klik99), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Also likely everyone here knows already I'm insane over Take No Prisoners so that version bears mention too. There's one more song on the Street Hassle album, though, that I want to mention...must pull it out to see...you know I'm not sure which one it is. I'll have to play it again to figure it out.
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Look I had a bad dream about Hitler last night give me a break.
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
this was a lie, hoorah! wonderful what a half-decent turntable will do.
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I love this alb - there's something abt this sound of this rec, the vocals and shit, that's unique in Lou's discog - pisses all over any of his 80s albs (blue mask, r. quine solos and all, is SERIOUSLY overrated, esp. the stuff abt him getting outing his ouija board to contact delmore schwartz, now that's what i call bad luck)
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Unfortunately H2-H4, my own turntable has broken as of a few days ago. Suddenly wouldn't pick up the needle off the record. I can still play records, but if I forget to pick it up off the record before the end, I risk scratching the entire record and ruining my needle. Oh joy.
Thank goodness I have Street Hassle on CD.
― John Cougar Mellencamp sucks and you know it (Bimble...), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never actually seen it, it sounds amusingly bad
― Pictures of LiLiPUT (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
I think the song is really called "Little Sister," confusingly so, despite what IMDB says. Wonder if he and Doc Pomus ever discussed this? It is all coming back to me now. Malcolm McDowell was very proud of his performance in this.
― Pictures of LiLiPUT (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
given Lou's enthusiasm for binaural recording it's funny how shitty this album sounds (title track excepted)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Well he's also into expensive gimmicky high tech guitars and we know how those sound when he plays them.
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's weird -- most of it is live recordings w/ overdubs, right? then again, take no prisoners sounds great.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Throbbing Gristle were well into binaural recording about the same time, so, you know, we're not exactly talking Steely Dan here.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
super-sloppy performances aside (and there are several of them on this) it's just funny how he used this *revolutionary recording technology* to make a bunch of apparently random and poor production choices. like if the virtues of binaural recording is that it replicates the experience of the listener being in the room with the band, the album decidedly does *not* sound like that given how things are mixed, punched in and out, etc.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
this shit looks like it should be the cover of a peter gabriel album or somethinghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Dummyhead.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
This was the Manfred Whatsisname Artifical Head Recording thingummabob? Curiously, "Flowmotion" by Can used it too.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Manfred Schunke.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
but yeah, i'm sure if you asked lou for his top 5 favorite recordings, 4 of them would be one-mic doo wop songs. state of the art.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
This record sounds amazing you MONSTERS
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
haha, i mean, i love this record, but it is kind of bizarrely produced
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
https://cinefilesreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/listen-to-me-marlon-documentary-2015-digital-brando-movie-review.png
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
this one's more like a late 80s pink floyd bootleghttp://www.realhd-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/binaural_head.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
"Little Sister" is fabulous. I love Lou's solo.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
"Get Crazy"
(song is "My Baby Sister", played over the closing credits)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:24 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sounds fantastic you mean...
Captain Cloud (the Turtles' Howard Kaylan) and the Rainbow Telegraph, Max Wolfe's favorite band, arriving in an aging bus that is painted à la the Merry Pranksters' Further.Nada (Lori Eastside from Kid Creole and the Coconuts) and her 15-member band, an amalgam of many disparate styles of music that appeared on MTV in the early 1980s—part bubble-gum pop, part New Wave, part garage rock. They are joined by "Special Guest Star" Piggy (Lee Ving of the L.A. punk band Fear).King Blues, the King of the Blues (Bill Henderson), a spoof of Muddy Waters.Auden (Lou Reed), "metaphysical folk singer, event of the '70s, and antisocial recluse", a spoof of Bob Dylan. Auden, who initially complains of writer's block, is coaxed to appear thinking Max is close to death, but after blithely asking a taxi driver to take the "scenic route," he spends the majority of the movie on his cab ride, improvising lyrics for the song he intends to perform.Reggie Wanker (Malcolm McDowell), "20 years of rock and roll and still on top", a spoof of Mick Jagger; featuring his drummer Toad played by John Densmore of The Doors. Wanker is beset by a general malaise, unable to fully enjoy his lavish situation of easily available women and drugs.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
See for yourself:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrIRmMNi800
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
So I saw it years ago at the Walter Reade theater in Lincoln Center as part of what must have been a Malcolm McDowell retrospective. Malcolm was there (as was Jay Cocks) and did a Q&A. Hey look: http://www.malcolmtribute.freeiz.com/getcrazy.html
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Was there some sort of rule, unwritten or not, that a certain subset of movies made each year, especially those destined to be Midnight Movies, had to cast Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov?
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:06 (eight years ago) link
Hold on, Lou Reed AND Mary Woronov were in it?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
http://artillerymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lou-Reed_woronov1.jpg
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Yup. No Gerard Malanga though, if that's what you're after.
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Was hoping for Ondine or Taylor Mead at the very least.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Forgot to add caption to this:https://cinefilesreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/listen-to-me-marlon-documentary-2015-digital-brando-movie-review.pngButch? Listen to me Butch
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 12:46 (eight years ago) link
Lol this is a hot take
Best thing he ever did, parts of Raven excepted.― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, March 21, 2003 3:46 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
― tylerw, 26. maj 2016 22:15 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
indeed: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/lou-reed-playlist/ (couldn't find original article with nice quotes)
that skeeter davis song is kinda the inspiration for who loves the sun, right?
― niels, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjy3rr7J_yQ
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Earlier link seems broken, but whole thing is here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-w0z68nFzk
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Maybe we should do a watch party/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
It has a New Year's Eve theme so very timely.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
https://makeminecriterion.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/get-crazy-allan-arkush-1983/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
https://pleasekillme.com/lou-reed-allan-arkush/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
Maybe I should start new thread or put on Rock rock rock rock Rock and roll high school
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
If only one of you watches it this year my posting here will not have been in vain.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
It's got everything: hippies, punks, teen idols, Allen Garfield, Ed Begley, Jr., Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov. A lost Lou Reed song with Robert Quine on it, or so it seems!
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
Unless it's Lou soloing, either way.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
uh hey James
Allan Arkush here- the Director of Get Crazy. I am happy to let you know that there will be a GET CRAZY BLU_RAY in early 2021. I am in the process of compiling the extras, since you are such a big fan, any thoughts? –aark✧✧✧@m✧✧.c✧✧
(from that Make Mine Criterion link, in the comments)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Ah, cool, thanks!
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Just the Lou Reed scenes (albeit in shittier quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMEbY7vGRmE
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Also his scenes from Blue in the Face (which I can't recommend, but it has its moments, particularly Jim Jarmusch's bit on smoking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduERw9BSns
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
Just looked at the personnel for Reggie’s band. Pretty interesting.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Love how the absolutely dead mic on Lou’s vocals gives the feeling of him in some shitty dimly lit studio at 3am trying to get it together. Such a nighttime album.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 September 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link