Where has this album been all my life?
― Bimble, Thursday, 2 October 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
One word: KICKS
― Bimble, Thursday, 2 October 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
On a bit of Lou kick(s) at the moment, Bimb?
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
They said I was to little too light weight to play line-backerSo I say Im playing right-end
― velko, Thursday, 2 October 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Glory of love, honey. It's all about the glory of love.
Listen to the version on Take No Prisoners for illumination. But hear this (album) version first. That's Bimble's prescription for getting out of the blues.
We can all hope for the glory of love, man. Every one of us. We can all hope for at least that much.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 2 October 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
BUT REMEMBER THAT THE CITY IS A FUNNY PLACE
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 2 October 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: the Take No Prisoners' version: what did Lou do at school, was it the long jump or the high jump?
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Jesus fuckn christ man I don't know. Why you want to do this to me with this trivia? All I know is he says "pole vault". I don't know jack shit about that stuff. Someone help us. He said he "went out at the sectionals(?) 8 - 6" what does that mean? Hell if I know.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 2 October 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, it might have been pole vault. He says something about how he was crap at it as a result of having no neck.
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
A good, not great, album. The title track is a great, not good, song.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"You work on an album a friggin' year and get a good, not great from Sotosyn!"
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
"Kicks" totally freaked me out the first time I heard it.
― snoball, Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
ha – I'm biased cuz I heard "She's My Best Friend" on VU first.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Both versions are sufficiently different to be appreciated on their own merits. "Charley's Girl" = inexplicably great song.
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I had a similar reaction. Gift is another great one.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the first Lou Reed album I bought back in 1988 - Kicks literally shocked me.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is my most-listened-to Lou Reed album, had it since high school.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 October 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it appeals to me so much because sonically its Lou doing a fairly straight 70s singer-songwriter-ish sound. Lyrically its very clever, a lot of funny surprises, bleak in places, sweet in others. The title track is perfect.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 October 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Both versions are sufficiently different to be appreciated on their own merits.
I agree with this, and I appreciate their differences.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 2 October 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, VU version doesn't have great backing vocal tag on the end iirc
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 October 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://sp1.yt-thm-a04.yimg.com/image/25/m1/1874962328
Okay, seriously, who has heard the bonus tracks on the reissue and who hasn't?
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh no, these bonus tracks are to die for. Oh no. You don't even KNOW what you are missing. Jesus. Even "Leave Me Alone" (which I find intolerable on Street Hassle) sounds utterly delicious here.
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"Crazy Feeling" (alternate version) = fans of early Violent Femmes can go to hell
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, you guys realize there's an alternate version of "She's My Best Friend" on here that absolutely shreds, right?
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
But you haven't lived until you've heard the alternate version of "Coney Island Baby" the title track. You have not even begun to live.
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooooo baby ooo baby oooooo baby oooooooooo baby ooooo baby ooooooooooooo shake yo bunz now mama
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 12 October 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"Nowhere At All" makes me feel like a little kid just discovering the Beatles for the first time.
― Dracula Tells Superman What To Do (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 12 October 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
CHARLEY'S GIRL = astonishing that this has never been used in a wes anderson movie so far.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay who has heard the bonus tracks, though? Seriously?
― Hot Pants Floyd (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 13 October 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Because once you hear the bonus tracks, you will never be the same.
― Hot Pants Floyd (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 13 October 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
alright already, you sold me; i'll be getting the remaster sometime in the near future. sheesh... who's next?
― "I'ma lose my religion and go secular on you, boy" (Ioannis), Monday, 13 October 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't find the bonus tracks/reissue version posted anywhere - and I am not buying another copy of this album just to hear them.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 13 October 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this album's great -- and the bonus tracks are worth hearing (dougie yule's on some of them!). i wrote about this reissue (along with cale's paris 1919 reish) here: http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=1959
― tylerw, Monday, 13 October 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the guitars all over this album reminds me of the shit on the title track of l'homme a tete de chou
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(u still need the reissue versh, shakey mo? i found it somewhere)
― willem, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
link?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ilm mail works?
― willem, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
sure - many thanks!!!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
hey can you hook me up too
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
This has some of Reed's best vocals. I like how he's not in the cool, bad ass hipster mode, but just being Lou.
I need to hear those bonus tracks.
― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
whoah some of these bonus tracks are clearly proto-Street Hassle in sound/delivery. Doesn't work so well on "She's My Best Friend", but "Leave Me Alone" is great!! "Downtown Dirt" too. Can't decide if the alt. versino of title track is better than the official one or not - some sweet stuff here, muchas gracias!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz this review is great
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
You can play on my team any day, Lou.
"Keep the fuck away from my ass, Lou."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
When I die, please bury some talisman of Lou Reed with me. Just some symbol of him, anything. A tiny shred of his album cover, anything. When I die, he's going to be there, man. He's gonna wave to me and smile, and I'll know my life wasn't in vain.
― you could call it a "fan" club but a man I can only be a "fan" of a hot (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 08:05 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^
holy shit
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
aw. poor bim. this album sounded rilly good to me recently. felt like an old friend i hadn't seen in a long time.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 May 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Coney Island Baby is probably (at least sometimes) my favorite Lou solo album. And now it means just a little bit more.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 May 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Lou is gonna be King Neptune and Laurie Anderson Queen Mermaid in the 2010 Coney Island Mermaid parade
http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Coney Island Parade King and Queen, Lou and Laurie look so cute in the photo...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
when will we get the isolated tracks of "kicks" so we can find out what happened on the morning of the show.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
Kicks vs. All Through the Night vs. the Murder Mystery
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
Never heard this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYO3F1oNkA
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah.. me either. It has a touch of extra guitar and a different lead vocal take? Also those strange whispered bits, don't care much for them. I think i prefer the LP mix, i always loved the song. I always wondered if the 'punch her face in' line was what kept it from the radio/ being a hit. Actually it's weird with Lou, from the mid 70s onwards no-one bought his singles at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed_discography#Singles
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
Yes, LP version is better, but this is the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up as a bonus track on a CD somewhere... maybe it will now Lou is, uh, out of the picture. I was going to say "Crazy Feeling" might have made a better single - because of the punching Sharon in the face bit - but then I remembered what that song is about!
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
wow bizarre that that wasn't included on the expanded CD reissue w the demo tracks. agree that the whispered bits don't add much. thx for posting tho, I've never heard this either.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Huhhttp://r.duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-KgKs0OY4tQ
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
Goddammithttps://youtu.be/-KgKs0OY4tQ
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link
Lou Reed - "Coney Island Baby Album"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
guy's vocals don't do the material any favors but it is kinda cool to hear something with that same sound as Coney Island Baby
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i've given this album a try and haven't really loved it ... weirdly alex chilton covers a song from it on a recently released tape from 1976.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
missed that single version of "charley's girl" -- pretty good!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
when you're all alone and lonelyin your midnight hourand you find that your soulit's been up for sale
and you begin to think 'boutall the things that you've doneand you begin to hatejust 'bout everything
but remember the princess who lived on the hillwho loved you even though she knew you was wrongand right now she just might come shining throughand the glory of loveglory of loveglory of love just might come through
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Man, I'd swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Thursday, 13 September 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
When you’re all alone and lonely In your midnight hour
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 December 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
Something like a circus or a sewer
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
I thought it was "something like a circus or a zoo"?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 1 August 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
I hear sewer and that’s what written someplace as well
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Yeah it’s sewer (tho I’m the guy who thought for 25 years that the man up on Lexington & 125 wore “Dior shoes”)
― Malibu Cheer Chants Forensics (morrisp), Sunday, 1 August 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
Ha, I sometimes think that. I believe it is "New York shoes" but can never be too sure.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
It’s apparently “PR shoes” (a term I had never heard).
― Malibu Cheer Chants Forensics (morrisp), Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, that too. PR meaning Puerto Rican, I believe.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Funny thing is that at least one music streaming service has the lyrics to Lou’s song attached to the other song with this name by The Excellents.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Heh, more than one. This song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Vr4hEo6Vs
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
i wanna play football for the coach
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 1 August 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Actually I was a pole vaulter.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
I went out of the sectionals at 8' 6''... that's pathetic!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 1 August 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
^this
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Loving his “Foux du Fafa” nasalization near the end.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
About a minute before the end
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 August 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
something like a circus or a sewer
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
Never knew Bob Kulick’s name until just now. RIP a year and a half late, Bob.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2012/11/a-look-at-the-poems-of-louis-reed-in-an-old-issue-of-the-harvard-advocate
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
https://blog.theharvardadvocate.com/blog/post/2012-11-13-from-the-archives-lou-reed-the-velvet-u/
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link
Can’t remember if I wondered yet on this thread about which version of “The Glory of Love” Lou was referring to, always thought it must be this one, which also seems to be referred to by his arch-frenemy and erstwhile label mate Frank Zappa:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-prFT-eLxY
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:53 (two years ago) link
HI DERE
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
a little too lightweight to play linebacker
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOz5Dv1WQAUqOWa?format=png&name=small
― tylerw, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
Nothing says "Rock'n'Roll Animal" like a tuxedo t-shirt and a free hot dog.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I do wish Coney Island Baby had better/different cover art.
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Friday, 1 April 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
There are other shots from the Mick Rock photo session that I think would have been better, but I like how on the actual cover shot Reed looks simultaneously 20 and 90 years old.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
the bad cover is pretty perfect
― Bongo Jongus, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
I like the ones that Reed described as "look(ing) like an android, programmed to assassinate", but the carnival barker shot fits the mood of the album better.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/22/a9/fc/22a9fc9a5fe2dd051e4e0d2f7b9b0872--source-of-inspiration-private-life.jpg
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 April 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
^You’d like to send this one out to them, right?
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
Well, yeah.
Actually I just picked up another used vinyl copy of this album to replace my already pretty tapped out $1 garage sale one, and found that shot while trying to find a pic of the former's back cover, which is one of those budget versions that's different from the original in kind of a dumb way.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 April 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
My new used copy used to belong to this radio station, which apparently has gone under a format change since then:
https://www.radiolineup.com/stations/WPRG-FM
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 April 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
I feel like its pretty clearly a joel grey reference
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 11 April 2022 04:16 (two years ago) link
I’d like to send this one out to HOOS and Jor-El.
― Jimmy Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne Mary-Anne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
"your old man was the B&E man down on the street'
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:48 (three months ago) link