i've got a Japanese version of NS from a few years ago and it sounds a helluva lot better than the original release. the production still bugs me a little but not nearly as much as it did
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
revisited this the other day - still lol'ing at Average Guy (my temperature is NINETY-EIGHT point TWO)
my favorite thing about average guy, and maybe my favorite single thing Lou did in the 80s, is when, at the point where the singer's supposed to go "hey!" or "yeah!" he yells "average!"
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 20 May 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what the fuck is this song about? I do not get these lyrics at all, really
The heroine stood up on the deckthe ship was out of controlthe bow was being ripped to shredsmen were fighting down belowThe sea had pummeled the boat for so longthat they knew nothing but fear
And the baby's in his boxhe thinks the door is lockedthe sea is in a statethe baby learns to wait for the heroineOhh, ohh, for the heroinelocked in his defense, he waits for the heroine
The mast is cracking as he waves are slappingsailors roll across the deckand when they thought no one was lookingthey would cut a weaker man's neckWhile the heroine dressed in a virgin white dresstried to steer the mighty shipBut the raging storm wouldn't hear of itthey were in for a long trip
Baby's in the boxhe thinks the door is lockedhe finds it hard to breathedrawing in the seaAnd where's the heroine to fire off the gunto calm the raging seasand let herself be seized, by the -
- Baby in the boxhe thinks the door is lockedthe woman has the keysbut there is no moment she can seizeHere's to the heroinewho transcends all the menWho are locked inside the boxwill the lady let them outOhh, the heroine, ooohh, ooohhh, the heroineStrapped to the mast, the pale ascendant heroinestrapped to the mast, the pale ascendant heroine
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
no idea.yo la tengo and will oldham covered "heavenly arms" from this album a couple weeks ago. it wasn't very good, but they get points for trying.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this one is overrated, 3-4 really good songs tho
― buzza, Monday, 20 December 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i finally found this at my record store yesterday! total classic imo, if only for the quines guitar playing (esp. at the end of Women), waves of fear, and heavenly arms
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Monday, 20 December 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp el perro del mar does a really great cover of heavenly arms
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Monday, 20 December 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
First forty seconds of "My House" = glorious.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oooo and the drum fills towards the end of 'my house' !! really fits with quine's offtime-ish riffing and packs a punch
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Monday, 20 December 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
esp. at the end of Womeni might be wrong, but i think this is actually lou on lead.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 December 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ahh yeah, youre right. quine in the left channel, lou in the right
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Monday, 20 December 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i think the only reason i know that is cuz lou takes the solo on the "night w/ lou reed" video (which is essnetial if you dig this album btw). it is a great solo, though, kinda redeems the song imo.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 December 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Thirty years old today!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
I remember where I was that day, I was upstate in a bar
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
you and your friend got out a ouija board
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
I think I was watching the team from the university play football on tv.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
im listening to this for the first time. so so good. quine's guitar on "waves of fear" is amazing.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Thursday, 31 October 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
The "tuning up" intro on "My House" is worth the price of the album.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
I love "Women" and "Gun" and "Underneath the Bottle"
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
a special album for me because it was the first one to be released by Lou Reed after I became a fan. I had gone completely ape, buying or begging anything I could get my hands on for over a year - bootlegs, used anything, some forgotten English magazine that came with a cassette featuring an interview with him (he got mad at the interviewer and told him "I am not here to loon around," which lodged itself in my brain forever). I wasn't 100% sure what to make of it at first but "Waves of Fear" just knocked me over and when I was 15 I got drunk and listened to "My House" and that outro just washed over me and I then had a night-long argument with friends who didn't think "My House" was great.
still the best of the post-70s albums imo.
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
holy shit @ all of this
http://www.hideoutchicago.com/event/633787-robbie-fulks-chicago/
Mondays With RobbieRobbie FulksR.I.P. Lou Reed - Blue Mask LP performed with loud band, featuring Michael Shannon as Lou Reed*Mon, July 21, 2014Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pmThe HideoutChicago, IL$10.00
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Wow
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
so weird, but sounds like it could be totally fun. is shannon going to be "playing" lou reed?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
One would hope so
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah he's gonna be the singer, fulks is only playing guitar
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
i guess Shannon has a band!
http://corporalband.com/
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
man I would totally go to this
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
A+, according to Harry Pussyhttps://harrypussy.bandcamp.com/track/robert-ranks-reed-alphabetically
― willem, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
Think there are several videos of that Michael Shannon gig out there.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjYS585jwm4
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
Ha, my guitar teacher (along with Narducy et al.) backed him doing something similar with the Smiths a couple of years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFEkHYNe_k
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
Here's Shannon giving his tribute all to Bowie and Iggy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ88oSMRo_4
I think he skipped some awards show to do this instead.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
Sylvia! Sylvia!
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
You guys know that story about Sylvia, Ivan Julian and Bo Diddley?
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
At Max’s Kansas City.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
Can’t find the original story though, only me posting about it here/pvmic
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs)
who topped?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 August 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
Heh, close. Ivan and Sylvia went to see Bo and when they met him Bo thought Sylvia was Ivan’s girlfriend and tried to make some sort of deal with him.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
Sylvia is supposed to be writing a memoir of some kind, which should be interesting ...
― tylerw, Friday, 13 August 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
That'll make two ex-wives with books! Sylvia was interviewed extensively in the DeCurtis biography, there was a lot of interesting stuff about how he basically installed her as his manager and then wondered why the record company wasn't giving him the support he felt he deserved.
As for The Blue Mask, it started the Professor Lou phase of his career where he would put one good song on albums whose interest was maybe more conceptual than musical:
The Blue Mask: "The Gun"Legendary Hearts: I actually like most of thisNew Sensations: title trackMistrial: "Tell It To Your Heart"New York: "Dirty Blvd"Songs for Drella: don't even like the Cale songs on thisMagic and Loss: title trackSet the Twilight Reeling: "Adventurer"Ecstasy: wow, maybe four good songs!The Raven: "Call On Me" is the only good song, but some of the recitations are funnyLulu: about half of this is good
He wanted to make records that were taken as seriously as novels, but I want albums that I can play dozens of more times than I would ever want to reread a book.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
Strongly disagree about New Sensations and STTR.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 August 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Strongly disagree overall
― tylerw, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
xp Not liking blue mask, New York, and Drella is quite a Lou Reed challop!
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 13 August 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Same here.
― birdistheword, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Also I didn't really like Drella all that much until I got a hold of the Ed Lachman film of their performance. For whatever reason, I found that to be more moving even though the audio itself wasn't really different.
― birdistheword, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
I know these albums well, I could probably recite you lyrics from most of the songs on them. But for an enjoyable listening experience, I'd even prefer Sally Can't Dance or Rock 'n' Roll Heart.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
OTM ... and not for the first time, some people just have very different tastes!
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
The Blue Mask: "The Gun"
This whole album is consistently great.
Legendary Hearts: I actually like most of this
Ditto, but it needs more Quine.
New Sensations: title track
It's hit-or-miss, but there's at least three other songs on it as good as the title track.
Mistrial: "Tell It To Your Heart"
This album is so awful that I forgot a not-awful song was on it. But I'm not hearing an overriding "concept" on it (unless the concept is "GET ME OUT OF MY RCA CONTRACT NOW").
New York: "Dirty Blvd"
There's a few songs as good as (or better than) "Dirty Blvd", but when I listened to it a few months ago (for the first time in maybe 30+ years), I'd forgotten how infuriatingly both-sidesy "Good Evening, Mr. Waldheim" was. Fuck that song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 August 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
yeah, "Waldheim" is the only really bad song on New York imo.
― tylerw, Friday, 13 August 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link