songs for drella: c/d

Yeah, the last is a classic Bimble post.

one day someone will compile his posts into a Bimble Listener's guide and it will be awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6L0UD_zn4A

they still look so young here don't they? i love the looks Cale is giving Reed, also how they left the bum notes in.

i guess it's pointless doing a poll for it as A Dream would trounce all the others.

Nah – pretty sure I'd vote for "Style It Takes" or "Small Town."

yeah, it'd be either "style it takes" or "open house" for me.

I would have pulled the switch on her myself

cale's "look" in that smalltown video is classic.

this was one of the first cds i ever purchased. i first got into the velvets and then into this album so i did not find it as amazing as others on this thread (even compared to "loaded"). i liked it a lot though and haven't listened to it for 15 years or more. this was much more like a velvet reunion than the live reunion they did a couple of years later which was rubbish. favourite song, several ones, john cale's "style it takes" of course but i also liked lou reed's straightforward "work" for some reason. quite primitive and simple but i have a soft spot for that kind of strong, puritan working attitude as it is something i lack so much. overall this album is quite consistent and an absolute classic. i have to listen to it again.

I got this album as part of my Columbia Music Club 12 CDs for a $1 deal as a teenager

btw i found the next lou reed album "magic and loss" even more impressive. there was a thread on it somewhere. that music has got a soul healing quality. for the listener and even more so for the artist. it was about the death of two friends of lou reed. i always thought they had had aids but according to wikipedia they hadn't.

some of the best lou reed albums seem to be the ones he wrote about deceased friends.

been listening to some lou records i haven't heard on spotify

wow

this is really amazing

i didn't suspect he'd done anything this vital since the 70s

it really is a nice (and unique) record. sort of too bad these two dudes can't just get together every couple of years and do this kind of thing -- they've obviously got chemistry working in their favor. but they've got a lot of nasty history too i guess.

I always liked this one best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSxRN0pNciA

yeah backing track sounds like stars of the lid or something.
when i saw lou in the early 90s he did this one! it was pretty great.

i like this record because it feels like sort of a little record, somehow u don't demand evenness or shit like that, it makes u generous

I can't listen to Magic and Loss beyond the obvious cuts. Whenever he essays a Serious Project, a disinterest or at worst cynicism seeps through.

also am i rite that cale obviously slays reed on this, even tho he claims reed did all the work

the best songs are cale songs but they all would've been worse w/o lou

i dunno, i'm liking both of their songs

lou's maybe never seemed more human than on this

They're both in top form.

I'm with Zvookster - Cale all the way on this. But I'm biased, I've simply never gotten into Lou despite many visitations.

I just listened to this for the first time in my life. I'm a Cale devotee, Reed skeptic but this is a damn, damn good effort from both.

Oh, and I just visited the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, some of these tunes played in my head.

This album is better than any of their solo records.

whoa whoa

It's better than any Cale project released after 1990 though, true.

This album is better than any of their (post-70s) solo records.

This album is better than anything recorded by the Velvet Underground.

eh, for me it's probably on par w/ blue mask, music for a new society, new york, wrong way up, etc. which is really good, but let's not get carried away here.

this is a good album but it isn't even close to either of their peaks both solo and with VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5X_UfhROI
here's lou's solo take on a dream

pretty bad hair period for lou

more loss than magic certainly

pretty bad hair period for lou

this is ultimately why SFD is a good-not-great record.

Love the non-80s production on this and New York.

i went into a big new york phase a couple months ago...those first three tracks are so good it almost fools you into thinking it's a classic

yeah that is probably otm. it is a nicely produced record -- really doesn't sound super-dated, at least as opposed to Mistrial.

no the band sounds good, but the second half? yikes, just dire condescending preachy lou at his worst

but i like romeo had juliette > halloween parade > dirty blvd as much as any three song run in anything lou did, velvets included

yeah ugh that album quickly wears out its welcome. maybe it shoulda been an EP lol

someone really needs to sign up for a VU solo album poll

I already got my poll done wit but I think it would be fantastic

i went into a big new york phase a couple months ago...those first three tracks are so good it almost fools you into thinking it's a classic

and "There is No Time," a political song for every betrayal.

if you don't like it
Y O U S U C K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGtznW_-IBQ&feature=related

70 years old! keep on.

I have this cranked up today. Really missing Lou, and this is so beautiful. I remember it coming out and thinking, well that sucks, and now I think it would be in my all time top 10 albums.

yeah a Top 10 for me no question.

it was one of the first cds i bought. not top ten but probably top 100.

God, after all these years, 'A Dream' is still so damn beautiful and affecting, I wish for a 200-hour audiobook of Cale reading The Warhol Diaries in that wistful, monotone voice.

All the more moving for Lou’s unwillingness to emote. But “A Dream” just kills me every time.

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

*Lachman

lol @ at that url

https://i.imgur.com/NbbJuZB.jpg

It's like one guy has hair where the other needs it, and vice-versa

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— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) November 6, 2022

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

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