Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby album

haha waht

Lou's recent ambient tribute to a river

seriously, haven't heard word one about this

it was like music he used for tai chi iirc

He sang Laurie Anderson to sleep by imitating a flowing river.

you know you want it
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/l/lou-reed/album-hudson-river-wind-meditations.jpg

That font is so 1998.

the album's ok. if it was a stars of the lid record or something, people on ILX would be all over it.

I heard a great Lou radio interview recently. Mostly about his photography, but he spent a loooooong time talking very seriously about how he just got some special shoes that simulate being barefoot. Totally the kind of conversation I find myself in within 3 minutes of meeting a friend of my mom's. Kinda made you realize how dude is pushing 70 hard.

he spent a loooooong time talking very seriously about how he just got some special shoes that simulate being barefoot

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/Urban-Archaeology/March-2010/The-Next-Horrible-Shoe-Fad/vibram-fivefingers-classic-shoes.jpg

???

those look damn comfy.

omg lou reed is almost 70...that's so scary

Really? I thought he'd be older!

please let him start wearing those shoes onstage

if he's 70, that makes him 27 when VU & Nico comes out - seems about right doesn't it? Maybe a couple of years older and they figure 70's a fair enough cheat

he was born in '42

http://www.loureed.com/new/news/imgs/kungfu.jpg

the secret of hung men

shoes that simulate being barefoot

Well, at least I'm consistent. I find Stars of the Lid a bit boring too. If it sounded more like My Cat Is An Alien, I might've gotten a bit more out of it.. I only gave it one listen [to be fair] & it could well be something that reveals interesting details w/ repeated spins.

ha, yeah, i mean, Lou's ambient album isn't really meant to be *interesting* -- he made it specifically to be background music while he did his tai chi things.

It should be Lou & Rachel in the Mermaid Parade. Laurie Anderson stole Rachel's Coney crown! Lou & Rachel 4eva!

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1751.jpg

Gay Lou was the best Lou.

This is one of my favorite Lous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeM6UqtGBdM

He scared me away from drugs! and while it doesn't say explicitly that it's anti-drugs, Lou's twitching suggests that he's done enough rails to stab himself.

Also I was convinced at that time that this was what all New Yorkers were like.

this album is still my favorite

yes

glory of love

like a good wine it's better as it grows older

When I first heard the old doo-wop version of "The Glory Of Love" I was taken aback by the bitter speech at the end about the "fine, fine, superfine career" (which I guess Lou arch-enemy Frank Zappa quoted on Ruben and the Jets) but then I realized that this was a perfect Lou antecedent.

Wish I could remember or find the wording of the old Lou quote about how everybody else was playing blues licks but he was more interested in people like The Spaniels.

When I first heard the old doo-wop version of "The Glory Of Love" I was taken aback by the bitter speech at the end about the "fine, fine, superfine career"

wait... what? whose version of Glory of Love are you talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9R9soGl6Yw

must be this one I guess

Yep.

weird, never heard that before

No doubt you were too busy with your fine, fine, superfine career to pay attention.

to me, this record is what real american rock n roll is

yeah, this is pretty much the only lou reed solo rec i listen to with any regularity these days!

so many great lines

I've warmed to this one! Top five Lou.

played this a month or so ago, still holds up beautifully

sometimes I wonder if I will ever tire of the title track

listened to this last week -- such a cool sounding band, so much less cartoony and off-putting than the rest of the 70s for lou.

i love the band on the blue mask, but he doesn't really have the songs to match up imo

i've never heard coney island baby

i can never remember what lous are supposed to be good or bad

is legendary hearts good? i hate the cover with that cheesy motorcycle helmet

title track really is magic---that guitar tone + the backing vocals are sooooo emotional & it's probably a pretty straightforward music trick that he's pulling off, I'd expect nothing less of Lou, but good grief I can barely focus on the drums when I listen, sounds like wailing instead

Blue Mask era band doing Coney Island Baby (maybe? I can't tell. Quine is on it tho)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp-5V3PJ90E

m@tt you should definitely hear coney island baby -- essential lou!

every time I hear the title track come up I think "eh, I've heard this a million times maybe I should skip it" but it always puts me in this weird mental space, it's like a nostalgia for something I didn't actually live through (ie being a gay football player in NY lol)

i'm listening to coney island now

this is good! yeah it's "fun lou" def see the transformer comparison, was this one popular at the time?

don't think it was wildly popular, though i think it got good reviews. more popular than metal machine music, which it followed, anyway.

haha "hey sorry guys, here have a regular record"

yeah pretty much -- there's a great lester bangs interview/article dealing with all of that.

lol @ this song that seems to have only one lyric - "i'm just a gift to the women in this world"

<3 lou