songs for drella: c/d

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.

I still find Smalltown quite short and sweet.

I love this album, but haven’t listened to it in probably 25 years... really ought to rectify that

bought it in a bin sale this Record Store Day. it's pretty good, and certainly heartfelt.

There's a really good live Drella bootleg knocking about *with an audience* from Tokyo; it's amazing but disconcerting at the same time; applause and whoops randomly throughout etc. It's such a sombre piece in the main that it's odd hearing any interaction at all.
They come on at the end to do Pale Blue Eyes and it's pretty incredible.

This is an.. interesting version of A Dream too; an unusual choice of encore from a '92 Magic And Loss tour show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5X_UfhROI

I love this album, but haven’t listened to it in probably 25 years... really ought to rectify that

I fucking love this record, and the performance video, so much. The emotional complexity of those two guys with that history and that much baggage, doing something so personal by making such art.

Incredible, totally. There's a really good bootleg from Tokyo knocking around; it's odd to hear live reaction throughout, but totally worth a listen. They do the whole album, then Pale Blue Eyes as an encore at the end, and the roof sounds like it's going to come off.

Sounding especially wonderful this Saturday afternoon

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/628339639633248256/lou-reed-john-cale-st-anns-church-brooklyn

anyone grab the RSD vinyl reissue?

drella was officially pulled back to the 10/24 RSD drop, which didn't prevent some stores from selling it anyway, but they were in the minority.

damn you CJV, listening to that it's hitting me all over again

<3

Picked this up today — it was the only thing I wanted from the RSD list. Sounds effin great! I don’t think I’ve heard this since about 1994.

Turns out, after some confusion, that the run was indeed 8500 copies, which probably means I’ll be buying a few more copies at half price somewhere down the road.

streaming free through the 19th.

https://stannswarehouse.org/show/lou-reed-john-cale-songs-for-drella-a-fiction-1990/?utm_campaign=586306_Drella%20Talks%2011%2F13&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&dm_i=63KQ,CKEA,5KDQYY,1B3GI,1