― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Thursday, 19 December 2002 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris K, Friday, 19 November 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link
"I wanna play footbal for the coach" on Coney Island Baby is pretty good too.
Don't wast your money on The Raven or Machine Music - unless your a hard core collector.
― Chris K, Friday, 19 November 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 19 November 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seuss, Friday, 19 November 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
So many of the great VU songs have a group writing credit that I don't know if they really count; my copies of "Loaded" and "VU" don't say who specifically wrote "Temptation Inside Your Heart" or "Cool It Down" or "Hey Mr. Rain". So I dunno if they go to Lou or not. But they are fabulous songs, and don't get their due I think because the chestnuts are "Sunday Morning" and "Femme Fatale".
"Street Hassle" to thread, for sure.
If we're picking "Metal Machine Music", (and we should), then it's all about side four: the locked groove, people!
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I think they're all Lou.
― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch haitch haitch (or any three repetitive sounds) (haitch), Friday, 19 November 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onzong Lee, Friday, 19 November 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
But maybe "Sweet Jane," which after all is his best riff and his best-known song after "Walk on the Wild Side," which is a great RECORD and it's a song too, absolutely. "Rock and Roll" is another good one to cover. "Head Held High" is a good basic one. "Wild Child" and "Satellite" I heard last night for the first time in a L.T. and they're good ones too. His later stuff, I don't consider "New Sensations" a "song" in the same way as "Pale Blue" but it's good, real good, as is most of that album. "Don't Talk to Me About Work" is a good one. After that, I never heard most of it, I did get "The Raven" for my birthday last year and I have listened to it. But Lou, he's pathetic now.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 20 November 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 20 November 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm too big a fan to pick one, but I like eddie's rundown up above. If I have to pick, almost anything from the first album, but obviously here the John Cale influence is very strong. I guess I'll go with that "song about love between man and subway," Waiting for the Man. For a good analysis of this song, see a Robert Quine interview at the old Perfect Sound Forever.
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Best songs to me are the ballads: Pale Blue Eyes, Femme Fatale, Mirror....although among his latest songs I'd say the song is Baton Rouge.
― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.H. Malerman (xada_hgla), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 18 September 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― emekars (emekars), Monday, 18 September 2006 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― emekars (emekars), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Show you where my state of mind is.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
"Thought of you as my mountaintop / Thought of you as my peak / Thought of you as everything / I had but couldn't keep" is a hall of fame lyric.
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
there are about 5 velvet tracks that jump in ahead of it however
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I can think of many best songs.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
good list, you not a fan of Drella?
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
I am but I prefer Cale's tunes.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
live in italy version of "betrayed" has always been one of my fave moments of RQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plh-3ej1t0M
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Oh, flappy, yeah, "Pale Blue Eyes" is waay up there, too
― Soundslike, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
I love that line in “My House” —
I really got a lucky lifeMy writhing, my motorcycle and my wife
— and particularly how the “life/wife” rhyme echoes the long-ago rhyme in “Heroin” (in a very different context).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
* that’s ”writing,” not “writhing” (wtf)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
It would have been 'writhing' if he'd written it a ten years earlier or later.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
lol
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
VU era: some kinda love solo: coney island baby
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:54 (five days ago) Permalink
Also a testament to Lou I had to really stop and think "wait is it writhing?" for second there
Anyway the correct answer is Rock Minuet
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
that is a very dark song
I'd choose something lighter, he was a humanist at heart right?
― niels, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
What Goes On, Rock and Roll, I'm Waiting for the Man
Waves of Fear, Coney Island Baby, Mad
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
And special love to The Last Shot for the most insane Lou lyric ever (and that's saying quite a bit)
I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
VU: Sweet Jane70s: Coney Island Baby80s: Waves of Fear90s: Hello It's Me00s: Modern Dance10s: Junior Dad
― niels, Saturday, 10 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
I couldn’t even pick a “best song” from "The Blue Mask" alone. That album is extraordinary...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Covers comp coming: https://acerecords.co.uk/what-goes-on-the-songs-of-lou-reed
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
'walk like an egyptian'
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
oh wait, that's the bagnles
Sorry, it was Prince
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Oh he wrote more profound tunes, but when I just put the question to myself the first tune I heard was "She's My Best Friend". It is one of those songs that sounds like the whole song is a chorus.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 May 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link