― 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
didn't mean to embed, sry
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
I really think 'Legendary Hearts' is one of Lou's most beautiful songs. A bit of a 'Everybody Hurts' sentiment going on, but then, I love grand sweeping gestures.
― campreverb, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
One of my favorites is "Busload of Faith". I always really dug how the New York album, as it's real stripped down and live sounding.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
can think of many best songs.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 2, 2018 6:40 PM
Taste is taste; but the positioning of “Coney Island Baby” on that list almost leads me to conclude you are trolling
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Perfect Day and Stephanie Says.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Not very exciting answers but you know. I find halloween day parade really affecting too.
aste is taste; but the positioning of “Coney Island Baby” on that list almost leads me to conclude you are trolling
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp)
Don't take lists too seriously. The song made it, you're good.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-mH9ZjnuM
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
pale blue eyes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Alfred, Our House is called My House.
And this should be on your list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveePL9Ft2Y
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4FI88FkQU
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
There's a white prism with phony jism
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
Man, what an impossible question. But at least sentimentally I guess I always come back to "I Love You" (where I think he might be being sincerely loving) and "Perfect Day" (where I'm pretty sure he's being deeply biting). . . "The Bed" really cripples me, and "Street Hassle" always wows me, too.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:24 (six 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