In Praise Of...Lou Reed "Take No Prisoners"

I'll sing when you shut the fuck up

I want to talk to that fcuking Reed man why did he throw a cup at his roadie

LOLz

One of the best stand-up albums ever. Or maybe it's a really raucous, vulgar proto-Laurie Anderson record.

*shrieking feedback*

is that annoying?

*more shrieking feedback*

LOL again, I thought he said "Isn't that annoying?"

i've always liked the groan of barely-concealed disgust one of the (presumably black?) backup singers emits during "i wanna be black" ...

Bimble otm about the weirdo version of Waiting For the Man tho, that is genuinely great.

in general the band is horrible tho, kinda get the feeling Lou hates them as much (if not more) than the audience

Most of this album I can live without, but "Satellite of Love" is epic.

You can really live without the version of "Street Hassle"?

Need a what?
Need a what?

"I need a boyfriend can't you hear?"

"The best lack all conviction
and the worst are filled with a passionate intensity
now you figure out where i am"

Lou Reed is my reason for living. Just saying.

I wrote a fairly pointless post about this album not too long ago. You can read it here.

Wow, thanks, Alex!

"they charge us for the towels here"

haha i just heard this again at friends house a couple weeks ago.

what an album!

I first heard this a few months ago when I was listening through the complete Lou oeuvre. This was a highlight amidst the dreariness of the landscapes of the other 70s albums.

"you ever put a quarter in, y'know, the wooden bear that plays basketball"

"like going to bed with a brontaurus man, it's outta style"

love this album

as good as any old Cosby album.

"it's not that we don't want to play your favorites, it's just that there's SO MANY to choose from"

haha, just put this on.
there should be a box set a la Live at the Plugged Nickel of this stuff. Liners from the reissue says every show (10 in all, 2 a night) was recorded.

"they charge us for the towels here"

hahahahahahaha oh man I haven't heard this in years.

here comes the condominium -- oh shit!

"pale blue eyes" is so weird on this -- I take it that weird droney sound is the "roland guitar synthesizer"?

sounds like one of those shitty children's air-pump organs

lol, during "waiting for the man" -- "you read too many movies ... "

I literally haven't heard this album in at least twenty years and still when I remember "here comes the condominium - oh, shit!" I can hear it down to the comma

"all the time he shows up late.."

"so do you, Lou!"

I remember hearing the "fuck Radio Ethiopia this is Radio Brooklyn" line way back in the past, but weirdly, I cannot remember hearing anything else from this album.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6761/bomp1979issue20january1.jpg

Haha amazing

He looks like somebody else in that picture, The Big Ragu maybe.

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

For some reason this was one of my first Lou solo albums - it made a big impression on me, it sounded so alien and chaotic.
Around the same time I bought the first New York Dolls too and I spent a lot of time fantasizing about this dirty, dangerous, all in grainy black and white 70's New York.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa72/vulcangascompany1969/rnranimal.jpg

i think i'm gonna poll that lou reed take no prisoners ad

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

indeed!

if you write as good as you talk, nobody read ya

also this is hilarious (altho much earlier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2pF5oMdP4&feature=related

Lou is the funniest motherfucker

this radio show from early '79 is a great companion to take no prisoners. further christgau baiting.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/43079765584/fuck-radio-ethiopia-this-is-radio-brooklyn-my

lol wow thx!!

"there's more to life than aerosmith" rofl

this is great

i swear, the first 15 seconds of this dion and the belmonts song he played sounded like VU, actually the guitar and drums on the whole thing kinda do

yeah there's lots of that kind of thing -- the solo on the crazy elephant track there at the beginning is a dead ringer for lou's VU style too.
also awesome when lou talks about critics saying his lead guitar playing is inept. "i never said it was ept!"

"so I only know four or five notes"

Lou's "pro-sex"/disco riff also awesome

haha, yeah.
happy for lou's health and everything but drunk lou was a lot more fun than sober lou.

Tyler, my man, you've done it again!

It's always great to run into an old friend isn't? Maybe share a beer, tell a few jokes and swap stories about the old days, sharing those happy memories that never fail to put a smile on both your faces (by the way, is that a Christmas tree in the background?)

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/image/43079765584