Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby album

missed that single version of "charley's girl" -- pretty good!

when you're all alone and lonely
in your midnight hour
and you find that your soul
it's been up for sale

and you begin to think 'bout
all the things that you've done
and you begin to hate
just 'bout everything

but remember the princess who lived on the hill
who loved you even though she knew you was wrong
and right now she just might come shining through
and the
glory of love
glory of love
glory of love just might come through

Man, I'd swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you

When you’re all alone and lonely
In your midnight hour

Something like a circus or a sewer

I thought it was "something like a circus or a zoo"?

I hear sewer and that’s what written someplace as well

Yeah it’s sewer (tho I’m the guy who thought for 25 years that the man up on Lexington & 125 wore “Dior shoes”)

Ha, I sometimes think that. I believe it is "New York shoes" but can never be too sure.

It’s apparently “PR shoes” (a term I had never heard).

oh yeah, that too. PR meaning Puerto Rican, I believe.

Funny thing is that at least one music streaming service has the lyrics to Lou’s song attached to the other song with this name by The Excellents.

Heh, more than one. This song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Vr4hEo6Vs

i wanna play football for the coach

Actually I was a pole vaulter.

I went out of the sectionals at 8' 6''... that's pathetic!

^this

Loving his “Foux du Fafa” nasalization near the end.

About a minute before the end

something like a circus or a sewer

Never knew Bob Kulick’s name until just now. RIP a year and a half late, Bob.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2012/11/a-look-at-the-poems-of-louis-reed-in-an-old-issue-of-the-harvard-advocate

https://blog.theharvardadvocate.com/blog/post/2012-11-13-from-the-archives-lou-reed-the-velvet-u/

Can’t remember if I wondered yet on this thread about which version of “The Glory of Love” Lou was referring to, always thought it must be this one, which also seems to be referred to by his arch-frenemy and erstwhile label mate Frank Zappa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-prFT-eLxY

HI DERE

a little too lightweight to play linebacker

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOz5Dv1WQAUqOWa?format=png&name=small

Nothing says "Rock'n'Roll Animal" like a tuxedo t-shirt and a free hot dog.

I do wish Coney Island Baby had better/different cover art.

There are other shots from the Mick Rock photo session that I think would have been better, but I like how on the actual cover shot Reed looks simultaneously 20 and 90 years old.

the bad cover is pretty perfect

I like the ones that Reed described as "look(ing) like an android, programmed to assassinate", but the carnival barker shot fits the mood of the album better.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/22/a9/fc/22a9fc9a5fe2dd051e4e0d2f7b9b0872--source-of-inspiration-private-life.jpg

^You’d like to send this one out to them, right?

Well, yeah.

Actually I just picked up another used vinyl copy of this album to replace my already pretty tapped out $1 garage sale one, and found that shot while trying to find a pic of the former's back cover, which is one of those budget versions that's different from the original in kind of a dumb way.

My new used copy used to belong to this radio station, which apparently has gone under a format change since then:

https://www.radiolineup.com/stations/WPRG-FM

I feel like its pretty clearly a joel grey reference

I’d like to send this one out to HOOS and Jor-El.

"your old man was the B&E man down on the street'