Best song Lou Reed ever wrote?

Show you where my state of mind is.

"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.

there are about 5 velvet tracks that jump in ahead of it however

I can think of many best songs.

good list, you not a fan of Drella?

I am but I prefer Cale's tunes.

live in italy version of "betrayed" has always been one of my fave moments of RQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plh-3ej1t0M

didn't mean to embed, sry

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.

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.

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

Perfect Day and Stephanie Says.

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.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-mH9ZjnuM

pale blue eyes

Alfred, Our House is called My House.

And this should be on your list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveePL9Ft2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4FI88FkQU

There's a white prism with phony jism

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.

Oh, flappy, yeah, "Pale Blue Eyes" is waay up there, too

I love that line in “My House” —

I really got a lucky life
My 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).

* that’s ”writing,” not “writhing” (wtf)

It would have been 'writhing' if he'd written it a ten years earlier or later.

lol

VU era: some kinda love
solo: coney island baby

I love that line in “My House” —

I really got a lucky life
My 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 (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

that is a very dark song

I'd choose something lighter, he was a humanist at heart right?

What Goes On, Rock and Roll, I'm Waiting for the Man

Waves of Fear, Coney Island Baby, Mad

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

VU: Sweet Jane
70s: Coney Island Baby
80s: Waves of Fear
90s: Hello It's Me
00s: Modern Dance
10s: Junior Dad

I couldn’t even pick a “best song” from "The Blue Mask" alone. That album is extraordinary...

Covers comp coming: https://acerecords.co.uk/what-goes-on-the-songs-of-lou-reed

'walk like an egyptian'

oh wait, that's the bagnles

Sorry, it was Prince

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.