Perhaps you would have preferred if he had started playing fingerstyle?
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
thumbstyle
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the overdetermination of offenses including the Saunders abf, the tipping point where the Sprechgesang became more Sprechge than sang, and the endless guitar and microphone tech talk obsession that nevertheless seem to result in a generic clanky dry Strat sound or whatever.
LOL I don't necessary agree, but this is a great post
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Sorry, to me there is something disingenuous about his latter day fascination with the normal.
have you heard him sing? It's like imagining Donald Trump singing nursery rhymes. The Fascination with the Normal is precisely what gives those post-1982 albums (the good ones) their creepiness.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
Are you saying the creepiness is intentional? And desirable?
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
Unintentional and desirable.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
What about ostensibly clumsy stuff like the oft quoted couplet “My Dedalus to your Bloom/ was such a perfect wit”? What’s your take on this kind of thing?
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
Xgau says that it “honors the way that people really talk.” But who talks like that but Lou and pretentious permanent literature undergrads like the guy who was flirting with Laurie Anderson a few posts up? Delmore Schwartz himself wouldn’t be caught dead in a pauper’s grave with a sentence like that coming out of his mouth or pen.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
To me that's just a different kind of stupid from Lou's 70s stupid.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Me too, but I liked 70s stupid better, it’s of a piece with 70s NYC cinema.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
It’s like the taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs)
I would preferred "My Dedalus to your Bloom/I'm such a nitwit"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
If Sterling has been around he probably would have asked for the lyric to be changed to that.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Growing Up In Public, for all its numerous faults, is the perfect bridge between 70s and 80s stupid.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
i like the "such a perfect wit" line bc it's v earnest, the kind of error you preserve bc the syntax is so weird it's personal, it's not about reflecting some cultural stupidity. i mean, "my house" makes me cry, idk. but i'm not here to convince people who think fernando saunders sucks at bass
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
The line that bugs me the most is "Marxist DA"...like, there would never be a Marxist district attorney...but if there was, they wouldn't be average...like Lou is claiming to be...ok, I get it now, it's all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
and the weird of "New Sensations" (title track0) is my kind of weird.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Just occurred to me for the first time to wonder if it bugged Lou that Sterling finished his PhD. I suppose it might have, but so much stuff bugged him it would hard to single that one out unless he went on record about it.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Man y’all are nitpicking some perfectly fine lyrics...(now excuse me while I do another Wikipedia-based fact check of where Lou was on a specific day in 1963)
― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Lou deserves to have his nits picked for being such a pompous ass from the mid 80s onwards.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
The clunky, plainspoken earnestness of “My House” is what makes it so endearing, IMO. He’s abandoning all pretense of being “poetic” in his tribute to a poet.
― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Average Guy is probably my favorite song on that album
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 13 July 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
In an Italian restaurant called Romeo’s right now and all I can hear in my head is the Rock and Roll Animal himself singing “Legendary Hearts.”
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
Well that and Robin Williams as Elmer Fudd singing “Fire.”
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_oFjghXkAcHX2P.jpg:large
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
Almost finished the Bockris book. I laughed at this--early draft of Trump (circa the VU reunion in the early '90s):
Previously a phoneaholic, Lou had now become a fax maniac, spending hours composing messages and then keening over the machine in anticipation of a snappy reply. It was the perfect mode of communication for the hermetic Reed.
My favourite moment came much earlier, the night Reed quit the VU first time around: "Sterling, I'd like you to meet my parents..." Reminded me of Max introducing his dad to Herman in Rushmore.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Belated lol at Street Hasslehoff
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
The Bockris book--which I only read because it was a gift--gave me the story in broad outline, which is all I wanted. The only time I found it to be an ordeal was the last 50 pages or so, where Bockris (perhaps swept away by Reed's death) gives you, in excruciating detail, his interpretation of a cross-album conversation between Reed and Anderson. I don't know these records, and, personally, they're of no interest to me. I always think of Seinfeld and the Drake in these situations: "Well, I don't know if I'm happy for them...I mean I'm glad they're happy, but, frankly, it doesn't do anything for me."
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
The one thing that stuck with me from the Bockris book was Nico saying to Reed, "I cannot make love to Jews anymore."
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I always think of that, wonder if it applied to Dylan as well.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
Also there is another line about Reporter: When’s the last time you saw Lou Reed?Nico: I don’t hang out in gay bars
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Yes, it's obviously about Dylan too (xp)
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Bockris, wondering if I should buy an ebook of Uptight to replace my mistakenly given away paper copy.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
Or at least I imagine and want that to be the case
Probably Jonathan Richman was never in the running in the first place.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
So apparently today is International Lou Reed Tai-Chi Day.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
If the name John Cale passes your lips during this 24 hour period you will be assigned punishment forms as part of your practice.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
*plays imaginary viola furiously but serenely*
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Lol
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Let's get a few covers out of the way. Y'all can name yours.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
Correct #1 tbrr
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
Luna “Ride into the Sun”
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
The Clean: I Can't Stand Ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBT7Scb3NRg
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
Moe Tucker’s whispered version of “Waiting for the Man” on one of her solo albums, forget which one
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/dapWaB5awyM
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
Paul Quinn And Edwyn Collins "Pale Blue Eyes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z3RgoukUEk
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, December 30, 2019
fuck I was gonna include it
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link