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
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)
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
as I noted on FB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny2-rEs06vE
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
I would ride for this as the greatest cover of anything, ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHivF_5EFbM
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
But the two words before the song title are "Cat" and "Power."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
I always liked Mitch Ryder's version of "Rock and Roll" and the Feelies' cover of "What Goes On", probably because I heard them well before I ever heard the originals. (I can say the same for Big Star's "Femme Fatale.")
― henry s, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
the cat power cover of I found a Reason is completely amazing.
― akm, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
Subway Sect, "Head Held High".
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 07:32 (four years ago) link
Cabaret Voltaire, "Here She Comes Now".
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
Alfred I greatly respect your critical chops, but I can’t believe you find nothing of merit there
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Ml7mjXP4HKQ
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
https://youtube/Ml7mjXP4HKQ