Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

*plays imaginary viola furiously but serenely*

Lol

Let's get a few covers out of the way. Y'all can name yours.

Correct #1 tbrr

Luna “Ride into the Sun”

The Clean: I Can't Stand It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBT7Scb3NRg

Moe Tucker’s whispered version of “Waiting for the Man” on one of her solo albums, forget which one

https://youtu.be/dapWaB5awyM

Paul Quinn And Edwyn Collins "Pale Blue Eyes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z3RgoukUEk

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), Monday, December 30, 2019

fuck I was gonna include it

as I noted on FB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny2-rEs06vE

I would ride for this as the greatest cover of anything, ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHivF_5EFbM

But the two words before the song title are "Cat" and "Power."

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.")

the cat power cover of I found a Reason is completely amazing.

Subway Sect, "Head Held High".

Cabaret Voltaire, "Here She Comes Now".

Alfred I greatly respect your critical chops, but I can’t believe you find nothing of merit there

https://youtu.be/Ml7mjXP4HKQ

https://youtube/Ml7mjXP4HKQ

... ffs

Here, let me help you:
https://youtu.be/Ml7mjXP4HKQ

ha, sorry!

Alfred I greatly respect your critical chops, but I can’t believe you find nothing of merit there

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK),

I couldn't resist the yuk and the yuck.

(xp) It's a good one to play if anyone claims no-one had heard of the Velvet Underground before the release of "V.U.".

Vannessa Paradis "I'm Waiting For the Man" is pretty wonderful

omigod

thanks for the tip

I'll second the Feelies take of "What Goes On"

the ones that comes to mind are the dils' "what goes on" and a version of "waiting for the man" by a band called "zoobombs"

i'm sure there are plenty more but i can't think of them right now

The Modern Lovers: "OK we're gonna do 2 more songs before our first break, and they're both for people who like to dance fast. Now the first one is one that we didn't write, it's one that the Velvet Underground wrote and never released. So you've never heard this one before. We like to do this as a tribute to the Velvet Underground. We all saw them a lot back east. And this is a song we hope you like. It's called 'Foggy Notion.'"

Also really like the Cruel Sea's take on "Cool it Down":

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

Pretty good version by the oddly named Dutch band, the Riats - from 1967! And "Sunday Morning" was on the b-side!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voV_e0IKwzs

Wot no Bryan 'Macho Man' Ferry's mash up of "What Goes On" and "Beginning to See the Light"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOnYGdGgqs4

I already got'em in for "All Tomorrow's Parties," which I prefer.

before the guy from Warm Soda was run out of the business for being a racist I was a huge fan of their version of "Waiting for the Man" on the castleface 'VU & Nico' tribute record

Motorcycle Boy - Run, Run, Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCr4ZyI2r8I

The string duo's version of "Sunday Morning" as the processional at my wedding this past May was outstanding.

'Ennui' on the SALLY CAN'T DANCE LP. Strikingly good: mellow, subtle, expansive - with that kind of gentleness that he occasionally offered, as on 'Coney Island Baby'.

in case anyone's interested in listening to old Lou bootlegs with me: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/summer-of-lou

Always.

is this the first S&D thread on ILX/ILM?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW4YW3YiSWE
Lou Reed & John Mellencamp - 1987 Bloomington Indiana

lou @ 16:07

some of my friends were there! that's been making the rounds on my FB feed paired with people's memories - Lou came out into the alley to say hi to the underage kids

Wow, that's terrific. Lou looks touched by the response. I can imagine Mellencamp covering "New Sensations."

Rolling Stone wrote about this upload and it got picked up by some papers. Amazingly, John Prine came out and joined them at the very end, but no footage of his appearance has surfaced.

Even more surprising was this:

Indiana University rock history professor Glenn Gass was in the crowd that night. He followed Reed into an alley after the musician’s set and told him he was teaching his students about the Velvet Underground; Gass wrote his phone number on a matchbox and invited Reed to speak to the students, never thinking it would happen.

Reed called Gass the next day and said he wanted to do it. “He was very paranoid about it,” Gass told the Indiana Daily Student in 2017. “He said he had never done anything like this before. Just was nervous, visibly shaking all the way to the classroom. He was afraid he was going to walk in and people were just going to stare at him.”

But Reed wound up enjoying the experience and stuck around for 90 minutes. “It was kind of like a dream come true when you’re a rock-history teacher,” Gass said, “to have Lou Reed come in and spend an hour and a half.”

Lou obviously forgot this:

Lou Reed is spokesman for the Velvet Underground at a literature and electronic media class run by Dr Joseph Kruppa at Texas University, 23 October 1969. 'Because of media censorship, nobody has heard any real music, nothing to make your hair stand on end.' Daily Texan 24 Oct 69 pic.twitter.com/vcs9Jr1Wnx

— Arthur (@ratherarthur) August 3, 2020

and this!
http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/10/lou-reeds-rock-n-roll-high-school.html

lloyd grove:

Speaking of Lou Reed, I remember that 31 years ago he played a high school assembly at Beverly Hills High School, where I was a 9th grader, and he and his Velvet Underground justed blasted out the place. When the school psychiatrist--yes, they had one of those in Beverly Hills, natch--warned that studies had shown that rock music had caused hearing deficits in hamsters, Reed replied "When we play for hamsters, we will turn the volume down."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/source/source0616.htm

https://i.imgur.com/RrnIKMV.png

xps yes some of my friends were also taking that class at the time! it was a big fuckin' deal.

I think this was just before I turned 21