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
... ffs
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
Here, let me help you:https://youtu.be/Ml7mjXP4HKQ
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
ha, sorry!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK),
I couldn't resist the yuk and the yuck.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
(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.".
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
Vannessa Paradis "I'm Waiting For the Man" is pretty wonderful
― fetter, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
omigod
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
thanks for the tip
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
I'll second the Feelies take of "What Goes On"
― doug watson, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
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
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
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
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
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
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
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
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
I already got'em in for "All Tomorrow's Parties," which I prefer.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
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
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
Motorcycle Boy - Run, Run, Runhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCr4ZyI2r8I
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
The string duo's version of "Sunday Morning" as the processional at my wedding this past May was outstanding.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
'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'.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
in case anyone's interested in listening to old Lou bootlegs with me: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/summer-of-lou
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 July 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Always.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 July 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
is this the first S&D thread on ILX/ILM?
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW4YW3YiSWELou Reed & John Mellencamp - 1987 Bloomington Indiana
lou @ 16:07
― budo jeru, Friday, 14 August 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Friday, 14 August 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
Wow, that's terrific. Lou looks touched by the response. I can imagine Mellencamp covering "New Sensations."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 August 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
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.”
― birdistheword, Friday, 14 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
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 the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
and this!http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/10/lou-reeds-rock-n-roll-high-school.html
― tylerw, Friday, 14 August 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Friday, 14 August 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
xps yes some of my friends were also taking that class at the time! it was a big fuckin' deal.
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 August 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I think this was just before I turned 21
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 August 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
Was the Live at the Gymnasium tape made at one these schools? It's great, hope it's come out on some legit comp.
― dow, Saturday, 15 August 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
gymnasium gig came out on the wl / wh deluxe box a few years ago — wasn't a high school venue, though. it had previously been a health club before becoming a night club.
― tylerw, Saturday, 15 August 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link