I hate "Stormy" and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" to be honest. "Reuben James" meh. "The Hills of Yesterday" is quite nice but belongs on his "Sings Songs from His TV Series" album not on this. "It's Over" is OK too.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Gay cowboys FTW.
― Melomane, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Voted "Sleepers".
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
I love "Little Things", it's the craziest sound, and Scott sings like a harmonizing foghorn, it's so weird
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
I was wrong about the gay cowboy bit. It has been a while since I last listened to "Thanks for Chicago Mr. James", and my memory was led astray by someone’s remarks I read somewhere that the song was a forebear of Brokeback Mountain, and Walker had never got credit for this kind of daring songwriting.
On listening to the song again, I see that the lyrics only suggest that the speaker is a rural drifter, not an actual cowboy. I wonder if Walker found the inspiration for this drama of rural drifter and big-city homosexual sugar daddy from somewhere in the Beats.
― Melomane, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
no votes for "time operator"? insane!
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 May 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
cuy-tains!
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 25 May 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
Missed this but would have voted ‘Joe’, which really should have been on the boy child comp
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 May 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link