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Late Night Music Club with Lou Reed

Title: Rock n' Roll

From 1972.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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grs's picture

I've had this song stuck in my head all weak. Big Pink - Dominoes

I love some shoegazer.

frank lee speakin's picture

I love the way he rimes “alright” with “all right”, brilliant!

calgarylady's picture

is a true original.

Awesome choice of music this evening, bluegal!

real_earl's picture

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BigDaddyMalcontent's picture

Cool song!

Vorple's picture

Hi,
I want to commend commend you and Laurie Anderson on letting us know what the pitfalls are in the binary age and am wondering why you can't break from your NYC shell to address global warming.

grs's picture

I'll toss in the Beasties - Whatcha Want

fossilhippie's picture

Jimi would've been 67 years old today.

Jimi Hendrix Experience doing Killing Floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNp4hBPSYTI

calgarylady's picture

Thank you, fossilhippie!

real_earl's picture

turning music upside down! Can't even imagine what music would have been like in the last 40 yrs if he was around ...only Jimi would know...


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ever written. I always feel better after hearing it, especially on the radio.


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miss_kitty's picture

The NME interview performance
Kasabian - Underdog

And the official clip
Kasabian - Underdog

luis stoole's picture

love that lyric
from shoot the runner
don't know why
but i do
maybe because it is so f'n bad as$

and now for something this side of the pond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeJIi-3mOM

Pete C.'s picture
Lou

Always one of my favorites, but immagine my dissapointment when I discovered it wasn't his guitar virtuosity as the intro to "sweet jane".

smchris's picture

I've always thought Warhol was a dark genius but that whole New York scene came across as suicidally and murderously nihilistic compared to (at least the pre-Charles Manson pop image of the) West Coast hippie scene.

Nonetheless, I'll always like Coney Island Baby.

Pete C.'s picture

And one more thing, can't everyone please stop kissing Hendrix's backside. I believe the best description of his playig skills: overated.

uboat's picture

Hendrix overrated? No, he was a total original. He got sounds out of his guitar that no-one else has, and while there are many imitators and many who have got down a facet of his playing, no-one else has ever mastered the full Hendrix vocabulary, and probably no-one ever will, because it was intrinsic to his personality.

sciguy's picture

You're entitled to your beliefs, but I don't share them. Just listen to the heavenly/impossible intro to Little Wing. I still can't believe it's possible to play such a thing to this day. A truer musical genius never lived, IMHO.

shaggles's picture

Hendrix was a genius and not over rated in my opinion but that Little Wing intro is straight out of Curtis Mayfield.

mudshark's picture

What is your conceptual, continuity?

jmmartin's picture

I got drunk with Lou Reed one night when he was staying at an L.A. hotel with his then-wife Sylvia. He had a bottle of good Scotch and we got sauced. Lou is a little sarcastic when he gets to drinking, but I took it in stride. I knew I was having drinks with an authentic rock and roll genius. Reed's songs always touched me personally. Just one example, when Loaded came out, I had a significant other who had "Pale Blue Eyes." All of my romantic entanglements were situations that arose "because of the weather." I got to interview the Velvets and John Cale while freelance writing in California. Now, here's an amusing side note: my 29-year-old son, a guitarist and soundtrack composer, just asked me if he could have my vinyl 33 1/3 RPM original issue of Berlin. ;-)


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shaggles's picture

I've never really gotten the Lou Reed thing. I'd rather listen to Iggy.

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