| Author | Message | ||
     jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 181 Registered: 07-2005 |
Has anyone, like me, bought a CD just because they loved the name of the CD, or the artwork,for that matter. For me the last one I bought was the Lambchop compilation-"Decline and fall of country and western civilisation". Also I would add The Falls-This Nations Saving Grace. Actually both LPs live up to their title | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 87 Registered: 05-2005 |
Many times. Most notably "Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space" by Spiritualized for both reasons. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 476 Registered: 03-2005 |
My introduction to Nick Cave was "Kicking Against the Pricks." The title and the fact that he covered "The Carnival is Over" made me buy it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 479 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Greatest Hits of Tito Puente | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 567 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed. Now you've got to admit that sounds like a great title for an album. Sadly, as I stated on another thread a few months ago, I was sold a turkey by a record store guy who should have known better than sell it to an impressionable wet behind the ears teenager. (I'm assuming everybody on here knows the legend of Metal Machine Music) | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 415 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ah, but now it's very cool to say, "I listen to MMM for pleasure. It's Lou's best solo album by far!" It is too bad he didn't actually make a good album with that great title, though. I would never buy an album by Peaches, but she gets maximum points for the title of her latest, "Impeach My Bush." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 545 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mine was quite close to Kev's, The Velvets live 1969 Italian import red and yellow cover. Never heard the Velvets, I was 13, Malcolm Ross's wife used to go on about them so I bought it. Its Fu*@in amazing, the best thing they ever did! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 416 Registered: 04-2005 |
Red and yellow? Spence, that sounds different than the cover of "1969 Live" I know, which is green and has that infamous ass shot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969:_The_Velvet_Underground_Live In any case, it's a great, great album. It's the one sold me on the Velvets (more than the debut and Loaded) and totally changed how I thought about music. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 571 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lou is great in the intro, talking about football and shit just to lull the crowd into a false sense of security. wonder how many of them walked out after hearing heroin? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 418 Registered: 04-2005 |
Probably not many. It sounds like there were about five people in the crowd! I'd like to think a few people were hip to the VU in the day and that they actually played for crowds that wanted to see them sometimes. As great as 1969 Live is, I wish the Quine Tapes set that came out a few years back had better sound quality, as they were more even extreme performances. Sorry, topic drift... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 547 Registered: 05-2005 |
kurt yeah it is different sleeve, like a sweet wrapper red n yellow, it was an import in early eighties, thje live with the ladies back side was the two volumes wasnt it, which are great this vinyl import is dear to my heart, like kev says the intro chilled/laid back lou is worth the cash alone... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 548 Registered: 05-2005 |
what goes on is surely the best song of all time, its everything that came after... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 419 Registered: 04-2005 |
No kidding, Spence--many bands based entire careers on the "What Goes On" sound. It's like its own genre. Interesting to hear the live album came out in another cover. I always found the arse cover incredibly ugly. My parents wondered what the hell I was listening to when I brought that home as a teenager. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 439 Registered: 05-2005 |
Many times, particularly in my 80s metal teen years. If the album title sounded like it was going to portray a particular vision of hell - and the sleeve backed this up - then it was for me. Life was simpler then. But the music was mostly awful. I wish I could remember particular examples. Maybe I have excised them from my mind. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 440 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, there was an album by a band called Nuclear Assault that I got for the band's name. I can feel the caverns of my mind cranking into places not visited in years... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 582 Registered: 05-2005 |
Getting back to the Velvets Live 69, the postings above made me dig it out for a fresh listen. Something that struck me for the first time (although God knows why because its an obvious thought!) was I wonder what I'll be your mirror and Pale Blue Eyes would have sounded like if Uncle Lou had sung them on the Velvets debut album rather than Nico. I think Lou sings them brilliantly on Live 69, and I could be wrong but these songs were not written specially for Nico so presumably Lou had sung them for a while before they did the album. Much as I like the Nico versions, and think that The Velvets debut is one of the greatest of all time, I think it would have been even better with Lou singing these songs. In saying that, All Tomorrows Parties in not on Live 69, and its hard to imagine anyone except Nico singing this. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 423 Registered: 04-2005 |
I know what you mean, Kevin--I never cared that much for Nico's vocals except on "All Tomorrow's Parties," which was definitely made for her. John Cale sang it decently on the '93 VU reunion live album, which is mostly a waste, and Lou's last live album had him barking it out with limited success. But yeah, Lou's singing voice was at its short-lived best around '69, and he did a great job singing those songs live. I prefer his take of "New Age" to Yule's on "Loaded" as well. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 584 Registered: 05-2005 |
Was Doug Yule really Lou's brother? I know its not uncommon to use an alternative name in rock n roll but you think he would be Doug Reed. Of course maybe Reed is not Lou's real surname, but I'm about 99.9% certain it is. Is he not Louis (or Lewis)Alan Reed? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 355 Registered: 08-2004 |
Doug Yule would do the interviews when Lou had the hump which was quite a lot. He's not his brother as far as I know. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 424 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry's right. Rumor has it Yule even filled in once for Lou onstage in the solo years (on the Sally Can't Dance tour, I think) because he could sound like Lou and superficially looked like him. (Yule played in Lou's backing band around '74.). Lou was too wasted to go on, and I guess they figured his audience was too wasted to notice the difference. Yule and Reed aren't related, though--as far as I know, Lou just has a sister, Lisa, the subject of a few songs. Maybe the brother thing was a comment on the slight physical resemblance. For a long time, a lot of bios had Lou's last name as Firbank. But that seems to have been misinformation that got perpetuated. The supposedly definitive bios give his name as Lewis Allen Reed. There are rumors of a boyhood nickname of Butch, which is pretty funny. I was a Lou Reed obsessive for a long time, hence this useless knowledge... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 586 Registered: 05-2005 |
So when Lou introduces Doug as his brother on Live 69, was that Lou being playful, or was that just what people believed to be the case at that time? As for Lisa being his sister, lets hope Lisa Says is not autobiographal. "Lisa says on a night like this, be so nice if you'd give me a kiss" Even Lou, with all his shenanigans over the years wouldnt be in to that kinda stuff, would he? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 426 Registered: 04-2005 |
Maybe by '69 he was trying to present the Velvets as a wholesome family act! I mean, with innocent-looking Maureen and Doug and the band wearing flowery shirts, they were far from the menacing junkie types they appeared to be in the Cale/Warhol/Factory era. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 482 Registered: 03-2005 |
Love the story about Doug Yule impersonating Reed in the solo years Kurt. Maybe Reed provided the Firbank name himself out of mischief. I like to think he might have been giving a nod to Victorian-era writer Ronald Firbank. |