Anyway, I'll take the lazy way out - for now:

I'll upload it tomorrow.

Hillbilly Shuffle:

Quote:

Songs for Drella is probably my favourite Lou Reed album and subsequently one of my favourite records ever. His guitar-playing on Drella is his best on record - at least for records with more or less conventional songs. The song 'Forever changed' - sung by John Cale - is one of the best songs ever written. Not a single Dylan song about change comes even close. Good Lou Reed solo records are: Transformer, Berlin, Street Hassle, The Bells , The blue mask, Legendary hearts, New York, Songs for Drella, Magic and loss, Ecstasy, The Stone: Issue Three (w/ John Zorn & Laurie Anderson). Records like Sally can't dance, Coney Island Baby (with a superb title track and a great speed-ballad 'Kicks'), Set the twilight reeling are okay-ish but not always very interesting. Metal Machine Music, The Raven, Hudson River Wind Meditations and The Stone Issue Three are all concept-albums. Three of them are entirely instrumental, The Raven is a 2,5 hour spoken word-piece with rewritten text from E.A. Poe and a couple of songs - initially it was a theatre play and probably worked better that way. I like all 4 of them - though not equally and some not entirely - but they are obviously not for everybody. Lou Reed has a lot of not so great versions of songs with some potential. A dissapointing solo debut.

That pretty much nails it.

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This Drella seems to be an intriguing album, I've heard some of the tunes before in concerts. Only one issue - Cale should sing more songs, as I think everyone can agree he is more awesome than Lou Reed.

At the risk of having to engage in one of those pillow fights with our admin - if it must, I demand we fight only wearing our boxer, man to man, flesh to flesh - etc:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XXISWINR

Cheers, just finished downloading. I'll upload some stuff as soon as you stop offending my Catholic Faith.

I went to catholic school from when I was 2,5 yrs till I was 18 yrs.
There's a lot you can ask of me, Uzi Tootsie, but to stop making fun out of catholics really IS too much to ask.

For conclusive proof, if further proof were needed, that Mr Reed is a complete shit, refer to John Cale's autobiography "What Welsh for Zen?"

Reed's failure to attend fellow-Velvet Sterling Morrison's funeral service is very strange indeed, but, OK, some people don't like funerals. But his manipulation of others, his breaking of promises, his self-promotion....it all addds up to a thoroughly dislikable human being.

So who comes off worse, Reed or Eno?

It appears that Mr Cale doesn't hold back.

I never saw any reaso to believe that Lou Reed is the nicest guy you could ever meet. But I have no intention to befriend him, I just happen to like a lot of his music.
Btw, let's not be silly, Cale isn't exactely known as mr. Nice-Guy either. He's made some great music too.

Anyway, Uzi, how did you like Drella?

A piece I really like - it's the into to the song 'Riptide' from Set the twilight reeling, here used on itself as an instrumental piece to open the sublime duo-shows with Laurie Anderson in 2002.
Later that year he played at some festival in the Bonnaroo festival and played the only-ever live version of 'Riptide' with the intro - previous live versions had been stripped from it, a truly rocking show.

Anyway:

I like Lou Reed's cover of Dylan's "Foot of Pride" at the 30th anniversary Bobfest. Credit where it's due for electing to perform one of Bob's strangest and most obscure songs.

There's also some pre-fame (in this case pre-velvet underground) stuff of his that's actually not so bad (I'm sure he would kill me for saying that):

Your love - Lewis Reed


You're driving me insane - The Roughnecks