Run Run Run is another song about heroin in NYC. The Cowboys had beaten the Eagles very badly the night before. Heroin is jaw dropping and only becomes more nuanced when you hear it again, played live, two years later, on the Live 1969 album. ![]() "Everything about that song holds true," said Reed, "except the price." Reed deadpans a story about scoring $26 worth of heroin in Harlem. I’m Waiting For The Man becomes the song that influences David Bowie (see David’s cover during Bowie’s 50th Birthday Party with Lou Reed as a special guest.) As intense of an experience as you'll find in the rock canon.Ī few notable fun facts for a few of my favorite songs on the album. The context, of course, being NYC in its rioutess summers: VU&N positively smacks of oppressive inner-city heat, and burns with the wild energy of youth, sex, drugs and hangovers. He managed to be arty without sounding like an "artist": at heart, he was a rock and roller, and the music connects because he places it in a believably human context. Viola abuse on "Venus in Furs" and "Black Angel's Death Song", sure, but don't forget great touches like the celesta on "Sunday Morning" and intimate guitar tonality on "Femme Fatale" and "I'll Be Your Mirror".Īnd then there's Lou Reed's songwriting- Bob Dylan gone terse Chuck Berry gone dangerous. All you needed was some innovation and some genius. Whilst the 1967 Beatles and Beach Boys were breaking new ground by utilising huge orchestrations, the Velvets (and Hendrix) were proving you didn't need all that. Its genius, as John Cale has pointed out, is in its minilism. ![]() ![]() One of the all time greats it's difficult to say anything new about it.
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