Favorite LOU REED tune

[Bossy Monkey]

Feel free to include his VU numbers; I'm sure Warhol won't mind. As usual, I'll make a poll if this gets any noticeable traction.

On a day-in day-out basis, I'd probably go with the explosive, transcendent, somewhat endless live version of "Sweet Jane" (Who's playin' them geetars?), but just to be non-conformist, I'll go for "Dirty Boulevard" this time.

[CPschem]

1. either Heroin

or Oh! Sweet Nuthin

[Loonman]

2. "New Sensations"

Also:

"I Love You Suzanne"

[Bossy Monkey]

14. Really loved the live version, I think from Farm Aid

He did less well on Suzanne at that gig, unfortunately taking to shouting instead of singing, but the live version of New Sensations was what made me go out and get the record.

[Loonman]

19. Underrated masterpiece

I love that album.

[CaptainClark23]

3. Street Hassle

Y'know some people got no choice
when they can never find a voice to talk with
that they can even call their own.

So the first thing that they see,
that allows them the right to be,
why they follow it.
You know its called "Bad Luck"

(insert fat Fernando Saunder Bass here)

[Shoedogg]

4. Let's see...

Heroin
Waiting For the Man
Satellite of Love
White Light/White Heat
Sweet Jane

(I can never name just one of ANYthing) ;-)

[madrchsod]

5. heroin

and dirty boulevard. you can watch db video on his website.

[Intelsucks]

6. "Some Kinda Love" and "Rock And Roll"

n/t

[Zomby Woof]

7. Last Great American Whale

"New York" is my favorite Lou Reed studio album, and "Rock and Roll Animal" one of the best live albums of all time.

[BurtWorm]

8. I Can't Stand It, I'm Beginning to See the Light and

We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together are my less obvious picks. My obvious picks are Waiting for the Man and Sweet Jane. And Heroin. And Sister Ray.

[CaptainClark23]

10. Lexington & 125

Lou did an appearance at B&N at Union Square. Seen Lou dozens of times, in concert, in movie theatres, in elevators, etc. Wasn't going to stick around for autographs or any such. On my way in I passed a rack of postcards. One was a photograph of the streetsign of the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street.

I had to get him to sign that!

[BurtWorm]

11. Now that's cool!

:thumbsup:

[tridim]

9. "Stephanie Says"

That song gives me goosebumps.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. "Venus in Furs"

One of the best songs about a masochist that there is. The title comes from the biography of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, from whose name the word masochism is derived.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0922233012/002-5910472-6669604?v=glance

edit: added link

[CanuckAmok]

13. "Small Town"--it's the only Lou Reed song I like, and I love it.

n/t

[tigerbeat]

15. Rock and Roll

or Christmas in February

[Westegg]

16. White Light/White Heat...

Was just enjoying Bowie's live version of it this morning.

[gpandas]

17. perfect day

[jpak]

18. All of the above...

:)

[mitchum]

20. "Pale Blue Eyes", Oh Jim" and...

the last movement of "Street Hassle"- Love has gone away/Took the rings from my fingers and there's nothing left to say..

[Kat45]

21. I'm with you on the live version of "Sweet Jane."

IIRC, I think the guitarist's name is Steve Hunter.

I'm also partial to "Walk on the Wild Side."

[rucky]

22. What Goes On

[lucidmadman]

23. It was 1969. A really chemical night at the Avalon Ballroom in SF...

...The Velvets were about to play. Doug Yule was in the band then. People tuned up. I don't know what they do now.
Lou was wearing a midnight blue velvet tuxedo and playing a black Gretsch guitar with red foxes painted on it. He stepped up to the mic to do the 'testing one two three' thing and I guess he wasn't grounded...a blue spark connected his face to the mic and he was blown back a few feet. It hardly fazed him. He said "Things like that don't bother me anymore'.

They opened with WAITING FOR THE MAN...

[SOteric]

24. My Love is Chemical

[baldguy]

25. Walk on the Wild Side

But I've always liked Sex With Your Parents.

(God, it sounds horrible when you just SAY it like that!)