Guess I'm Polling in Love: The Lou Reed Memorial Velvet Underground (and solo material) Ballot Poll Thread

whoah I never realized those were different, just cross-checked

those Etc, NYC, and And So On boot LPs were crucial to troo kult fans back in the day

hey so I started a rough ballot and I hope this is still mostly how it's gonna be:

shakey yr call completely obv (and if you've got ballots where ppl have two different versions of a song on there in different places i guess there's no work around) but i would suggest for tracks where ppl vote for this live version or that live version or the album version or a demo version that you might only allow one vote for the track but if ppl want to specify a specific version they can and then when you roll out the results you note it when you list the totals for that track. basically what they do for remixes on year end polls or w/ a few other artist polls. that way certain tracks don't have their vote watered down or aren't basically competing against themselves. anyhow stoked for this, i'm sure it'll end up velvets top heavy (it should end up velvets top heavy) but i think there will be some great diversity and maybe FACTIONS will emerge. make the rollout as long as possible imo. i mean elton john got a hundred track rollout, would guess you rank the velvets at least equal to elton john. maybe i'm wrong though.

― balls, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 2:47 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol you didn't read the elton rollout thread did you

yr suggestion re: various versions sounds good, was mostly waiting til I see ballots to make that kind of call

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, October 30, 2013 2:57 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

cuz I am voting for some weirdo versions, just like EIII mentions... I mean, the slow burn Quine tapes version of "Waiting For My Man" is genuinely my favorite!

also there's this weird awesome take of "Guess I'm Falling In Love" from the "And So On" boot LP that I will definitely vote for

Cale & Reed started slugging it out for solo material ballot spots well within my top ten

same take but I can't stand the reverb on the VU version

dry version sounds like "after hours" kissin' cousin, reverb version sounds like some shit lou scraped off his shoe on the curb outside the studio

xp

I just found out moe is apparently a tea party crazy nowadays and it's bumming me out

I found that out last week and it bummed me out so bad I didn't mention it here. :(

We created a thread for it three years ago. Not a surprise tbh

Actually, no: discussion here: TS: Mo Tucker vs. Ringo Starr

Moe's complicated, but awesome. I did this interview with her in 2002:

http://www.metropulse.com/news/2002/feb/14/velvet-undergrounds-moe-tucker-comes-knoxville/?preventMobileRedirect=1.

HEre I get to mention again, I met Moe and Sterling when they played Reading Univ.

Someone needs to get with Moe and ghostwrite an autobiography.

Why? She can write, you know...

That would be great, too. Just sort of figure if she was gonna do it she'd have done it by now. Might need someone to talk her into it. Anyway, a project for some enterprising writer. Go to it, kids.

Four ballots received so far...

cuz I am voting for some weirdo versions, just like EIII mentions... I mean, the slow burn Quine tapes version of "Waiting For My Man" is genuinely my favorite!

this is all fine and good, but bear in mind that insisting that your votes for particular takes of songs be counted separately from other versions basically guarantees that they will not make it into the final results, due to the unlikelihood of anybody else specifying that particular take.

Depending on how the votes come in, I may just tally all the votes for a given song together, while noting that a certain portion of those votes were for various versions, but I dunno, depends on people's ballots really.

For Metal Machine Music, is it all one thing or do we vote by side?

I was wondering the same thing. Each side seems to pick up exactly where the previous one left off, and it was once released as a single, uninterrupted piece (on 8-track, but still).

I find this impossible to vote in, if only because I wouldn't be able to rank the various solo releases, let alone square those against the VU corpus

plus doing weird things like voting for the etc version of "I'm sticking with you"

Gonna consider MMM a single piece of music

btw if you don't vote you are a pussy

don't settle for lurking

All right, my tinnitus-having, Michael-Moorcock-reading friend, you have thrown down the gauntlet. You will see my 50 picks before next Friday.

Is The Soul of Patrick Lee eligible? Also, who is Adam Miller?!

lol @ buzza

Four ballots received so far...

cuz I am voting for some weirdo versions, just like EIII mentions... I mean, the slow burn Quine tapes version of "Waiting For My Man" is genuinely my favorite!

this is all fine and good, but bear in mind that insisting that your votes for particular takes of songs be counted separately from other versions basically guarantees that they will not make it into the final results, due to the unlikelihood of anybody else specifying that particular take.

Depending on how the votes come in, I may just tally all the votes for a given song together, while noting that a certain portion of those votes were for various versions, but I dunno, depends on people's ballots really.

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 November 2013 21:07 (Yesterday) Permalink

hi Shakey what I was trying to say there was yes, please count all the different versions together. That way I can vote for my fave weirdo live version of a classic song and it gets counted.

does moe have a chance at placing anything in this poll? i've never really heard any of her solo stuff. is there a consensus for her best song?

― reckless woo (Z S), Friday, November 1, 2013 6:12 PM (1 week ago)

love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI9zyWu_POk

Is The Soul of Patrick Lee eligible?

As noted upthread, collabs with non-VU members are acceptable so yes. Don't pass up this rare opportunity to vote for the entirety of Wrong Way Up!

I feel like you're kidding but

not entirely kidding - it just happened to be what I'm listening to at the moment. it's not bad but it's not really good either.

it's not bad but it's not really good either.

bullllshiiiiiittttt

Spinning Away is way up there for me

got a couple more ballots in, keep em coming

I'm almost done. Road testing my list during my walks to/from work today. SO FAR SO GOOD! Spinning Away totes gonna make my list too. Love that song.

Hoping/planning to work on my ballot over the weekend and send it Sunday or Monday.

Working through Angus Maclise today, think I'll vote for Chumlum at the very least.

"Sun Blindness Music" will probably make it; gonna re-listen to the Cale/Sterling duo, too.

I can't even wrack my brain into thinking of Wrong Way Up options.

Working through Angus Maclise today, think I'll vote for Chumlum at the very least.

― famous for hits! (seandalai), Friday, November 8, 2013 10:57 AM

damn I forgot about Universal Solar Calendar, that is my jam

gonna re-listen to the Cale/Sterling duo, too.

"Stainless Steel Gamelan" is on my ballot.

It's pretty fascinating how those records point to later Velvets tracks (even stuff Cale's not on, e.g., "Sun Blindness Music" --> "What Goes On").

for your ballot consideration, all 40 minutes of Sweet Sister Ray (edit URL):

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFaOyQbDTKs

couple more ballots in over the weekend, keep 'em coming...

I didn't include any wrong way up stuff cause the album feels more eno than cale

Voted! Decided to leave off "Spinning Away" for the same reason iatee said, but I did include "Cordoba" as it's obviously a Cale track.

c'mon guys we have to at least get the ballots into double digits here

You gave us until Friday. There is a lot of material to sift through.

which I'm sure none of you have ever listened to before lol

I'm sending you mine asap but that moment hasn't happened yet!

I hope there is a strong showing for Lady Godiva's Operation even if it ends poorly. The first few verses are sublime and then it's kinda funny when Lou pops in to hork his lines SWEETLY.

He sounds like a zitty teenager next to John Cale.

i love that part

the first time i heard it it scared the bejeezus out of me. it still does sometimes.

the whole song is pretty spooky, the thump thump heartbeat/surgery theme and all
i love it