there's nothing on here as capital "J" JAZZY (or hilarious) as "Sheltered Life" off of Rock n Roll Heart, for example
― I Never Promised You A Whine Garden (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Don Cherry plays on it -- what more do you want?
― tylerw, Monday, 2 August 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
(but yeah, aside from that, not terribly jazzy)
― tylerw, Monday, 2 August 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I know and I love him but his presence alone doth not a jazz record make. I mean even some of Cherry's own stuff can only be classified as jazz in the broadest sense of the term. Brown Rice doesn't really swing, y'know?
― I Never Promised You A Whine Garden (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Lou loved his Herbie Hancock records, that's for sure.
― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
also this has to be some of the saddest lyrics Lou's ever written (Street Hassle comes close)
Mama, you tell me how's the familyAnd papa, tell me how thing's going by youAnd little baby sister, I heard that you got marriedAnd I heard that you had yourself a little baby girl, tooAnd here's some uncles and some cousins I know vaguelyAnd would you believe my old dog Chelsea's here, tooAnd would you believe nobody in this familywanted to keep herAnd now that dog's more of a part of this familythen I am, tooI don't come home much anymoreNo-no-no I don't come home much anymoreMama
And mama, I know how disappointed you areAnd papa, I know that you feel the same way, tooAnd no-no-no-no-no I still haven't got marriedAnd no-no-no there's no grandson planned here for youAnd by the way, daddy tell me how's the businessI understand that your stock she's growing very highNo, daddy, you're not a poor man anymoreAnd I hope you'll realize that before you dieBecause I don't come home much anymoreNo-no-no-no-no I don't come home much no moreBut daddy
And please-please-please-please-pleasecome on let's not start this business againI know how much you resent the life that I haveBut one more time, I don't want the family businessDon't want to inherit it upon the day that you dieReally, daddy should have given it to my sisterYou know Elisabeth, you know Elisabethshe has a better head for those things than IShe lives practically around the cornerThat's really the kind of child you could be proud ofBut papa, I know that this visit's a mistakeThere's nothing here we have in common, except our nameAnd families that live out in the suburbsOften make each other cryAnd I don't think that I'll come home much anymoreNo-no, I don't think I'll come home much againMamaPapaFamiliesOften make each other cryNo, I don't think that I'll come home much anymore(How's the families)
― I Never Promised You A Whine Garden (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
no, not "jazz record," '70s jazz-inspired sonics. dig?
xp
― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
luv "Families."
― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Monday, 2 August 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Favourite track is "All Through the Night"
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'70s jazz-inspired sonics. dig?
I... guess? what 70s jazz record sounds like this?
― Specify music my dick hair (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
@ Moshy: I think that's his guitar gettin' all squeely in there. Sometimes hard to distinguish from Zorn's blowin'. ;-)
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
whoahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Ngt7VY-Iw
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
That rules.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
will go to my grave saying that album's overcondemned
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
SING ALONG WITH LOU
"She was the first girlin her neighbourhoodto get raped in Tompkins Square...real good"
― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Monday, 12 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Lou too bored to sing along with Lou
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 November 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f480ebfbdc358daf1048c2f1aa537b33/tumblr_mhmtj3PaEa1s54i6co1_400.jpgi listened to sally can't dance a couple weeks ago -- pretty good! worst thing is the sax on "billy".
― tylerw, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol that's one of the only songs I like on the album
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
i think the song is ok, but man, that dude playing the sax! like he runs out of ideas about 15 seconds in and has to keep playing for another three minutes.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
standard lou reed operating procedure!
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
not denying its essential cheeseball Saturday Night Live-ness
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
earotic sax
― tylerw, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjL0HPeCIAAxlsj.jpg
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/a152bdb00e88655976632a6696c8f433/tumblr_n3h4darPRJ1qckm0wo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
think i'm going to listen to ecstasy on the bus ride home
I was listening to the "Sally Can't Dance" this morning for the first time in forver and it was a lot better then I remember. Something about the sleazy bar-band r&b combined with Lou "Lou-ing" really makes for something...odd.
"Animal Language"!
I can only imagine how Lou zig-zagged around the beat singing these songs live
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 25 July 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
new sensations is kind of a jam throughout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgLn4zo-wA&feature=kp
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 25 July 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
I really can't stand the overall sound of Sally Can't Dance. I've only kept three songs from it (guess which ones)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 July 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
can't stand the sound of Rock n Roll Animal either tbh
I used to hate Rock N Roll Animal, I remember just cringing the first time I heard it when I was in college, but I've really come around to it. Esp in the last five yrs or so.
My wife, a die hard Velvets fan, who doesn't have much time for solo Lou considers RnR Animal to be a crime against nature
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 25 July 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'm still on the "why no i dont recall wishing lou would replace the velvets with the silver bullet band" side when it comes to rnr animal
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
i mean i may turn around on it, lou reed with the silver bullet band does sound not unamusing
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
but basically any "lou aims for cobo hall" re-arrangement of a velvets song/demo <<<<<<< the velvets song/demo
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
i forgive 70s critics for being kinder because they were coming from a "why ISNT lou more successful, maybe female background vocalists will do the trick" pov
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
also it was hard to hear VU before Lou Reed when VU hadn't come out
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
For me it scratches a certain itch, when I think of those songs I don't usually think of the RnR Anminal vers but it's cool to hear them in a different context.
I saw Jandek a few days after Lou passed and I really, really wanted him to come out and just do a note perfect vers of "Sweet Jane" from RnR Animal.
That, sadly, did not happen.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
None other than Sterling Morrison himself nailed what the problem was with that album, more or less, saying something like "these guys use the same guitar tone on every single song from beginning to end, same tone, same volume, they never switch it up." Of course it doesn't help that it is a guitar tone I hate with the heat of a thousand suns.
― I Don't Zing Like Nobody (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 July 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
lol at da croupier
― I Don't Zing Like Nobody (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe. speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird bandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9ZlE3ymZY
― tylerw, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
i found a fernando saunders solo lp on the street for a buck a few months ago but still haven't gotten around to playing it
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
this one
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXAYRBxibrs/TbCYdnk8CbI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Mkc0jZvXBos/s400/Fernando%2BSaunders%2B-%2BCashmere%2BDreams.gif
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
bah
haha, man, if light in the attic put that out, people would be creaming over it a la this lewis dude.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
the rare album to feature both s. porcaro and l. reed in the writing credits
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Only thing I like about R&R is when it is name checked on Street Hassle.
Re: Fernando S. Sorry, but I never really learned to love the sound of fretless bass. For me it falls between two stools. Decide whether you want to play upright or electric, don't try to play both at once. Don't even mind if you double track. *Bows to Herbie Flowers*
― I Don't Zing Like Nobody (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
also you gotta dig this
PRODUCED BY : FERNANDO SAUNDERS FOR FERNANDO'S HIDE-AWAY MUSIC, LTD
― da croupier, Friday, 25 July 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_QrTTNkl8
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
allmusic review has some choice lines:
- "a highly listenable disc which contains flavors of Prince without a testosterone overdose"- "Great album cover has Saunders in a dream state flowing into some otherworld"- "The two songs produced by Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro actually(!) have Jeff Porcaro on drums and Steve Lukather on guitar"- "one of those records radio should be chastised for not seeking out and playing on its merits"- "Perhaps this is where Paula Abdul got the idea for her hit of the same name, "Opposites Attract," which appeared just a year later."
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
an antidote to prince's rampant testosterone
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe.speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird band
I saw that band once in '86 (on the Amnesty Int'l tour). I was still relatively new to Lou, and I assumed it was de rigueur for 60s feedback monsters to eventually settle down with some nice session musicians (see also: Pete Townshend). The drumming was dull, I never got into the sound of fretless electric bass, and the saxophonist was awful, moreso in retrospect (Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?)
But not having Quine meant that Lou took the solos. In the set I saw, there was only one solo, at the end of "Video Violence," but holy fuck, it was mindblowing.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link