Lou Reed's Street Hassle

Ha, exactly.

speaking of garland, i posted this pic of lou & him at syracuse on twitter, and jeffreys himself popped up to ask where I'd found it! amazing photo:
http://s23.postimg.org/ncakla397/Lou_Reed_Garland_jeffries_at_Syracuse_1962_196.jpg

twee

title track came up on my spotify discover playlist and, not having looked, I thought it was some schmindie post rock thing until the vocals came in.

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but seriously, who sounds like "street hassle" these days?

These people in the US, binaural sound never really caught on, whereas in Japan you can't even get on the Tokyo subway without bumping into someone with a binaural headset.

I had the same experience as someone above, who knew this song previously via Spacemen 3. Without getting into who recorded what exactly when, the two "versions" are almost exactly a decade apart. Which surprised me, as Spacemen 3 always gave the impression that they were mining ancient history. I guess there's some weird nexus of Lou, Bruce, and Suicide that ends up turning into an indie influence a decade later.

Suicide also only a decade removed from S3

As was this album. In the 80s I had the impression (without thinking about it too much) that the sources of Spacemen 3 were much further removed. Anyway, I can definitely see the indie aspect of this.

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

Never saw this before, Fat Lou ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rm9rCdF-jU

Shouldn't have a Street Hassle thread without this (used to be a non-Movie Clips clip on YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VKpd3XEbD8

I'm positive the title song turned up in another movie after that.

Up The Academy before that (I had to google). Jesus, Up The Academy has a crazy soundtrack. I was too young to see it, but was aware that it existed.

What movie had him sing a tune called "Little Sister" again?

"Get Crazy"

(song is "My Baby Sister", played over the closing credits)

I've never actually seen it, it sounds amusingly bad

What's with the album cover

I've never actually seen it, it sounds amusingly bad

I think the song is really called "Little Sister," confusingly so, despite what IMDB says. Wonder if he and Doc Pomus ever discussed this? It is all coming back to me now. Malcolm McDowell was very proud of his performance in this.

given Lou's enthusiasm for binaural recording it's funny how shitty this album sounds (title track excepted)

Well he's also into expensive gimmicky high tech guitars and we know how those sound when he plays them.

yeah, it's weird -- most of it is live recordings w/ overdubs, right? then again, take no prisoners sounds great.

Throbbing Gristle were well into binaural recording about the same time, so, you know, we're not exactly talking Steely Dan here.

super-sloppy performances aside (and there are several of them on this) it's just funny how he used this *revolutionary recording technology* to make a bunch of apparently random and poor production choices. like if the virtues of binaural recording is that it replicates the experience of the listener being in the room with the band, the album decidedly does *not* sound like that given how things are mixed, punched in and out, etc.

this shit looks like it should be the cover of a peter gabriel album or something
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Dummyhead.jpg

This was the Manfred Whatsisname Artifical Head Recording thingummabob? Curiously, "Flowmotion" by Can used it too.

Manfred Schunke.

but yeah, i'm sure if you asked lou for his top 5 favorite recordings, 4 of them would be one-mic doo wop songs. state of the art.

This record sounds amazing you MONSTERS

haha, i mean, i love this record, but it is kind of bizarrely produced

https://cinefilesreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/listen-to-me-marlon-documentary-2015-digital-brando-movie-review.png

this one's more like a late 80s pink floyd bootleg
http://www.realhd-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/binaural_head.jpg

"Little Sister" is fabulous. I love Lou's solo.

"Get Crazy"

(song is "My Baby Sister", played over the closing credits)

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never actually seen it, it sounds amusingly bad

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:24 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounds fantastic you mean...

Captain Cloud (the Turtles' Howard Kaylan) and the Rainbow Telegraph, Max Wolfe's favorite band, arriving in an aging bus that is painted à la the Merry Pranksters' Further.
Nada (Lori Eastside from Kid Creole and the Coconuts) and her 15-member band, an amalgam of many disparate styles of music that appeared on MTV in the early 1980s—part bubble-gum pop, part New Wave, part garage rock. They are joined by "Special Guest Star" Piggy (Lee Ving of the L.A. punk band Fear).
King Blues, the King of the Blues (Bill Henderson), a spoof of Muddy Waters.
Auden (Lou Reed), "metaphysical folk singer, event of the '70s, and antisocial recluse", a spoof of Bob Dylan. Auden, who initially complains of writer's block, is coaxed to appear thinking Max is close to death, but after blithely asking a taxi driver to take the "scenic route," he spends the majority of the movie on his cab ride, improvising lyrics for the song he intends to perform.
Reggie Wanker (Malcolm McDowell), "20 years of rock and roll and still on top", a spoof of Mick Jagger; featuring his drummer Toad played by John Densmore of The Doors. Wanker is beset by a general malaise, unable to fully enjoy his lavish situation of easily available women and drugs.

See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrIRmMNi800

So I saw it years ago at the Walter Reade theater in Lincoln Center as part of what must have been a Malcolm McDowell retrospective. Malcolm was there (as was Jay Cocks) and did a Q&A. Hey look:
http://www.malcolmtribute.freeiz.com/getcrazy.html

Was there some sort of rule, unwritten or not, that a certain subset of movies made each year, especially those destined to be Midnight Movies, had to cast Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov?

Hold on, Lou Reed AND Mary Woronov were in it?

http://artillerymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lou-Reed_woronov1.jpg

Yup. No Gerard Malanga though, if that's what you're after.

Was hoping for Ondine or Taylor Mead at the very least.

Forgot to add caption to this:
https://cinefilesreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/listen-to-me-marlon-documentary-2015-digital-brando-movie-review.png
Butch? Listen to me Butch

Lol this is a hot take

Best thing he ever did, parts of Raven excepted.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, March 21, 2003 3:46 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but yeah, i'm sure if you asked lou for his top 5 favorite recordings, 4 of them would be one-mic doo wop songs. state of the art.

― tylerw, 26. maj 2016 22:15 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

indeed: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/lou-reed-playlist/ (couldn't find original article with nice quotes)

that skeeter davis song is kinda the inspiration for who loves the sun, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjy3rr7J_yQ

Earlier link seems broken, but whole thing is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-w0z68nFzk

Maybe we should do a watch party/

It has a New Year's Eve theme so very timely.

https://makeminecriterion.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/get-crazy-allan-arkush-1983/