S&D=the velvet underground's solo albums...

S: Lou Reed, Transformer, RnR Animal, Coney Island Baby, The Bells, The Blue Mask, New Sensations.
D: Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Lou Reed Live, Metal Machine Music, RnR Heart, Street Hassle, Take No Prisoners (please),Growing Up in Public, New York, Magic & Loss...at which point I gave up.

S: Vintage Violence, Church of Anthrax, Paris 1919, Fear, Slow Dazzle, Helen of Troy, Guts, Sabotage-Live, Music for a New Society.

D: Caribbean Sunset (his only really lousy album).

About Moe Tucker solo I have no opinions (love her drumming). Did Sterling ever do solo?

Lou: S - Berlin, Lou Reed, Transformer, New York, Coney Island Baby,R&R Animal, Live In Italy, Blue Mask (!), Street Hassle (!), Sally Can't Dance
D - The Bells
The rest are somewhere in between.

John: S - Paris 1919, Fear, Vintage Violence,Dream Interpretation, Stainless Gamelan, Sun Blindness Music, Sabotage Live, Animal Justice, Music For a New Society, Honi Soit
D - Caribbean Sunset

Maureen: S - Everything except Dogs Under Stress (D). (Ive been hoping she would release a live album from the tour she did opening for Lou Reed with Jad Fair on guitar!)

Nico: S - Chelsea Girls, The End, Desertshore
D - nothing. The rest are all ok.

Sterling never did any.

forgot about "Neek."
S: Chelsea Girls, Marble Index.
Desert Shore, The End, 6/1/74 (w/ Cale, Ayers et al) fall in between.
D: Everything else.

I'm betting that's the best of the lot

Actually, if that's the recording of the Terrastock 4 show, it was in fact an honestly great set! Took all of us there by surprise!

Dougie gets a bad press. It was all Sesnick's fault.

lovebug, Lou Reed's Take No Prisoners is CLASSIC:

Hey Little Joe
Little Joe was an idiot, I don't know if any of you know that,
but, here's this guy, like it,
and you talk with him for two minutes,
you hear: he has an IQ of 12
So like he,
he's the only guy I know who went to Italy to be a moviestar,
and it is not happening,
I mean, everybody is ready to go to bed with him,
make him a star
He can't, he can't barely tie his shoes and dress,
and I know Einstein can't tie his shoe laces,
but it's not like that,
not even close man, you know he just sits and wants a name
I say: Joe you're getting older, he says: I know
I'll make a Warhol film, but you can't do that anymore, man,
Andy has taken himself away from us,
and he's right, now I know why he did it
So, Drella, if you're there: I'm very glad that you're around
But me and, how, how Catherine you're there,
he went to see Mamie Van Doren
What did she do, sag? Late show?
Mamie Von Doren, she has Gore Vidal as a what? Him and Mailer.
And the Mailer, yeah,
I met Mailer at a party and he tries to punch you in the stomach
To see how tough you are ...... he's pathetic, you know
Come on man, say what?
You gotta be kiddin', somebody step on it man, go write a bible
Anyway, interesting people like the Sugar Plum Fairy, hit the street
Sugar Plum Fairy,
now the person who loves the Sugar Plum Fairy
is the terrible right?
A real terror,
she's fired from the New Yorker
for correcting Dorothy Parkers prose,
can you imagine
For those of you who still read: what a snotty remark, I know
Anyway,
she makes her living writing things for the Encyclopedia Brittanica
Five cents a word, like last time I saw her she, she,
Michael, she, she was doing the flower section in Africa
Delilah's Nabula, yeah,
she said: what is the word that will make this thing interesting
We call her Tiny Malice, Dorothy Dean,
oh man, two drinks and she lays this dude out
I throw a dish at her,
like filled with cigarettes on Thanksgiving
Just 'cause she was getting ready to say, mmmm
She wouldn't come to see me if I was dying
Jackie, Jackie Curtis, this is revalations
Remember that play, like, you know that play that was so ridiculous?
Aahh, started that whole thing now you got that Rocky Horror shit
and all that bullshit
Oohh man, don't you know, and I guess you don't, it's not your fault
It's the journalists, those fucking journalists,
why don't we shoot those journalists
You don't need those assholes, why do you let them go in here free
Why don't you bitch or something, go to another club, yeah
I don't believe you take this shit
Anyway, I will run for office next week,
and I wouldn't vote for me on a prayer
I'm not trustworthy, Jacky, and I know, she's just speeding away
Though like me, hey I'm Jimmy D for a day, what, what
But you know that she had to crash
and some valium had helped that bash
What do I use now: Dilaudid..., right, ten grains for a headache
Eight, eight dollars in Ohio, right, here it is like fifty-five
Unless you go to Chinatown, they bite your nose off
Hey, you need somethinh for pain?
And then the coloured girls, they walk over, guess what they said,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

How do you top that?!

Good evening we're the Velvet Underground...glad you could all make it. This is our last night here and we're glad to see that you all showed up. Do you people have a curfew or anything like that? I mean does it matter what time you go home tonight? I mean do you have school tomorrow? Nobody here has school tomorrow? Yeah, see...because we could do one long set or two, whichevah makes it easier for you.
OK so this is going to go on for awhile. So we should get used to each other. So settle back, pull up your cushions or whatever else you have with you that makes life bearable in Texas. Heh heh. We saw your Cowboys today and they never even let Philadelphia have the ball for a minute. It was 42-7 by the half, it was ridiculous. You should give other people a little chance. In football, anyway.
This is a song called "I'm Waitin for My Man."

As a standup comedian, Lou Reed is OK but I can't imagine listening to TNP more than once or twice. I actually heard the reissue a couple years back (first time since the 70s) and decided the backing band was Lou's worst-ever accompaniment. A bar band from hell.

Does Songs for Drella count as VU solo?

Moe Tucker - "I Spent a week there the other night"

Lou and Sterl are (separately) on tracks on there.

Take No Prisoners should not be missed. Never heard anything like it.

Nico: I like "Icon" best (nice eerie 'goth' sound), but "Desert Shore" really grew on me.

God bless you for quoting that on ILM, lovebug, if it hadn't been quoted here before. That is one classic moment when he speaks that intro. Let's see...HOW many years before Dubya was that again?

Imagine "W" drunkenly stumbling into that club by accident (1969, year after he graduated Yale) and heckling the VU. "Fuck you, you faggot junkies...let's hear 'Double Shot of My Baby's Love' NOW!"

Do you really think W would want to alienate his drug connections so mightily?

hunnmpf, hunnmpf, hunnmpf...whoa this shit is BITTER. WHAT!?! You said it was coke, man...

I must totally contradict the first posters. Lou Reed's most touching and best album is Magic and Loss, his most influential one is Metal Machine Music and his best live is by far Take No Prisoners.

And I like John Cale's Caribbean Sunset a lot. Maybe not quite as perfect as Music for a New Society and Paris 1919 but still quite good.

hey! "double shot of my baby's love" rules.