Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground quote: "“One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.”

@versioncity1

10 ай бұрын

Although very few VU songs have only two chords. And this one is four. But then taking Lou literally was always a bit of a mistake.

PR shoes meant Puerto Rican shoes! This was obviously a reference to Spanish Harlem.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Spanish Harlem of course. Thanks.

No need to look for anything deeper here. The story is straight forward, hard-hitting, open-your-eyes description of a white guy who is hurting for a fix and what he goes through to meet his "man" and do the deal, including the "pardon me sir" to avoid getting robbed and his head kicked in. -- When he gets home, he's high and his girl is shouting at him, again,. Nothing new. Just a repetition of yesterday, and a foretaste of tomorrow. -- The repetitive hard beat just gets stronger and stronger. So apt.

@Wintermute909

4 ай бұрын

Yup! And he's "gotta split cos you've got no time to waste" Now that he's has a taste and has is no longer "feel sick & dirty more dead than alive" he's gotta get the drgs back to his girlfriend who's about to "ball and shout" cos she's at home junk-sick. The only thing that changed in my day was the price!

So glad you're doing this Velvet Underground album; it is so iconic. I love this song and the music really expresses the feeling that goes with the story. It just really does. It's rough and strident but it's also really warm and casual and it is amped up with excitement and it is insistent and relentless. It just feels good to me. And when you say it's repetitive, I just think of it as this addictive groove. And it's also really fun to dance to by the way.

I heard this album when it was released in the 60s. I was a naive midwestern kid and this really opened my eyes to a world I never imagined. Lou Reed went on to create many other great albums. My personal favorite is "New York", an album with fascinating stories.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Lou was a fine songwriter. Underrated.

@jonathanmurphy3141

Жыл бұрын

Yes “New York” deserves more merit! I bought a cassette, driving around the UK, in May 1990. Listening to Reed’s “New York” driving around the natural wonder of Wales…was, unusual.

@NewFalconerRecords

Жыл бұрын

Yes, 'New York' is a killer record. His lyrics were next level at that point and the simple two guitars bass and drums really kicked it along and even Maureen Tucker played on a track or two. Love that record.

@jonathanmurphy3141

Жыл бұрын

@@NewFalconerRecords I just got the Todd H' doc' about the Velvets' on Criterion disc -amazing! That explains a lot! Was glad the Velvet's were all alive to get into The Rock Hall, while Lou was posthumous. They need to get musicians in, while they are alive, and not wait 20 years like Warren Z', the men of Motörhead, etc. With the docs', at least Mo and John can still tell their experience.

@peterlburrows

Жыл бұрын

I adore "New York"! I was in college in NY when that album came out, and if you were there you know what a genius snapshot it was of everything going on in the world then. Incredible.

Syed, you'll freak when you hear "Venus In Furs".

The comment about the blues raises an interesting point. Technically the song is a 12-bar blues, in terms of the chord sequence and the way the verses are structured, but it doesn't sound like the blues. The sound is a mix of Lou Reed's rock 'n' roll influences and John Cale's avant-garde background (it's Cale making those dissonant noises on the piano). What a unique style this band had.

I was lucky enough to see Lou Reed live in Denver (Colorado) in 1989 or 1990 (can't remember the exact year) when he was touring the "New York" album. It was an incredible concert. Lou was gracious and gregarious. He talked and told short stories and joked between songs. He did the entire New York album in order along with other songs from his catalogue. I don't remember him doing any V.U. songs other that possibly "Rock & Roll". Years later I found myself at a Cheap Trick concert at Red Rocks. Tom Peterson, (Cheap Trick's bassist) sang and played an excellent version of "Waiting for the Man". His vocals were spot on. Lou will live on forever...

@michaelthibault6106

Жыл бұрын

I saw him on that tour. Maureen Tucker opened for him.

@j.kevvideoproductions.6463

Жыл бұрын

I also saw Cheap Trick in about 2019 at Red Rocks. Tom Peterson (The Bass Player) Sings this song to perfection with just the right amount of nasality! They've been doing it for years I guess as they are big Lou Reed fan's.

It's a masterpiece.

Excellent decision to go through the whole album, Syed. The used the repetitive beat, jangly guitar to represent the feelings of someone in withdrawal and in need of a fix.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@alibabaghanoujtv yes I agree all that tension and commotion with the building anxiety and desire. So simple yet so expressive and accurate.

PR is Puerto Rican.

Yes, your reading of Malcolm X, has informed you of the situation. Lou is telling experience that in 1967, was not covered in music, but was obviously happening.

"Darling don't you bawl and shout" I think refers to him not wanting his girlfriend to ruin his high. Junkies usually like to mellow out and don't want lots of commotion around them. Heroin, unlike speed or coke, is not a social drug and most people prefer to take it in the calm and quiet of their home. The guitar in all its repetitiveness is actually very much a blues guitar. It's like a blues pattern that never quite comes to a close. like Chuck Berry stuck on repeat.

@jackal59

Жыл бұрын

"Bawl and shout" is also a reference to classic rock and roll lyrics ("jump and shout" in Chuck Berry's "Carol") of the kind Lou Reed started out playing.

It’s not just the music which is proto-punk. It’s the whole attitude Lou Reed was famous for, which went against everything else in style in 1967, which was the Summer Of Love. When people came up to him in public he might be polite, ignore them, or jam a finger up their nose. Journalists might schedule an interview and Reed might not say a word, not show up, threaten them, or give a charming interview. “What do you spend your money on, Lou?” “Oh, drugs, mostly.” This song is about buying heroin in Harlem. Radio didn’t want to play it in 1967, as you can imagine. This album also has S&M parties, drag queens, “Heroin”, where an addict describes his final overdose, and Nico, a German supermodel, singing love songs. Definitely not The Beatles.

@laubedunfou2848

9 ай бұрын

The best album of all time, in my books.

PR shoes were "Puerto Rican" shoes. They were a type of smooth soled, leather topped dress shoe that came to a tapered point past the toes. They were also called "PRFC"s or "Puerto Rican Fence Climbers."

And many of us have "been waiting for the man" and what a draggy wait it is! "He's never early, always late" = dealer time. NO never the H word. Uhuh. MJ is the girl for me.

I do believe it's split, not spit. Split as in leave as he wants to go shoot up because he now has made his purchase and he's not at a "shooting gallery" where you would do the drugs right there.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was split too. He got a taste to get him home. I agree with you.

@kevinfriel6182

Жыл бұрын

Agree with ‘split’. It makes sense when followed by “… because you got no time to waste”.

@marialupinacci5283

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinfriel6182 Exactly. He needs to leave to shoot up and he can't wait to do it. I'm old so, I am wondering if the word split is no longer used as slang for go/leave...

John Cale huge influence on VU's sound. Cale's a Welshman, who won a scholarship to study classical music in the US. He became fascinated with Lou's lyrics. The repetitive tone and atonal sounds were his speciality. He studied with avant garde composers John Cage and Lamont Young. He once took part in a classical performance that went on for 24 hours straight just hitting one note on the piano. This song and album is revolutionary for 1966 and the Velvets rejected psychedelia and the hippy movement and the Love bs. Also, drummer Maureen Tucker is a unique stylist on the drums. She bares the sound down to a primal level.

Excellent choice. I hear a lot of Dylan in this track. This band with the Pop Art banana cover by Warhol were very much a New York art band you can feel the beat writers and modern jazz etc in there. This song is a precursor to the Ramones, talking heads and Joy division, I could totally hear Joy division doing this song. The Velvets were performing nightly on double bill with Zappa and the Mothers at some theater in Greenwich Village. This song also reminds me of “CIA Man” by the Fugs another New York band. The Velvets were very much of this place and time, a short lived band. This Great reaction and you picked up on this song right away. For more proto punk try TV Eye by Iggy and the stooges.

@voxxiigen7797

Жыл бұрын

I would also suggest Radio Birdman from Australia around the time. More on the surfy/pub rock end of proto punk but also a sort of precursor to "hardcore punk' along those lines.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@voxxiigen7797 that’s some good stuff.

PR = Puerto Rican shoes

The first VU album is a dark masterpiece. Disturbing but eerily beautiful. And yes, the man is a dealer.

Great song off a great album. And yeah, you pretty much nailed the meaning. At the beginning you talked about the "guitar rhythm", but that's mainly John Cale hammering away on piano, and at the end it becomes a junkie's racing heartbeat (IMO the "real" Velvets was the time before Cale was ejected from the band - he and Reed were perfect together. Reed had a rock background but Cale was classically trained). "All Tomorrow's Parties", 'Venus in Furs", and "Heroin" are all classics from this album, so I hope you do the whole thing!

@ForARide

4 ай бұрын

Cale, and to a certain extent also Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker should have been co-credited for the music, but Reed's enormous ego would have none of that.

The repetitiveness was definitely a choice. John Cale was a highly trained musician but he was interested in minimalism, drones, and dissonance, not virtuosity. The piano riff he does on this is basically the same one he played on the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and Modern Lovers' "Pablo Picasso".

@ForARide

4 ай бұрын

Yep, and so many have been inspired by Cale's minimalistic aproach: - Roxy Music - Do The Strand, Virginia Plain - David Bowie - Heroes - Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow - The Fall - Fantastic Life - Sonic Youth - Tunic - Oasis - Mucky Fingers and plenty plenty more.

I remember reading in an interview with John Cale where he mentioned the band having a no blues rule and anyone caught using a blues riff would be fined! They were rock and roll, but defiantly not RnB. Cale came from the avant garde, notably with La Monte Young. Reed was trying to marry poetry and beat literature to rock. He'd previously played in doo wop bands and that comes through in some of his solo recordings. He was also a staff songwriter and session musician at Pickwick Records, which is where he met Cale.

Great album. Can't wait until you get to Heroin.

This rough, minimal sound came out during the early hippie era! It's almost... proto post-punk, if that even makes sense. One of the most influential bands ever. It's been said that not many people bought this album but all that did started their own bands! This still happens as the VU are discovered by new people each day. And you're right about the blues references -one of the many reasons they were very ahead of their time. Still, this song has a somewhat bluesy riff. Most others VU songs don't.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Proto post punk. Brilliantly perfect

Exactly the stereotype of a heroin addict - the pusher is always late because when you need it you need it really bad.

I miss Lou Reed a little bit more every day.

Pure gold. Really glad you got to more Velvet Underground. Maybe a bit of Lou saying to Dylan, "hey Bob, I can tell a story too." Although, with Lou you don't have to dig too deep to figure out what he's really talking about. Of course whenever you do a Velvet Underground song, it will always give me the opportunity to say check out tracks from his solo "Transformer" album produced by David Bowie. Although Chronologically the Velvet Underground is the place to start.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Are you the Lee that requested this? Thank you. I applaud. Hey you hear the strong Dylan vibe in this too. I think you’re right. Lou was actually doing a bit of subtle parody.

@ronreynolds1610

Жыл бұрын

That is right ... tell a story and not worry who likes how you tell or ''sing'' it ...the rest is history !!

@ziggymarlowe5654

Жыл бұрын

@Lee Kennison. Yeah, I prefer "Transformer", I really like "A Perfect Day". I sense or hear David Bowie in this album. Maybe my mind playing tricks on me since I know David Bowie produced the album. For some reason "Velvet Underground" was too heavy for my young ears, so while aware of their music, just didn't really resonate with me.

@LeeKennison

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley No, not me. I ain't the one. Might be a stretch on my thought he may have had Dylan on his mind. But they were both part of the NY music scene, so not totally far fetched. Maybe just some creative story telling on my part (the Dylan part, not the song requestor part, that really ain't me). I say this jokingly since we were just talking about creative story telling on another video.

@LeeKennison

Жыл бұрын

@@ronreynolds1610 Very true. Of course the word "history" has the word "story" in it. And when it comes to rock history, we come up with some very creative stories (a.k.a. legends). We now often tell stories about the stories, lol.

I enjoyed your breakdown here, thought you got it spot-on. Made me even think about things in the lyrics that I'd never thought about, even though I've been a Velvets fan for 40 years. Nice stuff.

You got it. Yes, it's a drug deal. one-two-five is 125th street, which is Harlem - where a "white boy" might go for drugs, sex etc.

John Cale performed an absolutely unhinged version of this song during the 1980's. I highly recommend the Rockpalast performance!

@sukie584

Жыл бұрын

I dislike Cale’s interpretation of this that I’ve heard.… when he starts wailing & saying dude. Ugh. I call it Cale’s wails.

@joniroberta1950

Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing the “baby don’t you bawl and shout” part is a reference to a girl friend who is trying to talk him out of his drug habit.

All the indie rock from the nineties was inspired by this single record more than any other.

Bawl means cry.

" He's got the works " means the dealer has the needle. He let's you shoot up, ( gives you sweet taste), then he's gotta go to the next person waiting with 26$.

“Up to Lexington 125” is a reference to New York City where Lou Reed lived and the the Velvet Underground played. Lexington 125th is Harlem which at that time was a predominantly black neighborhood, hence the following line asking about chasing their women around. Lou Reed lived in New York City’s lower east side with John Cale, Both heavy users of heroin and speed. Velvet underground wrote songs about shooting heroin (“Heroin”) and speed (“White light/White heat”) as well as other themes considered taboo in the late sixties like BDSM (“Venus in furs”) transvestites (“Walk on the wild side”) and general city life (“can’t stand it anymore”)

This album is the re-construction of rock n roll, really a wonderful album.

So glad you are doing this album!

I saw Lou & a woman who beat the shit out of snare drum on a hot muggy night with about 50 people so I got the full Lou treatment sitting in the middle of the sound. 1968. I think he had his own amp. Have followed his journey through the years.

I’m some glade your doing this whole album. ✌🏻❤️

I’ve heard someone else say the music’s repetitiveness here was meant to mimic a NYC subway train of the time. That made sense to me.

Good to hear you're getting into this classic album, some astute comments and great head shaking appreciation. The album is a great balance of tenderness and rawness. I was 16 when I first heard it and it blew my mind, I'm 49 now and still love them, check out all their 4 albums. They still sound modern today with their timeless sound.

PR shoes are platform shoes. They were a very popular style with everyone but particularly Puerto Ricans in NY.

One of the most classic rock and roll songs ever. Lou Reed was a genius

The theme and lyrics are very similar to a song done some years later by Norwegian artist Joachim "Jokke" Nielsen called "Narkoman" (which is best translated as "Drug Addict" I guess; English doesnt seems to have a single word term for someone who is addicted to narcotics). About scoring heroin, about having to wait too long because of course the dealer has all the time in the world ("he's healthy and you're sick, and he as a lot more time than you"), about things falling into placen and feeling fine when you do finally get the chance to shoot up in some public toilet somewhere ("it's no orgasm, but it still feels damn good"). It's extra poignant as Jokke did sadly die of a heroin overdose not very long after recording that song.

PR shoes is Puerto Rican shoes. They were brown leather pointy toed shoes in the 50’s and 60’s.

Transformer and this album were the first 2 records I bought for my new vinyl collection.

While all the West Coast hippies were talking about getting stoned and tripping in the park, Lou was singing about getting his daily fix!

I was lucky to see Lou Reed in concert. It was so loud as he had the biggest speaker stack on stage ! My ears were ringing for days.

They're not booing. They're crying out, "LOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!!!"

Definitely a worthwhile album to do straight through. Great listener request.

The first Velvets album came out roughly two years before Led Zep's debut. Two revolutionary debuts in and of themselves.

You’re an intelligent guy I enjoyed your thoughts on this

This is the first drone song ever recorded.

"On, Sweet Nuthin;{" is the track you need to hear. THANK YOU

Brilliant analysis..

The Velvet Underground was a fixture of Andy Warhol's famous studio, called The Factory. It was a warehouse loft, covered in tinfoil where people made art, music, and movies and even lived there. Warhol made his own art at The Factory, and there was space for other activity like production of his magazine, Interview. It was also famous for a series of multi-media events called The Exploding Plastic Inevitable and featuring the Velvets. My impression is that they were mostly big parties with some performances thrown in. The Velvets were essentially the house band. I believe they did perform outside The Factory and Max's Kansas City, a Manhattan bar and restaurant where Warhol's entourage hung out. However, touring seems to have beeen very limited. They were active when I was going to concerts. I was a fan at that point (late '60s) and would have gone to see them if I'd been able, but I never saw any concerts promoted where I lived. So if you want to understand the band, it might be helpful to learn about Warhol and the scene that evolved around him. There's a Netflix miniseries, The Andy Warhol Diaries, that might be a good start. The actual diaries were records of what he did every day, dictated to a friend who eventually compiled them into a book. The series goes beyond the diaries and into Warhol world. A friend of mine was interviewed for the series because he worked for Interview and knew Warhol well, or at least as well as anyone could know him.

PR shoes= Puerto Rico shoes. About blues, I think it's the opposite of you say, this is the essencie of the real blues. Because the melody and the theme.

One of my favourite albums. It is perfect.

Try Femme Fatal from the album. That will take you to Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgewick. From Edie Sedgewick you get to Dylan and "Like A Rolling Stone" (where you've already been). Maybe that will get you to "Just Like A Woman" (Dylan's best in my opinion). "Rolling Stone," "Femme Fatal" and "Just Like A Woman" all have Edie Sedgewick in common - and she's an American original - iconic.

@ronreynolds1610

Жыл бұрын

Warhol , Sedgewick = Blonde on Blonde ??

This is a worthy journey!

the legend is only 10,000 people bought it when it came out but they all formed bands. It was 20 years later but I sure did. This and rem taught me classic rock wasn’t all there was.

The 'answer song' for this is from the same album; 'HEROIN'... the way it's played & recorded takes you all through the junkie's trip & is very raw & gritty, distonal & quite unlike anything before it!

I thought the line that started verse 5 was about his woman getting on his case about the drugs. He tells her "I'm feeling good, don't worry, I'll work it out'. That's probably too superficial and there is a deeper meaning. I guess I've heard too many people say something similar. Very few ever work it out.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was his woman upset at him spending money on dope and being blasted and he is saying don’t worry everything is great.

he has to split 'cause he wants to go home and get high

Uptown Lexington, in East Harlem (not a safe area at all), a white junkie looking to score heroin. Also listen to the song Heroin. No one captured urban scrunge on vinyl like Lou Reed and the Velvets. One of the most original and best US bands ever and so influential.

My very first album... love this song

'PR shoes'= Puerto Rican

Under belly of life is spot on mate

Always a safe bet that a VU song is about drugs. They only really had two themes despite their explosive creativity, and that's the more prolific of the two.

Lou Reed was one of the greatest storytellers in rock. And i love that Andy Warhol has a small but significant hand in this. Warhol's favorite Underground song was "All Tomorrow's Parties", for good reason.

❤Thx😢

It's about scoring drugs. This was recorded in late 1966 and released in 1967

Interesting reactions... people who've known stuff for years can be kind of proprietorial about it. It stung when you kept calling it repetitive - it obviously is, but I never thought of it like that: to me the riff is just exciting. And you may well be right that it's about heroin, but it sounds more like speed to me. Also I found it a bit frustrating when you stopped the tape after each verse, but again, it makes sense. One pedantic correction: this was more like 9 years ahead of the Ramones et al. - recorded I believe in 66 though release was held up for a year or more. (And obviously the Velvets had a waaay wider range than the Ramones.) Anyway, that was fun! These reaction videos are ridiculous, but entertaining for us old codgers I guess.Cheers, Syed!

The thing to remember about the repetitive song structure and music is that it’s meant to mirror the daily life and grind of heroin addiction - which is INCREDIBLY repetitive and literally consists of the same routine, day after day, as if you had a gun to your head.

no... its from the point of veiw of the junkie. "the man " is the dealer. again. as burroughs pointed out "the man" (the dealer) never, ever shows up on time . like, lou reed directly quotes "Naked Lunch " and "junky" once youre hooked on heroin and have to go get it yourself from "the man" the first thing you learn is "you always gotta wait " . this song is LITERALLY a reference to naked lunch /

I think it is slightly related to the blues. It's mostly in the rhythm but they stay on one chord.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Yes one chord. The north Mississippi drone it was called. Early John Lee Hooker used that style a lot.

Lou Reed did say in an interview that he thought the Beatles were garbage. :D

@wadsworthaaron

Жыл бұрын

I love Lou Reed's music and his genius, but I don't agree with him about the Beatles... any band that creatively went from "Rubber Soul" to "Abbey Road" in only 4 1/2 years was absolutely brilliant. The Beatles did more before they were 30 than some legends did in their entire careers. Lou did amazing, groundbreaking stuff... and so did the Beatles.

@rikurodriguesneto6043

Жыл бұрын

@@wadsworthaaron Agreed.. but everybody's entitled to their opinion. :)

Lou Reed wanted to explore the kind of taboo elements which could be found in sophisticated literature at the time, but were considered far too shocking for 'pop' music, which was still largely viewed by the establishment as a youth genre. Rock n' Roll was growing up fast, and perhaps wasn't ready for the VU's adult themes such as drug addiction, homosexuality, gender fluidity, prostitution, and sometimes violence, all mixed with love and beauty, and romance , and music which could be sweet or dissonant. At the same time, the Beatles were introducing the summer of love with Sergeant Pepper, and Dylan was laying low, following his motorcycle accident, forging his own new poetic path which would move away from Psychedelia, and into Americana.

PR shoes apparently meant "Puerto Rican" shoes... which had pointy toes.... I've always loved the bass line at the end.... try Femme Fatale next

PR shoes suposed to be puerto rican shoes. Or so I've heard. Also, great album choice to react to! Keep on rockin man!

Lexington Lexington Kentucky known for drug prison. 1 to 5 yr term. Loads of music came from there.

A side-note re your proto-punk comment: John Cale produced the first Stooges album in 1969.

A really great album, along with Loaded.

It's about buying Heroin.

Reed hated The Beatles.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Right and it’s like when Johnny rotten hated Pink Floyd.

Each of their albums sound different and each has influenced Rock in some way. If you do another whole VU album, next you should do their 3rd self titled album. You should really do all 4 albums.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Great tracks on all those albums.

Going up town to score some speed.

Guys please I beg you never to try heroin not even once. You only have to be bit by a vampire once to contract the disease. Then your life will always be seperated in two chapters. Before heroin and after. Let me promise you that you will wish you never tried it the first time. Yes, ONE TIME IS ALL IT TAKES. I just wish I could have wrapped my head around that concept when I was younger. That some things can be both enjoyable and destroy you at the same time. Been clean for years now but I still wish every single day I had never tried it the first time and I bet 90% of addicts would say the same thing.

straight outa burroughs

The story is about going to score drugs. Heroin specifically. “Works” is slang for needle, spoon related paraphernalia for shooting up

If you want to hear Lou really rock, take a listen to his live album ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL from 1973. "Heroin", and " Sweet Jane" are unbelievable. I saw him on that tour with the weirdest audience I've seen. Lou had his shaved with full pancake on his face. It rocked my world.

Second verse is just an example of the grief he had to endure to get his fix. A street hassle avoided. "bawl and shout" is his companion going through serious opiate withdrawal.

They say that you can't write if you can't relate. This song paints a perfect picture of a dope sick addict waiting to score. The verse "He's never early, He's always late, first thing you learn is that you always got to wait. " let me add David Bowie does a great version of this. Check it out

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Yeah, he's going uptown to Harlem to score dope, and as he's walking he gets confronted by a local, maybe a pimp, but makes it clear he's just looking for his "friend"/dealer. Although, really, I only thought it might be a pimp intercepting him because I hadn't seen the lyrics printed, and I thought he was saying, "you chasing *my* women around?" instead of "*our* women." And "the works" is "the gear," or the paraphernalia needed to shoot up: syringe, spoon, lighter, ater from whatever source (even a toilet, apparently), etc. And yeah, he lets him use a little there, but then he has to take what he bought and go because it wasn't enough.

Song is a masterpiece. "Baby don't you bawl and shout" must be the dudes girlfriend being upset with him.

"Then you gotta split, because you've got no time to waste" means you've gotta leave and get back home so you can take the H.

Its "Dior shoes" not "PR shoes". "split" means "to leave in hurry"

Playing devil's advocate here This album, which I like, is in a class of music and bands that have a pretentious secret club which allows only the cool kids as members. This club does not care whether you actually like their soundtrack, but make it very clear that you should!.....before you're even considered for membership see also: Captain Beefheart King Crimson Gram Parsons Phish. Filmaker- Cassavettes.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Those artists although not popular in terms of sales or hits they were very influential on many other artists that were popular. I know what you mean though.

@TheoZoffrok

Жыл бұрын

Oh Ben, I have to say I could not disagree more. Obviously it's all a matter of taste and opinion, but it seems to me you're damning a few brilliant (and extremely diverse) artists with faint praise, implying they're for hipsters, or are more style than substance. Captain Beefheart? Ok, Trout Mask Replica *is* a tough listen, but plenty of his other stuff is far more accessible, and very inventive. King Crimson were simply a *brilliant* band, and Gram Parsons wrote a load of beautiful songs. Come ON man!

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@TheoZoffrok bands have no control over who buys their records or whether people like them and there are pretentious people everywhere.