Lou Reed Lou Reed

June 21, 2014 10:13 AM

Lou Reed Lou Reed

Luke Haine's new album, 'NY in the Seventies' leads off with the single 'Lou Reed.' The album is described as "a mythic re-imagining of the New York Rock n Roll scene 1972 - 1979" You can also stream the first track on the album, 'Alan Vega Says'.

Luke Haine's cookery blog, previously.

posted by kittensofthenight (21 comments total)

It's called "Lou Reed Lou Reed" because in post-punk, everyone says everything twice.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:18 AM on June 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

"Alan Vega Says" would be a lot more impressive if the beginning didn't sound so much like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
posted by jonp72 at 10:26 AM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

another song called Lou Reed
posted by idiopath at 10:32 AM on June 21, 2014

needs more Hodor.
posted by aesop at 10:34 AM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

Absolute truth: I was listening to "Vicious" when I clicked on this link.


Lou Reed Lou Reed Lou Reed
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:59 AM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

Man, The Auteurs were one of the overlooked high quality acts that came in under the BritPop umbrella. I saw a great show at the old 9:30 club back in the day. I have half a mind to read his memoir that came out recently.
posted by C.A.S. at 12:38 PM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

(Lou Lou) (Reed Reed)
posted by chavenet at 12:59 PM on June 21, 2014

(Lou Reed)²
posted by mazola at 1:05 PM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

This reminds me of a song that I wrote (or maybe "wrote" is a better way to put it) when I was eighteen:

Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison's dead, yeah!




There's more to it, but believe it or not, it gets worse.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:14 PM on June 21, 2014 [4 favorites]

I enjoy the Dandy Warhols' "Lou Weed".
posted by lisa g at 2:15 PM on June 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

Ah Lou Reed, Lou Reed....
WHOOAH, baby now,
We gotta go...
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YE-E-E-AH!!!

(drum roll comes in a beat early)
posted by spoobnooble II: electric bugaboo at 2:55 PM on June 21, 2014

Lou Reed, Lou Reed, you're motivated by greed
posted by porn in the woods at 3:00 PM on June 21, 2014

It could have been a Wesley Willis song
posted by stifford at 3:25 PM on June 21, 2014

I had a buffalo named Lou Reed once.
posted by grateful at 3:27 PM on June 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

Lou Reed Richards. Coming to Marvel soon.
posted by juiceCake at 4:16 PM on June 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

"Alan Vega Says" would be a lot more impressive if the beginning didn't sound so much like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

Well, "Lou Reed Lou Reed" sounds a lot like Alan Vega, so maybe he'll release a song called "Roger Waters Tears" that sounds like a straight cop of "Sister Ray" and it will all be revealed as a conceptual art thing.
posted by layceepee at 6:32 PM on June 21, 2014

This isn't special.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 8:31 PM on June 21, 2014

Yes, that's pretty much what I've always imagined Manhattan looks like.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:54 PM on June 21, 2014

Totally off topic but sort of relevant: I read Suicide's biography, No Compromise, and mentally "heard" the Alan Vega parts in his "cool, yeah, uh-huh" Jukebox Baby-era stage voice. Then I saw an actual interview and he sounded like... my dad.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. It required some working through.
posted by ostranenie at 10:36 PM on June 21, 2014

No thread like this would be complete without a link to the Butthole Surfer's song Comb, aka Lou Reed.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 11:32 PM on June 21, 2014

and now it is double complete

and with a link to "double live", it is triple
posted by idiopath at 1:30 PM on June 22, 2014