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Re: Who's best: Lou Reed or John Cale?

Apr 28, 2010, 15:54

Yeah, it is weird that one of Reed and John's (hehe) most personal works is a concept album about Andy Warhol. You can really feel Reed losing it in that track about Valerie Solanis: "I believe I would've pulled the switch on her myself."

But John punks out on Sabotage (recorded live at CBGBs) more than any V.U. member did before or after. It's just hilarious imagining this effete Welshman dressed in a Vivienne Westwood butcher get-up, spooling off lyrics about revolutionaries in between cutting the heads off chickens.

And I feel I should probably defend Street Hassle, which has caught some shit in this thread. It's what I imagine glam-rock to be but rarely is, and it has what I think is one of the best noise pop songs ever written- Real Good Time Together- and a load of other CHOONS delivered with the kind of vim you'd expect from a jaw-grinding bennie-muncher like Lou.

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