Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)

by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 9:28 pm

And - cool markings aside - I'd say it demands repeat listenings in solitary solitarinessessesesses.

Lou Reed isn't a very good singer?

Well...

by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 9:29 pm

For me it's fascinating the way the album flows - peaks and troughs.

You might say - if you were a pleasure cavern - that there were peaks and troughs, but it's instead an entirely perfect opera or symphony.

I can't be bothered to say anymore anyway anywho and anyborgleZ, anyway...

I actually - and I actually mean this - want to listen to it again.

Berlin is an album I never want to lose.

The city can do one.

by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 9:42 pm

As for the Mary Queen of Scots stuff...

The narrator is obviously referring to the woman central to the over arching story.

It's a tissue-thin, idealistic projection.

She's beautiful in an austere, stately and exotic sense (like in an Arts & Crafts illustration picture book), but the reality, as lived (with junk and its accompanying emotional torture) is brutally different.

Ergo, the whole album depicts the tragic, star-crossed arc of a love affair as epically tender as it is tawdry and base.

It is better than how and what you marked it it any event.

by Guest Mon May 04, 2020 9:20 am

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Is this supposed to be funny?

I think that was one of the funnest things I've ever experienced, I'm still giggling about it, I think it was the line 'And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one' the deliberate hamfistedness of it, that did it. Then the kids at the end.

Tee Hee

I honestly thought he was going to mention the dog dying, But that would have just gone too far? Maybe

clam

Anyway, Bob Ezrin was fantastic on this. Wonder if his work with T-Swizzle is as good? hmm

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Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)

Berlin or Burnley?