Re: Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (1974)

by Nightjar Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:59 pm

Then we both went to college
He studied medicine while I studied foliage

cringe

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:00 pm

This one isn't overly burdened with melodic ideas.

by Nightjar Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:01 pm

A bad Bob Dylon effort.

by Nightjar Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:03 pm

That was actually the last track.

by Nightjar Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:03 pm

Although Good Taste is better than a few tracks on the proper album.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:04 pm

It is over.

It was OK but, as always, the lack of any kind of emotional commitment in his vocals makes it hard for me to get into his music.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:05 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:09 pm

It's all like the band is incredibly good - each individual musician at least - but Reed is really contemptuously slouching about in a half-arsed way.

The album gets caught between two posts - songs that are basically rejects from Berlin and then potentially exciting funk-rock tracks that are undeveloped and a bit paltry.

Still, in context of a particular artiste's canon and oeuvre, it's not musically hateful and is contextually interesting.

If you can get past Lou Reed's overwhelming efforts to make you dislike the whole venture that is.

by Fangirl Three Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:38 pm

Is this what Doctor and the Medics' Barbara Can't Dance was getting at?

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Sally can't Dance or Billy Don't Be a Hero (or vice-versa I suppose)?