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[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I'm Jewish.

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

I’m punk. Here is Hasidic Hardcore!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlCahhogv8

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I’m punk. Here is Hasidic Hardcore!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlCahhogv8

I kinda like the Hasidic Hardcore. And I have actually seen Matisyahu. But for today’s SOTD, I’m going to focus on another famous Jewish-American singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Once I settled on Lou Reed, I knew I was going to choose something from Transformer, and was originally going with Andy’s Chest — a reference to the scar on Andy Warhol’s chest after he was shot by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist behind the SCUM Manifesto. It is a great song, but I have to go with Satellite of Love. There are many things I love about this song—the finger snaps and crescendoing horns in the vamp, the weird little recorder solo, the fact that there’s a tuba. But it’s the backing vocals that really do it for me. First, there’s the Thunder Thighs, the back up singers who did the “Do Do Do” part of “Walk on the Wild Side.” And then there’s David Bowie! And he kills it. The falsetto on the descending arpeggios — “Bom bom bom.” The soaring high notes at the end. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2uvTvaHEA

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I kinda like the Hasidic Hardcore. And I have actually seen Matisyahu. But for today’s SOTD, I’m going to focus on another famous Jewish-American singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Once I settled on Lou Reed, I knew I was going to choose something from Transformer, and was originally going with Andy’s Chest — a reference to the scar on Andy Warhol’s chest after he was shot by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist behind the SCUM Manifesto. It is a great song, but I have to go with Satellite of Love. There are many things I love about this song—the finger snaps and crescendoing horns in the vamp, the weird little recorder solo, the fact that there’s a tuba. But it’s the backing vocals that really do it for me. First, there’s the Thunder Thighs, the back up singers who did the “Do Do Do” part of “Walk on the Wild Side.” And then there’s David Bowie! And he kills it. The falsetto on the descending arpeggios — “Bom bom bom.” The soaring high notes at the end. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2uvTvaHEA

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

Do you know Songs For Drella? Cale and Reed's tribute to Andy.

Fun stuff-

https://www.google.com/search?client...MEANGoNdtIAAAA

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

It is subjective. But I believe I could argue credibly that it is or ought to be objective.

Having Reed and Cale in the same band is simultaneous lottery wins, lightning strikes. Jagger/Richards, McCartney/Lennon. Okay.

But there’s something Next Level about early VU’s disregard - entirely - for song structure fused to the Cole Porter level pop tune songwriting talent of Reed. The movie’s best line is, “the heat of this band simply couldn’t survive.” It was really rare. And while I love the Doug Yule stuff, and all of Reed’s solo catalog, there’s something uniquely sticky about the first two records. WL/WH sounds like a pile of noise in parts. “Lady Godiva’s Operation” sounds like a studio throwaway. But that’s intentional. Because the song’s so carefully crafted, if you polished it up, it’d sound too perfect.

And I can get bored even from “Rock n Roll.” But I still can’t turn off “Venus in Furs” once it starts. Cale was a bigger part of the secret sauce of early VU than was ever credited. Glad he got his accolades in the movie.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

No one should dismiss the $12 quarterly royalties.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

I'd just like the cachet of being able to say I had Jack and Cokes with Lemmy. That's some seriously rarified air. (Probably literally, as it was mostly Marlboro Red smoke.)