Re: (TV) "Blue Mask"

[Noah Lopez <noahl@U.Arizona.EDU>]

For me, its not the bastardizing of sacred material or anything like that
(for instance, I love and prefer the Reed version of "Satellite of Love"
over the Velvets version), its just the uber-rock that leaves a sour metal
taste in my mouth. 

I don't know the material well enough to recall Reed's vocals on it; mostly
I just remember the guitar-god rock sound. I'll listen to them again
tonight and look for what you're coming from.

Great...I just realized that I've promised myself to listen to both the VU
demos from the box set tonight, *and* the R/R Animal sound. Talk about
going from one extreme to the other.

I hate myself.

Noah

>  Oh man, I love the R & R Animal and Live LP's. I know that it's not hip
> because Lou bastardised those V.U. songs and yeah he claims to have been
> bored with it and had to do it to get popular yakety yakety yak. But he sang
> with more passion and venom on those LP's than any other solo records. I
> don't believe him, he's a perpetual liar. RCA is remastering Animal with 2
> bonus trax, "Caroline Says"and "How Do You Think It Feels". I can't wait.
> That was a great band then and still are. Each time I hear those LP's they
> bring me back to a good place and I can't help but have these visions of Lou
> working his ass off like he's never worked before. He was a true R&R Animal
> then. Just listen to the vocal performances on White Light White Heat and
> Lady Day. There's all this great snarl and growling not to mention
> passionate energy coming from Lou. I love Steve Hunter's analogy of the
> group. "We were very coordinated while Lou was very, well, uncoordinated.
> Lou was the only singer that I ever saw lean forward and fall backward.
> Somehow that coordinated/uncoordinated duality worked". The rhythm section
> of Prakash John and Penti/Whitey Glan were a monster the way they held that
> band together. So yes, I like what Lou was going after as much as I like the
> rawness of the Banana LP even though your only suppose to like one or the
> other. I always found that humorous that you couldn't possibly like both
> because they were at different ends of the spectrum. Who cares as long as it
> moves ya. M T C
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 OwenGwilliam@cs.com wrote:
> > 
> >> In a message dated 3/14/00 5:26:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >> keith@marquee.demon.co.uk writes:
> >> 
> >>> We were just sitting here listening to Lou Reed's "Blue Mask"; does
> >>> anyone agree that this is a terrific album, not often mentioned but with
> >>> some great guitar work from Robert Quine and, I guess Reed himself? The
> >>> title track, especially, sounds wonderful.
> >> 
> >> Oh, I definitely agree. For my taste, I always though the stuff in between
> >> BERLIN and THE BLUE MASK was kind of Lou's low point. There's good stuff in
> >> there, but I think BLUE MASK is a fine return to what Lou does real well. And
> >> with the exception of MISTRIAL, I think he's done fantastic work ever since!
> >> 
> >> -- OWen
> >> 
> >> Owen Gwilliam
> >> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/otg
> >> 
> >> "I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"
> >> -- Neil Innes, "Protest Song"
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