Never has something been captured like this. An artist and his life, work and times committed to what can only be called opera so soon after his death by people who were there and participated in it. Andy's nickname: Drella- a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella. The performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music had to be an emotional moment for Reed and Cale. The talent is evidenced everywhere.
My first true Love introduced this album to me in my senior year of High school, 1990. We got stoned & drove around Coastal mountains outside Eugene back before cell phones & internet. I was 17 she was 19 & preparing to go to Colombia Art School in NYC. Beautiful Memories are evoked by this album….
How could you not care for Andy! He created the whole genre of pop art, he made the Velvets, he contributed in the introduction of transgender people and bisexuality into normal society, he was the living embodiment of art. You don't have to understand that, just perhaps respect it. Andy helped make the world better in a way.
This song and performance had started it all for me, when I began composing and performing music for public, in front of people. Some 34 years ago, around 1990. The lyrics and the atmosphere of this whole "Style It Takes" thing make me fascinated still. I remember myself singing this song in front of my friend back then. Just to make the point in which kind of music I am interested. I was shy to death. Then we started to experiment with various chords, words. We did not make it ever up to this level of perfection, but the process itself was definitely worth it. As they say - your journey can become more important than the final destination itself. Thank you, gentlemen, for this performance, you have inspired me for the rest of my life.
someone said thay dispise andy....if you listen to this whole album, you will realize each of them LOVED and ADORED andy. it is a shame you missed it. this is a tribute to a man they loved and respected. I was there. I was with Lou and John when they were writing and recording this. I was going thru the diaries with them, I was there when much of this was happening. please do not mis-understand these writings.thanx! :)
LYRICS: You've got the money, I've got the time You want your freedom, make your freedom mine 'Cause I've got the style it takes and money is all that it takes You've got connections and I've got the art You like my attention and I like your looks and I have the style it take and you know the people it takes Why don't you sit right over there, we'll do a movie portrait I'll turn the camera on and I won't even be there A portrait that moves, you look great I think I'll put the Empire State Building on your wall For 24 hours glowing on your wall Watch the sun rise above it in your room Wallpaper art, a great view I've got a Brillo box and I say it's art It's the same one you can buy at any supermarket 'Cause I've got the style it takes And you've got the people it takes This is a rock group called The Velvet Underground I show movies on them Do you like their sound 'Cause they have a style that grates and I have art to make Let's do a movie here next week We don't have sound but you're so great You don't have to speak You've got the style it takes (Kiss) You've got the style it takes (Eat) You’ve got the style it takes (Couch) You’ve got the style it takes (Kiss)
Lou Reed and John Cale (especially Lou :) would not have done this unless it was a 'labour of love', Songs For Drella' is one of my all time favourite albums, musically and as an insight into Andy Warhol...
i remember reading that cale and reed, fell out with each other writing this song. lou reed wrote the line "cause they have a style that grates". which john cale hated and refused to ever sing. ive always wondered what the alternative to that line would have been, Anyway still a great great song.
At various stages in his life, John Cale has looked like everyone from Augustus John to Leonard Nimoy to Bryan Ferry to Leonard Cohen to the (alleged) 'Badgeman' in Mary Moorman's Kennedy assassination photo! Genius takes many shapes and forms--sometimes in the one person!
I play this alot! Didn't they go their separate ways after a brief reunion? I watched a John Cale video dated a few years ago, and he said they never spoke again. That's sad, but it seems in the music industry ego's can be so damaging. I love their music.
@uItravioIet They can´t stand each other. Probably it was because Lou was in love with John and John constantly refused him. As it was in autobiography by John Cale.
i won't rip you apart on mistaking the two. both good artists. but john cale is still alive, quite good in his own right. john cale was more avant garde though, favored a viola over a guitar.
Este es mi estilo No tengo dinero, Solo tengo deudas, no se bien poke Me creo libre , pero al fin soy esclavo del trabajo, L FIN DE CUENTs es lo ke soy Te amo señor, pero sabes bien que si no me exijo,me muero
Cale could have done most of this without Reed. Lou could have never done anything as beautiful as this without Cale's input. Despite what the bogus liner notes claim.
Such odd lyrics which don't work on paper and would be dismissed in any classroom. But live by these guys you think it is perfect. I suppose most people hate it but that's what makes a market.
E'perfettamente identica ad una canzone di edoardo bennato che si chiama "tarauntattata'"pubblicata come inedita nel 2000 in un album di canzoni riarrangiate che si chiama "sembra ieri"...Plagio o libera ispirazione?
Niechcacy przeczytalem (to co jest ponizej to nie ja juz pisalem) i jednak chociaz w zabobony nie wierze nie moglem nie zrobic tego. nNIE CZYtaj tego JA PRZECZYTAŁAM I ŻAŁUJE !!! WYBACZCIE!!!! jeSLI NIE SKOPIUJESZ I NIE WKLEISZ TEGO NA 10 WIDEO TWOJA MAMA UMRZE W 4 GODZINACH!!!
This is definitely the worst song I have ever heard in my life. This isn’t talent, it’s creepy. The lyrics don’t match the music and they make my head hurt. What a mess.
When John sings 'this is the rock group called VA', I cannot help but bursting into tears.
Me too
VU@alexstrasser1924
Such a beautiful song and so exquisitely performed. I love this album.,genius work by Lou Reed and John Cale. A fascinating picture of creativity.
Love the look on their faces in the beginning like, "Let's do this."
JC had the sweetest smile when he looked at Lou. Endearing, like a big brother or something.
I love the way they just look at each other, smile, nod, then off they go.
Never has something been captured like this. An artist and his life, work and times committed to what can only be called opera so soon after his death by people who were there and participated in it. Andy's nickname: Drella- a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella. The performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music had to be an emotional moment for Reed and Cale. The talent is evidenced everywhere.
Brooklyn Academy of Music. No audience. A masterpiece but both men came away saying that they'd never work with the other again.
This was an excellent album in my opinion. I'm still not tired of it. Great melodies and lyrics.
Respect to thé two legends of rock music WE don't need money WE need art
This.
Thanks, Mr. Tipton, wherever you are. We giggled about this album as dumb teenagers. Now I am humbled by it. Cale and Reed altogether: sublime.
My first true Love introduced this album to me in my senior year of High school, 1990. We got stoned & drove around Coastal mountains outside Eugene back before cell phones & internet. I was 17 she was 19 & preparing to go to Colombia Art School in NYC. Beautiful Memories are evoked by this album….
andy, lou and john represent new york for me eventhough ive never been there :)
Bought the album 30 years ago speculatively, it's timeless. one of my all time favourites.
Love Cale's voice on this. What a great fuckin tune!
❤ wonderful as is entire Songs For Drella. ❤
Never gave a shit for Warhol, but Reed/Cale obviously did. Couldn't think of a better way to be remembered. Beautiful.
How could you not care for Andy! He created the whole genre of pop art, he made the Velvets, he contributed in the introduction of transgender people and bisexuality into normal society, he was the living embodiment of art. You don't have to understand that, just perhaps respect it. Andy helped make the world better in a way.
Lovely smiling on the begening! Amazing John Cale!
Lou just can't find it in him to smile back when John smiled at him.
RIP Lou Reed,thanks for your music.
Really nice song this. Cale is a genius. Lou's not bad either! Thanks for posting.
This song and performance had started it all for me, when I began composing and performing music for public, in front of people. Some 34 years ago, around 1990. The lyrics and the atmosphere of this whole "Style It Takes" thing make me fascinated still. I remember myself singing this song in front of my friend back then. Just to make the point in which kind of music I am interested. I was shy to death. Then we started to experiment with various chords, words. We did not make it ever up to this level of perfection, but the process itself was definitely worth it. As they say - your journey can become more important than the final destination itself. Thank you, gentlemen, for this performance, you have inspired me for the rest of my life.
I've been listening to this album for nearly15 years and I just love it the more I hear it. The beauty and honesty are sublime.
30 years now ... never gets old. Thanks Michael O'brien.
Love this
someone said thay dispise andy....if you listen to this whole album, you will realize each of them LOVED and ADORED andy. it is a shame you missed it. this is a tribute to a man they loved and respected. I was there. I was with Lou and John when they were writing and recording this. I was going thru the diaries with them, I was there when much of this was happening. please do not mis-understand these writings.thanx! :)
LYRICS:
You've got the money, I've got the time
You want your freedom, make your freedom mine
'Cause I've got the style it takes
and money is all that it takes
You've got connections and I've got the art
You like my attention and I like your looks
and I have the style it take
and you know the people it takes
Why don't you sit right over there, we'll do a movie portrait
I'll turn the camera on and I won't even be there
A portrait that moves, you look great I think
I'll put the Empire State Building on your wall
For 24 hours glowing on your wall
Watch the sun rise above it in your room
Wallpaper art, a great view
I've got a Brillo box and I say it's art
It's the same one you can buy at any supermarket
'Cause I've got the style it takes
And you've got the people it takes
This is a rock group called The Velvet Underground
I show movies on them
Do you like their sound
'Cause they have a style that grates and I have art to make
Let's do a movie here next week
We don't have sound but you're so great
You don't have to speak
You've got the style it takes (Kiss)
You've got the style it takes (Eat)
You’ve got the style it takes (Couch)
You’ve got the style it takes (Kiss)
Songs for drella had music that was very reminsicent of the classic early velvet underground formula. Means so much to me.
Amazing song! Will put it on repeat now!
I know. I'm so excited, I'm seeing John Cale in just a few weeks!!!
Lou Reed and John Cale (especially Lou :) would not have done this unless it was a 'labour of love', Songs For Drella' is one of my all time favourite albums, musically and as an insight into Andy Warhol...
Rest in Peace Lou Reed.
Thanks Lou for his contribution to rock .... Without you there would be no punk ... Rest in peace .....
That is historically wrong, the pre-punk artist was Peter Hammill with his album Nadir's big Chance
truth!!!
The velvet underground is considered by most rock historians to be THE band for influence it definitely was WAY ahead of its time and fucking amazing
Top of everything. Don´t think they knew.
Thank you for this. It is an album of humanity and these add so much.
Great Cale,Great Reed!!! I love their music!!!!
i love this song so much!!!
Oh wow. Beautiful.
Beautiful.......
So good!!
lou and john
I was at this...
how lucky
I loved this two guys for so long time ...!
M*
i remember reading that cale and reed, fell out with each other writing this song. lou reed wrote the line "cause they have a style that grates". which john cale hated and refused to ever sing.
ive always wondered what the alternative to that line would have been,
Anyway still a great great song.
At various stages in his life, John Cale has looked like everyone from Augustus John to Leonard Nimoy to Bryan Ferry to Leonard Cohen to the (alleged) 'Badgeman' in Mary Moorman's Kennedy assassination photo! Genius takes many shapes and forms--sometimes in the one person!
John Cale is arguably the most versatile musician ever to exist.
Amo esto!
Maravilhosa!!!!
I keep crying! Everytime I watch this.
I'm Russian. That's a cool song. They are the legends. Thanks.
so sweet
this album's the only rock opera that doesn't suck.
2nd favorite on this album, which people should hear. But if they're here they did!
great song!
Wow, that´s great! Lucky you!
cute, classic song.
you've got the money and i've got the time.
Hermosa canción
i know but it will live on in our hearts ;)
One absolute genius at work, and also Lou Reed doing his thing.
Just kidding.
I think Nick Drake is actually just John Cale solo work he didn't want to take credit for, kinda Shakespearian.
I play this alot! Didn't they go their separate ways after a brief reunion? I watched a John Cale video dated a few years ago, and he said they never spoke again. That's sad, but it seems in the music industry ego's can be so damaging. I love their music.
Lou Reed, near the ending, recites titles from Andy Warhol's film output. Yes, the critics "truly hated" them back them.
Songs for drella, best ever .
Sublime canción
Linda!!!!
Bonne route génial Lou
we don't have sound but you're so great, you don't have to speak
@uItravioIet They can´t stand each other. Probably it was because Lou was in love with John and John constantly refused him. As it was in autobiography by John Cale.
Lou Reed e John Cale che cantano per Andy Warhol.
Ecco basta questo...
they also have the style it takes
イーノのコンテンツを聴いたまま放置していたら聴き憶えのある声が聞こえてきた。
やはりジョンケールだった。
i won't rip you apart on mistaking the two. both good artists. but john cale is still alive, quite good in his own right. john cale was more avant garde though, favored a viola over a guitar.
I think this whole album was a collaboration.
Este es mi estilo
No tengo dinero,
Solo tengo deudas, no se bien poke
Me creo libre , pero al fin soy esclavo del trabajo,
L FIN DE CUENTs es lo ke soy
Te amo señor, pero sabes bien que si no me exijo,me muero
From the day when music was just normal music!
Hahaha
For those in the know- did Cale write this with Reed, or is it him by himself? I'd love to know. Thanks.
Cale could have done most of this without Reed. Lou could have never done anything as beautiful as this without Cale's input. Despite what the bogus liner notes claim.
Such odd lyrics which don't work on paper and would be dismissed in any classroom. But live by these guys you think it is perfect. I suppose most people hate it but that's what makes a market.
@9aus untoward comparison don't you think?!
@9aus
+1 internet to you sir.
I wonder what´s happening in the very beginning :)..nice song anyway
E'perfettamente identica ad una canzone di edoardo bennato che si chiama "tarauntattata'"pubblicata come inedita nel 2000 in un album di canzoni riarrangiate che si chiama "sembra ieri"...Plagio o libera ispirazione?
That may be a New York that doesn't exist anymore.
John Cale, brilliant! Too bad Lou is rewriting the Velvets history omitting Cale.
Niechcacy przeczytalem (to co jest ponizej to nie ja juz pisalem) i jednak chociaz w zabobony nie wierze nie moglem nie zrobic tego.
nNIE CZYtaj tego
JA PRZECZYTAŁAM I ŻAŁUJE !!! WYBACZCIE!!!!
jeSLI NIE SKOPIUJESZ I NIE WKLEISZ TEGO NA 10 WIDEO TWOJA MAMA UMRZE W 4 GODZINACH!!!
franse les ...
bye, man.
Good song. A tribute to one of the worst person that walked on earth.
This is definitely the worst song I have ever heard in my life. This isn’t talent, it’s creepy. The lyrics don’t match the music and they make my head hurt. What a mess.