Lou Reed - The Kids (Official Audio)
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2013
- Official Audio for ”The Kids” by Lou Reed
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Bridge:
I am the water boy
The real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man
No words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way
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The most brutally honest rock and roll album I've ever heard. Scared the $hit out of me at 16 years old. That was 40 years ago. Feels like an old friend now.
The all Lou Reed work is amazing.
Yeah I first heard it at 21 years old....and it scared Me to death. I adore this album.
❤️
Yes sir. How was it when you first listened to this masterpiece??
More raw honesty than anything by Dylan, even.
Lou throwing himself out for the rest of us. Rest in peace. Love you for all you gave us
Hear hear !!!!
This is music made out of pain. This is more than music: it’s hurt and anger as pop music.
The most authentic, raw artist in rock music history. Brilliant composer of urban symphonies.
"Brilliant composer of urban symphonies" that describes him so well
I want it to be over but I want to play it again
It may be the most harrowing song I know; listening to it is close to masochism. It always results in tears - and valium doesn't help the bash.
How can you listen without crying, screaming of horror ? I feel the same as the first time I listened to it 40 years ago...
Make it 46 for me. I, obviously still listen and dissect every element of this record - lyrical, musical & perhaps even spiritual. I HONESTLY love it.
me to
It's a relentless and wrenching track. I read somewhere that he got the wails and screams because he had young children on hand, made them believe that their mother had died, and recorded their reactions. (Brilliant concept, cruel execution.)
think I heard something like that too. That he had been awfully cruel with these children. The result is that we feel their absolute distress, but it does not respect the emotions of these kids. I cannot agree with these methods... So each time we suffer with the kids
...heroin...
I was 18 when I first heard this album in 1973. Raised in boarding schools since I was 5 years old. This is the most beautiful pop album I have ever heard.
Great poet, deep emotions: Lou Reed.
This is my favorite work by Lou! Without a doubt! It chills me to the bone!
It happens every day , even after 40 years . We miss Lou every day !
like a punch to the gut.
hideously beautiful
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because she was making it with sisters and brothers
And everyone else, all of the others
Like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things that they heard she had done
The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one
And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one
And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because number on was the girl friend from Paris
The things that they did - ah - they didn't have to ask us
And then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things she did in the streets
In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat
That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away
I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way
Like sooo many
Rest in Peace Mr Lou Reed 🖤
Thank you for everything 🖤🖤🖤
lou reeds best album. this is so deep in my DNA that it is actual life.
i will love lou reed beyond death. ged from inspired, wearing black as fitting.
Lou Reed’s music also in my blood since my senior lad introduced to me with some good stuffs in my early life in 90s and I’s a 70’s born. Completely go inside the story particularly during in my first divorce, I’m fine now but still can feel the deep feeling of the songs
Fun Fact: The kids you hear are the same children you hear in the beginning of “God of Thunder” by KISS. Bob Ezrin, the producer for both tracks used his 2 sons in the studio to try and make the songs more dark I suppose. 🤷🏻♂️
The kids' crying at the end always kill me.
Me, too! :(
more so than ever now cos that is what the most powerful government in the world is doing..
I love that part: always makes me laugh!
@@caddelworth6794 What makes it even funnier is that it's actually the producer's kids crying because he told them their mother was dead.
Pussy.
masterpiece
one of the best lyrics of Lou Reed, is al lirical description of images and stories
perfect song
jaime nuñez Lou Reed was one of the greatest songwriters I've ever heard songs from, aside from Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan. They wrote some of the most scuzzy, outsider-centric songs of all time. #ripwalterbecker
@@williammanroe3411 Don't you dare compare Lou to that shlt, don't you dare
First listened to this a young teenager, early 90s. I was a big VU fan and of Lou's easier accessible music. I didn't like this record back in 1990. Now as a mid 40s man, I absolutely love this record and keep returning to this moreso than any of Lou's other records. But I do remember thinking as a 13yr old kid that the child crying on this song was something I'd never heard before in music. Thus began my Lou Reed love affair.
What a masterpiece. A journey through a poor scorned woman's life - we can only feel sadness for her. And the retching of the kids in the end - with British accents, strangely." MummY!" Even for the childless and heartless (me): emotional.
Unusual Recording Techniques #1: Lou Reed's "The Kids"
While flipping through a five-year-old copy of NME in a WFMU bathroom, I came across an article about "scary music" by Mark Beaumont. He wrote that the little kids who can be heard wailing on Lou Reed's track The Kids (from his 1973 LP Berlin) were the young children of producer Bob Ezrin, who were crying because their Dad had told them that their mother had just been killed in a horrible accident. Their mother was fine - the track needed some crying, so Producer Ezrin produced some. The crying starts at the 5:17 mark
bighollywoodproducer Beat me to it!
@@bighollywoodproducer wow, that's completely fucked up lol
@@bighollywoodproducer That’s an urban legend; not what happened.
Masterpiece
Fantastic bass-lines by Tony Levin.
the song that doesn't have Jack Bruce has a fantastic bass line,go figure.
Holy crap I didn’t know it was him!
Sad & beautiful
the greatest disturbing song. lots of stories..........
Legend 👍
Eu não me canso de ler e ouvir Lou. Ele é parte da minha alma. Nunca houve poeta musical igual a ele no rock'and'roll. Todos os dias eu sinto a sua falta. Descanse em paz, mestre!
Esse álbum é o absurdo do lirismo, do retrato da realidade de muitas pessoas e casais, principalmente no Brasil...
Apparently inspired by Lou's wife Bettye who was taken from her mother at a young age after her father left when she was very young. Lou embellished the rest which helped to break up their marriage. Lol
Mel Bee Or alternatively Nico whose biography also fits parts of the song.
Betty also cut her wrists in the bathtub.
My mom left me at 10 months. My father punched her in the face on Christmas Eve. They say I cried for her all the time. Molested at five and up from my dad’s Cuban friend. I am alive at 65. Saw Lou ion the Sally album tour. I was there that night when they recorded the LIVE album! Not R&R Animal but the one that came out after Sally Can’t Dance..
My heart is overflowin' anyway.
Also loved lou's choice of cords an notes that have natural overtones. Love it an play my version etc.
I had a cat that didn’t like children. She’d usually ignore anything on the tv or stereo, except for this song. The crying kids at the end were so well recorded and sounded so real she’d leave the room whenever it got to that point!
~ It Is Like A Prayer ~
🍀🙏💚
The saddest, yet greatest Lou Reed album, ever! I know, I know, Magic And Loss. I say, Berlin!
criminally underrated to this very day
i never understood how any critics overlooked this
this album was his magnum opus for me
This song is a cock block for any good feeling that may be pestering you
Lou!!!!!!
A MASTER PIECE,SOME KIND OF PERFECTION, A PARANGON OF POETRY, LOU FOR EVER
Lived it. Thanks Lou.
this song makes me think of the generations of indigenous kids taken from their families to be sent to "residential boarding schools"
The recording engineers or whoever recorded their kid crying etc an compressed an whateveted the voices in this sad but true song The Kids. Lou could dethrone an silence a crowd heckler like no one heard
LOU!!!! rock on!!!
BJ Wilson from Procol Harum playing brilliant drums as usual
He's what brought me here. I'd never heard this recording before, but Barrie was one of my good friends and a band mate after he left Joe Cockers band.
@@spibach Barrie James Wilson
That's his octopus style of drumming...indeed...brilliant
Beautiful Crazy "Make Me Cry"
Cristo che capolavoro!!!! 🖤💚❤️❣️
Lovely song 💙
Maybe the most sad song ever.
Lou was the master
Maybe just Sad Song is sadder
The kids heard near the end of the song were producer Bob Ezrin's kids. They can also be heard on KISS' "God Of Thunder".
la adoro
Louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 🖤
O ya i remember i bougt this album 48 years ago, and my brother when he heared the music ,he did not like the part when the children starten to cry!; whitch i also did not like i am now 62 years and i also cried when i heared the children creëren and crying for their mammie, aftershave so man years it still hits you; lets us hope we are all going to heaven where there is nothing that takes us away from the love of god and where is happiness,health,Joy!and no broken relations by the way there is no married there.
Love Berlin!
Hermoso
Grande lou ree
Always liked this song. I figured out a way to do “ the swim” and “ the gator” along with it.
Cris déchirants.J'ai (je ) cries aussi fort que lui.
LOUUUUUUU
Fact: At the end, Bob Ezrin locked his own kids in the studio, told them their mother was dead, and taped the results. Ezrin says he told them that it was time for bed.
goosebumps when the kids cry...
more so than ever now cos that is what the most powerful government in the world is doing..
Suddenly, I'd like to listen to this song. Autumn feeling~
I am just a water boy...
The real game's not over here.
J'adore jouer the Kid à la guitare mélodie magnifique la fin est déchirante bob Ezrin avait enfermé les enfants dans le studio en leurs disant qu'ils reverraient pas leurs mère alors ils ont vraiment eu peur on le ressens dans le titre mais c'est quand même une idée de génie d'avoir fait pleurer les enfants comme sa parle d'une maman qui s'occuper mal de ses enfants
Deep and human..
This is Lou at his most Leonard
NO.
👌
One of the most harrowing things ever caught on tape.
Bob Ezrin's children crying for real. Ezrin and Reed told them their their mother had abandoned them
That's one way to get a sound effect I suppose...
@@johnfowler3125 hard method 😊
apparently this was just a rumour, but considering the intensity I can definitely see why it'd be believed
Well this became relevant again.
If you are interested check Anthony De Curtis 'Lou Reed A Life'. Lots of background as to how this album came about.
Slide guitar is wicked
Berlín es un disco de música y letra y sonido extraordinario. Lou Reed amante de la literatura, quisiera hacer una historia de un matrimonio, enamorado, luego llegaron las drogas, los celos , la violencia, la prostitución, el quitar a los hijos a una madre incapaz de gobernarsexa si misma
Berlín es un disco con unas letras de el lado oscuro de la vida, de la degradación, de la violencia, del suicidio, de dos jonkys Tematica no habitual en las canciones. Es un disco aterrador, doloroso, triste. Pero a la vez un disco brillante para gente madura que igual lee un relato de Alan Poe, a pesar de lo oscuro de la historia..
💞🌍🌎🌏💞
Saddest song ever
Struggente Capolavoro
👍
I don't know if it's true that the kids near the end were told (falsely) that their mother had just died but it's possible. Something certainly got that kind of a reaction out of them.
Matt Hayes yeah that's true. Maybe Bob Ezrin's actual kids?
Nick Perkins yup.
Bob Ezrin said he told his child that it was bedtime. Then he did a second recording where he asked them to pretend they missed their mom. The crying is real, but they are just calling "Mommy" on cue (actually the younger one actually did get upset calling for mommy).
While flipping through a five-year-old copy of NME in a WFMU bathroom, I came across an article about "scary music" by Mark Beaumont. He wrote that the little kids who can be heard wailing on Lou Reed's track The Kids (from his 1973 LP Berlin) were the young children of producer Bob Ezrin, who were crying because their Dad had told them that their mother had just been killed in a horrible accident. Their mother was fine - the track needed some crying, so Producer Ezrin produced some. (Found this on the net today)
also , kids that age will cry anyway when they get tired or if they got the wrong piece of candy .
Me costó mucho poder dejar de escuchar todos los días a todas horas ese disco desde que lo descubrí en esa lista de 1000 y un discos que debes de escuchar antes de morir, porque de él solo conocía el Transformer pero este disco me cambió la vida.
Se puede sufrir y seguir viviendo sin desear dejar de sufrir. Tras la muerte creo que lo único que extrañaré de esta vida son algunos discos: este es uno de ellos.
The Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of depression.
Tenias que cagarla
this song is so hard to listen, with those lyrics, with the children crying, is so sad :-(
Gut-wrenching, one could say.
Kippenvel
This song looks like that part of the movie where the Divorced dad is facing the emptiness and depression
masterpiece but keep it on the hush-hush
Why is he much happier? 0:
because jim is a cad and he doesn't want to be bothered
@@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731 Right. This is not Lou read speaking--it's the character Jim.
He’s lying to himself and pretending not to care
Tony Levin on bass
It's a good'un
#IDontMindThePain
Ao fdim de tantos anos ... puta que pariu!! Mais nada
Remastered version ... Not as good as the vinyl. Where is the movie .
The Kids , The Bed , Sad Song. Decadent Masterpiece. Love is album.
I suppose Ezrin felt that his screaming children would add to the song...I can't say if its the right thing to do however its a depressing song so why not add in the theatricality of it all? As an aside I had been in the grips of addiction when was not the best parent. I eventually got sober now just as long as the time I used. Now they are adults and this song reminds of the pain I caused. No time erases what pain i caused. I didnt legally lose custody but in my heart I lost it already.
My introduction to Lou Reed was uneventful. I thought anything after the Velvets was inferior, not worth listening to. I stumbled upon this record in high school by accident. This was the song that changed my mind…
Bob Ezrin's kids. He in fact told them,to get the desired result,that their mother wasn't coming back.
Mike Poitras That’s just an urban legend. The crying kids are Bob Ezrin’s, but he actually had recorded them at home crying about something the way tired, young children do. FWIW his wife was home when the boys were crying - she took the little one for a bath or something which caused
the older one to decide he wanted a bath too which is why he was calling for her.
@@suzannemarker9896 Glad to hear that. Makes it a lot more palatable.
Definitely on Edgar Allan Poe's level.
40ans avant quand bande de terreurs sympathiques ?
this is literature
This is possibly the darkest album of all time. And this song is second only to The Bed in it's coldness.
And yet the album always makes me laugh. Part of it is it's just so cold. And Lou expressed coldness better than any songwriter I have ever heard. (Genuine coldness. The everyday coldness of a loveless marriage or a street hustler, etc. Not the fake coldness put up by rappers - which is actually a defense mechanism for a fragile ego.)
Catharsis - thy name is Berlin.
Forever hard to hear these song . The problem was the father ...
The sounds of children remenber me too many things ... there was also a flute ...
One of my songs .
The mother didn't know how to choose
@@BrunoSantos-cb5xv ... And liked to yell like a slaughterde saw .
Arrivé à Lyon et éduqué à Reed, Dylan et Bowie en1972...et puis quoi ???
Love the Lou Reed chord choice of harmonics. Lou never really got credit for his choice of music an knowing those chord overtone harmonics. Like on heroin. Etc
a song for Trump today..
Oh fuck off. Seriously. Dragging politics into this masterpiece.
seriously - the bigger and more powerful the masterpiece - all the more powerfully it can highlight Trump's most hideous crime so far..
"This song illustrated the horrors of domestic abuse"
yes.. and AGAIN - like any powerful work it can also resonate in other ways..
"long before it became an issue for you due to Trump"
i have been fully aware of the horrors of domestic abuse long before Trump came along.. that is something he has not been so far so outspoken about..
@ Dude everything is politics. You're lucky that politics doesn't affect every fucking thing you do. That's what the rest of the world has to deal with.
yup
I'm reporting this song to the political Correctness Police.
You're a clueless fool.
the ending would’ve been better without the kids crying imo, it’s good the first time but it feels a little excessive afterwards
His masterpiece! The press labeled this album as the most depressing album ever recorded. ( until they heard death metal😂)
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because she was making it with sisters and brothers
And everyone else, all of the others
Like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things that they heard she had done
The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one
And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one
And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because number one was the girlfriend from Paris
The things that they did - ah - they didn't have to ask us
And then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay
They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things she did in the streets
In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat
That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away
I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way