I borrowed this lp from a brother in law back in the late 80s and taped some of it(I'm old,61,lol). I didn't appreciate it that much back then but have changed my mind thanks to RUclips.
I think that this, along with Lady Day, are the two pieces that Tony Levin plays on. You can tell that the tone is different on those two tracks. Lady Day's bassline is clean and not fuzzed.
Brilliant album. in 1975, I had found this LP in a discount remainder bin in K-Mart in Hamilton, Ontario, for about $2.99, and told my friend. He demanded that I buy it for him. Before passing it to him, I listened to it numerous times, and like it so much that I went back to K-Mart and bought a copy for myself. I remember my friend had told me the apocryphal story that Lou had been so wasted on smack during the recording of this LP that he had to have his wrist tied to the fretboard of his guitar. After a few years of blissful ignorance, I realized that that could not have been true. Lou was ever the consummate musician, and this album is a typical example of his musical genius at work.
Xcuse me but ... I can't actually see any reason why having the wrist tied to the fretboard could not have been true ... afterall, he did not have to play like some Jeff Beck for instance ...
I forget that! Everybody should know at least according to me and many experts and lovers of music and especially the bass, Jack Bruce was the all-time best rock and roll bass player. If you're too young to know he was the bass player with the cream which included Eric Clapton guitar and Ginger Baker just recently died on drums.
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all The rich son waits for his father to die The poor just drink and cry And me I just don't care at all Men of good fortune, very often can't do a thing While men of poor beginnings, often can do anything At heart they try to act like a man Handle things the best way they can They have no rich daddy to fall back on Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all It takes money to make money they say Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way Anyway, it makes no difference to me Men of good fortune, often wish that they could die While men of poor beginnings want what they have And to get it they'll die All those great things that life has to give They want to have money and live But me, I just don't care at all Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings
One of the most uncompromising albums ever released. Musically brilliant but lyrically a somewhat depressing experience. Nevertheless it's Lou Reed's masterpiece.
@@conradmillermd Sorry but I don't seem to recall any Reed albums released under that title. The song 'Heroin' was originally released on the Velvets debut album.
"The rich son waits for his father to die // The poor just drink and cry // And me, I just don't care at all" May well be the hardest stanza in any modern song.
A girl I was working with asked me what kind of music I liked. I said, "Well, Lew Reed and Leonard Cohen." She replied, "You're welcome at my place. Just give me some advance warning so I can hide all the razor blades..."
Rolling Stone isn’t on the cutting edge nearly as often as its reputation would suggest. A lot of their hype just comes from being the only game in town for decades. They’re pretty much running on fumes at this point.
Lou Reed, quiso que el rock, además de una música sentida directa al corazón, fuese a la vez una letra que ya bella, ya triste o de feliz sentimiento o desolador, tuviese una letra más literaria, más madura, una música y letra como quie se adentra en la mejor literatura.
It's probably a lot to do with the Bob Ezrin production, but this sounds like Reed's "The Wall", to me! It is a slightly different colour on him, but I dig it
Love the seventies. My idea of heaven is the seventies - chilled, elegant and sweetly melancholic. As much as one respects punk, sometimes you think wtf were they so angry about? I mean full employment, welfare, free flats from the council, free education - and endless great movies, television, records, football, boxing. When I hear Tories tell me how bad the 70s were, I reach for something to throw at the telly. Who cares about the odd power cut, or strike - They were great days, days of progress and creativity..
@@conradmillermd But the seventies was when the progress started, Without the seventies, there'd have been no progress. Sure there were still lots of bad things, but the 70s marked the turning point. I'm sure if the spirit of the 70S had continued, we'd be in s much better place today. But Reagan and Thatcher came along
@@markburns4577 Yeah be angry about Savile, but the anger extended to everything. Anger at the music industry, anger at the sixties, at the queen; at hippies. looking back, you kinda think their anger was more linked to the Right than the Left. Punk was certainly anticipating Thatcherism, and the general defeat of socialism and the trade unions. I don't see it as a coincidence, that punk became inked to the far Right, Swastikas and the like. Or how you've got old punks like Lydon backing Trump, Farage etc Punk was ultimately nihilistic, not about progress
@@JAMAICADOCK Well the Queen "is not what she seems" (see the murder of Diana, John "007" Dee, Freemasonry, etc.). Hippies aren't the worst people in the world but a lot of them would go onto become yuppies; Bill Clinton was even a hippie once as were a lot of establishment boomer types. Even Jim Morrison hated hippies. As for John Lydon and right-wingers, look at some old photos of Lydon and you'll see he adorned his house with left-wing radical revolutionary Soviet posters and such. Wasn't he "waiting on the communist call" after all? A lot of people who consider themselves left-wing on the political compass supported Trump and Brexit because the entrenched, bipartisan neoliberal money power in the U.S. *seemed* to really despise Trump/Brexit. Ultimately it was Bernie Sanders who really scared them, but still, Trump seemed more like Pat Buchanan than Dubya at first. Of course, Trump wound up getting defanged pretty quickly once he became president, and became the sort of right-winger the system loves, but in 2016 he did in fact seem something of an outsider and a populist.
Lou was always ahead of his time. They didn't like the subject matter. Was too real for them and as usual, Lou spotlighted the seedy side of life. Some critics actually liked the album but most panned it until some time had passed and the world caught up with him. Now it's listed as one of the best albums of all time. Go figure.
This album was very dry. Almost like he had too much heroin or meth or coke or whatever he did - like it/he was all dehydrated. The instruments don't really blend into a full-on liquid juice of rock 'n' roll. Listen to the live heroin album and you'll see him at his best. These Berlin songs are terrific though. Just not rocking Poppin funky make you want to dance and f*
Because they shouldn't be professional critics. Because that shouldn't be a profession. Anyone is a critic, each in their own level, some know music theory, some know every album released ever, some are art creators, others are fans, bitter failures, teachers, scholars, laymen, etc. There is no one way to be a critic, everybody is one. All it takes is listening to the music. Look at Ruari lol. Ironically music critics make it so people want to be less critic of the music they listen to - they don't need to be critical, they got other ppl being so for them. Music critics are an embarassing accessory to music and art world. What I'd support more is curators that promote conversations between listeners so you can read what everybody wants however they and you want it. Kinda like Internet! But 1970s critics? I'm sorry for Lou being from such a dorky time, where people would go out of the house to buy a newspaper to get a bad opinion on good music, when anyone can say one for free lol, in fact I'm sorry for all of them (and us), who have to endure music critics existing. Regardless, the funny thing is that Berlin is not my cup of tea, never enjoyed it that much, so I'd probably agree with some of those full-time vomiters, but would always disagree with their self importance, and their work, which gives their minute existence in the music world more power to impact it than they ever deserved. Rant over, sorry if you read it, I guess I should be a critic for critics. But please don't mind me, enjoy the music!
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all The rich son waits for his father to die The poor just drink and cry And me I just don't care at all Men of good fortune, very often can't do a thing While men of poor beginnings, often can do anything At heart, they try to act like a man Handle things the best way they can They have no rich daddy to fall back on Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all "It takes money to make money," they say Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way Anyway, it makes no difference to me Men of good fortune, often wish that they could die While men of poor beginnings want what they have And to get it they'll die All those great things that live has to give They wanna have money and live But me, I just don't care at all Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune
Caroline says as she makes up a I want to learn more about yourself think more than at just like Caroline in afraid to die all of her friends call her Alaska when she takes food they all laugh and ask her what is in her mind Caroline says well biting her lip life was meant to be more than this and this is one brand out trip she put her she put her arm through the windowpane it was such a funny feeling it's so cold in Alaska the way because of the things they're taking her children away because of the things she did in the bars in the eyes and cars that miserable run slap couldn't turn anyone away but I am the waterboy the real games are over here but it said she loves her daughter it's her eyes that fill with water and I am much happier this way 18 mile mum hell and I'm
Thinking of the way our country is going, this song couldn't be more relevant to what is happening today. That is frightening to me.
Such a good album. The Holy Trinity is still David bowie. Lou Reed and Iggy pop******
Holy hell!
Where do You leave David Byrne ... Brian Eno .. Laurie Anderson.
@@estebanposadaduque6415 great artists 2. Love Laurie Anderson
What I grew up on in NY.
Don't forget Frank Zappa..
Love this album. Bought it--fall '73. I went through a divorce and lost friends during this time. The album brought me comfort.
one of lou's finest albums
Truer now than it was then…and always will be…
I borrowed this lp from a brother in law back in the late 80s and taped some of it(I'm old,61,lol). I didn't appreciate it that much back then but have changed my mind thanks to RUclips.
one of lou's best songs.
the fist song that ever listen from Lou Reed, marvelous song from authentic genius
Love the bass in this track!
rest in piece lou
in one piece hopefully
@@fogasterg haha!!!
His liver transplant didn't work very well
@@conradmillermd Have respect ..
@@jimstafford2832 I think Lou would have found it funny
the best lou reed album !
A masterpipece album, with Transformer , New York and live Rock N Roll Animal😏
My favourite album. It abides with me and I abide with it.
The dude abides!
That bass!
Yes..only jack bruce!
I think that this, along with Lady Day, are the two pieces that Tony Levin plays on. You can tell that the tone is different on those two tracks. Lady Day's bassline is clean and not fuzzed.
@@danielpaschjr3547Jack Bruce bass guitar except "Lady Day" & "The Kids"
Tony Levin "The Kids"
Gene Martynec "Lady Day"
Ikr
Brilliant album. in 1975, I had found this LP in a discount remainder bin in K-Mart in Hamilton, Ontario, for about $2.99, and told my friend. He demanded that I buy it for him. Before passing it to him, I listened to it numerous times, and like it so much that I went back to K-Mart and bought a copy for myself.
I remember my friend had told me the apocryphal story that Lou had been so wasted on smack during the recording of this LP that he had to have his wrist tied to the fretboard of his guitar. After a few years of blissful ignorance, I realized that that could not have been true. Lou was ever the consummate musician, and this album is a typical example of his musical genius at work.
Xcuse me but ... I can't actually see any reason why having the wrist tied to the fretboard could not have been true ... afterall, he did not have to play like some Jeff Beck for instance ...
Lmao Lou reed is known to do that shit
Puro rock n' roll y poesía. Posiblemente una de las canciones más reales de la historia dé rock.
RIP Lou Reed.
I keep this album in a box and did not tour until 2006, the record company denounced it for this album BERLÍN incredible but true
Not just a good album, a smooth ,tale of an empire or a good kid gone great!
Jack Bruce on bass.
Sounded so good... I was wondering who that was!
I forget that! Everybody should know at least according to me and many experts and lovers of music and especially the bass, Jack Bruce was the all-time best rock and roll bass player.
If you're too young to know he was the bass player with the cream which included Eric Clapton guitar and Ginger Baker just recently died on drums.
Best song ever...
one reeds numerous masterpiece records
Should have been a hit. I'm serious.
Best album to play at your next party! No other voice and music can perk up the good time vibe & kiddies like Lou 😄
I love this song
I don't get why people praise the album, this is probably my favourite song from Lou Reed.
ainsleydunbar on drums man , awesome drummer !
so heavy !
I am so glad to have found this "possessed", song.
Great song ❤️👍🏻
Esse álbum me destrói
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all
The rich son waits for his father to die
The poor just drink and cry
And me I just don't care at all
Men of good fortune, very often can't do a thing
While men of poor beginnings, often can do anything
At heart they try to act like a man
Handle things the best way they can
They have no rich daddy to fall back on
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all
It takes money to make money they say
Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way
Anyway, it makes no difference to me
Men of good fortune, often wish that they could die
While men of poor beginnings want what they have
And to get it they'll die
All those great things that life has to give
They want to have money and live
But me, I just don't care at all
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Thx bro!
Pure poetry....
One of the most uncompromising albums ever released. Musically brilliant but lyrically a somewhat depressing experience. Nevertheless it's Lou Reed's masterpiece.
I think heroin is his best album. Musically. At the height of his musical peak 🌋
So agree with you.
@@conradmillermd Sorry but I don't seem to recall any Reed albums released under that title. The song 'Heroin' was originally released on the Velvets debut album.
@@MIB_63 Uncompromising? Why? I just can't get it...
@@conradmillermd heroin no is a álbum, it's only a song
Stupenda del Genio💖👏
Monstrueux !
lou lives in "Berlin" maybe his best album
Amazing
up there with busload of faith, i guesz
❤
britain had Bowie and USA had Reed...... both Art Rock legends
funcy had bowie the real dark ones had lou
The crowning jewel and last one standing being, James Newel osterberg jr ...
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Suuper lyric
che musica magica...
I like it.
good message
A+
seems to apply more to present day living
"The rich son waits for his father to die //
The poor just drink and cry //
And me, I just don't care at all"
May well be the hardest stanza in any modern song.
The Sgt.Pepper of the 70's....
The Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of depression.
A girl I was working with asked me what kind of music I liked. I said, "Well, Lew Reed and Leonard Cohen." She replied, "You're welcome at my place. Just give me some advance warning so I can hide all the razor blades..."
@@talbotsplace7316 Lew Reed, the adjunct professor from Washington state University...
@talbotsplace7316 Lmao that's very natural, Listening to Lou reed is a gateway to suicide
I gotta say, I'm really digging this album so far. It's a shame that Rolling Stone gave it a bad review when it came out.
I bet you Creem didn't...
Rolling Stone isn’t on the cutting edge nearly as often as its reputation would suggest. A lot of their hype just comes from being the only game in town for decades. They’re pretty much running on fumes at this point.
the only worse than listening to the Rolling Stones is listening to the Rolling Stones.
Lou Reed, quiso que el rock, además de una música sentida directa al corazón, fuese a la vez una letra que ya bella, ya triste o de feliz sentimiento o desolador, tuviese una letra más literaria, más madura, una música y letra como quie se adentra en la mejor literatura.
The (electric?) sitar on the chorus was a very strange and very good idea.
Este album marcó mi vida en un antes y un después, tanto o más que la lectura de Nietzsche.
Jack Bruce bass guitar.
The base line is amazing in this one was just wondering who's that 🙂
It's probably a lot to do with the Bob Ezrin production, but this sounds like Reed's "The Wall", to me! It is a slightly different colour on him, but I dig it
Ezrin was/is a genius in creating soundscapes. History will remember him as a great innovator IMO.
Love the seventies. My idea of heaven is the seventies - chilled, elegant and sweetly melancholic.
As much as one respects punk, sometimes you think wtf were they so angry about?
I mean full employment, welfare, free flats from the council, free education - and endless great movies, television, records, football, boxing.
When I hear Tories tell me how bad the 70s were, I reach for something to throw at the telly.
Who cares about the odd power cut, or strike - They were great days, days of progress and creativity..
Unless you were black
Well, John Lydon is on record talking about Jimmy Savile back in those days. That's something to be mad about?
@@conradmillermd But the seventies was when the progress started, Without the seventies, there'd have been no progress. Sure there were still lots of bad things, but the 70s marked the turning point.
I'm sure if the spirit of the 70S had continued, we'd be in s much better place today.
But Reagan and Thatcher came along
@@markburns4577 Yeah be angry about Savile, but the anger extended to everything. Anger at the music industry, anger at the sixties, at the queen; at hippies.
looking back, you kinda think their anger was more linked to the Right than the Left. Punk was certainly anticipating Thatcherism, and the general defeat of socialism and the trade unions.
I don't see it as a coincidence, that punk became inked to the far Right, Swastikas and the like. Or how you've got old punks like Lydon backing Trump, Farage etc
Punk was ultimately nihilistic, not about progress
@@JAMAICADOCK Well the Queen "is not what she seems" (see the murder of Diana, John "007" Dee, Freemasonry, etc.). Hippies aren't the worst people in the world but a lot of them would go onto become yuppies; Bill Clinton was even a hippie once as were a lot of establishment boomer types. Even Jim Morrison hated hippies. As for John Lydon and right-wingers, look at some old photos of Lydon and you'll see he adorned his house with left-wing radical revolutionary Soviet posters and such. Wasn't he "waiting on the communist call" after all? A lot of people who consider themselves left-wing on the political compass supported Trump and Brexit because the entrenched, bipartisan neoliberal money power in the U.S. *seemed* to really despise Trump/Brexit. Ultimately it was Bernie Sanders who really scared them, but still, Trump seemed more like Pat Buchanan than Dubya at first. Of course, Trump wound up getting defanged pretty quickly once he became president, and became the sort of right-winger the system loves, but in 2016 he did in fact seem something of an outsider and a populist.
Does this song sound strangely apropriate for now 11 2020
Some lines reminds me of Machiavelli.
Why didn't critics like the Berlin album?
Lou was always ahead of his time. They didn't like the subject matter. Was too real for them and as usual, Lou spotlighted the seedy side of life. Some critics actually liked the album but most panned it until some time had passed and the world caught up with him. Now it's listed as one of the best albums of all time. Go figure.
@@MelBee128 Laura Nyro first did it in 1969 with her dark and intense masterpiece 'New York Tendaberry ' which blew the lid off the hippie illusion.
who cares. f#ck the critics. this is his best music, period. And Blue Mask.
This album was very dry. Almost like he had too much heroin or meth or coke or whatever he did - like it/he was all dehydrated. The instruments don't really blend into a full-on liquid juice of rock 'n' roll. Listen to the live heroin album and you'll see him at his best.
These Berlin songs are terrific though. Just not rocking Poppin funky make you want to dance and f*
Because they shouldn't be professional critics. Because that shouldn't be a profession. Anyone is a critic, each in their own level, some know music theory, some know every album released ever, some are art creators, others are fans, bitter failures, teachers, scholars, laymen, etc. There is no one way to be a critic, everybody is one. All it takes is listening to the music. Look at Ruari lol. Ironically music critics make it so people want to be less critic of the music they listen to - they don't need to be critical, they got other ppl being so for them. Music critics are an embarassing accessory to music and art world. What I'd support more is curators that promote conversations between listeners so you can read what everybody wants however they and you want it. Kinda like Internet! But 1970s critics? I'm sorry for Lou being from such a dorky time, where people would go out of the house to buy a newspaper to get a bad opinion on good music, when anyone can say one for free lol, in fact I'm sorry for all of them (and us), who have to endure music critics existing. Regardless, the funny thing is that Berlin is not my cup of tea, never enjoyed it that much, so I'd probably agree with some of those full-time vomiters, but would always disagree with their self importance, and their work, which gives their minute existence in the music world more power to impact it than they ever deserved. Rant over, sorry if you read it, I guess I should be a critic for critics. But please don't mind me, enjoy the music!
I’ve been radicalized
this album was pilloried on release, even people that liked him hated it and said so.
Great album. One of his best. Miss the man!
Look at the "ROYALS" but didn't they start that way???!!!..
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all
The rich son waits for his father to die
The poor just drink and cry
And me I just don't care at all
Men of good fortune, very often can't do a thing
While men of poor beginnings, often can do anything
At heart, they try to act like a man
Handle things the best way they can
They have no rich daddy to fall back on
Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all
"It takes money to make money," they say
Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way
Anyway, it makes no difference to me
Men of good fortune, often wish that they could die
While men of poor beginnings want what they have
And to get it they'll die
All those great things that live has to give
They wanna have money and live
But me, I just don't care at all
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Did anyone else go to Berlin like i did? And drink dubonnet on ice
Lou never had been to Berlin when he wrote the album.
"The album more sad of the history rock"
:-)
the atmosphere of this album is unbearable to me... too gloomy, too creepy, too sad for me. But i find this song excellent.
Caroline says as she makes up a I want to learn more about yourself think more than at just like Caroline in afraid to die all of her friends call her Alaska when she takes food they all laugh and ask her what is in her mind Caroline says well biting her lip life was meant to be more than this and this is one brand out trip she put her she put her arm through the windowpane it was such a funny feeling it's so cold in Alaska the way because of the things they're taking her children away because of the things she did in the bars in the eyes and cars that miserable run slap couldn't turn anyone away but I am the waterboy the real games are over here but it said she loves her daughter it's her eyes that fill with water and I am much happier this way 18 mile mum hell and I'm
When she takes speed, not food
Anyway, it makes no difference to me