I wore out this cassette out in my car stereo in college. In this age of streaming media, and downloading singles people may not realize there was a time when most musicians would put out an album of crap with one, maybe two, decent songs they would release as singles. The rest were just throw away filler. If you didn't want to try and record it off the radio you had to pay for the entire album to get the one good song. With Lou Reed and a few other, like Prince and Bruce Springsteen, you didn't have to worry about that.
Video Violence was originally supposed to be a single, with a music video of creepy robotic Lou ripping his face off. But the label made No Money Down their promoted single instead, and used the wonky video for that instead
The 80s compressed into 5 and a half minutes.
Mistrial is a very underrated album because of its mid 80s sound. But it doesn't actually sound that bad and the most of the songs are truly inspired.
I wore out this cassette out in my car stereo in college. In this age of streaming media, and downloading singles people may not realize there was a time when most musicians would put out an album of crap with one, maybe two, decent songs they would release as singles. The rest were just throw away filler. If you didn't want to try and record it off the radio you had to pay for the entire album to get the one good song. With Lou Reed and a few other, like Prince and Bruce Springsteen, you didn't have to worry about that.
Video Violence was originally supposed to be a single, with a music video of creepy robotic Lou ripping his face off. But the label made No Money Down their promoted single instead, and used the wonky video for that instead
Hypnotic genius... Reminds me on a John Cale song, can't remember which
I first heard this with LR performing it on David Letterman (I think that was the show). It has stuck with me.
1/6/21 too.
The currents rage
Black Lou, nah nah nah
the fuckin' drum machine.
Nah nah nah nah
He did a rap song on the A side of this.