and he agreed at the time to provide the service and was payed for it. everybody acting like he got swindled over it. he agreed to that price for that session. great bass, but he cant be bitter for doing what he was hired for and agreed to.
I am 71 and still kicking when this song was in the charts I couldn't hear it enough. I have every intention that when I'm in my coffin this will be played. In my humble opinion this is the best single I have ever heard. RIP Lou.
My brother had just bought 2 tickets for the Lou Reed concert in Luxemburg when the doctors told him that he had endstage cancer. They gave him a few month, maybe just a few weeks. The concert was 8 months later. My brother said that he is not planning on dieing before seeing Lou Reed. He had a spontaneous remission of the cancer.The doctors called it a medical miracle when they discharged him from the hospital. My brother went to the Lou Reed concert as he had said. He even outlived Lou Reed by 2 years.
To have the guts, gall and balls, to sing a song like this nearly 50 years ago. Is truely amazing. All hail Lou Reed, an amazing musican and performer.
Andy Warhol decía de Lou que era un musico horrible, pero eran muy compinches, antes de morir Andy, estaban peleados. Lou toco lo mejor de su carrera en el funeral de Andy.
I am now 68 yrs old & remember this from my teens !! Luv this song to this very day ❤🎉!!! 12-23-2024 "Doo Doo Doo Doo 🎶 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo 🎶 Merry Christmas To All !!!!
Good old jazz gets better as years go by. It has gained some sort of classy aura which none of the stuff they produce these days will ever get as no one will remember it anyway.
Hearing this song in 1980 at the age of 19 was the first time I knew that there were other people in the world like me. It still makes me cry even today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Lou xxxxxx
Have you seen the film that was based on the song there’s a music video Director pretty well known who did a 17 minute film sent it around walking on the wild side. He actually interviewed Lou Reed and found out who the people were that he was talking about in the song, some of them were still alive at the time that he did it….
8 years old, 1981, road trip, east Texas, sis in front, Mom driving. First time my ears were blessed by this Tunage. "Mom?" "Yea son?" "What's giving head?" Mom- "OOH A&W, Whose hungry?!"
It was groundbreaking when FM radio played this 50 years ago but boy what a song. The background singers and sax do it for me more than anything. RIP Lou.
One of Lou's greatest achievements as an artist is getting a song about transgenderism, drugs and giving head on mainstream radio. Talk about subversive.
many artists make what they themselves want to hear or read or see. So, yes, while he was a true artist, he certainly isn't alone in this. It's just people are so used to autotune disgusting pandering bs written by someone else and performed by trained monkeys.
Lou was a friend of mine when he went to Syracuse University. I was younger than Lou. We would talk for hours about our art projects. Lou was amazingly creative and focused. Good memories and Lou lives on in his music.
What I love about this song, is how Reed obviously met these people, and developed a huge respect for them and their lives. Not for the people that were front and center stage, but for the people in the dark corners, on the street, living their lives more fully than anyone else. He truly spoke for the outsiders.
How absolutely fantastic, I don't know much about him though I have always liked his music. Some people have such incredible depth within themselves - wish I could read more about this remarkable man. Thanks for the info. x
I mean, Bowie did convince Reed to make the album, then produced it himself, and played backing vocals, keyboards and acoustic guitar on this track lol
Yea it's that time you realize it could be much worse than this and even everything is fucked up.. anyway you've just smiled to that whole situation :))
@@susanbaker-schloth1152 Iggy Pop is performing in Europe this summer, Aug 17 at Cossany, Switzerland and a few days later in Vigo, Spain :) You asked a good question so I typed it into Google: where is Iggy Pop? So glad to know he's still with us, still performing. God bless 🙏
The first time I heard this song was on a Pan-Am 747 on a flight between London and Los Angeles in 1972. It has been stuck in my head ever since. You could rent headphones for $5 and there were 10 different channels of music to listen to. After about an hour, the music started all over again. I longed for this song every time. The song is timeless.
@@jamesteichler1290 subversive relative to pop/mass market/radio airplay is where I'm coming from and as a straight heterosexual male. Now, the song heroin would be relatively less subversive to me because I lived that. Wild side as a kid came out of far left field and I developed an ear for "eccentric" music. For someone Ellis I'm sure walking the wild side sounds like a Tuesday
My 70 year old Italian mother-in-law introduced me to this beautiful song. She's been listening to it since she was a kid. And i think I'll keep listening to it till i reach 70!
A radio interviewer asked if he was sick of this song, and Lou replied that he loved the song as it had been paying his rent for the last thirty years.
i'd have to agree with this 1. I'v had morE days Of haPPies then with haVing bad dAys . get well everbody 🥰🥰🥰 Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰
I love this answer! I remember exactly where I was and who I was with. 30 yrs later I’ve reconnected with the boy that introduced it to me. I used to “sneak” into the restaurant where he was a cook at a tiny old school diner and we had a summer of love. No messy breakups, we didn’t put a label on any of it. He moved and so did I. Now all these years later, we’re madly in love, but still won’t put a label on it!
This song is beautiful, not just for itself, but because it comes from a time of innocence and freedom when there were no "community standards" on any media to censor what we can say, express or like. I bought this album when it came out and now I'm 83 and still loving it!
I love this song, it’s cool, singing about people that do their best to exist in this world despite our differences and finding a way to be who they are!
The bass line, the violin background, the backing vocals, the hypnotic voice of Lou Reed… And above all, the simplicity of the composition. All this to build a masterpiece.
The Bass player got paid $12 for the session on that song. David Bowie won an award for producing the album - and he didn't even show up until all the tracks were already laid down! The music industry is a crazy thing.
How is this not an anthem? It’s so far ahead of it’s time, the music, the way the words make you feel, the do do doo do doo do do doo, it’s a little ridiculous. 2024 and still relevant ❤
@@markaho4777 Looking at your other replies, it’s very strange of you to try your hand at robbing others people to joy. You remind me of 13yo music snøb me
1973 I'm living in Miami a lot memories I was 22 from Lima Peru with 120 dollars in packet but very happy . Listen this song 2021 more happy. Thanks god
Next May, during Brighton Festival, go and see Herbie Flowrrs open house / if he still does it - as he has done in recent years. He’s that iconic bass line. It’s so precious. Kris the photographer neighbour had Heribes Walk o then Wild Side guitar on display.
I was a colored girl in the 50s as a child and black detroiter as a teen in the 60s and I love and will always love this song! Also love any song that mentions One of the handsomest and most beautiful man that ever lived James Dean.
i found out about this song causr a tribe called quest samples this song for can i kick it, it amazing to see the influence of previous generations and the evolution of music.
Not many musicians like Lou. Way ahead of his time and still is. They say he was very much loved by his fellow musicians. Had to have been one heck of good dude. I didn't know him but I sure as heck loved him.
I absolutely love the bass line! I remember hearing this song in a store and at the time I didn't know what the songs name was. I remember hearing the bassline and fell in love with it. It wasn't until a couple months ago until I found this gem.
@@JasonCunliffe That's right. One bass does the C down to F glissando, the other does the high harmony. However during the verse, there is only one bass playing a more jazzed up lick. We could always ask Herbie Flowers for the definitive answer, I guess! ;)
mick ronson was the producer in the studio, bowie producer in name and made the connection (spent very little time in the studio), but it was mick ronson's genius that made this record sing.
I’m about to turn 77. My life has also been skating along the edge of the wild side. I can’t tell the stories of 50% of my life. People would never believe them.
russs7574 I graduated in '73 also. I liked it alot back then. Everyone in our hick country school knew what it was about. I don't care too much for it now. I saw Lou in concert a couple of years later.
Was my mother's favourite song, I remember hearing at the stereo with less than 6 years. Each time I hear it I think of her. Music has this beautiful thing, evocation.
The smoothness, and seemingly effortless coolness of this song is something no artist in today's generations of "artists" could every match. True beauty.
;-)s ... Timeless n C:lassic, miss U a lot Uncle Lou, RIP n Thanx for the Music, the movement n the memories. Like all GGGreat things, his music lives on !
When I was 14, I was sleeping in my room n my dad came bursting in and was excited and said " hey get up, they are playing a song about you on the radio" he was excited so I was excited so he brings me out to the living room and im trying to wake up listing to this song for the first time and figuring out the lyrics and I hear "sugar plum fairy came n hit the streets" I was like awww damn, buuurn, lmao, best dad joke ever! I sure do miss you dad, rip.
Never put yourself down 4 starters, u were happy and in that time line ,and yes life is a bitch ,in your words the lyrics r still cool and u still live it
Tell you what.... they sure as hell knew how to write some funky grooves back in the day. Been listening to this jam throughout my life on various classic rock stations, and my mind is STILL blown away by the way the stand up bass (at least, thats what it sounds like to me), the brushed snare, the slide guitar (cant tell if thats the bass sliding or a 6 string) & the kick drum all just quake when they all come together on the up/down beats. And... the sax. Smoove....like buttah.
Only Lou Reed could do this classic! 1972 singing about drag queens and male hustles, and actually made it pass the censors! But the kicker was THAT SAX towards the end! Absolutely exciting now, as it was back then. July 20, 2024, sounds so great to hear this again. I think EVERY GENERATION should hear and know this song! Pass it on to the younger listeners! 😊
![Intro / Sweet Jane (Live [1973 Version])](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KqpWTC-rvhQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I used to listen to this when I was 80 and now I'm dead, gosh how time flies.
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You da man
Looking forward to being 80, but, I can wait.
Sick, dude
We'll all be there with ya soon enough; just give it time
RIP Herbie Flowers....
What a Fabulous bass line.
He got 17 quid from that session ...
@@surfraptor the equivalent of 300 quid today. He double tracked the bass playing - a double bass with a fretless Fender Jazz bass overlay.
and he agreed at the time to provide the service and was payed for it. everybody acting like he got swindled over it. he agreed to that price for that session. great bass, but he cant be bitter for doing what he was hired for and agreed to.
@@trevorayson7593 righteous brother
I wonder how many are here now because of Herbie Flowers?
I am 71 and still kicking when this song was in the charts I couldn't hear it enough. I have every intention that when I'm in my coffin this will be played. In my humble opinion this is the best single I have ever heard. RIP Lou.
My brother had just bought 2 tickets for the Lou Reed concert in Luxemburg when the doctors told him that he had endstage cancer. They gave him a few month, maybe just a few weeks. The concert was 8 months later. My brother said that he is not planning on dieing before seeing Lou Reed. He had a spontaneous remission of the cancer.The doctors called it a medical miracle when they discharged him from the hospital. My brother went to the Lou Reed concert as he had said. He even outlived Lou Reed by 2 years.
I'm also 71 & have not gotten tired of hearing this song.
71 as well and still rocking
And hire a chorus of colored. girls to sing DO T DO T DO T DO...STAY WELL
Lou Reed agreed with you.
That sax at the end is like the definition of bringing a song home.
nft
Credit...Mr David Bowie , RIP
ronnie ross baritone ......
perfectly said
sax can do no wrong.
To have the guts, gall and balls, to sing a song like this nearly 50 years ago. Is truely amazing. All hail Lou Reed, an amazing musican and performer.
"and the colored girls go do do do do do do" lol
He's making fun of the T people lol
The lyrics actually suck
@@christian-helsting4195 The lyrics are great lol
@@christian-helsting4195 "but she never lost her head even when she was giving head"
That bass is hypnotic, what a song!
Iconic baseline
Andy Warhol decía de Lou que era un musico horrible, pero eran muy compinches, antes de morir Andy, estaban peleados. Lou toco lo mejor de su carrera en el funeral de Andy.
Crankin it up on the stereo with the BASS BOOST on... hell yea
It's two basses: an upright and an electric.
sampled in tribe called quest :)
I am now 68 yrs old & remember this from my teens !! Luv this song to this very day ❤🎉!!! 12-23-2024 "Doo Doo Doo Doo 🎶 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo 🎶 Merry Christmas To All !!!!
Hope you have a great holiday! ❤
Can’t believe this song is more than 50 years old, still sounds fantastic!!
And they'll still be listening to it 50 years from now.
Good old jazz gets better as years go by. It has gained some sort of classy aura which none of the stuff they produce these days will ever get as no one will remember it anyway.
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This song is anything but shy.
Makes me feel old lol
Not many songs can be calming, mysterious, hilarious, cool and meaningful all at the same time. Cool song.
yup neli
@JP-qk6jf😂❤
agreed.. and I believe it's because the instrumental is so incredibly hypnotic, that people struggle to realize some parts of the lyrics
@@Rosenthal-z7xNFL foot ball
Yes, indeed!
Hearing this song in 1980 at the age of 19 was the first time I knew that there were other people in the world like me. It still makes me cry even today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Lou xxxxxx
❤😢Me too.
Have you seen the film that was based on the song there’s a music video Director pretty well known who did a 17 minute film sent it around walking on the wild side. He actually interviewed Lou Reed and found out who the people were that he was talking about in the song, some of them were still alive at the time that he did it….
yeah, as a trans woman this song has a special place in my heart
My heart 3....x
I’m trans and love this song. Will always hold a special place in my heart.
My Dad loved this song. He would have been 93 this month. He introduced us to some amazing music growing up. Miss you Dad.
YOUR DAD EXPERIENCE GOOD TIMES & MUSIC 🎉
Awesome
😅❤🎉@@JoseSanchez-ek3xp
My father too❤ He is died last year 91 years old ❤😢 L listen … Now my play list. Good morning
Lol
8 years old, 1981, road trip, east Texas, sis in front, Mom driving. First time my ears were blessed by this Tunage.
"Mom?"
"Yea son?"
"What's giving head?"
Mom- "OOH A&W, Whose hungry?!"
Good joke...american style!
Hey mum, what's a coloured girl? XD
Lol.. Mom gave You the answer You were looking for.. 😎
😂😂
Too bad that song sucks
It was groundbreaking when FM radio played this 50 years ago but boy what a song. The background singers and sax do it for me more than anything. RIP Lou.
Lou lived a lot longer than I thought he would. Brought a lot of joy. RIP Lou.
I love the doubled bass tracks. I guess the studio bassist got paid twice for that.
Sax played by jazz musician Ronnie Ross, who had tutored a 12-year-old David Bowie...
I heard this on am! No censoring!
One of Lou's greatest achievements as an artist is getting a song about transgenderism, drugs and giving head on mainstream radio. Talk about subversive.
Reed never cared what anyone thought of his art, loved or hated. He just made what he felt like making. He was a true artist.
great song
Well he does care, because he removed "colored girls" from the lyrics. He does care, he's a sheep now, bending to commies.
@@techie8359 hard to be a sheep when you’re under the dirt there chief
many artists make what they themselves want to hear or read or see. So, yes, while he was a true artist, he certainly isn't alone in this. It's just people are so used to autotune disgusting pandering bs written by someone else and performed by trained monkeys.
@@nadiamccall4311 amen
Lou was a friend of mine when he went to Syracuse University. I was younger than Lou. We would talk for hours about our art projects. Lou was amazingly creative and focused. Good memories and Lou lives on in his music.
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Amazing & TIMELESS! 🎉
SO LUCKY
Lol
Jg I have to say I’m sooooo jealous. Al his music was way before its time, loved him forever. I think he epitomised cool with a capital C.
Been listening to this song for 50 years - still sounds great.
This was our “unofficial “ senior class song 50 years ago! 😂
You and me both.❤️
@@michaelkline884 Wow, really? Very few in my class listened to Lou Reed. He wasn't in the "top 40". I guess I was different.
i remember in 1980 this song was still getting regular airplay
Me too
What I love about this song, is how Reed obviously met these people, and developed a huge respect for them and their lives. Not for the people that were front and center stage, but for the people in the dark corners, on the street, living their lives more fully than anyone else. He truly spoke for the outsiders.
Word
How absolutely fantastic, I don't know much about him though I have always liked his music. Some people have such incredible depth within themselves - wish I could read more about this remarkable man. Thanks for the info. x
Cool do ur thing
These were all people he actually met at Andy Warhol's New York studio The Factory.
Imagine a verse for Valarie.
What a trailblazer, truth teller, poet and musical genius. A true gift to humanity.. RIP Lou
Well said ☮️
😥
This song was one in a long list of nostalgic tunes...1 of all time faves
Amen to that, Friend.
Not exactly a trailblazer. He was also a pervert
Pure poetry. Didn't we all think we were on our way to being more accepting of people? We are a beautiful mosaic. xxoo Lou xxoo
I really love this bass line
Jaeyeon Kim Perfectly simple. It's amazing.
can i kick it
FBicoolshaman Yes you can
its a cello
it's both actually
Lou Reed is a cross between David Bowie and Bob Dylan.
This is when drugs were drugs
when drugs were good drugs.
Lou is Lou :)
Mook
Interesting comparison, but there is only one Bob Dylan.
I mean, Bowie did convince Reed to make the album, then produced it himself, and played backing vocals, keyboards and acoustic guitar on this track lol
This song just make me feel so relaxed when everything is so fucked up
Seriously me too.
amen to that.
Yea it's that time you realize it could be much worse than this and even everything is fucked up.. anyway you've just smiled to that whole situation :))
You know I have a funny feeling some righteous cunt will get this song Band watch because I love this song just saying
Same.
Lou Reed was on of the greats and vastly underrated for his contribution to rock music
Ma quale sottovalutato?!
ABSOFVCKINLUTLEY, we'd never of had The Strokes, Bowies etc. without The Velvet Underground and that Glammy/Scummy sound I SO LOVE.
Nor probably Shoegaze/ pop
I love my life and being 70 is cool, but I was twenty years old once too. Miss you, Lou Reed.
My feelings, precisely...
. And where is Iggy Pop?
Yep. 70 here too and still love this song
I lobe this comment.. I'm 43.. but ill be 70 one day.......... I hope
@@susanbaker-schloth1152 Iggy Pop is performing in Europe this summer, Aug 17 at Cossany, Switzerland and a few days later in Vigo, Spain :) You asked a good question so I typed it into Google: where is Iggy Pop? So glad to know he's still with us, still performing. God bless 🙏
Sir you and I were born at the best time for music and life
This is without doubt (IMO) one of the coolest songs ever!
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I recommend Euphrates Ride 'Colours of Grey'... ❤
Devil went down to Georgia and the Johnny cash song where he steals a whole car are other cool ones
Yes! This and Sweet Jane!!! ❤ 🎸 🎷 🎶 🇺🇸
As with so many of Lou's. But this one, no doubt - hard to beat.
I'm 67 years old female and I think my generation had the best music back then. And I really truly love this song.
Lou Reed is God. Listening to him from Peru 2024
And in Bali, December 2024!
This masterpiece is aging like a fine wine. He was highly regarded as a songwriter/musician by his peers.
You got that right!
Everyone who saw a velvets concert left wanting to start a band !!
👍👍👍
💋 KISS
No shit he is a songwriter/musition
The first time I heard this song was on a Pan-Am 747 on a flight between London and Los Angeles in 1972. It has been stuck in my head ever since. You could rent headphones for $5 and there were 10 different channels of music to listen to. After about an hour, the music started all over again. I longed for this song every time. The song is timeless.
Thats cool as fk
Life❤
It really was a lot easier to board a plane back then!
@@Jasmine215100You walked up to the gate, showed your paper ticket and that was it.
$5 for headphone rental in 1972? That's the craziest part of that story.
Our good music taste has brought us here
Yeah boy 🤌🏾
Oh yeah.
100th like
I GOT HERE AFTER A TASTE ;) .
My traumatic childhood brought me here🤣
It's mind numbing that such an old song can play on the radio and still not only sound fresh but be subversive as ever
Subversive is relative
It's definitely a true but gritty story. How it was in the 70s.
@@jamesteichler1290 subversive relative to pop/mass market/radio airplay is where I'm coming from and as a straight heterosexual male. Now, the song heroin would be relatively less subversive to me because I lived that. Wild side as a kid came out of far left field and I developed an ear for "eccentric" music. For someone Ellis I'm sure walking the wild side sounds like a Tuesday
@@lynnmarsh3721And in the 60s. Holly Woodlawn left home at 15 in 1962.
But conservatives keep trying to say trans teenagers are a new phenomenon.
Lol
RIP Herbie Flowers. What a Bass Line
Lou Reed frightened my parents more than any other musician or band that I listened to. God bless Lou Reed.
I love that comment hahaha ❤️
@@janegodson390 big Mikey....Thx
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I was singing to it while doing dishes and I think it scared my kids...
He frightened my parents in 2011 too.
My parents are Metallica fans, you see.
My 70 year old Italian mother-in-law introduced me to this beautiful song. She's been listening to it since she was a kid. And i think I'll keep listening to it till i reach 70!
The great stuff endures. Like the Warhol soup cans.
Why stop at 70? 😂
Beautiful honesty the music is so very beautiful
When u reach her age u will remember her every time u listen to this song
Zoomers man. I'm a millennial and this song was a radio mainstay my whole childhood...
A radio interviewer asked if he was sick of this song, and Lou replied that he loved the song as it had been paying his rent for the last thirty years.
i'd have to agree with this 1. I'v had morE days Of haPPies then with haVing bad dAys . get well everbody 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰
Great Intel sophdog
I love this answer!
I remember exactly where I was and who I was with. 30 yrs later I’ve reconnected with the boy that introduced it to me. I used to “sneak” into the restaurant where he was a cook at a tiny old school diner and we had a summer of love. No messy breakups, we didn’t put a label on any of it. He moved and so did I. Now all these years later, we’re madly in love, but still won’t put a label on it!
Here, in Brazil, we use to say "never spit in the plate where you ate". I don't know if the translation was clear.
@Matt Hartnett here its "don't bite the hand that feeds you"
This song is beautiful, not just for itself, but because it comes from a time of innocence and freedom when there were no "community standards" on any media to censor what we can say, express or like. I bought this album when it came out and now I'm 83 and still loving it!
Pffft. Tell that to Lenny Bruce, Black people from that era and Vietnam.
Or The Smothers Brothers, gay people and the Democratic Committee National Headquarters situated in the Watergate Hotel.
@@swrenniePipe down woke agent 🤦
If that's what you think, you sure do have a wild imagination. Carry on brother police dog.
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I love this song, it’s cool, singing about people that do their best to exist in this world despite our differences and finding a way to be who they are!
I love that people still adore Lou's music in 2021. I am glad knowing that a lot of people after 2021 will love it.
Hey
@@elenaderoet4926 This was my mom’s favorite song. She passed away in 2014 and she ALWAYS enjoyed “walking on the wild side”! I miss her SO MUCH!!!
@@christinafidance340 ❤️
Agreed!
This song never grows old. R.I.P. Lou.
Very good .Hereikn Lima Peru
To me it does
The bass line, the violin background, the backing vocals, the hypnotic voice of Lou Reed… And above all, the simplicity of the composition. All this to build a masterpiece.
Don't forget the saxophone.
@@onnodriessenj Of course, that baritone saxophone solo at the end of the song is amazing.
The Bass player got paid $12 for the session on that song. David Bowie won an award for producing the album - and he didn't even show up until all the tracks were already laid down!
The music industry is a crazy thing.
Reminds me of some giggly little queer stuck in his senseless boring ways.
there are 2 basses, a stand up and an electric
How is this not an anthem? It’s so far ahead of it’s time, the music, the way the words make you feel, the do do doo do doo do do doo, it’s a little ridiculous. 2024 and still relevant ❤
John Lennon's imagine should be an Anthem not Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side
@@markaho4777 Looking at your other replies, it’s very strange of you to try your hand at robbing others people to joy. You remind me of 13yo music snøb me
@@joshuatealeaves 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
@@joshuatealeaves bet you can't play one🎸🎸
Because it would be dumb
I love the fact that David Bowie co-produced this album. Two icons!
and played the sax line
He didn't co-produce anything he produced it
@@henryjohnstonwrong
@@RoyPage1970No. Mick Ronson also co-produced it
This is one of a very limited number of songs that, if it's on the radio while I'm heading to work, I'll clock in late to finish the song.....period.
Hell Fucking Yes Baby! That's What I'm talking about!
Then, you would like the soundtrack to 'The sound of music'
MrKoughee can’t miss the sax solo
Started to sing this one night to a much younger friend from work you tuned it for him and he's loved it ever since
Doing that right now with the gym. Cant miss the sax!
What I love is that nobody has a bad word for Lou, RIP mate
1973 I'm living in Miami a lot memories I was 22 from Lima Peru with 120 dollars in packet but very happy . Listen this song 2021 more happy. Thanks god
God didn't do that for you, you did, congrats on getting yourself to a happy place. 😀
Interesting story hope your doing well !! During this year
@@Aaron-8989 thanks my friend .I'm still alive thanks God . happiness to you
@@iHopeyoure0ffended thanks Jerry . good vibration for you .from Lima peru
@@Aaron-8989 thanks .Aaron good vibration to you from Lima peru
64 now and Man i Loved this Song Growing up in the 70s. Still Loving it in May 2024!! 😎
Me too.. class of 78.. still rocking that music in my house 😀😀❤️
63 this year in Liverpool, England. Cool Times right ?,😅
Next May, during Brighton Festival, go and see Herbie Flowrrs open house / if he still does it - as he has done in recent years. He’s that iconic bass line. It’s so precious. Kris the photographer neighbour had Heribes Walk o then Wild Side guitar on display.
Just turned 59, and I still remember the surround sound of the coloured girls; with a Walkman. In Leeds.
June 2024 I'm a Lou Reed fan forever!!
I was a colored girl in the 50s as a child and black detroiter as a teen in the 60s and I love and will always love this song! Also love any song that mentions One of the handsomest and most beautiful man that ever lived James Dean.
i found out about this song causr a tribe called quest samples this song for can i kick it, it amazing to see the influence of previous generations and the evolution of music.
Good taste girl👍
I've been listening to this song for 50 years, its as fresh now as it was way back then
Not many musicians like Lou. Way ahead of his time and still is. They say he was very much loved by his fellow musicians. Had to have been one heck of good dude. I didn't know him but I sure as heck loved him.
👎too Lou Reed he sucks
I will be 70 in three days and when I go this is what's going to be played when I take that last trip. Hey Joe take a walk on the wild side.
Happy belated birthday
Me too
William or Willie? Hope you enjoyed your 70th birthday!!!!!
The bass line ...🤌
I absolutely love the bass line! I remember hearing this song in a store and at the time I didn't know what the songs name was. I remember hearing the bassline and fell in love with it. It wasn't until a couple months ago until I found this gem.
Few better.
Herbie Flowers
I think Toni Visconti said they actually have two bass tracks woven together into the mix..
@@JasonCunliffe That's right. One bass does the C down to F glissando, the other does the high harmony. However during the verse, there is only one bass playing a more jazzed up lick. We could always ask Herbie Flowers for the definitive answer, I guess! ;)
RIP Herbie, I'm very thankful to have discovered your work ❤
This song never seems to get old.. it is truly a masterpiece..
Agree 100%
@@dizziemisslizzie4040 rr
I disagree
@@christian-helsting4195 I disagree with your disagree
Fantastic in June 2022
i really just feel the rhythm of this song it's so soothing
Leonard Cohen "Suzanne" does it for me.
They both do it for me xx
Bowie produced this album and helped write this song. RIP both of them!
mick ronson was the producer in the studio, bowie producer in name and made the connection (spent very little time in the studio), but it was mick ronson's genius that made this record sing.
+sortileges moon not really
Cami Castle wow! :c rip
+sortileges moon yeah your right mick ronson did
Yeah man smoking 🚬 and Loving Lou ❤️
I may not have much money but my soul is rich in experiences. My life has been a walk on the wild side.
That is everything!
I’m about to turn 77. My life has also been skating along the edge of the wild side. I can’t tell the stories of 50% of my life. People would never believe them.
Everyone mentioned in this song was real.
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!!!!
To escape this false reality we are forced to exist in. I'd come back for more too.
50 years later still relative and awsome fucking love this song
@@petersellers3489 Me too❤️❤️🇨🇭
Basic ahh comment get out
I graduated high school in '73. Everybody in school LOVED this song. Maybe 10% knew what the lyrics meant.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
great time for music. graduated 74. Loved this song.
russs7574
I graduated in '73 also. I liked it alot back then. Everyone in our hick country school knew what it was about. I don't care too much for it now. I saw Lou in concert a couple of years later.
I’ve first heard it 50: years ago and have no idea what the lyrics mean , it’s just a fantastic song . 😂😂
i first heard of it in 1988, something inside my head told me i should try smoke weed. i was 13.
68...baby the rain must fall was pretty good
Precious. Timeless. Unparalleled.
This song never ages. It hits on every known situation, no matter the time.
One of the greatest songs ever....
Kann ich nur zustimnen,ich liebe dieses Lied❤❤
No
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc yes
You genius, gone ten years. Hard to believe. This song is now 51 years old. Wow.
That dark achievement will stay forever, RIP Lou Reed
Was my mother's favourite song, I remember hearing at the stereo with less than 6 years. Each time I hear it I think of her. Music has this beautiful thing, evocation.
Happy Great reminiscing ...
man you had a wonderful mom, didn't you?
:)
evocation is a great word!
Was your mom your dad?
The song remembers when....
Keep in mind that this CLASSIC hails from 1972 . . . timeless . . . WAY ahead of its time!
As was Lou
Yeah, 1972 certainly WAS a very interesting year to be part of something different but................it just didn't solve all those problems did it?
this song puts your pain -- depression, emptiness, anger -- into putty which you softly squeeze until it comes out through the cracks of your fingers
I was dealing heroin in Minneapolis in the late 70s. This was my theme song.
This song makes one realize that some people had it a lot worse.
So does heroin.
beautiful analogy....
You get old when your music gets old fashioned. As time goes by.
The words in this song are shockingly brilliant
no it's a song
Those are all real ppl. Look it up
it's a song
@@bp6329 Dude songs can have deep meaning full lyrics. In fact they can mean great things too whole generations.
The smoothness, and seemingly effortless coolness of this song is something no artist in today's generations of "artists" could every match. True beauty.
Truth!!
His lyrics are just so perfectly clear, anyone can follow along.
Hey Justin is your brother David CASE AND Did your dad teach at DWYER
The melody keeps me on keel with the song.
One of the best songs EVER . The fact that this is still perfect in 2024 is proof . Pure perfection . ❤️
A tribe called Quest brought me here lol. Rip Lou Reed and Rip Phife Dawg
“Dude just talks and Yall minds are blown”
Came back to listen after I heard that and it’s so true.
😂😂😂
Coney island babe, is the same
A classic never ages, this song has pure gold written all over it. Thank you for your musical brilliance, Mr Reed.
Exactly!.
He is a poet with music
@@infolibertad_1 he definitely was. Genius musician, Mr Reed. One of a kind
R.I.P. Herbie Flowers. That fantastic bass on this fantastic hit of my childhood - remember it. And I just hear that sax in the outro :)
I still love this song more than 40 yr. later!! My friends thought I was crazy for liking it. But it's still a favorite for many.
Your friends didn't know s**t, you did!
@@philbraithwaite1316 Some of them still don't know s**t. lol
45 years later and I still love this song
👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🇨🇭
@@ulrichwill496 Hope you love it too
i can say the same...it seems just like two-three days ago...how wonderful and yet how strange feeling
@@gelubatir9794 Yea it seems just like yesterday, crazy feeling
;-)s ... Timeless n C:lassic, miss U a lot Uncle Lou, RIP n Thanx for the Music, the movement n the memories. Like all GGGreat things, his music lives on !
nobody is a "cross between " when it comes to lou reed, the man and this timeless gem of a tune are simply incomparable.
ваще хз о чём ты там на своём басурманском языке толдычишь
agreed
Listen to songs from Velvet Underground like Heroin or Femme Fatale
@@brushfuller330 good thing they’re good artists
@@jules8159 why do you say that? They were an S&M band
Absolute classic " no more said " timeless "
Hard to believe this is now 50 YEARS OLD
Lou Reed 1942-2013 RIP and thank you so much for the music.
When I was 14, I was sleeping in my room n my dad came bursting in and was excited and said " hey get up, they are playing a song about you on the radio" he was excited so I was excited so he brings me out to the living room and im trying to wake up listing to this song for the first time and figuring out the lyrics and I hear "sugar plum fairy came n hit the streets" I was like awww damn, buuurn, lmao, best dad joke ever! I sure do miss you dad, rip.
That's so sweet
Cool 👍
Sounded like you was right it’s freaking out
Its best you just forget about all that stuff it won’t do you no good thinking about it it will just make it worse
I'm trying to be mean put if your old enough for your dad to be dead (RIP) you wouldn't put that on RUclips
Does anyone else wish there was a 10 minute version of this song? It kinda puts me in a trance and I'd love to hear more lyrics ect...
@Jackson Lewis he said more lyrics. Does looping create new lyrics from the original artist?
@@davidkrassner5993 sweet thanks!!
You need better drugs
Look up can I kick it by tribe called quest...they flipped the beat and fucked this song UP...SO GOOD
@@kearl3490 lmao I need to "take a walk on the wild side" ?
I just love this song. When it comes on the radio at work I show off. I know all the words. Take a walk on the wild side.
LOL!!!!!
But she never lost her head even when she was giving head... !!!!!
Rock on momma.
I think the song sucks
Segrigation is disintergration of civilisation
50 years later and still saying, what a beat.
Lou Reed brilliantly paints his pain and wisdom in each song he performs.
The genius of the late, great Mick Ronson are all over this album. His production has always been overlooked.
Bowie on acoustic too
Love ❤️ Lou!!!!
Ronno was the glue on this wonderful album…..”alright “
One the best songs from my generation. Love it.
Lol
One of the best songs ever ❤
I remember when this was first sung in the 70s and i was young and cool.
Time is a bitch but this track is still evergreen
I think your words r definitely yours to say , I am 54 and the lyrics transcend age and go on 4 e era with time ,x
4 ever I ment to say
No era no time, I listened to the lyrics never got them, I loved the sound. Stupid me all about, brown. Anyway I still love it ,always x
I'm a lot like you were
Never put yourself down 4 starters, u were happy and in that time line ,and yes life is a bitch ,in your words the lyrics r still cool and u still live it
This song just magically makes you fall into it, feel a part of it, you experience it, not just listen to it. Lovin' it since the 70s!
I love the sound of the double bass in this song. So soothing...
Here's another you might like: Frank Zappa Rubber Shirt
Just a perfect day,
I finally found it!
I had just moved from Birmingham to London to seek my fame and fortune when this came out. It was my inspiration and confidence booster.
How did it work out for you?
Did u receive either fame or fortune?
@@AliAkbar-gq6ed I amvery happy as I saw more of life that i dreamed of ( worked in 24 countries! )
@@TargetedIndividuallivesmatter No fame, but also no infamous. I am smiling
@@johndearden7931 hey man that's awesome
Tell you what.... they sure as hell knew how to write some funky grooves back in the day. Been listening to this jam throughout my life on various classic rock stations, and my mind is STILL blown away by the way the stand up bass (at least, thats what it sounds like to me), the brushed snare, the slide guitar (cant tell if thats the bass sliding or a 6 string) & the kick drum all just quake when they all come together on the up/down beats. And... the sax. Smoove....like buttah.
That song never gets old !❤❤ I love it so much
Yeah, still listening after all these years, still loving Lou
Only Lou Reed could do this classic! 1972 singing about drag queens and male hustles, and actually made it pass the censors! But the kicker was THAT SAX towards the end! Absolutely exciting now, as it was back then. July 20, 2024, sounds so great to hear this again. I think EVERY GENERATION should hear and know this song! Pass it on to the younger listeners! 😊
Totally The Saxophone 🎷 YES!
I can’t believe I just took the opportunity to listen closer to the lyrics after 40 years. Now I like this song even more
Groundbreaking lyrics and one of the greatest bass lines ever
That bass is jamming wonderful song
lounge act
I remember this song growing up...😲...and never batted an eye at its lyrical content.
It's amazing what you can hear when you listen!
Me too 😮🙉
Same. As a kid, I didn't pay any attention to the lyrics. It's the music that counts
Hey honey take a walk on the walk on the wild side....this album changed my everything