I'm on a Lou Reed jag too. Nothing else satisfies me right now. Normally I listen to Hendrix and Roy Buchanan, but the last few weeks only Lou pleases my mind.
Drunk in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal, and I'm still playing this song. So deep, and ahead of its time. Then again.... I don't even know if its time is here yet in 2022..... Genius. And I need to know what the roller skaters are doing now..... Fabulous.
@@fernandosaunders5661 Hey Fernando, love all your music, great and really unexpected to see you on this video. Thank you for your work, you've inspired many of us to be musicians ourselves as I'm sure you already know. Love from Lima, Peru.
Those who credit people like Grandmaster Flash with inventing rap must not even know about Reed, who was rapping when Flash was still in diapers. When all is said and done, more than anything else, Lou Reed will be remembered for what he reminds us he is here: the original rapper.
the moment I realized why Metallica wanted to do an album with you, Lou Reed. This is that magic moment! Not saying I even like even half of what he had put out but the fact he put it out speaks volumes
The faster version of the song on the "Mistrial" album is MUCH better than this slow version. Somebody should re-edit the video and synch it with the album version.
I love Lou Reed's singing, but I still think he should have been a rapper. Not feeling the video though but loving the song. I have deep respect for people who are doin' the things they want to.
Sign Up Dirty Blvd. Lou Reed Lyrics About Tracklist Comments Dirty Blvd is the 3rd of 14 tracks on Lou Reed’s 15th solo album, New York, released in 1989 to… Read More 1 26.1K 13 Dirty Blvd. Lyrics [Verse 1] Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel He looks out a window without glass And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet And his father beats him because he's too tired to beg [Verse 2] He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man But that's a slim chance, he's going to the boulevard [Chorus] He's going to end up on the dirty boulevard He's going out to the dirty boulevard He's going down to the dirty boulevard [Verse 3] This room cost 2,000 dollars a month, you can believe it man, it's true Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard [Verse 4] Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I'll piss on 'em That's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard [Chorus] Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard Going out to the dirty boulevard They're going down on the dirty boulevard Going out [Verse 5] Outside it's a bright night, there's an opera at Lincoln Center Movie stars arrive by limousine The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan But the lights are out on the mean streets [Verse 6] A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel He's selling plastic roses for a buck The traffic's backed up to 39th Street The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck [Verse 7] And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming He's found a book on magic in a garbage can He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked ceiling "At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear" [Chorus] "And fly, fly away, from this dirty boulevard I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard I want to fly, fly, fly, fly, from the dirty boulevard" [Outro] "I want to fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away) Fly, fly, fly (Fly, fly, fly away) Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, fly away) Fly away" (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, woah-woah, gonna fly away) 😢 and downtrodden residents. It is regarded as one of his most conceptual albums, and in the liner notes Reed himself instructs listeners to take in the whole album in one sitting, “as though it were a book or a movie.” Apologies to Lou for breaking it down song-by-song. Dirty Blvd describes the life of Pedro, a boy living and hustling in seedy areas of Manhattan. Pedro’s wish to magically disappear is his only respite from an abusive father, abysmal living conditions, and a bleak future that Reed portrays as near-inevitable. Reed’s deadpan delivery implies that he’s seen many unfortunate youth like Pedro end up “dealing on the dirty boulevard.” More broadly, Dirty Blvd is a lament for the poor and vulnerable in a New York that, in the late 1980s, was beginning its obsession with “cleaning up” its most notorious districts of crime and vice. Longtime NYC mayor Ed Koch was leaving office and future mayor Rudy Giuliani was beginning to rear his ugly head. The NYPD was growing in power, and police-inflicted violence against the homeless was becoming commonplace: “Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ‘em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard.”
@@t.c.bramblett617 "Old Man Rap" is just mid-80's rap, which is basically what this is, and Kraftwerk? Only thing in this that is close to Kraftwerk are the frankfurters.
I love the irony of the lyric 'I grew up straight'. IIRC he was subjected to electro-shock therapy as a teenager to 'cure' his gay leanings. Also this just goes on for fucking ever
@Alejandro ashcroft Creo que decía que artistas como Lou Reed o series como los Simpsons no tienen morales y corrompen a la juventud o algo así jaja Fue hace 8 años y aún le estoy agradecido por eseñarme al maestro Lou!
I find myself wondering how many takes of the skaters and hazmat suit people, or the dancers or other pedestrians, before they got one done without everybody crashing into each other. (Looks like they might have filmed those clips in slower motion and then sped up for the video, so maybe not too many tries.)
Wow, you guys have no sense of humor at all. This song is funny as hell, to me, at least. It makes a mockery of the ridiculous things people find important, and the lyrics are are actually pretty scathing if you take a second to look beneath the surface.
+Zoe Sullivan Lou Reed is one of my favorite artists but this new wave, 1980s glitter version of him is not Lou. This is not his sound or style at all. This is really bad compared to the rest of his discography.
@@K3vinK well, maybe you still new to Lou. This is classic for him. Trolling even his fans, doing kinda kinky , introspective but that goes anywhere lyrics. Just 4 or 5 albums are that Lou rebellious serious and tragic form that it´s from VU
Best comment in this entire comment section. I'm glad to see rational people commenting about Lou Reed and of course people that actually appreciate him!
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I picked this up in a record store and the owner said "You can just have that.". True story. So I own this.
But, was it in the original wrapper?
That’s so fucking funny omg
That is hilarious!!🤣
Holy shit that’s really good
Yes
I love the 3 people roller skating. Takes me back to the late 1970's when I had a pair, those were the days.
There is a God, and he blessed the earth with Lou.
There's something just really cool about the three skaters.
Can’t seem to get enough Lou Reed
🙏🇺🇦
I'm on a Lou Reed jag too. Nothing else satisfies me right now. Normally I listen to Hendrix and Roy Buchanan, but the last few weeks only Lou pleases my mind.
That bass line is awesome.
This song is a guilty pleasure for me.
SAME I am starting to see its beauty but it's horrible
If we ignore the fact that it is Lou Reed, it's pretty funky and catchy.
It's like apex boomer
@@simplechronology2605shut up
ALL THIS GLITTER!
theneedledrop Cant polish a turd, but you can throw glitter on it ;)
fuck u racist i am from Poland
tfw a wild anthony memetano appears
theneedledrop Do a review of The Bells and Street Hassle!!!
hey babe
Lou reed the best rock poet ever
And he got sick bars - he murdered it with this fire track
I LOVE this song and the video is awesome! Lots of memorable imagery.
Relevant today! 👁️ 🔮 Lou Reed 🥰
The 1980s is a hell of a drug.
And no your rippin sick
The dog is a nice touch
With a good hip video to the lp mix that could've been a hit video.
Lou was so multifaceted in his musical career that this foray into rap was left for anecdote.
This rules!
true
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it really doesn't
@thesoulservice no one asked you
Drunk in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal, and I'm still playing this song. So deep, and ahead of its time. Then again.... I don't even know if its time is here yet in 2022..... Genius. And I need to know what the roller skaters are doing now..... Fabulous.
"And I need to know what the roller skaters are doing now....." SAME!
@@MatthewFazioFromCleveland 🙂 They are out there somewhere. And the people around them are unaware of how epic they are.... 😀
Not as bad as Lulu is the best compliment I can pay this
shut up
I discovered this on a train trip to Madrid. A documentary on Lou Reed was showing on the train TV.
This is amazing
Sempre anticipatore dei tempi e dei gusti... Lou innarrivabile
❤
Lou was the Reel Wrapper 8-)
Wow the quality here is way better than the video that was taken down. Definitely worth.
For some reason the audience Booed this song when it was on Saturday night live. Never discovered why.
No taste
I was watching a video of that, I thought they were actually yelling "Loouu!"...
The bass line is excellent!
Thanks ,)
;)
@@fernandosaunders5661 Hey Fernando, love all your music, great and really unexpected to see you on this video. Thank you for your work, you've inspired many of us to be musicians ourselves as I'm sure you already know. Love from Lima, Peru.
Thank you for your contributions Fernando to the Lou Reed body of work. As a life long Reed fan, I always enjoyed your work
@@fernandosaunders5661 killer bass line!
Oh my god and I thought of Lou all these decades as the coolest of the cool. This I didn't need to see. Can I unsee this?
you should dig out your eyes then silly person
Cheer~~~a piece of paper, plastic, or foil covering and protecting something sold.(all rhythm accompaniment...good)😊
Mucho fantastico. Freon as here, the man at least a decade ahead of his time. LOUUUUUUUUUUU
the bass line is pretty good....
Fernando Saunders is under appreciated.
I've been looking for this video for 30 some odd year......RUclips. I. ❤. U.
Im truly perplexed
Mission accomplished!
Ate Sempre Lou
Who remember this video was part of Lou Reed's Rock Against Drugs ad on MTV?
ruclips.net/video/qejdqmKsEco/видео.html 3:34 it's real my lord
@@ns2547 😭
Lou was kind of a PIMP on this! 😄🙏🏿
Ironically, the Dachshund, who should be the easiest to put in a wrapper, is having none of it.
"Bloody artists" ;)
Intensely clever lyrics.
Those who credit people like Grandmaster Flash with inventing rap must not even know about Reed, who was rapping when Flash was still in diapers. When all is said and done, more than anything else, Lou Reed will be remembered for what he reminds us he is here: the original rapper.
I wish itunes had this music video
Tidal lo tiene! 😉
Imagine Lou Reed rap storytelling with lyrics from "I'm waiting for the man"
I'm Waiting For My Man was kind of proto-rap. Like Subterranean Homesick Blues.
I remember when I first heard this on the album, I thought it was one of his worse songs. I play it pretty often nowadays, I love the song, so catchy.
I've always assumed this is about making sure your drugs aren't cut up too bad before you inject them
Unlikely cos he sobered up completely in the early 80s
o m g
esta super
I can finally ask for a Travolta in a barbers.
1:11 the guy is my middle school science teacher.
nice
'Baby Jane' Holzer from Lou's Factory days is also in this video.
Even when he gets it so wrong, it's right by merit of how wrong it is. Fucking legend
Walk on the wild side is the first rap song therefore Lou is the original rapper
Still a good Lou Reed video in 2018 :)
Cool
이민 jeszcze jak
Directed by the great Zbigniew Rybczyński
iTunes needs to make this music video optional for purchase. I wants
the moment I realized why Metallica wanted to do an album with you, Lou Reed.
This is that magic moment!
Not saying I even like even half of what he had put out
but the fact he put it out speaks volumes
The faster version of the song on the "Mistrial" album is MUCH better than this slow version. Somebody should re-edit the video and synch it with the album version.
YES. The album version is ten times better. It's fast and funky.
The reason there is this slowed down version is because the label believed that people couldn’t tell out the lyrics
Someone should do a mash-up of this and 'Down In It' by Nine Inch Nails.
Or a video mashup with Art of Noise's "Close (to the edit)".
@@bobmiclette9156 this video was made by the same director of "Close (To The Edit)" :)
HELL YES!!
@@stonerr3685 I didn't realize that, it explains why I was thinking they were so similar! lol
I love Lou Reed's singing, but I still think he should have been a rapper. Not feeling the video though but loving the song. I have deep respect for people who are doin' the things they want to.
he was the original rapper
I didn’t know he was rapping
It's not 'Walk on the Wild Side' but I had a good time watching it.
Right, watching it. The video is definitely enjoyable. The song itself is terrible.
@@ChrisUnlimitedGames 😂
I can tell you one thing, if you try rollerblading like that on the street, any cars behind you will give you an earful.
Probably the best wrap song I ever heard besides Frank Zappa's, "Promiscuous."
i really don't understand what happened to Lou Reed's music in the 80s, but this shit is funny af
Didn't this have thousands of likes last time I checked?
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Dirty Blvd. Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
He looks out a window without glass
And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
And his father beats him because he's too tired to beg
[Verse 2]
He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees
It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
But that's a slim chance, he's going to the boulevard
[Chorus]
He's going to end up on the dirty boulevard
He's going out to the dirty boulevard
He's going down to the dirty boulevard
[Verse 3]
This room cost 2,000 dollars a month, you can believe it man, it's true
Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
[Verse 4]
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I'll piss on 'em
That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
[Chorus]
Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard
Going out to the dirty boulevard
They're going down on the dirty boulevard
Going out
[Verse 5]
Outside it's a bright night, there's an opera at Lincoln Center
Movie stars arrive by limousine
The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
But the lights are out on the mean streets
[Verse 6]
A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
He's selling plastic roses for a buck
The traffic's backed up to 39th Street
The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck
[Verse 7]
And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
He's found a book on magic in a garbage can
He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked ceiling
"At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear"
[Chorus]
"And fly, fly away, from this dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard
I want to fly, fly, fly, fly, from the dirty boulevard"
[Outro]
"I want to fly away
I want to fly
Fly, fly away
I want to fly
Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away)
Fly, fly, fly (Fly, fly, fly away)
Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, fly away)
Fly away" (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, woah-woah, gonna fly away)
😢 and downtrodden residents. It is regarded as one of his most conceptual albums, and in the liner notes Reed himself instructs listeners to take in the whole album in one sitting, “as though it were a book or a movie.” Apologies to Lou for breaking it down song-by-song.
Dirty Blvd describes the life of Pedro, a boy living and hustling in seedy areas of Manhattan. Pedro’s wish to magically disappear is his only respite from an abusive father, abysmal living conditions, and a bleak future that Reed portrays as near-inevitable. Reed’s deadpan delivery implies that he’s seen many unfortunate youth like Pedro end up “dealing on the dirty boulevard.”
More broadly, Dirty Blvd is a lament for the poor and vulnerable in a New York that, in the late 1980s, was beginning its obsession with “cleaning up” its most notorious districts of crime and vice. Longtime NYC mayor Ed Koch was leaving office and future mayor Rudy Giuliani was beginning to rear his ugly head. The NYPD was growing in power, and police-inflicted violence against the homeless was becoming commonplace:
“Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ‘em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard.”
Amazing that this talented Reed guy wrote crap like Sweet jane and Heroin too! No quality control I guess?
I see what you did there but I think this is in its own way goddamn brilliant
it's like Kraftwerk meets Old Man Rap
@@t.c.bramblett617 "Old Man Rap" is just mid-80's rap, which is basically what this is, and Kraftwerk? Only thing in this that is close to Kraftwerk are the frankfurters.
watch out
check that batter
wow! nice comment
@@Wood3narms hahah, this comment is awesome!!
I love the irony of the lyric 'I grew up straight'. IIRC he was subjected to electro-shock therapy as a teenager to 'cure' his gay leanings. Also this just goes on for fucking ever
I was surprised about this, because of his girlfriend Nico in the 60s, and he got married in the 80s and had a son.
You see you realize when you listen to the album version it’s complete ass but then you listen to this it’s a bop!!!
Yo this fire but wtf 👌
The 80s affected everything. Music included.
Every decade affected everything
Mi libro de religión me ha traído aquí
Fernan Gonzalez x2
x3
@Alejandro ashcroft Creo que decía que artistas como Lou Reed o series como los Simpsons no tienen morales y corrompen a la juventud o algo así jaja
Fue hace 8 años y aún le estoy agradecido por eseñarme al maestro Lou!
Yessir, Brother Lou : AMERICA : "The Politics of Hate (in a a New Surrounding.)"
im big lou reed grououpy but i cant still no more of this
Hard core cool
I'm shure that Devo liked this song a lot
You can tell these were produced during the years of Max Headroom same thing with the song no money down
tHIS FROM THE SAME GUY WHO WROTE 'WAITING FOR THE MAN'??????
I find myself wondering how many takes of the skaters and hazmat suit people, or the dancers or other pedestrians, before they got one done without everybody crashing into each other. (Looks like they might have filmed those clips in slower motion and then sped up for the video, so maybe not too many tries.)
Anyone not getting this isn't meant to.
Tailor-made for a pandemic.
you know it....
This is the same guy who made 'Heroin'
Well written lyric. Snazzy track. Not much to hate here. Mash with Blood Bitch by Cocteau Twins
Blood Bitch from Garlands is awesome but this ... There is so much to hate.
He was the original rapper
3:03: The Boos Babby.
Different mix than what's on the Mistrial lp?
This is not the (better) LP version.....
Imagine if Bob Dylan's career took a similar detour. Jesus H Christ.
Dylan made Wiggle Wiggle
Imagine a switch up. Dylan rapping and Lou Reed putting out albums about Jesus Christ
Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo
Al tercer mundo!!!
I've heard worse Lou Red songs, for whatever that's worth.
no u haven't
Far worse ones than this exist. This isn't even in the bottom 25 per cent of them.
@@jasonpfinch Nah this is among the worst unless you like this one quite a bit. You don't sound like much of a big solo Lou fan though
Wow, you guys have no sense of humor at all. This song is funny as hell, to me, at least. It makes a mockery of the ridiculous things people find important, and the lyrics are are actually pretty scathing if you take a second to look beneath the surface.
echoabel, you are absolutely correct
they must not be Reed fans because this is SO Lou Reed
+Zoe Sullivan Lou Reed is one of my favorite artists but this new wave, 1980s glitter version of him is not Lou. This is not his sound or style at all. This is really bad compared to the rest of his discography.
Yes this video. This music. It’s just horrible.
@@K3vinK well, maybe you still new to Lou. This is classic for him. Trolling even his fans, doing kinda kinky , introspective but that goes anywhere lyrics. Just 4 or 5 albums are that Lou rebellious serious and tragic form that it´s from VU
Best comment in this entire comment section. I'm glad to see rational people commenting about Lou Reed and of course people that actually appreciate him!
WTF this sounds so different from the version on Mistrial.
It’s pretty much a different song, isn’t it? But it’s a slower re-recording because the label believed that the lyrics couldn’t be made out
Well, this happened.
Mr.T was the original rapper.
なるほどこれが村上春樹の「TVピープル」を生み出したのかあ！
「ねじまき鳥クロニクル」の裏には「ツインピークス」があって。
THE low point
Não é a toa que até o Roberto Carlos se abalou com esse cara aí rsrs
I own that tiger striped ESP RS Custom guitar used in this video.
nice!
??????!!?!!
Never Mind the Buzzcocks brought me here
Huge Lou fan but this song is ridiculous. However, I love the video. Turns out it's directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński
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This really isn't that bad