Transformer

Post by **Sloth** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:46 pm

Wow. I just downloaded this Lou Reed album I think its the first time in 12 years I heard it. It's even better than I remember it.

I think when this album came out like a million frat boys put on a dress, drove to New York City, and and gave head to someone they didn't know.

Thirty five years (!) later it still sounds great. Although I won't be putting on a dress...

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:44 pm

Hmm. Cue Lou Reed guilt from me. That's an album I never really warmed to. Although to be fair, I only have it on cassette so haven't given it as much of a fair shake as some other things. Most people seem to think Berlin is his best album. I agree that is a pretty good one, but I never play it. I love Lou to death, but his solo career is iffy for me as well.

I just spilled wine on my leg.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:47 pm

And my cat produced a hairball in a particularly inconvenient place on the floor.

Post by **Sloth** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:19 pm

Lou Reed's solo career has been going on now for over 25 years.

I have heard many of the discs... besides Transformer I would recommend Songs for Drella and Legendary Hearts.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:51 pm

I really am going to pull out my tape of Transformer, just for you sloth. No I'm kidding, I'm doing it for me.

I pulled out the album called The Velvet Underground and Nico and you have got to believe that that is a classic LP, Lou Reed at the top of his form, etc. I never understood why they were so good when I was a teenager, and the interesting thing is that that wasn't even Loaded, their other really landmark LP called Loaded. Maybe McC will argue with me. The point is Lou Reed. And he has the same birthday as me. I'm lucky in that respect.

So anyway I will find my tape of Transformer. I know which boxes it might be in and they're right next to my computer, how convenient!

but don't forget Martin Hannett. Who produced two Nico tracks. That is why God may actually exist. Except if you're not drunk then things are different.

There is an amazing song by Everything But The Girl called "Tender Blue" with Ben Watt singing half of it and I hadn't heard it in 8 billion years, and wow. wow wow wow. Tracey Thorne cannot be praised enough etc etc etc

Right what were we on about then? The Fall? I don't want to think about the Fall actually because I don't have my turntable supplied with a new stylus I can't afford. But maybe I will pull out Dragnet.

It's all about 1979 and goth, y'all. There is some really bad, bad Goth in the world but I think good Goth is a good reason to live, so there.

Joy Division. Amen.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:39 am

Okay so I finally got around to looking for Transformer in my gigantic box of tapes. ARgh. I hate doing that. I just never organized them properly after I moved, so I had to look through not only my other three smaller boxes of tapes FIRST, but had to pull out 97% of the tapes in the big box in bunches of 5 or so before I FINALLY found the damn thing. Murphy's Law, grumble, grumble. I was going to say (in a joking way) I hope you're happy Sloth. But then...then...after If found it and was going to put the box back against the wall, I saw the Replacements' Let It Be CD, which apparently had fell down behind it at some point and had been sitting there for months.

And I don't know how to thank you, Sloth. Because the next time it occured to me to pull out the Replacements' Let It Be if I couldn't find it in my shelves of CD's I would have completely lost my sanity if not my life. And there it was, behind the cassettes box. So I must thank you for the inconvenience of digging out Transformer. I also found a Rush cassette I'd been wondering about lately if I still had.

So I will put on Transformer soon. After I get finished with this absolutely amazing goth thing from 1983 by In The Nursery.

Post by **Sloth** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:40 am

Tapes? You still have tapes?

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:05 am

Hahahaha...of course!!!

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:42 pm

I actually did get around to playing Transformer last night and I really did get something out of it that I didn't last time I tried it - there is definitely some good stuff there, I'll continue to play it. I wanted to say this last night but by then I was so drunk I couldn't even be bothered to get on the computer. Also when I woke up this morning I couldn't find my glasses. This is always a very bad thing. I couldn't find them last night either but gave up trying. I quit having plastic frames because I broke them twice while drunk and they weren't made properly in the first place because they weren't symmetrical and used to drive me crazy so I gave up and went back to my old wire frames. I may have damaged them over time, but at least I never broke the stupid things.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:15 pm

Marky's got tunnel vision.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:58 pm

I talked with a guy from Greece about post-punk last night. It was fabulous. He is old enough to remember more of it than I do. He loves UK stuff of course, has some really obscure New Wave compilation that is driving me crazy, it's so fucking good. There's only one song from each band but it's like the whole thing is good, which is hard to believe. I've only heard of two of the bands on the whole thing. I think I am going to spend all my next paycheck collecting this shit.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:59 pm

okay I know I'm off topic now

hehahaha I don't know why I feel I have to tell all this shit!