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Jun 20, 2019 17:31:49 GMT
Post by rayge on Jun 20, 2019 17:31:49 GMT
A Lou Reed – This Magic Moment B Baby Boy - Fred Hughes
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Jun 20, 2019 20:12:52 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 20:12:52 GMT
An interesting take from Reed on this song. I couldn't hang with B.
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Jun 20, 2019 22:39:34 GMT
Post by Crunchy Col on Jun 20, 2019 22:39:34 GMT
By the late 70s I swear Lou Reed lost everything - I mean every single thing - that made him worth listening to from 1967 to 1976 or thereabouts. There is no evidence of any talent in this offering at all, it's like hearing your old neighbour fucking about with a guitar and some shitty poem he just wrote. Shocking. And people talk about Stevie Wonder's decline! Wouldn't you rather hear 'Happy Birthday' than this mess? fuck's sake!
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Jun 21, 2019 0:53:35 GMT
Post by toomanyhatz on Jun 21, 2019 0:53:35 GMT
I'm a defender of all kinds of Reed albums that are hated here, and even I think A's an awful mess! Not getting the point here - he's just taking the beauty of the song out and not replacing it with anything even vaguely interesting to me. I guess it's supposed to be subversive? It really isn't.
B is once again pretty ordinary as that stuff goes, but it holds so much more of interest for me.
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Jun 21, 2019 6:08:57 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 6:08:57 GMT
A was so dull I couldn't get to the end. For me this is a stronger Fred Hughes pick than the one in round seven. I love the way it bursts into the chorus and the tense mood the record creates. A rare highlight in a terrible round.
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Jun 21, 2019 7:58:45 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 7:58:45 GMT
Vote A...Not sure what some of you are hearing...
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Jun 21, 2019 9:44:58 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 21, 2019 9:44:58 GMT
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Jun 22, 2019 10:26:19 GMT
Post by lokie on Jun 22, 2019 10:26:19 GMT
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Jun 23, 2019 19:40:59 GMT
Post by DarknessFish on Jun 23, 2019 19:40:59 GMT
I like the big reverberatory guitar that backs up the more standard rock n' roll twanging. I'm also at a loss as to how this one has seemingly offended the ears of everyone but Dayodead. I'm not really that familiar with solo Lou apart from MMM, and this is easily one of the better things I've heard from him. The rhythm of the words, and the guitar seem to really work together, light on its feet, and feels properly euphoric.
The vocals are horribly affected from the start, I hope he doesn't carry on like that. A lot of work's gone into the arrangement again, and it kind of grows on me as it goes on, though it feels very formulaic. More graft than inspiration, I think.
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Jun 23, 2019 20:01:56 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 20:01:56 GMT
I'm not really that familiar with solo Lou apart from MMM
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Jun 24, 2019 13:16:47 GMT
Post by rayge on Jun 24, 2019 13:16:47 GMT
Loopy Lou covers the Drifters . I've always liked the old curmudgeon a bit - well maybe not Sally Can't Dance – but when he takes on Ben E King in a vocals match, there's only one winner. It's a great song of course, one of the best from one of the best of the great Nuyorican Jewish partnerships of the late fifties and early ’60s, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. And the strings and acoustic guitar arrangement by another Jewish studio auteur, Stan Appelbaum, is to die for. That said, this version - from yet another NYJ – is as far from a slavish copy as its possible to get, altering the mood completely from wide-eyed soaring romanticism to a deep shade of jade. Doesn't necessarily work for me, because I've loved the original for more than half a century, but better than the self-written stuff I've heard from him in the last couple of decades of his life. 5.5 / 10 Goose-stepping mid-tempo beat and wah-wah pedal. Bad start. The vocal is OK, vaguely reminiscent of Joe Tex, but the song and especially the over-busy arrangement is a hackneyed load of pants. Nah, not for me. 4.5 / 10 A
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Jun 25, 2019 19:39:02 GMT
Post by osgood on Jun 25, 2019 19:39:02 GMT
B is great, I precisely loved the busy arrangement. A is just a curio that never takes off, not for me.
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Jun 27, 2019 13:37:17 GMT
Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 27, 2019 13:37:17 GMT
I'm not sure where or when I first heard Lou's version of this song, but I've liked it for a long time.
B isn't really doing anything for me.
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Jun 27, 2019 21:09:07 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2019 21:09:07 GMT
You most likely heard it in Lost Highway (or the Don Pomus tribute album, 'Till the night is gone' from 1995)
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Jun 28, 2019 6:48:12 GMT
Post by fange on Jun 28, 2019 6:48:12 GMT
A is ok, but that arrangement of the classic tune just doesn't fit well for me. B is good and a clear winner.
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