The comp album, The Very Best of, is a revelation to us.
We love the band's ability to underscore a simple melody with keyboards and or rhythm guitar as heard in What Goes On, an excellent rock song, or Pale Blue Eyes, a sad paean to a love that cannot be. Let's delve deeper.
It was good what we did yesterday
And I'd do it once again
The fact that you are married
Only means your my best friend
But its truly, truly a sin
Linger on
My Pale Blue eyes.
Here Lou Reed tells his love that what they're doing is wrong and they can only ever be best friends. Wonder what the back story to that is?
Then there are the drug songs, lots of them.
Waiting for My Man will speak to anyone whose ever had to wait for his dealer, that's for sure.
[TMI, dude-Ed]
Sweet Jane has a rollie-pollie beer hall feel which we love.
Heroin + Lou Reed = The Velvet Underground.
Which is another great point. The Velvet Underground was part of Andy Warhol's scene. This is the old New York of John Lindsey, Abe Beam and President Ford telling New York to drop dead.
Waiting for my Man illustrates this perfectly:
-Up to Lexington, one two five (that is 125th Street)...
And,
-Hey white boy, what you doin up town?...
Then,
-Up to a brownstone, three flights of stairs, everybody's staring, but nobody cares...
Overall The Very Best of is just a fantastic melodic rock n roll album.
We're learning the guitar solo in What Goes On and will post later in the week.
[Greeeat-Ed]
Writing Whatever Happened to Jake and Patricia Bloom we wanted Jake to discover a new band in 2003 on the eve of the Iraqi invasion. We think we have our answer.
Jake loves music, after all, especially Zeppelin. See for yourself in A Line Through the Desert:
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