And besides, I'm the table.
ooh, yeah, I got as far as "I am a chorus / of the voices" before I had to stop.
It sounds like the taking-himself-very-seriously, not-joking Lou Reed to me.
"I am the truth, the beauty that causes you to cross your sacred boundaries."
I, for one, think better of you for preferring the Reverend Al Green to Lou Reed. I'm sure Ttam and the rest of the Unfogged soul patrol would agree.
Not just the soul patrol.
I'm not saying that people who prefer LR to AG necessarily hate America, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate on the question.
Shoot. Last link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxseZ9CizU
Yes, but what do we think of Stanley for confusing Al Green and Lou Reed?
Non-racist?
Maybe he's confusing Lou Reed with Lou Rawls and then confusing Lou Rawls with Al Green.
There's a line on the New York album about a "self-righteous rock singer whose nose has led him straight to God" that I misheard as "self-righteous black singer," which made me wonder what beef Lou Reed had with Al Green.
3: there's another kind?
Well, Stanley's posited pulling-a-prank Lou Reed.
I confuse Lou Rawls with your mom, in boxers, at the palladium, beat-boxing.
4 - That would be quite a tattoo.
13: Maybe if I were a goth! Seems like that particular sort of seriousness.
13: So would 12, but not as a quote.
It is definitely that sort of seriousness.
That tattoo, the proverbial "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony", and some soft-focus photography and you're off to the races.
A friend of mine went to see the Rev. Al Green preach/sing in Memphis and was amazed.
A Lou Reed/Metallica combo is basically my 14 year old fantasy life made real. What's next? Elle Macpherson, me, and Christina Appelgate making out in a Ferrari Testarossa after a party at Axl Rose's house?
Does it have a white tiger relaxing on the hood?
I was going to say "You knew who Lou Reed was at 14? Pretty cool", but realized that my 14 year old fantasy life would probably have involved Sarah Shannon from Velocity Girl.
"All right. I'll talk to my boss. See, they install that TruCoat white tiger at the factory. There's nothing we can do. But I'll talk to my boss.
. . .
Well, we've never done this before. But seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat white tiger."
Only the truly holy can sin mightily and yet remain holy. Similarly, Lou Reed was so cool after The Velvet Underground and Nico that none of the shitty/naff/pompous things he's done since can ever negate it. I mean, this is the man who did "Original (W)rapper" and that "I love you Suzanne" song in the 80s, while sporting a curly mullet. Loutallica? Pfff. He's not even trying. (See also, the Handicap Principle.)
7: there was a country/soul joint covers album in 1994 I used to listen to in college that benefited from the addition of Lyle Lovett to that Al Green cover of Willie Nelson.
With the Iron Maiden triplet beat and that guitar melody it sounds like Metallica-play-Muse. Not in a good way.
24 -- They showed that whole thing for pledge week on PBS several times running. Can't say I think LL is really that much a plus. Twitty, on the other hand, really makes this one special. (That is, he's almost as good as Moore).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTzVKhw64o
Like this one too.
Does it have a white tiger relaxing on the hood?
"white tiger" = Tawny Kitaen, right? If so, I assume the answer is yes.
27, 28: the one that really nailed me to the wall was Patches by BB King and George Jones. There's a tradition at Tiny College that they ring a big bell when you last drive off the ranch as a student. I asked them to blast Patches after they rang the bell.
my 14 year old fantasy life would probably have involved Sarah Shannon from Velocity Girl.
Never heard anything by that band, but I have a line stuck in my head from an I guess decades-old NME review that goes: "if Velocity Girl didn't exist, it wouldn't have been necessary to invent them".
This is fantastic, but this one by the same artist is a disappointment. Heard vs Massive Attack! Genius on genius! Comes out terribly sappy though. But the steel drum sound on the first is brill.