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In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader to glean the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
An Early (And Somewhat Narcissistic) Clue to the New Direction
From 1967, and the epochal The Velvet Underground and Nico album, please enjoy one of Lou Reed's best early songs, the quite lovely "I'll Be Your Mirror."
You know, I love that album AND that song, but I must admit -- with a degree of embarrassment, for sure -- that there are days when I hear Nico's atonal croaking and I want to use Harvey Korman's great line from Blazing Saddles -- "Shut up, you Teutonic twat."
In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader to glean the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader to glean the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Sound-alke songs.
ReplyDeleteTemptations' "My Girl" & "Since I Lost My Baby."
Hmm.
ReplyDeleteNope.
:-)
songs with the word "reflection", such as by Marmalade.
ReplyDeleteSongs with the word "I"
Songs about German boudoirs.
AP
Bands who made an infamous name for themselves with minimal talent? Or, bands who really look cool in their photos?
ReplyDeleteEuropean models forced into singing? At least it's not later Marianne Faithful, eeesh!!
Groups with female vocalists. (If my wife wasn't in the room I'd write "a chick singer".)
ReplyDeleteROTP(lumber)
No to all, although the "I" one may have legs, as we say.
ReplyDeletesongs about ocular body parts?
ReplyDeletesongs about Roman numerals?
(these are all standard themes in power pop . . .)
AP
No, and its too early for me to give the obvious clue.
ReplyDelete:-)
Songs you covered.
ReplyDeleteThis would be a VERY different list for me as the bands I was in tended toward the Southern Rock and Progressive flavors. Well, I was good enough at bass to play Southern Rock, but I can honestly say I was the weakest link in the prog cover bands.
Trey
Oh, and lest it seem I was posing, the bands I was in SUCKED! But we had fun.
ReplyDeleteTrey
Trust me -- I've been in more (and more thoroughly) incompetent bands than you've had hot meals.
ReplyDelete:-)
autobiographical songs?
ReplyDeletefor some reason, I sense at least one great song by the Who in the resulting list.
AP
Songs sung with accented English?
ReplyDeleteSingers who died during some form of locomotion?
Albums with mysterious producers?
Reassurance?
Songs with offers in the title?
Okay -- here's a clue.
ReplyDeleteIt has something specifically to do with the title of the song.
songs by, of, or about Edward Albee
ReplyDeleteAP
I had no idea there were so many Albee related songs.
ReplyDelete:-)
Greatest (mirrored) double-tracked vocals.
ReplyDeleteFaze said...
ReplyDeleteGreatest (mirrored) double-tracked vocals.
Cool idea which I'll probably steal.
But no....
:-)
Think of how much less shit there'd be in the rock'n'roll universe if there wasn't some blonde German skank whom both Reed and Cale wanted to fuck. It's embarrassing listening to them still praise her syphilitic junkie ass.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to hear it by someone who has something vaguely approximating human feelings, find the Rainy Day version, which has Susannah Hoffs (I'm sure Nico would hate her, since SH is a Jew) giving a career-defining performance by not performing at all - just singing the song straight with all the dignity it needs.
Vis-a-vis the topic of the week: songs about mirrors/reflections/doubles?
Titles with some form of "to be" that we won't have to conjugate in a foreign language?
ReplyDeleteSongs titles with contractions?
Songs with "will" or "will not" in title?
Song titles with household objects?
Songs in the future tense?
ReplyDeleteSongs about being an object or something other than a person?
ReplyDeleteSongs about Steve Simels?
ReplyDeleteHeh.
ReplyDelete:-)
Steve, did you get the tagline "early clue to the new direction" from the Helium Angel album or is there something obvious in "rock n roll" canon that I am missing.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/heliumangel-early/