transformer

you hit me with a flower

swoop swoop

"goodnight ladies"

ANDY'S CHEST

"Hangin' 'Round" for those delicious guitar licks.

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Why over analyse it...'Perfect Day'....

perfect song

Voted Satellite

^me too. handclaps, backing vocals, built to lift off - love it.

Hangin Round

Hangin' Round!

oh and here's the Classic Albums episode about it which is just fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-7ZWi3bnY

even tho it's the hit, tempted to vote for wild side -- it's pretty perfect. that double bass line, the drums, the strings, the sax solo, lou's voice...kind of a sublime song.

iiiiiii'm so free!

Vicious.

love andy's chest too

Man I loved vicious way back when. I remember being in a bar in some extreme backwater while riding my bike across USA and finding vicious on the jukebox. This was 1990. We played it like 3 times. Otoh we played a disco stones song like 3 times too, so, good drunk times.

Walk on the Wild Side!

Satelite. Bowie's backing, awesome. It's a pretty great record.

Tranformer is one of the few of my dad's old records I picked up on while still living at home. Reminds me of blasting the stereo throughout the house, pretty much continuosly, for years, while shooting the shit with my brother. It's a miracle our mom didn't throw that stereo out. Stooges, Turbonegro, early Weezer, all bring back that feeling. Good times.

'Vicious', although this album is very much classic from beginning to end.

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's about right

who the hell voted for "new york telephone conversation"

the 2 tracks that got no votes are both way better than that one

http://www.genesis-publications.com/transformer-by-lou-reed-and-mick-rock/images/1-main-packshot-vinyl-614px.jpg
very expensive book!
http://www.genesis-publications.com/transformer-by-lou-reed-and-mick-rock/default.htm

http://www.genesis-publications.com/transformer-by-lou-reed-and-mick-rock/images/p98-99-45(c)MickRock-614px.jpg
fun times....

nice Quietus piece about the book

http://thequietus.com/articles/13364-lou-reed-mick-rock-interview

Listening to this for the first time. Much prefer zippy version of "Andy's Chest" on VU.

obv I've heard "Perfect Day" before (Trainspotting sndtrk?) but not real familiar with it. Even with the strings and pianner he sounds VICIOUS at heart.

"Hangin' Round" is delish!

has 'perfect day' supplanted 'walk on the wild side' as his most well known song? or at least most well known solo song, 'sweet jane' may be well known than either. probably not - i still hear 'walk on the wild side' on oldies radio and the only time i hear 'perfect day' is thru other media - movies, ads, tv, commercials (including just now, a playstation ad during the bulls-heat game that might not have annoyed me normally but stung this week). i could see it being the case eventually though.

it's hard to believe "Make Up" is only 3 minutes long. lol tuba

I've missed nearly all those licensings of "PD" post-Trainspotting

John Allen on FMU played whole of Stockholm Live '74 this morning, can't say i cared for how he was singing this stuff there

A re-created version of Transformer w/ live stuff, demos, etc ... a fun listen!

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/09/06/lou-reed-transformer-transformed/

No votes for “Make Up”?!?!

a cool just-digitized tape from right around the time of Transformer's release (though no Transformer songs are played): https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/807538160850599936/lou-reed-imperial-college-72

Awesome.

Lou's voice is so good here, Live 1969 quality. I've come to the conclusion that Lou's (live) vocals really took a nosedive when he stopped playing guitar and then, by the time he'd started playing guitar again, he'd forgotten how to play guitar and sing at the same time.