About 15 years ago I was in my favorite big-box building materials store and TAWOTWS was playing on the music track. It was a bit ironic to see several stereotypical construction-type guys walking around with a lilt in their step, grooving to the music. I'm not sure they were listening to the words...
@rickbandana Just curious.....how exactly is Lou Reed a 'complete asshole'? Using the Lulu thing is too easy, so you'll have to do better than that if that is your reason.
@rickbandana The album Lou did with Metallica based around a couple of plays Lou likes. You really don't know anything about it? You must not be from the U.S. then because every video that has to do with either of them is full of comments about how much they hate the album. lol
When he dies, I am going to play this song over his grave DoDoDoDoDoDoDoDo. Jesus, is there another Artiste who lives and breaths New York City like Lou Reed does? New York City is like this giant APPLE TREE. From afar, it is stunning for its shade, its green and its magnificant Fruit. Only when you get up close do you discover the maggots and worms (or the people Lou Reed always manages to sing about). A New York State of Mind is what it takes!!!
That's awesome that you were able to grow up and listen to music like this (even with the cotton candy froth that was out then too!). It sure beats a lot of the popular stuff out today. Just gets worse and worse
I loved this when I was too young to understand the lyrics or even care about lyrics. The airwaves in the early '70s were filled with cotton candy froth--then along came this music and scoured the air clean with sophisticated rhythm and a fresh combination of instruments. A turning point for the kind of radio I could get.
LIKE MOST THINGS IN LIFE LOU REED GOT IT EXACTLY RIGHT WHEN HE SANG THE LINE "VALIUM WOULD HAVE HELPED THAT FAST...". ALWAYS WORKED FOR ME OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS! STONES CALLED THEM "MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER" - "AND OUTSIDE THE DOOR SHE TOOK FOUR MORE". THAT'S WHAT I COULD USE ABOUT NOW. 4 OR 5 - JUST TO GET ME THROUGH THE NIGHT. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO KNOW. EXCEPT NOW VALIUM IS BEING REPLACED BY XANAX, ETC. - AND THEY'RE NOT QUITE THE SAME AT ALL.
Not only are those sophisticated people practicing the very intolerance they preach again, they are ridiculously sterotypical and idiotic.
I believe doing drugs is a choice, as well. DOes this automatically mean I hate drug users and have some irrational fear of them (which is what a phobia is)?
The people who whine about intolerance, always seem to be the most intolerant people there are. It seems anyon who disagrees with them, to the simple point of saying "I think it's a choice" are labled as hate mogering,homophobes.
@195114sm Well unless you actually "made that choice" in your own life, it's kind of pompous of you to automatically think you know exactly how someone else decides to live their life. I could care less about all that though. Lou Reed kicks ass no matter what he's signing about
@195114sm: You think being hetero or gay is a "choice?" Really?
So when precisely did you "choose" to be heterosexual? Did you wake up one morning when you were 14 years old and say,"Oh, I could go either way, but I think I'll be straight"?
Or did you enter puberty just knowing in your cells to whom you were attracted?
Watch the dvd "Classic Albums" making of this record. It's full of great stories. Herbie Flowers, the bass player on this song, figured out how he could make double his session fee by doubling his bass part. One electric and one upright accoustic for the slide notes.
WOW, I DO MEAN WOW ON THIS TRIPPY ASS SONG. TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, BOY THIS SONG BRINGS ME BACK TO THE ARCHIVES. WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BUCK EVERY TIME THIS SONG CAME ON I FELT LIKE I WAS ON ACID MAN. AND THE COLOR GIRLS GO DEW DEWRUT, DEW DEWRUT. WOW WHAT A SONG ILL NEVER FORGET, AND THAT SAX AT THE END , MADE THE SONG. PEACE OUR.
@Princeboy99 Lou Reed has his way with everything imo. He's one of those folks in music that payed his dues and gets to relax and enjoy his life. Good for Lou.
does anyone have sheets for this? for any instrument, i seek it for saxophone, but any other instrument do as well. i have lot of note sheets to give in trade :)
The world was so much of a better place back in the days of this song, and hearing this immediately transports me back to those better times. Oh, if only I had a time machine...
I could just slime fuck gay dudes as I take a walk on their wild side putting this song at FULL BLAST since it is just a pleasure to sodomize buttholes when dreaming of grinding your junk on Larry Craig in an airport bathroom awaiting another political scandal since being arrested for lewd conduct can make people laugh hard!
Really well done vid. Thanks. It was one of the best ones I've watched today. And of course, it's classic NYC all the way. Nice one. Thanks, again. I just wish I knew to whom he was referring in this song. We once heard him on the radio mentioning all the peeps in the song, but we forgot who they were. lol Hmm. If anyone knows, please pass it along. Peace.
OH, MY-MY! i took a Walk on the Wild Side and feel down along the way. now i can't get it up! doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dah-doo... can you dig that Sugar Punk Fairy, huh?
FUCKING FAGGOTS THINK THEY HAVE SPECIAL RIGHTS? GODDAMN LOU REED IS A JEW , EVERY JEW HAS A GENETIC TENDENCY TO BE A FAG. THE SONG STILL A MASTERPIECE - AS MUSIC.
@48dodea no, not yet. I wait until God decides to call me. In fact, I thought u will pass me. Take a walk on the wild side and drop dead similtanously.
@tiborvivi Dude if your gonna talk to about people that way, then I think that you are a total waste of space, and should be stuffed in a gas chamber and killed. You are a fucking rude piece of shit and a jackass. wow... i wont even keep going, you are not worth the time it takes to type on here.
@tiborvivi And further more, you have enough guts to say that you think God will take someone else first who respects Jews, verses you who hates them. Wow you were dipped in a can of paint thinner when you were born, and then they lit it on fire to dry you off. Really screwed with your head then didnt it?
@tiborvivi Thanks for the info, 'cause Jewish guys are hot. Maybe I'll vacation in Israel this year. Keep up the good work, 'cause when people like you speak such idiotic twattle it actually helps the gay rights movement. The dumber and more racist you sound, the better we look. Woo hoo!
Nice to see at least one homophobic moron knows it's not a "lifestyle choice" though.
I think he was undertakin' a highly difficult & contraversial '¡PR' job :of "Wakin' Up' the 'walkin' ,Zombie Dildos' :who continue to haunt our streets!!!!!!!Give HIM a 'Break'...or 'HIT ME WITH FLOWERS'!!!!!XXXcreashonrebel
This song is fucking spectacular. Perfect for looking into a blue sunny sky. It makes me crave growing up in this time era like no other. Tears come to my eyes for the love of god!
@MonkeYxBoxeR OH I SEE NOW!!! xBOXER??? "THAT", alone says it ALL!!!! HAH HAH HAH!!! (get a REAL System!!! LMFAO!!!!). BUT, come to think of it, X-BOX IS THE "CORRECT" SYSTEM FOR YOU, now that I THOUGHT about it for AWHILE!!!! Maybe, after "MASTERING" that Piece, TAKE IT, A STEP UP!!!!
@MonkeYxBoxeR OH, I see you area GAMER!!! "THAT" explains a lot!!! Stick to your GAMING UPDATES and "LIFE" will be just FINE, FOR "YOU", that is!!! GAME ON,BOY!!!
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@tommydhammer I KNOW how you feel( tommydhammer), being a Musician, also!! It is a HARD ROAD out there and TODAY, Any "Exposure " is GOOD " Exposure!!! ( even if it's in the POLICE BLOTTER!!), or some "PRAISE" you received!! Just having your music on YouTube, is better than just, "Sitting on a shelf, DUSTING!" Don't YOU FEEL, the SAME????
@MrAlbo420 It sucks it really does, I can't seem to get much exposure but arseholes with crap/ not funny blogs can, I don't understand! If lou Reed was born today, I don't think he'd even get signed such is the way music seems to have changed.
I've always been amazed how Lou Reed could have the balls to sing for money, being as tone deaf as he is. When I hear any of his music, I want to stick ice picks in my ears.
lou reed invented cool. as a matter of fact the actual word cool was invented when someone spelled the name lou as LOO. by the end of the night, after the heroine set, they had just reversed it and added a C to it in order to explain the presence of lou himself. hence the word COOL.
This song wasn't controversial when it came out! People didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, they only heard the "Doo doo doo doo" bit.. even the expression "giving head" went unnoticed by the BBC & other broadcasting companies.. it was on the radio all over the place and a hit all over the world! It was the early 1970s, the era of Glam Rock & the sexual revolution.. it wasn't called Glam(orous) Rock for nothing! It wasn't 2011 when even smoking cigarettes is prohibited! Thanks for the post
I was a teen growing up in France at that time and yes, I do remember it played all over the radios, France Inter even played it for a whole week at the beginning of every hour in a popular evening program. And a song like the Kinks's LOLA, about a transvestite, was also played all over the place, we were all humming it without giving any further attention to the lyrics, nor did the radios.
To Princeboy99 - Actually, I think there was a bigger issue with the line "and the colored girls go do" Believe that's why some stations (in my area) took it off the air. Nobody apparently noticed or cared about the "giving head" part. My parent's wouldn't have known what that meant anyway. Back then there was a thing called "a generation gap". Yeah, I believe that may have been the first pc censor ever.
@merdoch good one, but i live in a middle class family my dad's a rocket engineer. sorry that metallica plays music. I can play this boring shit. its almost as bad as music today no singing just him talking over a boring bass line. boring boring boring
It is not necessarily about "prostitutes" as is written above. Transvestites, gays, and flamboyant sexual and wild behavior but.......not prostitutes. You can be a flaming drag queen and not be a prostitute.
What was eerie was that this song was a glimpse of the sexual climate that ushered in the outbreak of aids in NYC during the early eighties--promiscuity, prostitution, drug abuse and a complete lack of precautionary behavior.
What was funny was that this song was being played on mainstream radio and no one had a clue what it was about--even the giving head reference seemed to slip by everyone.
@mrsolofeo, the only thing that slipped past this preteen (at the time) was that it was based on Andy Warhol's friends. Not long after I saw much worse on the streets and buses in North Hollywood.
2 yrs b4 the release of this song "the kinks," perhaps rock and rolls most underrated bands of all time, came out with Lola, another truly great song about the same topic.
Wow, this is from the time people made real music :-) Best time of my life.
MsJoajoa 20 minutes ago
About 15 years ago I was in my favorite big-box building materials store and TAWOTWS was playing on the music track. It was a bit ironic to see several stereotypical construction-type guys walking around with a lilt in their step, grooving to the music. I'm not sure they were listening to the words...
orchardartist 5 hours ago
one of the BEST!
palominovero 1 day ago
@superhanky2 okay. cool.
NoiseKidd 1 day ago
megadeth sucks
superhanky2 2 days ago
and so does this
superhanky2 2 days ago
How come a complete asshole like Lou Reed could make such a perfect song like this?
rickbandana 5 days ago
@rickbandana and 'Perfect Day'
SuperNevile 4 days ago
@SuperNevile Sure; I forgot it.
rickbandana 4 days ago
@rickbandana Just curious.....how exactly is Lou Reed a 'complete asshole'? Using the Lulu thing is too easy, so you'll have to do better than that if that is your reason.
uofm97 4 days ago
@uofm97 Just have a look at any of his interviews.
(What the fuck is "the Lulu thing", by the way?)
rickbandana 4 days ago
@rickbandana The album Lou did with Metallica based around a couple of plays Lou likes. You really don't know anything about it? You must not be from the U.S. then because every video that has to do with either of them is full of comments about how much they hate the album. lol
uofm97 3 days ago
When he dies, I am going to play this song over his grave DoDoDoDoDoDoDoDo. Jesus, is there another Artiste who lives and breaths New York City like Lou Reed does? New York City is like this giant APPLE TREE. From afar, it is stunning for its shade, its green and its magnificant Fruit. Only when you get up close do you discover the maggots and worms (or the people Lou Reed always manages to sing about). A New York State of Mind is what it takes!!!
Armydicked 6 days ago
That's awesome that you were able to grow up and listen to music like this (even with the cotton candy froth that was out then too!). It sure beats a lot of the popular stuff out today. Just gets worse and worse
Princeboy99 1 week ago
@Princeboy99 i am so glad that i grew up in the 80s and 90s. they dont make music like they used too. its a shame
WickedPuppyKaru 1 day ago
I loved this when I was too young to understand the lyrics or even care about lyrics. The airwaves in the early '70s were filled with cotton candy froth--then along came this music and scoured the air clean with sophisticated rhythm and a fresh combination of instruments. A turning point for the kind of radio I could get.
dilemmapoet 1 week ago
NYC perverts and urine scented sidewalks
48dodea 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Yay 480p version!
wrightizle 1 week ago
LIKE MOST THINGS IN LIFE LOU REED GOT IT EXACTLY RIGHT WHEN HE SANG THE LINE "VALIUM WOULD HAVE HELPED THAT FAST...". ALWAYS WORKED FOR ME OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS! STONES CALLED THEM "MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER" - "AND OUTSIDE THE DOOR SHE TOOK FOUR MORE". THAT'S WHAT I COULD USE ABOUT NOW. 4 OR 5 - JUST TO GET ME THROUGH THE NIGHT. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO KNOW. EXCEPT NOW VALIUM IS BEING REPLACED BY XANAX, ETC. - AND THEY'RE NOT QUITE THE SAME AT ALL.
FNOT4YOU 1 week ago
@FNOT4YOU I hear you. Xanax sucks because it makes you forget where the caps lock key is.
acr08807 1 week ago
@FNOT4YOU Is your caps lock key broken?
danimusic00 1 week ago
give it up dumbasses, homophobia died out with racism. don't close doors, just fuck everything you can see. as long as it's human. and over 18.
callitacomeb10106 1 week ago 2
@callitacomeb10106 best comment I've ever seen.
BeckyKelly100 1 week ago
@callitacomeb10106 when did racism die out ?
MolotovThug 1 week ago
@MolotovThug RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERIKA---they just sling it between the lines, that's all.
Armydicked 6 days ago
Sooo relaxing! Perfect while studying :D
Gabatukas1 1 week ago
Kickass!! Love it..
lynettedias 1 week ago
Can I kick it?
Smilekrieg 2 weeks ago
youtube.com/watch?v=OwVw6x7lzGY
Kinks out of the wardrobe from the misfits album :) Great song...
kloppedeklop 2 weeks ago
You know you've listened to this song too much when you feel the need to periodically say in conversation "And the covergirls say,"
Am I right?
emPtysp4ce 2 weeks ago
@emPtysp4ce It's "coloured girls"not "covergirls"
drea5ooo 1 week ago
this is one snazzy tune about tranny's.
deftones311100 3 weeks ago
Not only are those sophisticated people practicing the very intolerance they preach again, they are ridiculously sterotypical and idiotic.
I believe doing drugs is a choice, as well. DOes this automatically mean I hate drug users and have some irrational fear of them (which is what a phobia is)?
195114sm 3 weeks ago
The people who whine about intolerance, always seem to be the most intolerant people there are. It seems anyon who disagrees with them, to the simple point of saying "I think it's a choice" are labled as hate mogering,homophobes.
195114sm 3 weeks ago
@195114sm Well unless you actually "made that choice" in your own life, it's kind of pompous of you to automatically think you know exactly how someone else decides to live their life. I could care less about all that though. Lou Reed kicks ass no matter what he's signing about
Princeboy99 3 weeks ago 8
@195114sm Yeah, this isn't a soapbox moron.
Killenwolf 2 weeks ago
@195114sm: You think being hetero or gay is a "choice?" Really?
So when precisely did you "choose" to be heterosexual? Did you wake up one morning when you were 14 years old and say,"Oh, I could go either way, but I think I'll be straight"?
Or did you enter puberty just knowing in your cells to whom you were attracted?
thucy2 1 week ago
@195114sm I don't think you're a hate mogering homophobe. A bigot, probably, but never a hate mogerer.
acr08807 1 week ago
this song rules
safarisonoro 3 weeks ago
Watch the dvd "Classic Albums" making of this record. It's full of great stories. Herbie Flowers, the bass player on this song, figured out how he could make double his session fee by doubling his bass part. One electric and one upright accoustic for the slide notes.
pscottbland8 3 weeks ago
love it for years
chopper11ful 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
The quality of a music seems to be inversely proportional to the number of views on youtube.
BlackCat31111 3 weeks ago
THIS A GOOOOOOOD ONE ! ! ! ! ! !! ! !
jonesbonesklones 3 weeks ago
WOW, I DO MEAN WOW ON THIS TRIPPY ASS SONG. TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, BOY THIS SONG BRINGS ME BACK TO THE ARCHIVES. WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BUCK EVERY TIME THIS SONG CAME ON I FELT LIKE I WAS ON ACID MAN. AND THE COLOR GIRLS GO DEW DEWRUT, DEW DEWRUT. WOW WHAT A SONG ILL NEVER FORGET, AND THAT SAX AT THE END , MADE THE SONG. PEACE OUR.
nicoya204 3 weeks ago
love it! so mellow and relaxing, n the lyrics def put a smile on your face, lol ;)
queenkettlehead 4 weeks ago 5
@queenkettlehead Yes, Lou Reed certainly has a way with words!
Princeboy99 4 weeks ago 2
@Princeboy99 Lou Reed has his way with everything imo. He's one of those folks in music that payed his dues and gets to relax and enjoy his life. Good for Lou.
povkilla 3 weeks ago
@queenkettlehead if you like this one....look for Sweet Jane....omg it'll sweep you off your feet!!! ;o)
sp0ttedp0ny330 3 weeks ago
does anyone have sheets for this? for any instrument, i seek it for saxophone, but any other instrument do as well. i have lot of note sheets to give in trade :)
FlinckJanne1981 4 weeks ago
The world was so much of a better place back in the days of this song, and hearing this immediately transports me back to those better times. Oh, if only I had a time machine...
jjp009 1 month ago
yeah man....back in the day. Nothing new comes lose........
bluzforu 1 month ago
In the time when music was good.
wdfwgagyfgagyga 1 month ago
"And the colored girls go: Doo Da-do da-do Doo da-do doo" lmao
Stevesk0011 1 month ago 4
Music for love in Silver discoteque (Girona)
Good music to remember 70'...
barrufet22 1 month ago
is it just me that loves the bass line in this song ?
BigDuke921 1 month ago 2
it was great back then.
richard1948benz 1 month ago
@richard1948benz and now...
XxYoursTrulyx 1 month ago
i love lou
lloorr11 1 month ago
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Oh yeah!!!
I could just slime fuck gay dudes as I take a walk on their wild side putting this song at FULL BLAST since it is just a pleasure to sodomize buttholes when dreaming of grinding your junk on Larry Craig in an airport bathroom awaiting another political scandal since being arrested for lewd conduct can make people laugh hard!
gaybathroomsex 1 month ago
@48dodea- Love those without understanding. It's the best way to get to them.
superwhiteguy19 1 month ago
@tiborvivi- Some Christian you are. Which stone is in your hand? Jesus doesn't agree with you. Love is the most important thing we possess.
superwhiteguy19 1 month ago
Really well done vid. Thanks. It was one of the best ones I've watched today. And of course, it's classic NYC all the way. Nice one. Thanks, again. I just wish I knew to whom he was referring in this song. We once heard him on the radio mentioning all the peeps in the song, but we forgot who they were. lol Hmm. If anyone knows, please pass it along. Peace.
NancyDrewe 1 month ago
i've been on the wild side of the streets and i survived....thank lou
purekelly 1 month ago
OH, MY-MY! i took a Walk on the Wild Side and feel down along the way. now i can't get it up! doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dah-doo... can you dig that Sugar Punk Fairy, huh?
darthsatanus 1 month ago
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FUCKING FAGGOTS THINK THEY HAVE SPECIAL RIGHTS? GODDAMN LOU REED IS A JEW , EVERY JEW HAS A GENETIC TENDENCY TO BE A FAG. THE SONG STILL A MASTERPIECE - AS MUSIC.
tiborvivi 1 month ago
@tiborvivi Have you killed yourself yet, you are late
48dodea 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@48dodea no, not yet. I wait until God decides to call me. In fact, I thought u will pass me. Take a walk on the wild side and drop dead similtanously.
tiborvivi 1 month ago
@tiborvivi Dude if your gonna talk to about people that way, then I think that you are a total waste of space, and should be stuffed in a gas chamber and killed. You are a fucking rude piece of shit and a jackass. wow... i wont even keep going, you are not worth the time it takes to type on here.
TheRustygus 3 weeks ago
@tiborvivi And further more, you have enough guts to say that you think God will take someone else first who respects Jews, verses you who hates them. Wow you were dipped in a can of paint thinner when you were born, and then they lit it on fire to dry you off. Really screwed with your head then didnt it?
TheRustygus 3 weeks ago
@tiborvivi A comment like this is only gonna get your ass deleted from here. SPEW your hate propaganda somewhere else prick
Princeboy99 1 month ago 13
@tiborvivi people like you make me ashamed to be white. that means i have something in common with you. that fact alone makes me want to vomit.
tranurse 4 weeks ago
@tiborvivi Thanks for the info, 'cause Jewish guys are hot. Maybe I'll vacation in Israel this year. Keep up the good work, 'cause when people like you speak such idiotic twattle it actually helps the gay rights movement. The dumber and more racist you sound, the better we look. Woo hoo!
Nice to see at least one homophobic moron knows it's not a "lifestyle choice" though.
JamesThompson1011 3 weeks ago
I think he was undertakin' a highly difficult & contraversial '¡PR' job :of "Wakin' Up' the 'walkin' ,Zombie Dildos' :who continue to haunt our streets!!!!!!!Give HIM a 'Break'...or 'HIT ME WITH FLOWERS'!!!!!XXXcreashonrebel
Mangosunsplash 1 month ago
The Sax is awesome, hi from Fresnillo Mex.
MrPaco137 1 month ago 2
And the colored girls go do do do do.....
IUploadTheOC 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR me too hahaha
Tanbot0110 1 month ago
0:34 "fucked her eyebrows on the way"
wat....
busshallplats 1 month ago
@busshallplats lol! it's "plucked her eyebrows on the way"
MrPeguin666 1 month ago
This song is fucking spectacular. Perfect for looking into a blue sunny sky. It makes me crave growing up in this time era like no other. Tears come to my eyes for the love of god!
pinkhem 1 month ago
Alright people, stop bitching at each other and just enjoy one of the great songs (and some of the catchiest sax playing) of all time.
burf69 1 month ago
@burf69 Yip i agree with burf SHUUUUUUUUUTUUUUUUUUUP ; )
sixchildren100 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR OH I SEE NOW!!! xBOXER??? "THAT", alone says it ALL!!!! HAH HAH HAH!!! (get a REAL System!!! LMFAO!!!!). BUT, come to think of it, X-BOX IS THE "CORRECT" SYSTEM FOR YOU, now that I THOUGHT about it for AWHILE!!!! Maybe, after "MASTERING" that Piece, TAKE IT, A STEP UP!!!!
MrAlbo420 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR OH, I see you area GAMER!!! "THAT" explains a lot!!! Stick to your GAMING UPDATES and "LIFE" will be just FINE, FOR "YOU", that is!!! GAME ON,BOY!!!
MrAlbo420 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR HOMOPHOBIC??? , Maybe???
MrAlbo420 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR Go drink bleach.
misterE2012 1 month ago
GENIUUUUS ! Music is simple and fun
edwardhancock 1 month ago
song continues to represent smooth 30 yrs after it first shocked my adolescence...
rhomiberry 1 month ago
Is there anything that is any fucking cooler than this??
DJFredReilly92 1 month ago
It´s a Classic of the Outsiders.
IIRIS0952 1 month ago
And the colored girls go doot doot dooot dooooot do do do
vamtheanomaly 1 month ago
Danny La Rue, eat your heart out!!!
doug4358 1 month ago
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tommydhammer 1 month ago
@tommydhammer I KNOW how you feel( tommydhammer), being a Musician, also!! It is a HARD ROAD out there and TODAY, Any "Exposure " is GOOD " Exposure!!! ( even if it's in the POLICE BLOTTER!!), or some "PRAISE" you received!! Just having your music on YouTube, is better than just, "Sitting on a shelf, DUSTING!" Don't YOU FEEL, the SAME????
MrAlbo420 1 month ago
@MrAlbo420 It sucks it really does, I can't seem to get much exposure but arseholes with crap/ not funny blogs can, I don't understand! If lou Reed was born today, I don't think he'd even get signed such is the way music seems to have changed.
tommydhammer 1 month ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR fag
stupidskate99 1 month ago
very good
60srecords 2 months ago
Actually this is very if you don t like stay away.or jump back in your caddie wagon..
60srecords 2 months ago
2:02 thats Boston not NYC
SkinnedLynryd 2 months ago
14 people are colored girls.
SkinnedLynryd 2 months ago
@SkinnedLynryd That doesn't even make sense. And the uploader put in an annotation that he did that intentionally.
WhoaDavid42 2 months ago
it was ALL of his voice that mattered. thank god he didn't hit all the right notes
randallmckay 2 months ago
I've always been amazed how Lou Reed could have the balls to sing for money, being as tone deaf as he is. When I hear any of his music, I want to stick ice picks in my ears.
hdsnake33881 2 months ago
@hdsnake33881 PLEASE DO!
joezona 1 month ago
lol
pitbullisamazing 2 months ago
@MonkeYxBoxeR Good. Don't come back here then!
Princeboy99 2 months ago 49
ever sucked a chicken off??
nayfsnappedbanjo 1 month ago
"YES", please!!! STAY AWAY! We do not need INTOLERANCE, here!!!!! NOR will "WE" put up with it!!!! @ MonkeYxBOXER!!!!
MrAlbo420 1 month ago
@MrAlbo420 Aren't you being intolerant?
KDavis418 1 month ago
lou reed invented cool. as a matter of fact the actual word cool was invented when someone spelled the name lou as LOO. by the end of the night, after the heroine set, they had just reversed it and added a C to it in order to explain the presence of lou himself. hence the word COOL.
... sounded good to me anyway
malfunkshun007 2 months ago 2
My mom thinks this song is hilarious! Because of this song, I will NEVER hear the phrase "Take a walk on the wild side" the same ever again!
Beatlesfangoogle 2 months ago
3:57 i can assume they r good friends :)
samruiz0000 2 months ago
This song wasn't controversial when it came out! People didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, they only heard the "Doo doo doo doo" bit.. even the expression "giving head" went unnoticed by the BBC & other broadcasting companies.. it was on the radio all over the place and a hit all over the world! It was the early 1970s, the era of Glam Rock & the sexual revolution.. it wasn't called Glam(orous) Rock for nothing! It wasn't 2011 when even smoking cigarettes is prohibited! Thanks for the post
kidcalabria 2 months ago
@kidcalabria
I was a teen growing up in France at that time and yes, I do remember it played all over the radios, France Inter even played it for a whole week at the beginning of every hour in a popular evening program. And a song like the Kinks's LOLA, about a transvestite, was also played all over the place, we were all humming it without giving any further attention to the lyrics, nor did the radios.
taiwanelisa 2 months ago
@taiwanelisa so the Frogs love that sick shit -- Quelle surprise?
48dodea 1 month ago
Well, he's amazing. But that idea Metallica had, god awful.
Xxagentorange666xX 2 months ago
Pure classic, just great.
mozartreno 2 months ago
very good
chopper11ful 2 months ago
when i hear this song, i almost get stoned
thomkoenen1996 2 months ago
To Princeboy99 - Actually, I think there was a bigger issue with the line "and the colored girls go do" Believe that's why some stations (in my area) took it off the air. Nobody apparently noticed or cared about the "giving head" part. My parent's wouldn't have known what that meant anyway. Back then there was a thing called "a generation gap". Yeah, I believe that may have been the first pc censor ever.
MsThebeMoon 2 months ago
Amazing that this song was able to slip under the radar and get played on top-40 radio during the seventies.
mrsolofeo 2 months ago
Lou reminds me of a way milder Lux Interior. Maybe if Lux was on downers. RIP LUX. Love Lou!
DominiqueDiablo777 2 months ago
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how dare this talentless fuck even be mentioned with the musical genious of metallica. lou reed licks donkey balls.
00TIDIS00 2 months ago
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how dare this talentless fuck even be mentioned with the musical genious of metallica. lou reed licks donkey balls.
00TIDIS00 2 months ago
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how dare this talentless fuck even be mentioned with the musical genious of metallica. lou reed licks donkey balls.
00TIDIS00 2 months ago
@00TIDIS00 Which trailer park do you live in?
merdoch 2 months ago
@merdoch good one, but i live in a middle class family my dad's a rocket engineer. sorry that metallica plays music. I can play this boring shit. its almost as bad as music today no singing just him talking over a boring bass line. boring boring boring
00TIDIS00 2 months ago
@00TIDIS00 If you don't like the song, then why the heck get on here and listen to it? Just to argue? Grow up!
greeneyeslinz 2 months ago
@greeneyeslinz who is this?
00TIDIS00 2 months ago
Can I kick it?
AcquiredDesire 2 months ago 24
Oh yeah.. finally relax, good night world ;-)
MassyTV 2 months ago
i'd never heard anything like this and they actually played it on the radio in new york
elvispresley718 2 months ago
1972,the Metallica were to schools, were children, 1972!! Rinse your mouth when you talk about of Lou Reed
alexrourke1984 2 months ago
this song is the shit, period.
jademarshall101 2 months ago
I alway's liked this song and i'm not gay,, its a good song
russ987654 2 months ago
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mrsolofeo 2 months ago
Superbly Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson (Mott the Hoople)
computerrage 2 months ago
It is not necessarily about "prostitutes" as is written above. Transvestites, gays, and flamboyant sexual and wild behavior but.......not prostitutes. You can be a flaming drag queen and not be a prostitute.
shelleyinthecity 2 months ago
@shelleyinthecity 1:49 "Little Joe never once gave it away. Everybody had to pay and pay."
LaBelleParisienne1 2 months ago
@LaBelleParisienne1 That refers to a drug dealer, not a prostitute.
shelleyinthecity 2 months ago
Herbie Flowers on bass?
73soulboy 2 months ago
Who wants to take a walk on the Wild Side ?
therealplease 3 months ago 39
@therealplease I'll Wild your side.
lamasbudah1 1 month ago
I AM THE TABLE
UTpacman 3 months ago
buffalo springfield
hwelsh559 3 months ago
pezzo mitico..
snake0090 3 months ago 2
there should be more LIVE performances of this song!!! SMH
FemmeFatalee 3 months ago
nice bass
weedy397 3 months ago
can you dig it? c:
Lunatula 3 months ago
The character that this song is based off of, is from a movie called Trash, an andy warhol film. It's a really messed up and hilarious movie.
blastofo 3 months ago
MUITO À FRENTE DO TEMPO ... isto é letra para os dias de HOJE ,,,... AMO
nelsinhonnc 4 months ago
princeboy99 i would have done the same thing. im a die hard red sox fan and boston is the best city in the world. fuck the yankees!
fluorescentfox 4 months ago
say what you want about lou but he is a musical genius
themunchdude 4 months ago 2
@themunchdude Agreeed!
XmarilynmansonchildX 4 months ago
Great song and memories from growing up! And I still have this '45'....
djdougb1 4 months ago
What was eerie was that this song was a glimpse of the sexual climate that ushered in the outbreak of aids in NYC during the early eighties--promiscuity, prostitution, drug abuse and a complete lack of precautionary behavior.
mrsolofeo 4 months ago
@mrsolofeo Well I'll be fucked!
computerrage 2 months ago
What was funny was that this song was being played on mainstream radio and no one had a clue what it was about--even the giving head reference seemed to slip by everyone.
mrsolofeo 4 months ago
@mrsolofeo, the only thing that slipped past this preteen (at the time) was that it was based on Andy Warhol's friends. Not long after I saw much worse on the streets and buses in North Hollywood.
davekeays 2 months ago
Pure decadence!
mrsolofeo 4 months ago
2 yrs b4 the release of this song "the kinks," perhaps rock and rolls most underrated bands of all time, came out with Lola, another truly great song about the same topic.
godisdeadagain 4 months ago
FUCK boston
techgeek97 5 months ago
she said: hey baby, take a walk on the wild side...
gugball 5 months ago
This classic KICKS ASS!!! Don't make them like that anymore!
ursa41 5 months ago 3
Download the audio from this song at tubepull doht cohm.
VaniaDawson882 5 months ago
I know what this song is about but I dont care I dont discrimant No way but this beat to this song somehow makes me smile. Very smoothing song..
akaameliakay 5 months ago
OMG!
I had NO IDEA what this sawwwng was about this I read the blurb in this video.
Thanks for the video montage.
lindalucys2004 7 months ago
Alright........ HAH > dat sax <
intrptr 7 months ago
Heard this is the car & LOVED it -3
TheMovieLuvr 7 months ago
my happy song....(musically)
lafnatcha 7 months ago
rascism thats not frowned upon my kind of song
rockawaybeach95 7 months ago
amazing song.
thefg71 8 months ago
Metallica & lou reed can you believe it???
angiekism 8 months ago 2