Lou Reed & John Cale - Trouble With Classicists

[lyonslaforet]

Lou Reed and John Cale shone together back in 1990!

[Sakhalinskii]

 @wonkydude1 Disagree, Reed brought Cale down. To see what he's capable of on his own listen to a song like Leaving It Up To You.

[cosmicrider287]

more awesomeness...nectar for the ears.

[dajcei]

i love this album. it says so much about andy and lou and john.

[SorenMoller26]

"I think it sometimes hurts you when you stay too long in school. I think it sometimes hurts you when you are afraid to be called a fool."

[costellodan]

If ONLY they'd go on tour with this.

[rachelolivier]

LOVE JOHN CALE.

[jackhillty]

i think sometimes it hurts you when you're afraid to be called a fool

[batchainpulla]

My favorite track on the album. Wonderful!!!!!

[pierredeluxe]

True Meistershaft by two WELTMeisters

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Heard a great live interview with Lou yesterday, and since i'm seeing Lou, Laurie and Zorn TOGETHER at our Jazz Fest in July...gotta get me a new cd of this to replace my old scratched one, and the dvd to replace my old(but loved) vhs version!

[originalblat]

An incredible album, and, to me, the best song on it.

[Soxogram]

This is a brilliant album.

[louiseduvee]

Nothing short of a legendary performance!

[muffirub]

I was writing for a regional music magazine back in the 90's, and in May 1990 I wrote a review of this album. I said that it is very rare that one can name an album "Album of the Decade" only five months into the decade, but this had to be it. In December 1999 I wrote an article in a newspaper, in which I referred to the abovementioned article, and concluded that this truly was the best album of the 90's. Now, in 2009, I think it is by far the best album of the last two decades!

[Phillwin]

I think you haven't listened to any music since this album was released. I too think it's an excellent album and I have it on vinyl bought when it was released. I do think that there have been other albums of the decade or duodecade - one springs to mind - aerial - kate bush.

[muffirub]

Well, of course nothing is as subjective as taste ... But, you probably revealed an important difference between us; you bought the LP, while the record company of course sent me the CD. I guess you haven't bothered with your old LPs in a while, huh? While I have listened to the CD on a weekly basis for the past two decades. Lou's solo at 2:08 is quite possibly his best 14 seconds as a guitar player. And Kate Bush, well, as I said taste is subjective. And KB is not my cup of tea.

[mtrucco]

for my money, the solo on "forever changed" still burns brightest.

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Kate Bush?LMFAO!! Taste being subjective ...SFD was certainly one of the most exciting releases of that year, and of the careers of these two artists :) however considering the 90's was the golden era of indie there was no small abundance of EXCEPTIONAL music being made, these two cats among it Objectively speaking in terms of innovation and contribution to the medium; there has been a consensus among critics and conaisseurs alike that Beck was the definintive artists of that decade(th 90's)

[candelise]

Beck: one style, then another, then another, then another: mash 'em all up, spew it out: Beck!! When the critics get fed up of him and call him irrelevant, they'll then call him 'Speck!'

[candelise]

All that fuss about Aerial! The peice could've been released onto one CD, but I suppose that would've lessened its 'grandeur'! Now a regular in the bargin bins and as a friend and big KB fan said, he didn't think that it was that good. A song about a washing machine,please!

[barakobama]

It was an inspirational album made by two talented guys who owed a lot to Andy. It was a truly great album.

The gave it their all to pay tribute.

[lexo30]

I am a huge John Cale fan. I really can't stand Lou Reed most of the time, but he did fabulous work on this album. Thanks for posting the video, I remember watching it on TV back in the day.

[SadLisa777]

The same as me!!! You´re the frist person like this! Glad to meet you.

[SadLisa777]

Im his fan too! And I would do more of his videos on my channel. His is just amazing.

[louiseduvee]

Great song, great performance, great footage & sound. Great everything. Thanks!

[Jabberw0cky7]

Quality rock !

[Leighbo1]

*****

[alexandert1944]

Also my favorite song of "Songs for Drella".

[loureedthebest]

Do you know if the TAB of the live version exist please?

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Just one more thing, apart from John and Lou's utterly eternal brilliance, this song should be a requisite part of the Geneva convention's global manifesto on cultural aesthetics LOL! Fret not, for the "forces of evil and a bozo nightmare" slap me back to reality pretty quick, thanks Beck

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Tell me about the "trouble with classicists honey!!!" Let's talk about art, said the fool to the idiot" Precisely...they're in love with their own guille, they're driving gypsy cabs but their thinking like a truck.That's the trouble with reality honey....I recall going ballistic when I first heard this album back in the day..

I like their lack of training, their primitive technique...sums it up nicely.Thanks for posting.

[loureedthebest]

Lou Reed can play the guitar so good.John Cale at the piano is very good too.Two Legends together....

[citizenX9328g]

Ah...once aagian,Mr Cale fixes my life :)

[citizenX9328g]

* again

[tizn]

It's mine either.

The problem is that Lou's guitar is not well tunned, at least comparing to the studio version... and Lou also misses some chords and notes;

[liamuir]

lou reed can miss notes if he wants to, hes lou reed man!!!!

[xtravisbicklex]

Lou gave concerts where he completely changed a melody for one or more songs a good example is "Take No Prisoners".

It makes them sound more real IMO

[natakbazi]

...I think one of the biographies said that, when these two met, they realized that they both tuned all the cords to the same note to get a drone effect... and as "liamuir" says, he is Lou Reed... In fact, he said it himself: "Nobody does a Lou Reed better than Lou Reed". This is one of the most underrated albums. Thanks for posting this.

[punkace]

This is actually quite amazing stuff. If you want to hear him playing some strange stuff... didn't someone mention "take no prisoners" earlier?

[HumGuitar]

This is my favorite song off of "Songs for Drella". This is great, thanks!