Lou Reed - Perfect Day

[TheSolaris810]

45 years later, and Lou is still converting new generations. One of the best concerts I have been to was in the 80s at Brixton Academy seeing and hearing Lou looking and sounding cool and great, barely moving, saying hardly anything, minimalist charisma at its best.

[JoeEkDukor]

i sing this as i walk to work

[JoeEkDukor]

639 people like stupid Justin beiber

[doug3159]

How can 639 people not like this?

[FedeoOXD]

it's so beautiful! <3

[TheKendo54]

classic lou

[manuelitoto1313]

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[Bromoteknada]

THIS SUCKS

EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SUCKS

[dutchii]

But about heroin or not, this song means something different to everyone. That's what makes music special.

[sniffy6999999]

perfect

[silverynight81]

good

[Anit22]

...dlaczego tak trudno wymazać z pamięci... taki właśnie dzień...? ...nie wiem, chociaż naprawdę się staram, tak bardzo męczy mnie tak częste wspomnienie tych chwil od lat... jedyne pocieszenie, to to, że to Ty zaraz potem wysłałeś mi ten utwór... dziękuję... pamiętam... przepraszam...

[levitan71]

reminds me of trainspotting =)

[p24c]

mi ex pololo amaba este tipo :( ... y yo tmbn u,u lo escucho y me acuerdo de él T_T

[needmyhole]

one of my dads favorite songs miss him more than anything love you dad xxx

[covmiss1]

@needmyhole in hear you xx

[MichelDeCoeyer]

I AM THE TABLE!

[jmt94music]

damn this song just brought back a bunch of old thoughts with my pal R.I.P. Trent

[allowayfreestate]

@jmt94music good ones I hope

[peloduroo]

For me, the best song of love.

[MyAruga]

i wish people would know about music before they make dumb crazy comments on here .get the facts straight you wombats .

[MpchermidafilhoA]

Metallica fans arguing with Lou Reed fans.

Lou Reed fans arguing with Metallica fans.

They shouldn't have made this collaboration...

[MegaPogaca]

i need some

[tonytherapy]

beautiful song - such a shame about the content - thanx lou for the song!!

[2112catch]

KAY E KO.

[PunkyTom1962]

we ave lost a lot of matez to the heroin....rip 2 all who ave lost the fight...

[katiethrashe]

Absolutely about heroin

[mikesnow232]

ahh, what rawness. what true sincerity. so painful, yet so great. lyrical music like this, with such a real and authentic sound comforts me so so much! loneliness is a human condition, but I think I can deal with it. really, sometimes, I just feel as if the world is so much bigger when you're alone. and music, it just ties everything together. thank you Lou Reed. also, for any lost souls out there, just found another great song today that you may like. look up "June by Genry Gene".

[StWolfie]

@mikesnow232

but it's about his heroin addiction

[sniffy6999999]

@StWolfie I'm not sure it has anything with his adiction.

[dutchii]

@sniffy6999999 Most likely it is

[96aromaz]

@StWolfie just because you heard it on trainspotting doesn't make it about heroin!

[kezie666666]

great song

[sickolinokio]

the ultimate heroin song love it or hate it i love it

[GDhaenens]

I needed one more final hit

[MaggogZ]

I'm off the skag! I'll do it right this time, get off it for good. The Sick Boy method.

[tiredofyou83]

R.I.P Little brother Chris 10/28/75- 01/18/01 Heroin is no game .life is not the same even 11 yrs later.

[kdvtg]

This song is not about heroin Leo lê...

[davidwallis85]

SKAGGGG

[7uppopo]

Trainspotting!

[Zanuda003]

there's beautiful sadness in this song

[PunkBurSt]

The song is so beautifully used in trainspotting

[killgreed]

Today for me, has been Perfect, but by Design?

[antman1sa]

you're going to reap just what you sow...

[antman1sa]

stunning

[wandererlain]

I always thought this dude was softcore but this is a very memorable song of his.

Really quite classic!

[paulken11]

this piece of magic came out in 1972 but i was too young...didnt discover it till 1981...ha what a find...fucking brill

[TheThevelvetnirvana]

very is noy wen i are 30 the is "perfect day"..we see and we think ve perfect are living perfect live..thanks h u just keep my and hold my!thanks luo.we are sick people!

[jktomas]

Very depressing and beautiful song.

[MaggogZ]

Tranispotting brought me here.

[folladordeprostis]

@MaggogZ in what part of the movie was this song;:?? I don't remember,I saw it around 2006

[MaggogZ]

@folladordeprostis it plays in it's entirety when the main character gets an overdose.

[antman1sa]

bloody hell...tears are there...what a song...fuck! (sorry its all i can say)

[pahtriac]

dunno if i should be depressed or happy with this song..



[dteehan]

One of the best songs ever written in my opinion.

[AyeAreAy]

Lou Reed - Genious...... 'nuff said!!

[SunCountryMusic]

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[ashconnor]

This song reminds me of heroin.

[paul21turbo]

@ashconnor thats just because u watched Trainspotting, dont pretend you made that connection yourself.....

[ashconnor]

@paul21turbo Who's a clever boy? Yes you are.

[chatzimcfee]

@paul21turbo I've never seen that movie and I made that connection too. Don't talk shit about what you don't know.

[TheDonaloDonoghue]

Monkey face

[arbanaskocudo]

savršen dan

[irazosa]

epic

[lindabillyboy]

one of the most respected men in the industry shame shame shame for saying anything bad about this man is brilliant

[karenteacher2008]

woow

[RAINintoTEARS]

i can't listen to this without thinking of something blowing up.. i think that happened on the bones episode that they played this on

[chappas2111]

shit, sinking into the carpet!

[craezee247]

@24postie giving or recieving?

[alienacidtechno]

@craezee247 He was giving to a male.

[TheSjpatrik]

@craezee247 i bet he gived

[ashconnor]

@TheSjpatrik *gave.

[deathbeforedishonou1]

@24postie What was the guys name that gave you the blowjob?

[humbertojimmy]

This song crys the kind of sadnnes i only found in "My Sweet Prince" (Placebo).

[fungus000]

I completely fell in love with this song.

[CooleBoyMetSwagHd]

kijk ook op mijn kanaal

[aDogNamedHandsome]

"I thought I was someone else. Someone good." Great lyric.

[lSRAEL666]

shit !

[boyprodigio1]

Totally garbage. Susan Boyle version is very better. +o(

[rikkekjoelsen]

@boyprodigio1 Are you telling me that Susan Boyle dared to sing this song? It's pure blasphemy to the song!

[333Chrome]

this song is my mothermilk, i grew up with it. even before the clash. and by the way, no need for heroin. just a glass of wine, a joint and a good hifi, that should do.

[noddenoob2]

I always found a reason to believe in a perfect day, then I took an arrow to the knee;)

[Scumdog416]

@noddenoob2 Gay

[stormsurfer5650]

I have "The finest" musical taste, according to Matforsbon below. Let's make him truly envious and tell him I saw Lou Reed at the Leicester University Percy Gee building as a teenager. *Polishing my fingernails*

[1xXxEMOBOYxXx4]

juuusttt a perfect daaayyyy :D

[tecioband]

628 cocainomani

[TheSamanthaAbbott]

What's the one movie where this song was used a soundtrack to an explosion?

[shavlov1981]

@TheSamanthaAbbott "Trainspotting"

[TheGypsysoul777]

@TheSamanthaAbbott

ncis

[Feydmep]

This is probably cliche but I've never heard a song that, for me at least, is more eerily reminiscent of the cold euphoria of opiates. It's not even necessarily about dope, it just gives me that vibe- this perfect contentment that's tinged with a really dark melancholy about how necessarily finite and sad being that nicely high is.

[stormsurfer5650]

@Feydmep There's nothing cold about opiates. A few lines of brown used to give me a warm feeling all over, in addition to everything else. Try not to sound so literal and you won't be replied to so literally.

[Feydmep]

@stormsurfer5650- Really? Doing heroin made you feel good? The 'cold euphoria of opiates' I was talking about, as was mentioned in the text, is the necessarily ugly coldness of doing hard dope. It's wonderful until it isn't and turns very cold on you. Remember that part where I talked about perfect contentment? People usually aren't real content when they're cold. If you're bullshitting about having done your 'lines of brown' you likely have no idea what I'm talking about. If...

[Feydmep]

@stormsurfer5650... you have, your facility for anything but superficial and confused interpretation is a problem area and should be worked on, there Stormsurfer. Try not to so like a depthless chipper posting outside your experiential pay grade and I won't have to point out that you sound like you aren't working with the strongest command of reading and comprehension acuity.

[talkwindsor]

Keep me hanging on

[Vladdyboy]

I have a cold...

[dis0gree]

Lou Reed is just one of the blokes we shouldn't forget.

[stormsurfer5650]

@dis0gree You're "British", at a guess - I'm not, I'm English - and of course, you're right.

[2BCBattlefield]

So much fighting here about Metallica and what ever. Luckily I dont care, I just appreciate good music

[Hysteria98]

Gotta sing this off the top of your lungs every time you have the best day of your life.

Thank you, Lou Reed :')

[musicsavage]

This song is like, 40 years old (god, 40!).

I wonder just how many times since then it has been left as a message on lovers answering machines all over the world.

[Cryer24597]

TRAINSPOTTING.

[333Chrome]

@Cryer24597  yeh right, but the song was first, then the movie trainspotting afterwards

[MiruskoRemper]

aj piatok 13-ho je ...

[Aldoo97]

This song was number one in the charts the day I was born.

[IdleElectric]

Remarkable.

[Moodi687]

Thumbs up if you could sing better then this guy...lo

[jason69332]

great music summers day in the park. very relaxed good times. gotta grow up some time though:(

[rockotter1]

beautiful...

[maralbert666]

It's just a perfect song with the perfect singer..that'ts it.

[MaxPFC]

Song about being high, by a guy who liked to get high, and was probably high when he sang it.

[RobWerkman92]

guys listen!

take xtc

sit back

listen this song for 3 hours

best 3 hours you will ever have :)

[luridthingsCO]

You're going to reap just what you sov.

[jaynelapira]

Excellent, what a surprise that Lou Reed sings this. I only learnt about it by listening to Susan Boyles version. What a mesmerizing song...perfection!

[thornike]

Super ! სუპერ !

[TwelvetreeZ]

I love how this is used in Trainspotting, such a Perfect Song =D

[inresponsetoyousir]

it's a shame his voice has gone to shit. bowie was a smoker too but he's still got it. but bowie doesn't write beautiful songs about being smacked out of your gourd on smack.

[MsChamallow]

Perfect day = perfect song

[phartznpopz]

Must agree with UltraRockSounds a superb piece.

[Sother3]

Is it just me or does he sound a bit like John Barrowman? o: When i heard this on Torchwood miracle day trailer, i thought it was John singing. lol.

[rogersmith12]

@Sother3 I never thought of that, but crap. It really does sound a lot like him. Someone needs to make a video for this song with him in it now. lol

[Sother3]

@rogersmith12 oh my god yes. I WANT. hmh, i would do it myself but right now i don't have any good free video editing software on my computer ;_; haven't found any.

[redzonemacciv]

Love and Friendship is what make us hanging on, on such hard times like these. Dont ever forget that. And love yours, everyday like it was the last. Great Music, Great Lou....

[UltraRockSounds]

Normally I don't comment about this but those 622 dislikes must come from 622 miserable fuckers. Anyway, there's a lot of well deserved likes here :)

[adwatts1966]

@UltraRockSounds LOL! They are the .03% so their "opinion" (aka "no musical taste") means NOTHING. :D

[Cobomiko]

perfect day con mi polola constanza te amo.

[angieroum]

beeaautiful!!

[divynem]

... Fantastic ...

[MrMballan]

Just perfect

[JimboDean9]

in about 10 minutes my days about to be perfect

[estramboticanaif]

Just perfect...

[heavy666varg]

clasic

[iamipula]

trainspotting... just perfect

[Kimenvy]

Used in the most perfect movie I have ever seen.Trainspotting. If u aint seen it .Do yourself a favour. The whole cast is just awesome. Ewen Mc Gregor is just stand out in it.

[gauntlilikoi]

it annoys me that so many people are bringing the (god-awful) metallica collaboration into this, i mean it was bad but it has absolutely nothing to do with this song. this is a decades old song and a beautiful classic in my opinion.

[TheEndlessNote]

if i had a perfect day the melody would be much different but this is another reason for us to keep trying to communicate

[CBKslick]

this song makes me think of what one thing keeps me goin on..my wonderful friends, tht keep reminding me it will work itself out...without them i dont know if id be here or not

[jurp0wnsEM]

@CBKstick please don't stop, the music keeps layine ahead of you; it's aind of magic

[mymiseryandme]

wish I was there...

[farkoch34]

Comment ne pas aimer ?????

[Saugeendrifter]

618 plus idiots..

[kjnwfchrcnhr]

need a hit

[Izerb1]

lower

[MpchermidafilhoA]

I don't have nothing against Lou Reed (and I'm kinda of ashamed of liking metal after I read that some dumbasses are trying to kill Lou Reed), but him and Metallica have nothing to share in common

[Glynnwat]

@MpchermidafilhoA "some dumbasses are trying to kill Lou Reed"

wat? Can someone explain this to me?

[Lebensbaustein]

@Glynnwat Glad I'm not the only one who wondered what the F that meant...

[MpchermidafilhoA]

@Glynnwat Yes, some stupid guys are sending messages to him. Like "I will kill you".

[milos4619]

@MpchermidafilhoA Yes they do  MUSIC !!!!!!!!!

[MpchermidafilhoA]

@milos4619 ...I think you know what I meant

[mrernestthomspon]

@MpchermidafilhoA You're such a dumb ass you used a double negative. Perhaps you should be on Jerry Springer, you'd fit right in. Should have said 'I don't have anything,' not don't have nothing. Idiot.

[MpchermidafilhoA]

@mrernestthomspon You fucking asshole, english is not my native language. You should get shot in the ass and get raped and die on a plane crash.

[mrernestthomspon]

@MpchermidafilhoA Hmm, kinda sounds like you're the asshole. Only an asshole would wish that upon others.

[MpchermidafilhoA]

@mrernestthomspon lol, sorry dude. I just realized that arguing in YouTube is the last thing that this world needs.

[MrDopePenguin]

kurwa mac, zmiazdzylo mi to cyce.

[VivaHelsinki]

This is a very nice song. We used to sing this in school in our music classes.

[Oxidized181]

i have chills and it's not cold...

[aurea031]

@Oxidized181 Lou Reed is such an underrated artist. His talents are endless and his influences are heard in most of the good music today. He has been mimicked by so many wannabees but nobody can steal the pure genius that is Lou Reed

[devilraider1]

Too short!

[ErkkiSuper]

Lou needs to do an album with Bowie again.

[SmokingIsNotBad]

Trainspotting! Best movie ever!

[888stevieg]

'it certainly is a phenomenon in all walks of life'

[ValAktaion]

Anyone who can tell me how I can get rid of that most obnoxious yellow stop bar at 10 sec?

[hongolove]

that song make me remember my dad<3

[usat42]

have never felt sorry that i called my daughter JANE ,