LOU REED 'VICIOUS'

[dajesusblues]

Damn, I feel so fucking lucky to have been alive during so many decades of great music. I'm on my way to the double nickel. 45 years of great rock and roll, great blues, great great great.

[MrFast146]

that's fucking funny

[johnsearslv]

its a song about games

[salsasmama]

sex with drugs!!!

[dustinmoritz]

i like how its not like the studio album version.

[glamrockkidz]

interesting

[LouReedsBooks]

I love Lou Reed. I guess that goes without saying

[loorid25]

Oh my god !

Why do you call that jazz ?

Havn't yu ever heard blues ???

Remember La Grange ZZ TOP

[Gmapchannel]

Oh, this is jazz?

Well then I like it now.

[MegaHenry111]

this is an awful ,awful version

[Doderhultarn89]

its not as good as the original but i wouldnt use the word awful. its jazz. have a open mind

[yamon98]

@Doderhultarn89 if you're going to call this jazz, you might as well call Dave Matthews jazz too. Or anything that involves a saxophone player for that matter.

[SonofBrunhilde]

Fuck you, fuckhead. This version rocks. So fuck off, you fuck.

[4gerad]

can't recall anyone doing a cover of Lou's Vicious. EXCEPT for BIG COUNTRY

their version is absolutely F brilliant!

Have a listen it's here on YouTube, just key in

Big Country Vicious

[CrucialTimes1982]

um blitz covers vicious and it's sick

[unders000]

Fernando Saunders is on The Bass

[jrahnev]

Do you think that JACO is on bass or I am wrong

[ragozhin]

wow- thats sanborn on sax- he had a great late nite music show years ago

[bassist4141]

I missed the Pontiac commercial.

[axxelgallardo]

What's the name of the intro song?

[arsrcs]

Dirty Blvd, at least the guitar.

Great song, look it up it's on Youtube

[Snotra]

This song is better kept in the studio.

[willnido]

waht do you think, guys? it`s about sex or drugs?

[bakabana1966]

vicious is about anal orgasm on LSD

[torcodk]

Are you sure about that??

[jmspiro]

This is very probably a historically accurate anectode. It's widely reported that Warhol suggested to Reed that he write a song called Vicious. "You know, like you hit me with a flower," or something to this effect, was his explanation. There was a lot of anti-gay violence at the time, hence the Stonewall riots, near the site of the Stonewall bar. The song came as much out of the tenor of the times as it did a specific conversation between Warhol and Reed.

[arsrcs]

Andy Warhol suggested Lou write a song called Viciuos. I think the quoted conversation went something like this:

AW you should write a song called vicious.

LR How do you mean?

AW I'm mean vicious, like you hit me with a flower.

[JasonJarvis88]

why would andy say that? its true

[rivs59]

@arsrcs that's fucking funny

[alanhoover0]

@willnido Vicious was 1975 in Akron,OH Akron Civic Theatre Watching him get hit with wine bottles from people climbing the statues, ending the show. Oh. Baby... That was vicious.

[rainbowschild]

This is very Old School, circa 1874, right?

[sophomorethomas]

I don't think Lou Reed was alive in 1874.

[schworxprod]

1(9)72 i think

[khristinnn]

i don't like this version much... the original is just so amazing

[Droyd21]

I don't like this, but it still seems to me that Lou Reed really wants it sound this way. Who knows, maybe he is more satisfied with this version than the original (on which Bowie was involved.)

[IFO21]

He looks so different here ... I like the older versions better more edgy

[pmclynn68]

lou's a jazz man at heart cant you tell that from this version!

[mistressbladez]

the real version of this song - great!

[DaisyTwinklePuffs]

Umm... no offence to Lou Reed.. but now a days he sort of... sucks, compared to the 60's and 70's period of his music, which was freaking awesome, he's sort of lost his greatness i think.

[phishhed44]

Amazing....period.

[sillysighbean]

This is a very cool version of "vicious", thank you for posting! david sanborn on sax is sensational and sanders bass is sublime. I am amazed that some people do not like this..different strokes I guess. mmmmm

[pryorandrew]

yeh I dig every thing

[eastsackevster]

looking for more lou with this drummer, seen a show on cable long time ago drummer kicked butt and I remember he was sitting a little up high and prominant couldnt miss him, drums were tuned in very high, way more than here, and they just popped hard as he played.  anyone?

[chrisduff07]

this version is shit

[jolivia]

sorry Lou, this version blows!

[TorryFinley]

LOL at the Pontiac Sunfire.

[lukigno81]

Let me be vicious!!!!

[OllieJonsson]

Absolutely brilliant!

[Eikee]

you hit me with a sax

[bakabana1966]

that is david sanborn on sax

[2manyguitars]

He saved this tune from sounding like crap.