Lou Reed Dirty Blvd. (HQ)

From his 1989 album New York.

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Music

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• VU
• Velvet
• Underground
• new
• york
• high
• quality
• 1989
• Lou
• Reed
• Dirty
• Blvd.
• (HQ)

[bpeck77]

Dirty Boulevard is now Disney Boulevard. No more whores asking cops if they want a suck. Just lame-ass tourists looking to pay $400 to see the Lion King. A lot's happened in New York since this song came out.

[kekhotep]

One of my all-time favorites, you gotta hear it on vinyl.

[JusticeInWar]

@bpeck77 good for walt disney, so they can earn more money

bad for the hungry, the poor, the underclass, who are to starve

[Grooves70]

grandissimo Lou....

[pariahpete]

@orangeiceice12 Maybe if i had been a tourist in 80's, instead of someone who saw the crack epidemic close up, I might have seen some glamour in it all... but, I didn't. Just this week I was down on Cooper Square at a Gary Lucas performance. I'm always amazed at how gentrified that area is now. My car (1966 Chevy Belair) was broken into back in the 80's. Sh#@!!. That car would have made a good gypsy cab. But, I should never have taken it out of Brooklyn. Know what I mean, jellybean?

[pariahpete]

@orangeiceice12 I say "you would say it was colorful" because, unlike me, you were never really there to smell the piss and vomit every day or deal with insane people or junkies. The insane people couldn't help themselves and I didn't bother them if they behaved themselves. Walking from my job on B'way was a pain because some women in my office would want me to walk with them to the A Train at the Port Authority. It kind of put me on the spot. They wanted me to buffer them from the local fauna.

[pariahpete]

@orangeiceice12 Actually, I worked in the Port Authority from 4:00 pm until 12:00 when I closed a store. It was hard kicking the nodding junkies out of the store because, unless you actually saw them steal something, the cops would advise you not to make an issue out of it. And then, for a couple of years, I worked in an office just off Times Square. Ah, yes. The area was so picturesque! It was always a pleasure walking from 8th Ave. to Broadway and back. You would say it was colorful.

[orangeiceice12]

@pariahpete if you weren't personally in new york in the 80s then its possible you're the greatest asshole who ever lived

[1968djw]

@kekhotep vinyl is the only way to hear music with feeling. need a good valve amp to get the most out though.

[pariahpete]

@bpeck77 Oh sure. Those lame-ass tourists just aren't as glamorous as the whores, pimps, grifters, junkies and lunatics who made Dirty Boulevard exciting, in a weird sort of way, to suburban boys who wanted to gawk at the gritty street life without getting dirty. Ah, yes. Gone are the days when the picturesque poor and maimed paraded up and down the street. When you could score for just about anything in "Playland" (open 24 hours). Yeah. The tourist ruined all that.

[acadx]

love the drums in this song maureen tucker or fred maher not sure both played on this record but its a great drum sound