31
Photo: Lou Reed (seated) with fellow songwriter Paul Simon, circa 1982
Saturday night, while having a drink at the neighborhood bar, Lou Reed’s “Dirty Blvd.” came drifting out of the Jukebox, darting past the bad Halloween costumed drunkards and landed right in my glass. An immensely satisfying surprise at 12:20 a.m., the tune got me thinking about 1980s era Lou Reed and his post-Velvets, post ’70s glam work. Specifically the albums The Blue Mask and New York, the latter from which “Dirty Blvd” is culled.
Released in 1989 Reed’s album New York painted the ultimate gritty picture of pre-Giuliani NYC with it’s storytelling - a dark urban lullaby to his city at the end of a decade plagued by greed, disease, poverty and Reaganism.
DOWNLOAD:
MP3: Lou Reed :: Dirty Blvd
Halloween Treat: Bobby Picket :: Monster Mash
———-
Amazon: Lou Reed - New York
www.loureed.org
+ Try out eMusic’s 25 Free MP3 offer.
——————————————————————————————————
+ Visit The Hype Machine for additional Lou Reed MP3s.
filed under: Music | comments off | read more...
30
photo credit: john vanderlslice
While dropping Eric Bachman’s name in this earier post I later realized I had yet to feature anything concerning Bachman’s own 2006 release on here. For shame, as To The Races more than deserves it’s own ink on the Drunkard. Recorded solo, in a hotel in North Carlolina’s Outer Banks, To The Races capitalizes on the self-sanctioned isolation Bachman imposed on himself during the writing phase of the album while living out of his car in the pacific northwest in the summer of ‘05. Those only familiar with his work with Crooked Fingers and Archers of Loaf should find this solo release an interesting 180 change in direction. Bachman’s sparse and acoustic arrangements work perfectly here.
filed under: Music | comments off | read more...
27
It’s been quite some time since An Aquarium Drunkard has had the opportunity to feature anything Wilco related, which in a way is a shame given the blog’s namesake.
filed under: Music | comments off | read more...