Lou Reed – “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”, “Vicious”, “Sweet Jane” And “Berlin”

by Paul

Lou Reed (of the Velvet Underground) was and still is a bit different, and “Take A Walk On The Wild Side” is no exception.

Kinda weird, but sticks in your mind…. doop, de doop, de doop, de doop de doop, doop, de doop, de doop, de doop de doop, doooooop… :-).

He did come to New Zealand in the Seventies, as far as I can remember I didn’t go.

If I recall rightly, there may have been some controversy, as in he didn’t play!

Anyway, this is the original, and many say the best, version of “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”:

Another song from Lou Reed I quite like, despite the title, is “Vicious”:

And here’s some live Lou Reed, “Sweet Jane” live in Paris in 1974 (I don’t actually know this, but it sounds cool; just read it was a Velvet Underground song):

I just had a look in my record collection, and I actually have a Lou Reed album, “The Bells”, but it’s from 1979 and none of these songs are on it as they all came out in the early Seventies.

Just read that it’s Lou Reed’s birthday in two days time, the day after mine, and the same day as a friend in Berlin.

By coincidence, one of his albums was titled… “Berlin”.

One of my favourite cities, in fact I nearly moved there in 1983.

Come to think of it, why don’t I just include “Berlin” here as well…