RIP: Dead at 71 Mr. Lou Reed was an idle to the nyc art scene and beyond. Somewhere in heaven he’s telling a band they suck and all we have left is David Bowie, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. They were from an era of music that was so original that we will never see or hear such a thing ever again. Andy Warhol’s magic and vision catapulted this other wise coffee house bound band into our collect unconsciousness not just in America but all over the world. NYC as the center of universe for many and if you never ever listened to the velvet underground you already know the music was as pure as the purest gold. Dirty but with a sparkle of magic glossed over it because in essence Lou Reed was what huge part of what defined cool for many of us that can whip out a The Velvet Underground cover at the flip of a dime.
Download several versions of “ROCK And ROLL”
“Rock & Roll” [Full-Length Version] MP3 from Loaded
“Rock & Roll ” (Demo) MP3 from Loaded Disc2
“Rock & Roll” [Alternate Mix] MP3 w/ Nico cackling in the begining.
“Rock And Roll” 10:09 LIVE version MP3 from LOU REED from Rock and Roll Animal
“Rock & Roll Part 2” MP3 by Bongwater response.
“Rock N Roll” MP3 (COVER) by The Runaways
We hope one day we can write a song as great as this one.
Lyrics “ROCK & ROLL” by Lou Reed
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
you know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Every time she put on the radio
there was nothin’ goin’ down at all
not at all
One fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station
and she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancin’ to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
ooohhh, her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll
hey baby, rock ‘n’ roll
Despite all the amputation
you could dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
And it was all right
it was all right
hey babe
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
you know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Two TV sets, two Cadillac cars
ahhh, hey, ain’t help me nothin’ at all
not at all
One fine morning, she heard on a New York station
she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
not at all
Despite the amputation
you could dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
It was all right
it was all right
oh, now here she comes now-now
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
you know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Yeah, every time she put on the radio
there was nothin’ goin’ down at all
not at all
Then one fine morning, she put on a New York station
and she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancing to that fine-fine music
ahh, her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll
rock ‘n’ roll
Despite all the amputation
you could dance to the rock ‘n’ roll station
It’s all right, all right
all right, all right
All right, it’s all right
all right, all right
Baby, baby
baby, baby, ooohhh
WHO: It’s not a huge trade secret or maybe it is that I work for a pretty big advertising company. You can follow my every madman move on the twitters if you want. WHERE: Over the past year I’ve been working on this original creative content series called Create or Else that lives on a youtube channel and focuses on artists, creators and people who basically do some interesting shit. WHEN: We revealed the channel last year in Cannes France and now we’re in the running to win a Webby People’s Choice Award. Total honor. The Voting ends April 28th. WHAT: I need you to help us win by going to this Webby Awards link in the Online Film & Video category for documentary series. Just register quickly and VOTE so we can win. That is of course after you watch the above trailer and concur that this series is a good thing for creative types.
Here’s one of the videos we’ve been able to produce that features my pal Jack Rabid who publishes the epic music magazine The Big Takeover talking about the current state of music and how get started doing what he does.
Anyway if you like this mini doc would be super awesome if you voted — Thank You!
ALBUM REVIEW: Howdy psychedelic music fans here’s some jams from a Moscow band called June Hunters. If you are a aficionado of Psych Rock and house of LSD’s light touch like faves 13th Floor Elevators or Black Angels you might dig this trip. They are pretty good genre emulators and I think we have the internets to thank. They verge a little on a 80’s alternative interpretation similar to The Psychedelic Furs with the use of some of the extra keyboard sounds. They are power trio and none too far off of what The Faint were sorta trying to pull off except with a actual drummer, nothing to do with Disco though and the ability to sling a tambourine track like Jonestown Massacre as logged by their track called “More” available exclusively here for the first time with that unmistakable Rickenbacker bass sound to drive this closing track on the EP. Now where are my bell bottoms and funky shades?
More MP3 by June Hunters from their self titled EP.
Something Psychedelic like music: Love My Way MP3 by The Psychedelic Furs Reverberation(Doubt) MP3 by The 13th Floor Elevators (1967) The Black Angel’s Death Song MP3 by The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). The Black Angels named their band after this song. Which features this repetitive violin sound with this amazing sense of melody by Lou Reed in-between the noise. Amazing song.
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