My wife and I danced to this at our wedding reception. The greatest day of my life and an appropriate song for the occasion. At the time I was in the Army and was a severe alcoholic. The lyrics at the end was the cherry on top because she was fully aware of what she was willing to get into. I’ll never forget hearing her cry over the phone a couple years after we got married when I told her my chain of command signed off for me to get help at a rehabilitation center in Oregon. I got off of heroin through the same means to be able to join the Army so she was aware that I had already gone through a withdrawal process. 7 years clean of heroin, 3 years sober of alcohol. Thank you so much my dear Hannah for taking a chance with me. Thank you so much Lou for all of your work I’ve listened to ever since my father raised me with your art. We now have two beautiful children, I was able to successfully transition back into civilian life, and the future looks quite promising. Some folks can’t comprehend the power of art and music, but it’s a power that can’t possibly be denied.
@@MickBellTV: No. “Perfect Day? Aaaoh, that’s… so laughable. You’re talking to the writer, the person who wrote it. No that’s not true. I don’t object to that, particularly… whatever you think is perfect. But this guy’s vision of a perfect day was the girl, sangria in the park, and then you go home; a perfect day, real simple. I meant just what I said.”
I used to play this song as the heroin hit, every relapse, after relapse. It's the sixth year anniversary of me getting sober today. Still love this song, it just means something very different now.
Ronson's piano is so strong, it completely lifts the song above and beyond. Ronson was recognised as a very talented arranger too. But you can't pull Bowie out of the equation. Reed, Ronson, Bolder all had more prominent careers because of their association with Bowie. As for the money, we all know that many 70s musicians were done down by their managers and this was the experience of Bowie, Ronson and Bolder with Tony Defries. Bowie ended up very wealthy due to his decision to manage himself and later through the creation of the Bowie bonds which allowed him to buy back his own back catalogue.
When I was in active heroin addiction I truly understood the bittersweet feel of this song. Longing for the high and longing to be clean at the same time. Clean today I still love it.
I feel ya!!! clean for 3 now after struggling for 34! Still love this song,and can honestly say, i can listen to it , and it doesn't make me wanna get high now! 👍😜 Yay for us!
To both of you, you should be incredibly proud of yourselves. Knowing the struggle I've had with alcohol, I can only imagine the superhuman strength and commitment needed to get off of heroin. Take care of yourselves.
Can’t keep “You’re going to reap just what you sow” outta my mind every year of my life. I still listen to Perfect Day on rainy days on the streets of NYC. Glad someone like Lou existed.
Me too. I be listening to this every time I ride my bike on a beautiful day through riverside park while I’m headed to Times Square and Union Square looking towards the West Side Highway and the Hudson River
@@juniornunez2583 it’s a great song to listen to while strolling by many picturesque NY locations like the places you mentioned. I listen to it while walking the Brooklyn bridge on warm summer nights. Speed walking through crowds in busy Manhattan streets after a night out drinking.
my friend Maddie died in April. This was one of her favourite songs, and they played it at her funeral. It reminds me of her everytime I listen to it. “it’s such a perfect day.. I’m glad I spent it with you...” I love you Maddie. I miss you every single day. ❤️
I played this song on loop while my cat (my baby) was dying in my arms... such a beautiful song. I still get tears now listening to it and remembering our perfect 15 years together
HEROIN IS DEATH!!!!!!! DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL. Heroin is heaven CUM too soon; Premature ejaculation and no one is satisfied!!!!!! My best friend just died; AGAIN
Personally, this is an example of the pure power and magic of music. When a song causes a physical reaction in your body! It may be a shiver up your back, goosebumps all over or make you burst into tears.... that's the power of music. Humans have known this since we've had ears to hear with. It's a beautiful thing.
Having fun with depression - and David Bowie and ‘Ronno’ otherwise it would just be another unfinished chess game against that one friend who never just never shows up on time or ever.
I can't explain the nightmare I just went through searching for this song, the sense of relief I am feeling having found it, but I will try. I thought I was going fucking nuts. When all you can remember from this song is, "You just keep me hangin on," which only returns results for "You Keep Me Hangin On", a completely different song from the 1960s, and not at all what you're looking for. "Okay," you think, "I'll give it a listen and see if the song I'm looking for is some sort of modern cover." Fuckin' nope, not even close. You look through three pages of results, none of which have this song, and you honestly have no idea what you can do to refine a search for the only six words you remember from a song. At this point you begin to question your own sanity, is the song real at all? Did I get the words wrong in some small way that means I may never figure out what song I'm actually looking for? Am I doomed to be nervous and angry until by chance I suddenly figure out what song I've been looking for? You just want to break things, because in no way should it be this difficult to find a catchy song on the *internet!* WHERE IS IT?! Is there some kind of grand conspiracy to keep you from finding this song? Make you doubt your own mental faculties until you are left a dribbling, emotionally ruined shell of your former self? If you don't figure out what song this is, you aren't eating, you aren't going to bed, you aren't doing anything because now it's personal. *You* can't find this song, and if you can't find it that means you are wrong, and you know you aren't wrong. It's a horrifying paradox, you cannot give up or else every day that you live having not found that song will be a day lived in agony at the knowledge that you can never prove what you know to be real. Why even continue living? Anyway, I finally found it, by chance after a couple days. The real struggle is figuring out how I'm going to dispose of these bodies.
+FultonLMiller that was intense mate.. rather start watching some amazing movies .. like this song is in the movie trainspotting ..! Great movies have great soundtracks!
Yes man I feel connected with you when you say that, I finally found it today...gonna say sound cheesy but I've been searching for this for a good 10 years haha, I used to ask everyone I know I never knew the words I just had to hum it to people and they didn't have a clue...and today I randomly hummed it to my nan and she told me straight away I actually nearly cried while listening to it haha
I met Mr Reed as an 18 year old hippie, DuPont Circle , summer of 69. I knew nothing about him except for what he told me, and I didn’t believe him. We spent the afternoon and night trying to score junk from DC’s local junkster, Beethoven, and his associates. I was all acid and a little speed. A new world for this dippy hippie. Cut to 1970 a friend and I were at a place where they were playing The Velvet Underground and Nico. Wow, that’s the guy....!Loved the album, a whole new level for me. Cut again to last night and I finally said, “I really need to listen to Perfect Day.” Never heard it before. What can I say. Another day, touched by Mr Reed, reaching back from one day and night in 1969. “You’re going to reap just what you sow” ... indeed. Thank you.
This was "our song"! My fiancée and I kept each other hanging on... every day was a perfect day with her! I miss her so much! Rest in peace Shelly. I love you!!! Always and forever!!! ♥️♥️♥️
@@flyingsword135 Thank you! She still "keeps me hanging on"... I miss her every day! But, I keep hanging on to the hope that I'll be with her again, someday.
I am unable to contemplate how one song can make me so incredibly happy and be the absolute perfect illustration of profound sadness at the same time. This is the power of music. I have a very beautiful memory every time I listen to this song, it reminds me I place where I felt for the first time , that I belong and that I am seen with passionate eyes. It is such a perfect day indeed. Thank u for this masterpiece.
The best new literary style is the UA-cam coment, I can listen to first-person narrarives of what each piece of art meant to each individual person, and that is so inspiring and humbling and rich.
Which is why it’s a travesty most songs on official pages got their comments auto disabled by youtube. It leads us to uploads from other people rather than the artist just to see comments. In other words, fuck you youtube!
We played this at my first sons funeral (20+ years ago). I still listen to it when I'm missing him. Along with Patti Smith (Little blue boy) that was also played.
I used to listen as a teen. Then realise has these perfect days in London now just enjoying listening on a breezy summers day… God bless everyone 🙏💐💕🔥 here’s to more perfect days whatever those are & gratitude for all good days had..
Just a perfect day Drink sangria in the park And then later, when it gets dark We go home Just a perfect day Feed animals in the zoo Then later a movie, too And then home Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It's such fun Just a perfect day You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else Someone good Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow
@@auroraborealis13579 Hey Aurora! How's the weather in California? It's clear skies but cold here near Waterloo Bridge South East London LALALA... Stay safe... Alex👉🇬🇧👈👉😷👈👉🙏
I love how that song is so positive yet there is undertones of misery. A perfect reflection of life. Reap just what you sow. Positive outlook, and attitude - good things are abound. Negative outlook - bad things await. You are the master of your own destiny
After many love dissapointments, every time I go out and spend a saturday or sunday with my daughters, I finish my day at my appartment listening to this song. And then, I find that life gets so well when the definitive and beloved ones are happy with you by just sharing simple things and you can forget everything when it's spent with them. A day with my daughters is a perfect day.
Perfect Day is the perfect song. Great lyrics, beautiful arrangement by Mick Ronson with just the right nuances and Reed's somewhat haunting and ironic vocals with a twist of the sardonic. A wonderful track with some very powerful lines
Always seem to play this song at the end of the day when I feel sad and long for my youth and all my friends who are all dead and gone. Even though I never wanted to be thirty, I somehow always thought I would indeed have all my friends with me when I got older. I will be 66 next month and it is just me and my cat. But 30 years off heroin/coke/benzos/barbiturates/booze. Got this album in '74. Thank you Lou for being on the planet with me.
I am listening to this song in honor of My good friends mother who passed away last night via overdose, Rest easy Gina theres no more pain for you on this earth.
I'm sorry ❤ I just bought it on iTunes. It makes me laugh.. Lou Reed often has these lines in his lyrics which are unexpected or like afterthoughts. In this it's where he says they had dinner (?) and a movie, then adds "and then home". Other songs would have some amazing, mystical thing that happened but not Lou and his girlfriend (or whoever). They went home.
This song was instrumental in my journey getting over a relationship with a manipulative narcissist and eventually finding my way back to myself. God bless Lou Reed for this one!
This is such a clever song. From the lyrics describing a mediocre life that's not too downtrodden but subtlety sad. Firmly hammered in by the chorus. Not only by instruments but by a slight voice break indicating a hidden struggle. Perfection.
It is indeed a clever song that combines a bright, upbeat melody with melancholic lyrics. The juxtaposition creates a unique and compelling listening experience, and the slightly strained vocals in the chorus do add to the emotional impact of the song. It's a great example of how music can communicate complex emotions and experiences in a way that words alone cannot.
Haven't heard this since Trainspotting. Cheers to you Lou Reed. What a beautiful, clear, voice. Not pushed or changed to make it louder or uglier. So rare these days. (those days too).
Hah, that was roughly 7 centuries ago now, right? Are you in the UK? I thought that since you left this 6 hours ago, perhaps you were listening to this upon rising, too. A 6h-old comment in a sea of 2yr+ comments--just had to answer this one.
Perfect Days est pour moi un des meilleurs films de 2023 sans hésitation. Une très bonne performance d'acteur de la part de Kōji Yakusho et une histoire qui nous incite à apprécier les choses simple que la vie a à nous offrir et les moments passés avec nos proches, un très bon feel good movie !
Film magnifico Wenders dei migliori anni… x quanto riguarda la canzone sono dispiaciuto del fatto che tu l’abbia conosciuta solo ora… ragione di vita … o di morte x me…… Rip. Zio lou❤️
Its insane how much respect and humbleness, as well as emotion can come from a song you used to barely hear, suddenly becomes a focal point of everything u needed in such a small moment.
Yesterday I watched "Perfect Days" (a japanese film from 2023) and this song is also reminded there... each day is a perfect day... thanks God for each day under this Sun and this Heaven
This song makes me so nostalgic for being high on blues, but also having a pocket full of them. Knowing you’ll be good for at least a few days is a beautiful feeling. Then the end of the song hits and that’s what ultimately is waiting for you.
Aha, ok I thought you might have meant dilaudid. Are they prescribing it as medication assisted treatment for heroin abuse? (Sorry, American....don't know what yall do up there)
@@andie1508 Yes. But the problem is that the tolerance of many addicts have already been deplected by street fentanyl, so not even injecting those 8mg Dilaudid triangles are enough. It worked for many, but some started selling to buy street fent. In any other circumstance, Dilaudid would be enough to any opioid addict, but not now with the fentanyl disaster. So now they're actually prescribing pharmaceutical fentanyl and sufentanil, and it seems to be working fine.
Spent 5 hrs at two parks with my daughter today.... Most my friends are dead either literally or spiritually and this is a haunting reminder to live each day to its best
Absolutely beautiful. Lou Reed delivers this song in a haunting and magical way. Some of the lyrics are just a bit sinister. "someone good" and "You're going to reap just what you sow" Of course the dark parts make me appreciate this song as well.
There is so much music out there I truly love - mostly the older stuff...but of all those hits, does anyone else get chills down their spine when you hear this song - and other Lou Reed songs? Something about his mood - voice - and instrumentation.
It's so strange how a song called "Perfect Day" is one that I find myself wanting to listen to when my day is everything but perfect.
False hope. The emotional and mental maggot.
exactly
what other kind of hope is there???
Omg same
Its about a perfect day of doin heroin in central park in NYC
My wife and I danced to this at our wedding reception. The greatest day of my life and an appropriate song for the occasion. At the time I was in the Army and was a severe alcoholic. The lyrics at the end was the cherry on top because she was fully aware of what she was willing to get into.
I’ll never forget hearing her cry over the phone a couple years after we got married when I told her my chain of command signed off for me to get help at a rehabilitation center in Oregon. I got off of heroin through the same means to be able to join the Army so she was aware that I had already gone through a withdrawal process. 7 years clean of heroin, 3 years sober of alcohol. Thank you so much my dear Hannah for taking a chance with me. Thank you so much Lou for all of your work I’ve listened to ever since my father raised me with your art.
We now have two beautiful children, I was able to successfully transition back into civilian life, and the future looks quite promising. Some folks can’t comprehend the power of art and music, but it’s a power that can’t possibly be denied.
Congratulations on your recovery! Keep going strong :)
RIGHT ON MY DUDE!! you're the fucking man!! congrats!
Great story you give us all hope for that we can get thru any dramas! God bless you and your family!
Semper Fi my good man! God bless your family and friends!
Comments like this are diamonds, have a great rest of your life brother.
"You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good" might be the most relatable lyric in history.
Good point, really fucking brilliant. And so relatable!
It hit home
oh yeah, that's the undisputed truth !
@Auxiliary Stream Services Why are you here?
Wow so edgy
best song, best movie. thank you Lou Reed, thank you Wim Wenders.
Grazie! Questa canzone sarà per il futuro uno dei motivi che accompagneranno le mie giornate
I am so fucking addicted ever since I saw it
What film?
Perfect Days directed by Wim Wenders@@ArkoMotions
@@mitchbob789 Thank you
"You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good". Hits too hard man. Too hard
🥀
damn
@@monsieurluciferdiablo6871 That emoji sums up the whole song
Someone good, yeah??
Various artists for comic relief 98 I think is when I first heard it
Same, dude. This is my first time hearing this, and I think it strikes a brilliant balance between happy and melancholic.
This song hurts...its a piece of art.
It'll be a better one when you drive on sunsets and speed 😂
What hurts even more is looking at your ugly mug
If right cc
Perfect song for an imperfect day
@Auxiliary Stream Services There’s also an art to trolling.
This song is like watching something beautiful die.
Robbie Clark like Summer :( see you next year dear friend...
We're all beautiful and we all die.
Very that
This song is like you are the joker and you shoot Every one in the room And at the end
You drinking vodka 😂😂😂
@@akarto exactly what I was thinking
Thank you Wim Winders for giving this classic song new meaning in Perfect Days.
My father died about 9 months ago...
I'm glad I spent 17 years with you, dad.
my mother dead maybe m'y father not biological both passed i miss both
I hope your greif has healed some in the past 2 years.
Only in the next room friends
Im so sorry for your loss.
You will remember the love, You'll see.
A song this beautiful can only be written from the darkest depths of the human mind.
So true !!!
I'm crying at this song...
@@MickBellTV: No.
“Perfect Day? Aaaoh, that’s… so laughable. You’re talking to the writer, the person who wrote it. No that’s not true. I don’t object to that, particularly… whatever you think is perfect. But this guy’s vision of a perfect day was the girl, sangria in the park, and then you go home; a perfect day, real simple. I meant just what I said.”
Light comes - darkness disappears!🤣
Or, if like me, you really dig heroin
@@MarjorieJCatbrownstone
Lou Reed brought me here, nothing less, nothing more.
👍 likewise!
+Celtic Bird That's not even possible, you were influenced from an outside source.
BarakaTheGreat Yeah, the album Transformer.
+BarakaTheGreat for true
+Celtic Bird That's way more than enough "Bird" man. Go Green-we need #18!
I used to play this song as the heroin hit, every relapse, after relapse. It's the sixth year anniversary of me getting sober today. Still love this song, it just means something very different now.
Great job dude. Best of luck
Train spotting was a good movie but waking up with paramedics around u is a good n bad feeling stay strong brother we are in it together
Well done! that takes tones of strength and courage ❤
34 years for me
transformer what a album i am so free
This song is a masterpiece. Has a dark undertone to it while explaining joyful things. Then the music ramps up and for a short moment they sync.
I agree
Or, you know, the song itself proves that it has a dark undertone to it...
ur pretty
the perfect day is when I die. not much darker than that.
Lou Reed can't sing a lick. But his songwriting wasn't bad and he knew how to surround himself with terrific musicians.
Reed's voice breaking on 2:11 is one of things which makes this song excellent.
Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
literally
It's the imperfections that make it so perfect.
@@ZoeKaylor So true
Reed wrote a song so powerful that when it's in personal context you can't help but cry
had the honor of meeting him once. RIP Lou.
Blake
How was the encounter?
Gr13f Lou Reed was a notorious curmudgeon. I’d wager not well
wait what? hes dead? NO!
chrieke 2013. sheesh. RIP slack man
Is it bad that I was expecting this to be a Limmy "Surprisingly down to earth and very funny" reference?
One of Lou Reed's greatest masterpieces.
It is always a Perfect Day listening to Lou.
😅😅😅
Produced by David Bowie
Lou Reed - vocals
Mick Ronson - piano, string arrangements
David Bowie - keyboards
Trevor Bolder: trumpet
Herbie Flowers: tuba
Klaus Voormann - bass
John Halsey - drums
Lyndal god bless Bowie
Good points!
Ronson's piano is so strong, it completely lifts the song above and beyond. Ronson was recognised as a very talented arranger too. But you can't pull Bowie out of the equation. Reed, Ronson, Bolder all had more prominent careers because of their association with Bowie. As for the money, we all know that many 70s musicians were done down by their managers and this was the experience of Bowie, Ronson and Bolder with Tony Defries. Bowie ended up very wealthy due to his decision to manage himself and later through the creation of the Bowie bonds which allowed him to buy back his own back catalogue.
I don't have anything to add, but this discussion is fantastic!
Do you know who wrote the lyrics?
I hope everyone reading this finds the love they deserve. Even when you think you don’t, you most certainly do. We all do.
I'm 55 and waiting.. I'm getting anxious
GRAZIE.... LO AUGURI A TUTTI ... TROVARE L'AMORE CHE SI MERITA ...
Thank YOU!!
💜
When I was in active heroin addiction I truly understood the bittersweet feel of this song. Longing for the high and longing to be clean at the same time. Clean today I still love it.
I feel ya!!! clean for 3 now after struggling for 34! Still love this song,and can honestly say, i can listen to it , and it doesn't make me wanna get high now! 👍😜 Yay for us!
To both of you, you should be incredibly proud of yourselves. Knowing the struggle I've had with alcohol, I can only imagine the superhuman strength and commitment needed to get off of heroin. Take care of yourselves.
I have 10 years clean icr
This song makes me want to use…
Guess this was a "Perfect" song for the movie Trainspotting!!
Can’t keep “You’re going to reap just what you sow” outta my mind every year of my life. I still listen to Perfect Day on rainy days on the streets of NYC. Glad someone like Lou existed.
Thank you. Thanx people like you are among us
@@YasminTheJewish you are so kind, thanks besides Lou Reed always been my idol as young as I can remember.
Me too. I be listening to this every time I ride my bike on a beautiful day through riverside park while I’m headed to Times Square and Union Square looking towards the West Side Highway and the Hudson River
@@juniornunez2583 it’s a great song to listen to while strolling by many picturesque NY locations like the places you mentioned. I listen to it while walking the Brooklyn bridge on warm summer nights. Speed walking through crowds in busy Manhattan streets after a night out drinking.
"I thought I was someone else... Someone good"
Damn that goes straight to the feels.
🙏
So true
Lou, David, and Mick Ronson are playing this in heaven now. :(
+Velcon Nirnroot There is no other place.
+nallly there is just one place. The one in your head. Sorry to tell you this...
+tonecot89 Now Prince as well :(
+Gillian Bennett let us celebrate just for the idea of those 4 playing one, ultimate, ethernal song somewhere out there.
Yeah...
my friend Maddie died in April. This was one of her favourite songs, and they played it at her funeral.
It reminds me of her everytime I listen to it.
“it’s such a perfect day.. I’m glad I spent it with you...”
I love you Maddie. I miss you every single day. ❤️
Rest Easy Maddie.
My God Caitlin! I’m sorry for your loss. There is something so sweet and beautiful about it too at the same time. You hang in there!
My deepest condolences to you!
May she Rest In Peace...
No, why would you play this at a funeral!!?? Its fits better in a wedding
My brother dedicated this to me after an awesome day together ... he died a few weeks later. R.I. P
Beautiful...
❤ this song was his gift to you❤im sorry for your loss..
This is the gift he gave you to suffer well through his passing.
Lou was a deeply flawed man. His music was honest, simple, and intimate. That’s what makes him so relatable.
So true, he had problems but in a way in the time period he was living he was facing them head on through his art.
@@riffraffrichard .
His problems were part of what made him such a great musician!
We are all deeply flawed...flaws are sexy
@@linalicious415 indeed flaws ARE sexy 😂
This proves you don’t need a perfect voice to make a masterpiece.. Love all the imperfections and pitchyness, feels so natural.
Exactly how I feel about this Nico tune.
Perfectly imperfect!
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Agree
Yes, then you became songwriter writing songs for artists who actually can sing, not trying to be some rockstar
@@karolk7711 well it worked for Lou.
That's exactly what's beautiful about its human and real. There is no perfect voice just different ones.
"You're going to reap just what u sow". 👌🏻
I played this song on loop while my cat (my baby) was dying in my arms... such a beautiful song. I still get tears now listening to it and remembering our perfect 15 years together
I´m so sorry for your loss.. My beloved dog died 3 weeks ago and I am also listening to this song to grief.
@@zamithemyth440I am so very sorry for your loss 😢
I'm so sorry (both of you). 😢
I'm so sorry ❤ pets truly are family
It's people who have a beautiful soul like you that make me realise that life can be wonderful XXXX
This song gives me chills.
HEROIN IS DEATH!!!!!!! DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL. Heroin is heaven CUM too soon; Premature ejaculation and no one is satisfied!!!!!! My best friend just died; AGAIN
I am so very So Sorry to hear of such tragic news. Hang in, just hold on..
it's all fun and games till fentanyl laced dope kills off people you love
JamesonDoesStuff Why?
Wayne Hackney I don't know, maybe its the hook of the song that does it.
This song perfectly describes how I feel about this song
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Personally, this is an example of the pure power and magic of music. When a song causes a physical reaction in your body! It may be a shiver up your back, goosebumps all over or make you burst into tears.... that's the power of music. Humans have known this since we've had ears to hear with. It's a beautiful thing.
Xx
I’m listening to this while driving through Spain with my lovely husband. I want this memory to last forever.
This is what having fun with depression is like.
Exactly, bro.
So true, the teen days
this is what having fun with skagg is like..
Having fun with depression - and David Bowie and ‘Ronno’ otherwise it would just be another unfinished chess game against that one friend who never just never shows up on time or ever.
Yeah, funny depression
I can't explain the nightmare I just went through searching for this song, the sense of relief I am feeling having found it, but I will try. I thought I was going fucking nuts. When all you can remember from this song is, "You just keep me hangin on," which only returns results for "You Keep Me Hangin On", a completely different song from the 1960s, and not at all what you're looking for. "Okay," you think, "I'll give it a listen and see if the song I'm looking for is some sort of modern cover." Fuckin' nope, not even close. You look through three pages of results, none of which have this song, and you honestly have no idea what you can do to refine a search for the only six words you remember from a song. At this point you begin to question your own sanity, is the song real at all? Did I get the words wrong in some small way that means I may never figure out what song I'm actually looking for? Am I doomed to be nervous and angry until by chance I suddenly figure out what song I've been looking for? You just want to break things, because in no way should it be this difficult to find a catchy song on the *internet!* WHERE IS IT?! Is there some kind of grand conspiracy to keep you from finding this song? Make you doubt your own mental faculties until you are left a dribbling, emotionally ruined shell of your former self?
If you don't figure out what song this is, you aren't eating, you aren't going to bed, you aren't doing anything because now it's personal. *You* can't find this song, and if you can't find it that means you are wrong, and you know you aren't wrong. It's a horrifying paradox, you cannot give up or else every day that you live having not found that song will be a day lived in agony at the knowledge that you can never prove what you know to be real. Why even continue living?
Anyway, I finally found it, by chance after a couple days. The real struggle is figuring out how I'm going to dispose of these bodies.
+FultonLMiller that was intense mate.. rather start watching some amazing movies .. like this song is in the movie trainspotting ..! Great movies have great soundtracks!
you spoke my heart out mate
oh my god. Ive had so many nightmares to this song too...
You're a funny guy.
Yes man I feel connected with you when you say that, I finally found it today...gonna say sound cheesy but I've been searching for this for a good 10 years haha, I used to ask everyone I know I never knew the words I just had to hum it to people and they didn't have a clue...and today I randomly hummed it to my nan and she told me straight away I actually nearly cried while listening to it haha
I met Mr Reed as an 18 year old hippie, DuPont Circle , summer of 69. I knew nothing about him except for what he told me, and I didn’t believe him. We spent the afternoon and night trying to score junk from DC’s local junkster, Beethoven, and his associates. I was all acid and a little speed. A new world for this dippy hippie. Cut to 1970 a friend and I were at a place where they were playing The Velvet Underground and Nico. Wow, that’s the guy....!Loved the album, a whole new level for me.
Cut again to last night and I finally said, “I really need to listen to Perfect Day.” Never heard it before.
What can I say. Another day, touched by Mr Reed, reaching back from one day and night in 1969. “You’re going to reap just what you sow” ... indeed. Thank you.
Thank you for a great story. I used to be Krystal Klier, I wrote a rock n roll fashion article for Steve Hurlebert’s Muzic Magazine in Atlanta Ga
Mick Ronson rules. His piano, his orchestrations.
That scene in the trainspotting popped into my head when this song came on.
R.I.P Lou Reed
I cried for days. Miss everything I felt he was, everything he portrayed himself to be.
He was a good man his song was on my favorite show Gotham
CJ P.
😭
I miss him. I miss David Bowie. Bowie helped so many new muscians get started. Lou Reed was one of them. Love them both.
Finally listening to this song on a perfect day. Unironically. God bless.
God bless so much
I've struggled with alcoholism for years, this song hits like nothing else
Cheers…
Keep coming back. You don't have to drink again even if you want to and you don't have to be alone even if you want to.
stay safe bro
@@jamiechappell9116 not a bro
I should not be seeing this comment when I'm drunk.
This was "our song"! My fiancée and I kept each other hanging on... every day was a perfect day with her!
I miss her so much! Rest in peace Shelly. I love you!!! Always and forever!!! ♥️♥️♥️
God bless your angel I lost mine in 2013.
Sorry for your loss may her memory sustain you.
@@fernandeaux1631 I'm very sorry for your loss. Our angels have wings now.
Maybe they'll find each other and fly together.
@@flyingsword135 Thank you!
She still "keeps me hanging on"...
I miss her every day! But, I keep hanging on to the hope that I'll be with her again, someday.
God bless you ❤❤
the best record that Lou Reed ever made, this song is just a perfect song
jaime nuñez I'd rather take a walk on the wild side ;)
+Paul Gray Lana omg
jaime nuñez
I am unable to contemplate how one song can make me so incredibly happy and be the absolute perfect illustration of profound sadness at the same time. This is the power of music. I have a very beautiful memory every time I listen to this song, it reminds me I place where I felt for the first time , that I belong and that I am seen with passionate eyes. It is such a perfect day indeed. Thank u for this masterpiece.
One of my best songsever.....so many memories...LOVE!
The best new literary style is the UA-cam coment, I can listen to first-person narrarives of what each piece of art meant to each individual person, and that is so inspiring and humbling and rich.
this comment needs more attention! you are so right
Can you believe many official uploads disable comments? Breaks my heart for all of the lost stories
Which is why it’s a travesty most songs on official pages got their comments auto disabled by youtube. It leads us to uploads from other people rather than the artist just to see comments. In other words, fuck you youtube!
Far out
This songs about heroin - I always listen to it when I’m ready to go out, fuck somebody over, and score.
You’re gonna reap what you sew.
We played this at my first sons funeral (20+ years ago). I still listen to it when I'm missing him. Along with Patti Smith (Little blue boy) that was also played.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
I'm afraid I will be going to this song forever, thinking about Wallie.
I am sorry and condolences.
Ssgt. John Boyd - Vietnam '68 - 69, '70 - 71; You were Someone Good - One of the Best! RIP
I used to listen as a teen. Then realise has these perfect days in London now just enjoying listening on a breezy summers day… God bless everyone 🙏💐💕🔥 here’s to more perfect days whatever those are & gratitude for all good days had..
But he meant it biting and sarcastic.😊
3 years ago today we lost Lou . Thank you Mr.Reed for everything youv truly changed my life. Rest easy legend
Dre DaKid 😭
Everything except Lulu
Lou Reed’s Vocals along with Guitarist Mick Ronson’s Piano & Strings on Perfect Day are Perfect
I think that Mick Ronson is one of the best guitarists and even pianoplayers in the world, but truly underrated
The greatest feeling ever is forgetting who you are
Love you, man.
Actually for me the greatest feeling is knowing exactly who I am
F A C T S
« Next time is next time Now is now ». Thanks you Perfect DayS.
Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home
Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too
And then home
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun
Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
Thank you from a cold overcast south east London lalala 👉❤👈
Thank You from California 🌴🌞💚
@@auroraborealis13579 Good morning Aurora!!! 👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈
@@alexmarshall4331 Good Morning, Alex!
@@auroraborealis13579 Hey Aurora! How's the weather in California? It's clear skies but cold here near Waterloo Bridge South East London LALALA... Stay safe... Alex👉🇬🇧👈👉😷👈👉🙏
...I thought I was someone else, someone good...
great line
You are, buddy.
Such a devastating line, one I think most of us can relate to at times.
reminds me a bit of Charlie Brown
He's singing about a fkn drug
I love how that song is so positive yet there is undertones of misery.
A perfect reflection of life. Reap just what you sow.
Positive outlook, and attitude - good things are abound.
Negative outlook - bad things await.
You are the master of your own destiny
Neoliberalism in a nutshell
@@why_so_serious What are you talking about?
@@cooliostarstache5474 lol, just joking
Tears come to my eyes when I listen to this song reminds me of my days with my son who used to be around me
He’s with you in your heart. You’re amazing
Have a perfect day everyone, Love You
cheers
I love you too :( may all your days be perfect
we will reap what we sow lol
My dads funeral song...died unexpectedly of a heart attack when i was 13...this ones for you dad x
RIP to your Dad.🥲💚🎶💕🎸💚
🥀💔😔
Wow, at 13, I remember worrying and praying for my Dad. So long ago, my sympathies.
Rip brother 🙏
That's rough. I'm so sorry. 😢
After many love dissapointments, every time I go out and spend a saturday or sunday with my daughters, I finish my day at my appartment listening to this song. And then, I find that life gets so well when the definitive and beloved ones are happy with you by just sharing simple things and you can forget everything when it's spent with them. A day with my daughters is a perfect day.
It really is Ronson's arrangement and production that make this simple yet eloquent song so powerful.
This song….PURE GENIUS
Lou Reed brought me here
If the phrase “it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all” were transcribed into an emotion-evoking song, this would be it.
What a jewel this song! From now on I'll never have the same look on how goes by a normal day
Honestly, this song is a writer's haven. Melancholy, cheerful, pure joy, or a horror scene. You could write anything to this song.
Perfect Day is the perfect song. Great lyrics, beautiful arrangement by Mick Ronson with just the right nuances and Reed's somewhat haunting and ironic vocals with a twist of the sardonic. A wonderful track with some very powerful lines
The piano solo is so simple yet so beautiful, just pure art.😥😩☺
One of the most perfect songs ever written
Always seem to play this song at the end of the day when I feel sad and long for my youth and all my friends who are all dead and gone. Even though I never wanted to be thirty, I somehow always thought I would indeed have all my friends with me when I got older. I will be 66 next month and it is just me and my cat. But 30 years off heroin/coke/benzos/barbiturates/booze. Got this album in '74. Thank you Lou for being on the planet with me.
Many years ago, I had a Perfect Day with my new wife. We're still married, but her health is deteriorating fast. Perfect days are becoming rarer.
Thats Tough! Godspeed!
Your love for each other is the true essence of being alive as human in the universe today! I send up a prayer that she recovers!!
I hope that you two have many many more perfect days
@@pauljenkins6807 Thanks. Things may not be perfect, but they're still good.
is it from addiction? no matter the disease, that is very tough. but your love is beautiful.
that piano solo after you just keep hanging on
Clint Francis Barton played by David Bowie
Bowie okayed the keyboard... The Piano is ALL Mick Ronson. Musical savant...
As someone who has been batting opioid addiction for the last 15 years, the lyrics in the song speak to me so painfully.
Lou was adamant it was not written about heroin.
i hope you are doing well
I am listening to this song in honor of My good friends mother who passed away last night via overdose, Rest easy Gina theres no more pain for you on this earth.
Sorry for your loss and friends loss id be lost w-o mama and im 35 .
Oh such a perfect song...
Qué bella canción!!!!
Gracias W Wenders por hacérmela conocer.
Una maravilla la película Días Perfectos!!!
My girlfriend died on the 17th November and this was my song to her . Rip map 😢
I'm sorry ❤ I just bought it on iTunes. It makes me laugh.. Lou Reed often has these lines in his lyrics which are unexpected or like afterthoughts. In this it's where he says they had dinner (?) and a movie, then adds "and then home". Other songs would have some amazing, mystical thing that happened but not Lou and his girlfriend (or whoever). They went home.
This song was instrumental in my journey getting over a relationship with a manipulative narcissist and eventually finding my way back to myself. God bless Lou Reed for this one!
Probably the most laid back, and yet somewhat similarly, dramatic song; anybody composed.
Thanks Lou.
RIP mate.
🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇸
You're right, it is dramatic. It's like giving in to an emotion as deep and uncontrollable as rage., except inverted into a jaded sadness.
Hope everyone is having a perfect day! ❤
Right back at ya! ✌️🇦🇺🙏
@@timwalters8797 Thanks! ✌️
Why the music back then was so perfect 👌
Great song!
Oh boy do I have a Lou Reed and Metallica collaboration for you!
Facts
Still is after 40 years!! Greetings from Holland
Indeed it is👌
PERFECTION ...is forgetting yourself ?.
This is such a clever song.
From the lyrics describing a mediocre life that's not too downtrodden but subtlety sad. Firmly hammered in by the chorus. Not only by instruments but by a slight voice break indicating a hidden struggle.
Perfection.
It is indeed a clever song that combines a bright, upbeat melody with melancholic lyrics. The juxtaposition creates a unique and compelling listening experience, and the slightly strained vocals in the chorus do add to the emotional impact of the song. It's a great example of how music can communicate complex emotions and experiences in a way that words alone cannot.
think ur reading a little too into it
Its about heroin.
@@nneisler doesn't sound to bright and upbeat to me.
@@johnhatchel9681no, its a poem that reed wrote to his gf
So many people view this song ironically, but with how gorgeous it is, even when I listen to it on a bad day, it feels like a perfect day
Haven't heard this since Trainspotting. Cheers to you Lou Reed. What a beautiful, clear, voice. Not pushed or changed to make it louder or uglier. So rare these days. (those days too).
Hah, that was roughly 7 centuries ago now, right?
Are you in the UK? I thought that since you left this 6 hours ago, perhaps you were listening to this upon rising, too. A 6h-old comment in a sea of 2yr+ comments--just had to answer this one.
there's a new movie train spotting 2 but its a real downer
J'ai connu cette chanson grâce au film de Wim Wenders "Perfect Days", magnifique.
👋
Conheça Lou Reed, el3 é maravilhosa
Perfect Days est pour moi un des meilleurs films de 2023 sans hésitation. Une très bonne performance d'acteur de la part de Kōji Yakusho et une histoire qui nous incite à apprécier les choses simple que la vie a à nous offrir et les moments passés avec nos proches, un très bon feel good movie !
Film magnifico Wenders dei migliori anni… x quanto riguarda la canzone sono dispiaciuto del fatto che tu l’abbia conosciuta solo ora… ragione di vita … o di morte x me…… Rip. Zio lou❤️
i cannot imagine this song in any other setting but the end of the world
That'll be soon
Soooo true.them mushroom clouds are rising.AA som.U.K
@@andrewalison2882 A virus outbreak is used before a nuclear war...
I’m killing myself to it right nos
Just keep hanging on anyway 😘😘😘
Its insane how much respect and humbleness, as well as emotion can come from a song you used to barely hear, suddenly becomes a focal point of everything u needed in such a small moment.
Yesterday I watched "Perfect Days" (a japanese film from 2023) and this song is also reminded there... each day is a perfect day... thanks God for each day under this Sun and this Heaven
love this song. Remembering sitting in the park with my father dying of alzheimer's. Singer together.. ❤❤ 😢
This song makes me so nostalgic for being high on blues, but also having a pocket full of them. Knowing you’ll be good for at least a few days is a beautiful feeling. Then the end of the song hits and that’s what ultimately is waiting for you.
In Canada, they're prescribing Dillies and pharmaceutical-grade heroin for maintenance. It's a better time, my friend.
@D Boy what are dillies?
@@andie1508 Dilaudid. Hydromorphone. A semi-synthetic opioid very similar to H.
Aha, ok I thought you might have meant dilaudid. Are they prescribing it as medication assisted treatment for heroin abuse? (Sorry, American....don't know what yall do up there)
@@andie1508 Yes. But the problem is that the tolerance of many addicts have already been deplected by street fentanyl, so not even injecting those 8mg Dilaudid triangles are enough. It worked for many, but some started selling to buy street fent. In any other circumstance, Dilaudid would be enough to any opioid addict, but not now with the fentanyl disaster. So now they're actually prescribing pharmaceutical fentanyl and sufentanil, and it seems to be working fine.
This song in that movie just fused together into something amazing, best use of a song in a movie I ever seen.
Everyday is a perfect day a messenger from God.
The fact that this is one of *the* best albums ever made brought me here.
PERFECT DAYS観てきました！
カセットから流れる音楽の全てがよかった！！
60年代70年代80年代の洋楽は名曲揃いですね。
輝くこの時代を生きられてよかった。
Thank you Trainspoting for putting me on to such a great song!
Spent 5 hrs at two parks with my daughter today.... Most my friends are dead either literally or spiritually and this is a haunting reminder to live each day to its best
I hear you. Hang in there.
Yes !!!
The piano at 2:22 is just beautiful!
sticking needles in my vein listening to Lou. ahhh what a perfect day. oh what a horrible sickness.
wtf
Get off that shit before your loved ones find your corpse
saaaame
Shake it off sugar
Jizzica Supsupa hope ur ok im an addict too im detoxing and i kno the struggle hang in there ^_^
Absolutely beautiful. Lou Reed delivers this song in a haunting and magical way. Some of the lyrics are just a bit sinister. "someone good" and "You're going to reap just what you sow" Of course the dark parts make me appreciate this song as well.
There is so much music out there I truly love - mostly the older stuff...but of all those hits, does anyone else get chills down their spine when you hear this song - and other Lou Reed songs? Something about his mood - voice - and instrumentation.
if you like this you might like my brother music. his name is Stu Morris and 'New Yellow Moon' is a good song by him.