I was a kid when Oliver stones the Doors dropped in theaters I loved the film saw it at theatre Watched the VHS over n over Whenever the scene w this song came on I was just captivated by it s drone sound and also by the lyricism I didn't understand heroin only knew people shot it w needles I was young and troubled didn't know how to express myself yet But w in this song I felt I understood that thru poetry and music we can express ourselves far beyond what we can desire to I had a 2 yr abysmal rock bottom homeless in downtown Portland oregon the year Trump got elected I'd play this all the time and pray that I'd die It seemed like I was living inside of the song itself Heavy shit I sumhow made it out and grateful Man, what a song R.i.p. Lou
freakshowv it’s not! It’s the same as a rush of heroin flowing through your veins, if you’ve never been a heroin addict this song is meaningless, this song sums up in music what heroin does to your body, soul and mind when you are an addict
My favorite band of all time. The most innovative and one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Also, Lou reed is one of the greatest singers of all time
This song actually invokes the exact feelings I had. The sluggishness, the excitement, the ruin, the chaos, the frenzy. It's all here. This is as close to high as I will ever get again.
@@davidhlnda. I heard this the first time in the late 60's. I think only 30,000 albums were sold but my friend's brother had the damn album. I heard this song and completely fell into sync with it. Loved Lou Reed. I was offered to shoot up by friends/junkies more than once but declined every time. I was genuinely scared cause I knew it would be instant addiction.
It's impossible to give that title to one band as many other bands form our understanding of music. However, VU is one of the most important ARTISTIC acts of all time.
By the time of this tour, Moe Tucker was a grandmother living in Tucson. She can keep a beat like Charlie Watts and she does it while standing up. Love this woman!
@@fackumon292 Mo Tucker is why I fell in love with the Bass Drum. In Heroin, she plays it like a Tympani. As a drummer, she was less technically proficient than the average high school band's First Snare, but that matters not at all. Genius does not always need technical proficiency to appear. Lou was always such a fearless songwriter, never one to shy away from honesty and pain. It is still hard for me to listen to Magic and Loss all the way through. He is on the same level as Dylan, Springsteen, Paul Simon and Sting for lyrical genius
@@mohawk6260 fine, but he was saying its "when i fell" its not, "when i feel like jesus' son" is right, he tried to correct the first guy when the firsy guy was right.
Wow holy fuck. I was born in the mid 90s such a shame they don't make music like this anymore and such a shame Lou is not with us anymore and never got a chance to see him. This is unbelievable the tension the build up. Goosebumps wow
I hate to say it, but its true. They don't make music like this anymore because they don't make people like this anymore. They're paying $1,000 a seat to see Taylor Swift.
never tried harsh stuff like heroin, but the way lou express the rush and the comedown through the lyrics is so intense that i get shivers on my spine to the point that i almost feel like a junkie wtf
If there is a time machine, this concert would be my first stop. This song stirs memories of my friend who struggled with heroin. He died at the age 31. Beautiful young man. I still feel a pain thinking about that; 13 years since it happened.
Hey where's all the phones what a good time when you had freedom from the world and could come have a great time and with your friends and meet new ones to go live through for life bless you Lou
truly one of the greatest recorded performances of one of the greatest songs ever written. You cannot beat that tempo build up into the chorus followed by the slow down into the verse with the slow and dreary violin. Such a simple yet innovative use of only two guitar chords, brilliant lyrical honesty and the closest anyone has come to expressing the intensity of heroin addiction into a song. "It's my life and it's my life." RIP Lou. You will be forever missed.
53 ans, concerné et j'aimerais avoir la traduction en français, merci. J'ai pris mon pied et j'ai morflé, toujours en vie et enfin presque totalement libéré.
Mais j'ai pris mon pied et gâché tous mes projets, et si c'était à refaire, Jamais pour les conséquences que vous connaissez. Merci Lou, un très bel exemple entre musique et réalité.
It's such a great thing between a slow, soft song that goes deep inside, in a spiritual way, and then we get a boost of pace and energy that makes it all blossom. A masterpiece that sounds like nothing else. I don't mind about the heroin lyrics. It's just so spiritual, beautiful and energic, even if you are 100% sober. Thank you for the song and the overall work . RIP forever.
Le Velvet sont le précurseur de la musique New-yorkaise,1 monument indestructible,incontournable ❤paix entre tous 🙏Stop all wars et les atrocités commisent 🫶♉️
I have always like this song and artist Lou Reed. It is how my life was before and how a busload of faith got me to this point. I know the dragon still waits for me
The original garage band. THere is a part of the song when Lou looks at the audience and you can see him thinking,"Yeah ,I,m the Man". It just does not get any better than this. Cracking album as well.
the lyrics to this song about heroin is realy deep. its about how good it is and when u take it u feel like a differant person in a differant world and u feel untouchable. basical u will get adicted then u will be two halfs of the same person and it will be like that for 20 years or so. the song thats been on going since the 60s explains good and evil and by taking heroin the two halfs of a person will be constanly fighin the battle of will and most of the time the adiction will win war because of how u feel after taking it and the withdrawal will be number 1 priortiy. nothing and none will never be apart of there life again. the liryrics in this song are true to the serious of taking herion and the long turm adiction that fucks up your life because taking herion is a constant battle of wills
Never took heroin again after hearing this in 1968, coming down and coming home. Just put the track on, so the room shook. Sing it at gigs now, quiet two chords. Watch them cry. Watch them die.
Man this song really hits you. I remember listening to this on my mission from burbs to the badlands of Philly from 97-2004. I remember the craziness of the chase, going into a den of vipers and trying to score that one bag, making it out and spiking the vein. I remember the rush and the feeling of complete bliss and not caring about shit, if for just a little while. This song spoke to me then. 15 or so years later and clean, man I gotta stay away from this song. It haunts me to this day. All the scamming, the sickness, the depravity, I tend to forget it when hearing this for a bit. Then reality strikes. I see my kids my wife, my dog, my home. Snapped out of that trance this song brings. The song is beautiful but man does it illicit emotions that bring a past junkie to somewhere that he shouldn't be.
When I listen to this - now near 50 years since I first did - it almost makes me wish that my rule on gear hadn't been "take anything but don't jack up". Then again maybe I'd not still be around to listen in awe if I had done.....sublime.
i don't think i gave the reasoning bro. but i'm kinda shocked at your comment. your such a handsome nice looking boy. but i'm deep bro. real deep. so deep the suns' rays can't even touch this.
there is nothing glamorous about heroin,it will take you to a place in life were the brink of death is an everyday event,were vomit and diarrhea is a norm,your tears will dry up and your heart will barely beat.you tears will burn and your soul will slip into the underground of society.i lived it.heroin is not glamorous the only way out is God
I do agree that heroin is not glamorous (my ex-boyfriend used it a lot and it's nothing glamorous about having to feed a 25 year old man, cause he is too stoned to do it himself ... - and that's not the worst, of course ... it's - as you've said - underground of society ...). But I don't know much about God and am not prone to believing what I hear or read, so ... I do hope LOVE is also the way out. :) Nevertheless, I like this song, a lot!
There is NOTHING about this performance that "glamorizes" heroin. It is a song of frightening beauty, power and also hopelessness.There is nothing joyful about the surrender to a lifestyle that takes someone away from life. Thank God Lou quit, and gave us decades of his genius.
The assumption that if he had continued to use dope ,then he'd never have given us his genius is contrary to this song and to reality that many people wrote great works under the active INFLUENCE of opiates (Poe,Burroughs ,and even Lou). You probably mean well,but ya miss the gist of this song. Which is the decision to use Heroin all his life , ie become a junkie.
LOU REED IS AMAZING, I DONT DO DRUGS, USED TO SMOKE WEED...BUT IT IS PROOF THAT HIS MUSIC IS PURE POETRY AND MUSIC, DOES NOT MAKE ANY APOLOGY TO ANY DRUG!! OH, LOU, YOU ARE SO MISSED....❤️🇧🇷🇺🇲🇧🇷🥰☝️
Intense. All this from four folks who look like they're dressed for work in a warehouse. No smoke machines or laser lights, auto-tuning or dancers in sparkles? Genuine musical talent... from a time, (late 60's early 70's ) when there was a lot of that around. This band and others from that era have stood the test of time.
Post Bierstube What I was trying to say... (Guess I didn't do so very well)... was, that a lot of today's most popular acts are affectatious, stage shows with minimal real musical talent, creativity or artistry. I fully realize that there a plenty of really talented bands around today, in many genres. "Alabama Shakes" is one of my current favs. BTW- It is possible to express disagreement with someone in a civil, non-disparaging way.
@@joeherald7319 Who is the asshole who reply to you and deleted his comment? Ahah miserable...i really get your point but there always someone ready to go that way "you are pathetic whining about todays music"...but thats not your point! Those people are pathetic cause you were not complaining THAT way about this subject
Thanks for this. Was listening to the Velvet Underground when I was 12 after the "Transformer" album came out and Someone was nice enough to tell Me about Lou's first band. I immediately went out and bought "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Approximately 1972. Thanks again.
all I can say is wow... what a powerful, epic tune - reminds me of the Doors movie when Jim is at wahol's party... very trippy, very long, very painful, very exciting, very unpredictable, very sad, very emotional, very helpless, very lost. "Heroin, it's my life, it's my wife.... will be the death of me.... that's one drug that is certainly a death sentence. one drug I will never try, ever... so much talent lost to it that the list is too devastating to list...
I was 15 when this record came out. I was living in LA which had an amazing music scene '66 onwards. My very hip actore friend brought the LP over to my house and we played it on our awesome stereo. Was so different and dark compared to the other releases of the era (with the exception of the Doors). We had discovered the world of Warholism. So different from the London-LA-SF axis.
this is my favorite version of this anthem. ive searched so many record stores and intrawebs tryin to find this. you are very much appreciated for this
i think this is one of the best live of heroin more accurate drumming in here also way more interesting guitar licks upon these two magic chords, C and F, open strings interval of 4th the violin part awesome, the pedal of C the voice itself of Lou Reed seems to be more mature, this is 1993 so the man grew up, and this more rude old tone in his voice gives the lyrics something more the chords progression, when it speeds up, has the introduction of a blue-blues tone by adding to the F chord D and D# up semitone wonderful performance
+kkh369 aaahahah wonderful guuys, both of you, very fun, at least made me laugh cmon, do you really feel the right to offense or whatever the fuck did you say? soo disappointing anyway i just wanted to share some of my thoughts about this show maybe from a musical point of view, im not god in earth and probably there are plenty of people out there that for sure are way ahead my few skills at playing guitar
+Radioff Voices NoysyVision&NaClO are you sure he plays c and f chords, not d and g????? Yeah, thru the years, Reed learned to play, but, what I catch from this video, is the face of John Cale when he plays high notes, scraping, tortured...
+Gilles Bourgeois john cale awesome here, but you can find the whole live show, they really give a wonderful performance One thing I noticed is Sterling Morrison attitude..he seems to be annoyed by something, I noticed from his facial mood, anyway I know these guys had troubles between them back in the days On the other hand Lou Reed and John Cale are very in touch, at least in this show You are right, I also thought it was D and G but playing guitar I discovered Lou is one step down so what you obtain is that you get C and F chords instead of D and G but in the same position as D and G Give it a try you will know that Anyway this great song can be played both d-g or c-f generally
They make two chords exhilarating to the point of exhaustion and I love it. John Cale's viola during the peak almost makes me nauseous with delight. Sort of like another substance.
The aura here is so majestic. Listen to the fucking intro. Shivers. Fucking goosebumps. Solemnity. So potent. Austere and sincere. Fateful. Faithless in a faithful way
For anyone suffering with the disease , narcotics anonymous are always available in pretty much any county. Help is out there. Trust me. It can be done. You can get clean and live your life clean.
I really love this !! Wish it was not about such a destructive substence. Lou Reed's facial expression dosesn't change 1% (+/-) anywhere in this frantic manic-depressive song. The drum and viola parts are just plain crazy good.
The lyrics of this song are so raw ..... no rhetoric, no self-pity, just feelings. Lou reed was truly a great poet.
I was a kid when Oliver stones the Doors dropped in theaters
I loved the film saw it at theatre
Watched the VHS over n over
Whenever the scene w this song came on I was just captivated by it s drone sound and also by the lyricism
I didn't understand heroin only knew people shot it w needles
I was young and troubled didn't know how to express myself yet
But w in this song I felt I understood that thru poetry and music we can express ourselves far beyond what we can desire to
I had a 2 yr abysmal rock bottom homeless in downtown Portland oregon the year Trump got elected
I'd play this all the time and pray that I'd die
It seemed like I was living inside of the song itself
Heavy shit
I sumhow made it out and grateful
Man, what a song
R.i.p. Lou
The feeling when this song first picks up tempo , it is so indescribable.
freakshowv it’s not! It’s the same as a rush of heroin flowing through your veins, if you’ve never been a heroin addict this song is meaningless, this song sums up in music what heroin does to your body, soul and mind when you are an addict
@Last Past yes :p
The song is great.
Opiates are shit.
Geepee Eff I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more misguided comment. Your like the kind of stupid that I thought only existed in fiction😂
@@syntheticreality549 Keep on the synthetic stuff baby. There's a lot of reality going on that you haven't a clue about.
Mo Tucker just pounding away. Epic. Epic. Epic.
My favorite band of all time. The most innovative and one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Also, Lou reed is one of the greatest singers of all time
Brian Eno said about VU: “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”
*30,000 copies
Saying a lot...probably true.
without them so much would never have been possible!
Gabe Giordano Lou Reed is a pretty bad singer but amazing writer and visionary
This song actually invokes the exact feelings I had. The sluggishness, the excitement, the ruin, the chaos, the frenzy. It's all here. This is as close to high as I will ever get again.
Nice One...Naples, Florida
Berlin, Germany...what you said.
It's like cumming and dying at the same time ...
Err right
RIP Lou. About this band... No one can ever say "They're like..."
No shit
@@davidhlnda. I heard this the first time in the late 60's. I think only 30,000 albums were sold but my friend's brother had the damn album. I heard this song and completely fell into sync with it. Loved Lou Reed. I was offered to shoot up by friends/junkies more than once but declined every time. I was genuinely scared cause I knew it would be instant addiction.
Arguably the greatest rock & roll song in the history of mankind.
I heard this for the first time last night. It is the greatest song I have ever heard.
Super influential for sure.
Patti Smith says the same
Danny Mullen you helped me discover Lou reed with your videos!
It's impossible to give that title to one band as many other bands form our understanding of music. However, VU is one of the most important ARTISTIC acts of all time.
By the time of this tour, Moe Tucker was a grandmother living in Tucson. She can keep a beat like Charlie Watts and she does it while standing up. Love this woman!
She was in Douglas, Georgia, by then, but yes, absolutely. :)
She's so epic
@@fackumon292 Mo Tucker is why I fell in love with the Bass Drum. In Heroin, she plays it like a Tympani. As a drummer, she was less technically proficient than the average high school band's First Snare, but that matters not at all. Genius does not always need technical proficiency to appear. Lou was always such a fearless songwriter, never one to shy away from honesty and pain. It is still hard for me to listen to Magic and Loss all the way through. He is on the same level as Dylan, Springsteen, Paul Simon and Sting for lyrical genius
i keep forgetting that she never sat down while playing lmao
@@marksilowitz3196 Very well said.
*"when I'm rushing on my run* /
*and I feel just like Jesus' son"* 🎶
velvet Underground and Nico ..loove
sidDkid87 things just aren't the same
@Alexander Moore no its, and i feel just like jesus' son
Look up the lyrics dude
Kedrick but in this version he sings: when I‘m rushin‘ on my run i feel just like jesus son 😂
@@mohawk6260 fine, but he was saying its "when i fell" its not, "when i feel like jesus' son" is right, he tried to correct the first guy when the firsy guy was right.
It's my life and it's my wife
c'est ma vie aussi ....
Yea, those are some cool lyrics, Gina. I like the way he kind of chuckles afterwards.
So sad but so true
Sorry for you
Je suis dans cet enfer depuis 10 ans aussi. It s my life and my dead, in my head
Wow holy fuck. I was born in the mid 90s such a shame they don't make music like this anymore and such a shame Lou is not with us anymore and never got a chance to see him. This is unbelievable the tension the build up. Goosebumps wow
I hate to say it, but its true. They don't make music like this anymore because they don't make people like this anymore. They're paying $1,000 a seat to see Taylor Swift.
never tried harsh stuff like heroin, but the way lou express the rush and the comedown through the lyrics is so intense that i get shivers on my spine to the point that i almost feel like a junkie wtf
U r right......and i took the stuff for years and years
I dabbled for a short time but that rush.. well I loved it 😀
It's the ultimate stone actually 24 years I did it , it owns part of my heart
@@sharongoodsell9341 l eroina chiama sempre
Ya as someone who struggled for years with Heroin, he just plays it raw, no romanticism totally honest to the pt of nihilism
If there is a time machine, this concert would be my first stop. This song stirs memories of my friend who struggled with heroin. He died at the age 31. Beautiful young man. I still feel a pain thinking about that; 13 years since it happened.
Watching them on a sunny afternoon in 1993 at Glastonbury after bunking in free!
This song still takes my breath away more than 40 years after I first heard it.
Hey where's all the phones what a good time when you had freedom from the world and could come have a great time and with your friends and meet new ones to go live through for life bless you Lou
Yes I’m pushing 70 and I feel the same
i love how lou reed is in the perennial state of zero fucks given. thanx for all the beauty mr reed
Mind-blowing performance. Tucker's drumming is so essential to this song
truly one of the greatest recorded performances of one of the greatest songs ever written. You cannot beat that tempo build up into the chorus followed by the slow down into the verse with the slow and dreary violin. Such a simple yet innovative use of only two guitar chords, brilliant lyrical honesty and the closest anyone has come to expressing the intensity of heroin addiction into a song. "It's my life and it's my life." RIP Lou. You will be forever missed.
Maybe, Neil Percival Young and his "Needle and the damage done".
John Cale and Moe Tucker are so amazing on this, especially the last couple of minutes...
Yes, saw the them Moe on the drums! And John Cale!
The drumming is this is extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!
53 ans, concerné et j'aimerais avoir la traduction en français, merci. J'ai pris mon pied et j'ai morflé, toujours en vie et enfin presque totalement libéré.
Mais j'ai pris mon pied et gâché tous mes projets, et si c'était à refaire, Jamais pour les conséquences que vous connaissez.
Merci Lou, un très bel exemple entre musique et réalité.
Passato e ancora vivo nn e stato facile ma ho scelto la vita.bellissima canzone
Lou Reed did it all in Concert.....and then he did it again and again and again.....He was the definition of hardcore Rock n Roll....
Always feel fortunate I'm just old enough to have seen guys like lou, and young enough to still be around to remember.
This song reaches into my - I'm a recovered heroin addict - and this song...just says it all. Brilliant , raw and honest.
It's says it all for me I made me feel like God
The longest relationship I had was with heroin. Until it didn't work anymore. I love you, Lou Reed.
That's right...a really fickle mistress-it never fails to fail you.
Thinking about opiates makes me nostalgic over the relationship we had. It really sticks with you for the rest of your life. Kinda scary sometimes.
It's such a great thing between a slow, soft song that goes deep inside, in a spiritual way, and then we get a boost of pace and energy that makes it all blossom. A masterpiece that sounds like nothing else. I don't mind about the heroin lyrics. It's just so spiritual, beautiful and energic, even if you are 100% sober. Thank you for the song and the overall work . RIP forever.
For real
Great perspective
Le Velvet sont le précurseur de la musique New-yorkaise,1 monument indestructible,incontournable ❤paix entre tous 🙏Stop all wars et les atrocités commisent 🫶♉️
I have always like this song and artist Lou Reed. It is how my life was before and how a busload of faith got me to this point. I know the dragon still waits for me
Most of us face one type of temptation (demons) or another. Keep your bus full brother.
One day at a time is all I ask Sweet JESUS
This is one of the most awesome songs I know! Wow!
I bet Lou really appreciated seeing his music be loved by so many people
Awesome version. No-one drums like Mo!
I love this song too much. too fucking much.
I know right! Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve to listen to it that often since I've never been addicted to heroin. Only the song-
The very first punk band
The original garage band. THere is a part of the song when Lou looks at the audience and you can see him thinking,"Yeah ,I,m the Man". It just does not get any better than this. Cracking album as well.
the lyrics to this song about heroin is realy deep. its about how good it is and when u take it u feel like a differant person in a differant world and u feel untouchable. basical u will get adicted then u will be two halfs of the same person and it will be like that for 20 years or so. the song thats been on going since the 60s explains good and evil and by taking heroin the two halfs of a person will be constanly fighin the battle of will and most of the time the adiction will win war because of how u feel after taking it and the withdrawal will be number 1 priortiy. nothing and none will never be apart of there life again. the liryrics in this song are true to the serious of taking herion and the long turm adiction that fucks up your life because taking herion is a constant battle of wills
Ja of nee?
Never took heroin again after hearing this in 1968, coming down and coming home. Just put the track on, so the room shook. Sing it at gigs now, quiet two chords. Watch them cry. Watch them die.
Pure - PoinT ! & I know that!!!! .--- Newer or GOLDEN!!!
There’s also an addictive nature to the song when the upbeat tempo comes and goes away
There are no old heroin addicts
maybe is the greatest song ever
jim morrison and lou reed and the whole entourage may god be with you all. you will be seriously missed.......
+randy hokin true greats !! leaving their music as a legacy !! they will never be forgotten !!! EVER !!! AMEN !!!
randy hokin jim morrison is a legend
Let's add Syd Barrett in there while we're at it.
@@jan_Travis Amen brother
And Arthur Lee
Man this song really hits you. I remember listening to this on my mission from burbs to the badlands of Philly from 97-2004. I remember the craziness of the chase, going into a den of vipers and trying to score that one bag, making it out and spiking the vein. I remember the rush and the feeling of complete bliss and not caring about shit, if for just a little while. This song spoke to me then.
15 or so years later and clean, man I gotta stay away from this song. It haunts me to this day. All the scamming, the sickness, the depravity, I tend to forget it when hearing this for a bit. Then reality strikes. I see my kids my wife, my dog, my home. Snapped out of that trance this song brings. The song is beautiful but man does it illicit emotions that bring a past junkie to somewhere that he shouldn't be.
Glad you are clean, Midnight,
Heaven is near when the mind is clear
L eroina chiama sempre
This is so rare , Lou is not gooned out , he does a great show
When Lou actually gives a shit, it really shows.
I always come back to this performance. It was just exceptional.
Lou Lou Lou, its the beginning of a great adventure....
miss you already
The Velvets have always been able to rack up the tension until you want to scream... then at the last moment they let you down and do it again
ItIt is what it is
Kinda like the drug huh.😳
When I listen to this - now near 50 years since I first did - it almost makes me wish that my rule on gear hadn't been "take anything but don't jack up". Then again maybe I'd not still be around to listen in awe if I had done.....sublime.
Those Parisians got their Francs worth on this tune alone.
Missed them first time round but what a privilege and joy to see the wonderful Velvet Underground in 93😊
Powerful damn song; the dynamics are iconic to this particularly addictive drug.
there is order in all the chaos we see. around us. and in ourselves.
yeh mahn, yeh, fukin tight reasoning bro
you fucking worm
i don't think i gave the reasoning bro. but i'm kinda shocked at your comment. your such a handsome nice looking boy.
but i'm deep bro. real deep. so deep the suns' rays can't even touch this.
Do you have any idea how many revered musicians this guy directly and indirectly inspired? Pure genius.
RUSH ON THAT RUN. I FEEL LIKE JESUS SON. THE WORDS ARE SO REAL. I JUST DONT KNOW.
there is nothing glamorous about heroin,it will take you to a place in life were the brink of death is an everyday event,were vomit and diarrhea is a norm,your tears will dry up and your heart will barely beat.you tears will burn and your soul will slip into the underground of society.i lived it.heroin is not glamorous the only way out is God
I do agree that heroin is not glamorous (my ex-boyfriend used it a lot and it's nothing glamorous about having to feed a 25 year old man, cause he is too stoned to do it himself ... - and that's not the worst, of course ... it's - as you've said - underground of society ...).
But I don't know much about God and am not prone to believing what I hear or read, so ... I do hope LOVE is also the way out. :)
Nevertheless, I like this song, a lot!
There is NOTHING about this performance that "glamorizes" heroin. It is a song of frightening beauty, power and also hopelessness.There is nothing joyful about the surrender to a lifestyle that takes someone away from life. Thank God Lou quit, and gave us decades of his genius.
The assumption that if he had continued to use dope ,then he'd never have given us his genius is contrary to this song and to reality that many people wrote great works under the active INFLUENCE of opiates (Poe,Burroughs ,and even Lou). You probably mean well,but ya miss the gist of this song. Which is the decision to use Heroin all his life , ie become a junkie.
Not sayin his artistry couldn't survive heroin addiction, but his body might not have.
The greatest song by the greatest group with the greatest musicians ever
LOU REED IS AMAZING,
I DONT DO DRUGS, USED TO SMOKE WEED...BUT IT IS PROOF THAT HIS MUSIC IS PURE POETRY AND MUSIC,
DOES NOT MAKE ANY APOLOGY TO ANY DRUG!!
OH, LOU, YOU ARE SO MISSED....❤️🇧🇷🇺🇲🇧🇷🥰☝️
Intense. All this from four folks who look like they're dressed for work in a warehouse. No smoke machines or laser lights, auto-tuning or dancers in sparkles? Genuine musical talent... from a time, (late 60's early 70's ) when there was a lot of that around. This band and others from that era have stood the test of time.
Post Bierstube What I was trying to say... (Guess I didn't do so very well)... was, that a lot of today's most popular acts are affectatious, stage shows with minimal real musical talent, creativity or artistry. I fully realize that there a plenty of really talented bands around today, in many genres. "Alabama Shakes" is one of my current favs. BTW- It is possible to express disagreement with someone in a civil, non-disparaging way.
@@joeherald7319
Who is the asshole who reply to you and deleted his comment? Ahah miserable...i really get your point but there always someone ready to go that way "you are pathetic whining about todays music"...but thats not your point! Those people are pathetic cause you were not complaining THAT way about this subject
This song so much relates to what's happening in 2024 it's insane! MIND FREAKIN BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS!🤪🤯🥳
“I . . . wish that, I was born a thousand years ago . . .”
Cale's drone started off subtle, then building up to the mad viola snarling at the end gave this song an ecstatic dimension it needed.
Cale’s droning viola completes this insane song lol
Thanks for this. Was listening to the Velvet Underground when I was 12 after the "Transformer" album came out and Someone was nice enough to tell Me about Lou's first band. I immediately went out and bought "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Approximately 1972. Thanks again.
Michael McLoughlin
This song always gets to me, there is something that rings so true about it, the music
and words blend perfectly.
all I can say is wow... what a powerful, epic tune - reminds me of the Doors movie when Jim is at wahol's party... very trippy, very long, very painful, very exciting, very unpredictable, very sad, very emotional, very helpless, very lost. "Heroin, it's my life, it's my wife.... will be the death of me.... that's one drug that is certainly a death sentence. one drug I will never try, ever... so much talent lost to it that the list is too devastating to list...
Heroin gave me wings but it took away the sky.
I was 15 when this record came out. I was living in LA which had an amazing music scene '66 onwards. My very hip actore friend brought the LP over to my house and we played it on our awesome stereo. Was so different and dark compared to the other releases of the era (with the exception of the Doors). We had discovered the world of Warholism. So different from the London-LA-SF axis.
I watch this on a weekly basis
this is my favorite version of this anthem. ive searched so many record stores and intrawebs tryin to find this. you are very much appreciated for this
"...and you can all go take a fuckin' walk !"
LOVE Lou...he had the balls to write this perfect song
波をつくる人は至るところに🌊🎵
この音は私をあっという間に、どこか遠い場所へと連れ去ってしまいます。魔法みたいな曲！
Lou rest in Peace I was born a thousabd's year's ago
when the Velvets were supposed to be doing the states after the Europe tour I was so ready to spend whatever to see them live-sigh..it never happened.
i think this is one of the best live of heroin
more accurate drumming in here
also way more interesting guitar licks upon these two magic chords, C and F, open strings
interval of 4th
the violin part awesome, the pedal of C
the voice itself of Lou Reed seems to be more mature, this is 1993 so the man grew up, and this more rude old tone in his voice gives the lyrics something more
the chords progression, when it speeds up, has the introduction of a blue-blues tone by adding to the F chord D and D# up semitone
wonderful performance
+RadioffVoices NoysyVision&NaClO Okay, we get it, you know lots of chords. Whooptie-fucking-doo.
+kkh369
aaahahah wonderful guuys, both of you, very fun, at least made me laugh
cmon, do you really feel the right to offense or whatever the fuck did you say? soo disappointing
anyway i just wanted to share some of my thoughts about this show maybe from a musical point of view, im not god in earth and probably there are plenty of people out there that for sure are way ahead my few skills at playing guitar
+Radioff Voices NoysyVision&NaClO are you sure he plays c and f chords, not d and g????? Yeah, thru the years, Reed learned to play, but, what I catch from this video, is the face of John Cale when he plays high notes, scraping, tortured...
+Gilles Bourgeois
john cale awesome here, but you can find the whole live show, they really give a wonderful performance
One thing I noticed is Sterling Morrison attitude..he seems to be annoyed by something, I noticed from his facial mood, anyway I know these guys had troubles between them back in the days
On the other hand Lou Reed and John Cale are very in touch, at least in this show
You are right, I also thought it was D and G but playing guitar I discovered Lou is one step down so what you obtain is that you get C and F chords instead of D and G but in the same position as D and G
Give it a try you will know that
Anyway this great song can be played both d-g or c-f generally
+Gilles Bourgeois
I know there is quite a mess in what I wrote, but I try my best
Timeless music!
I'M A RECOVERING JUNKIE, AND I LOVE THIS SONG
There is no one who come close to lou Reed.
Lou Reed may u rest in heaven.
50 years old this song. Genius.
They make two chords exhilarating to the point of exhaustion and I love it. John Cale's viola during the peak almost makes me nauseous with delight. Sort of like another substance.
Dette musik er sublimt. Diese musik ist Spitzen.
This piece is such a darling.
Mercy
Outstanding! Still has the menace after all those years from the first vu album.
Grandissimi...John Cale da Nobel alla musica... grazie lou Reed
I loved this song then, i love it now i will love it all the way down the mainline
1:19 scared the shit out of me
So eine tolle Stimme....Da spürt man das Feeling....Danke..
This is just art. Nothing else is the Velvets, and nothing will ever be them. It's the most wholly unique art. It's a Jackson Pollock, it's a Picasso.
A song about broken lives and broken dreams.
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful video loaded with such delicate moments of the past.
bliss - sublime - heaven - +++ very good old memories - - and party nights
When I was addicted many times i thinking this song! GREAT Lou !!!!
Pareil
Loves the way Cale handles the violin at the end.
That’s a viola, actually.
The aura here is so majestic. Listen to the fucking intro. Shivers. Fucking goosebumps. Solemnity. So potent. Austere and sincere. Fateful. Faithless in a faithful way
WHERE EVER YOU ARE,
LOU, WATCH OUT FOR
US, FRIEND!❤🌻🌺🙏
For anyone suffering with the disease , narcotics anonymous are always available in pretty much any county. Help is out there. Trust me. It can be done. You can get clean and live your life clean.
lo sento e lo risento ,è un momento magico
Cantar en el centro de Paris, sobre drogas y ser aplaudido. Solo el más grande!!
I love this version of it, but the audio is a split second earlier than the video and it's really annoying to watch
I love music very much, but Lou Reed is amazing to calm down. For me it is a blow in the water. That said, I love L. Reed. Same for the velvet.
Beautiful....
Very Great John Cale!!!!
Cale*s face! He's outta his mind in these moments, totally lost to this world... And Moe's beating on the drums as if possessed..
Excuse me for my bad english but I’m a french girl. This song is beautifull. All your sing are beautifull .You miss me very much Mister Lou Reed.
Yes it's à wonderfull song.
Thanks for yours words,yes it’s à wonderful song !
I love this guy, he is the best. Lou and Patti Smith is the inspiration to the punk rock.
You're right, but don't forget Iggy Pop.
Ive been looking for this song for decades, i guess i love you
I really love this !! Wish it was not about such a destructive substence. Lou Reed's facial expression dosesn't change 1% (+/-) anywhere in this frantic manic-depressive song. The drum and viola parts are just plain crazy good.
We loved them in Paris where he gave his best concerts.