You only have to listen to John Cale’s version of Hallelujah to notice that sometimes a rhyme is all about how you choose to pronounce it. He sings it ‘correctly’, which frequently destroys the rhyme scheme but does he sound bothered?

PiL is actually good

Finally! Someone gets across the issued with aro and ace representation that just keeps getting ignored! youtu.be/CP02QywJXfU?...

when you totally know what drugs are and how much they cost

like the only way i can see myself doing that is... making low-effort throwaway things to submit. which is a problem because if it *did* get chosen, i'd be known for low-effort throwaway things instead of my proper art.

(i'm a time traveler trying to get caesar to invent caesar salad) me: caesar! you have conquered all lands. none stand before you. what will you do now? caesar: i think... i will invent a salad me: what will you call it, your glory? caesar: julius's salad me: close caesar: julius's epic salad

rlly i dont know how i feel about whoring my writing out to millions of places who probably wont even read it before rejecting

In memory of Sylvain Sylvain, American rock guitarist, band member of Actress, New York Dolls and The Criminals, born on this day in 1951 in Cairo, Egypt and sadly passed away 5 years ago 📸 Linda D. Robbins #punk #punks #punkrock #sylvainsylvain #history #punkrockhistory #otd

i aim to be greater than all my "heroes".

death and the maiden

mostly i write to transform this grief or misery into something else. something good.

ok i AM normal/basic in other ways. my favourite beat is the tom-tom-snare-tom. rocknroll i love :)

Just saw this... As usual, Bowie's spot-on with his observations.

realised im much more of a licks guy than a riff guy.

My :) mixture of jazz and proto-punk, like some deranged motherfucker

Lou-natics unite! Here's a previously uncirculated gem from the fall of 1972 — Lou Reed + the Tots in London. Probably the best quality recording I've heard from this era ...

someone Please find me a site where i can post my various music and band -related ramblings (loose reviews), i will go Insane.

you know how people talk about 3-chord rock n roll you know how — except very few cases — it's horribly boring and same-y you know how it was initially this incredible powered-up thing that allowed rockers to show off distortion and the very electrifying stuff that could b done with such tricks

ooh it's me :3 fun

Debbie Harry says if you've ever liked her acting it's because Warhol taught her how to listen. He was a 'great listener... ''Oh really?'' That was his phrase... ''oh really''?

everythng is so hard:( and horrible :( but i will always have john cale albums 👍

the lyrics of david bowie's Repetition (yes, that's the name) off Lodger have huge Lou Reed vibes. i wonder if he nicked a lyric sheet off him somewhere.

iris ily...

me whenever i see the number 7: omg clash reference ?!?!

i wish i had somewhere to post my song reviews im writing out of pure enthusiasm and love. i can't stop writing them, combining my two main skill/talent/loves. augh.

they look so cute and tiny and cold XD

in love with Le Bataclan Live version of The Black Angel's death song

im probably just this unhappy because i haven't played my guitar for a while (one (1) day)

Mary Woronov on hippies vs the Velvet Underground

i want to listen to more Clash but oh my god the AMOUNT of songs on Sandinista! scared me off so bad. 😭 i need to get over myself

this is so true. closet mix of Some Kinda Love DOES THINGS TO ME even more than the original the delivery makes it apparent that it is set in some seedy illicit place & the knowledge being imparted from Marguerita to Tom is similar in nature. sung like a dirty secret.

Do not critique this i will cry

one really funny thing i noticed was that the bridge on Who Loves The Sun? is kind of similar to the bridge on the Get Back sessions' Teddy Boy. which is SO funny, because people didn't have access to recordings of it back then i think. it must be convergent.

anyway i binged a bunch of VU song review articles by this one guy, and they were all brilliant — it was very clear the writer was a superfan like me, his exuberance and love for the band was really evident in the reviews. amazing stuff lol + i have the Sister Ray MINUTE-BY-MINUTE review saved.

paul mccartney saying in Get Back that he (paraphrased) wanted to get the basis of the song done first, then complicate it later where it needs complications stuck with me. i don't like the guy, but this is something i carry into my own music too. get the basics done first *then* complicate it.

whatever you do, do Not listen to any of david bowie's covers. man i love him but he does not do covers well...

COOL AS FUCK

imo #thevelvetunderground 's Beginning To See The Light is actually about a person not doing well who's pretending for all his life that he's doing well now! evidence below:

imo the problem with #loureed 's later work is that he got seriously upset his good writing which he put so much effort and his entire heart into just... wasn't getting recognised at all. so fuck it, man, if they're not listening, he'll just say whatever. it didn't even matter to him anymore.

honestly the general public perception of #davidbowie is really reductive and dismissive of his talents.

i NEED to go there on effectively-a-pilgrimmage (im atheist, music is the closest thing) so much omg

i love my bassist/bestie because i can send him a message saying that i want my [=>our] music to disturb in an artistically satisfying way ike a 1920s surrealist gory film and he responds with "YES YES"

if there's anything that pisses me off it's *uninformed* hating. like at least look into whether the accusations are true or not. at least hate correctly. people going "andy warhol was a fake" or "john lennon beat his wife" or "david bowie was a pedophile" completely uncritically piss me off :/

and y'know what. while we're at it, i DON'T think andy warhol was worthless artistically. you have to *look* and care to look, to see his vision, but it is undeniably there. the meme where it was said he'd use AI if he was here now is so stupid. you don't even know you don't even fucking knowww

andy warhol had a cool taste in music actually. All Tomorrow's Parties was his favourite velvet underground song (tho tbh that may be because of nico's AMAZING vocals on it... but really *any* VU song i would approve as a fave)

most people don't even know ziggy stardust :/ #theriseandfallofziggystardustandthespidersfrommars (what a fucking mouthful) is a story of, yes, an alien rockstar come to earth to save the world with the power of rocknroll and being your unapologetic glam self, sure.

cool as fuck zine with a bunch of cool as fuck stories... i have one in there too ;3 (well technically two, but really Panda only *sent* his review thru me)

imo #loureed 's work in (in, not with, because they weren't his backing band, he was one of the v influential members) #thevelvetunderground *was* actually his best, and somewhere underneath all the spiteful bitchiness he must've known it too — if not, why keep rehashing Velvets songs till he died?