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Post by oscillations. on Nov 27, 2006 23:11:48 GMT -5
I was just listening to Transformer, and I like the way this song was described on the back of the CD, so I figured I'd post it here.
"Walk On The Wild Side", Lou's haunting homage to Manhattan's drag queens, hustlers, and dealers, remains the strangest -- and coolest -- song to ever become a Top 20 hit."
I love this song.
More recently, Garbage's "Bleed Like Me" is an admitted take off on this classic track.
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Post by joker on Nov 27, 2006 23:52:15 GMT -5
"Walk On The Wild Side", Lou's haunting homage to Manhattan's drag queens, hustlers, and dealers, remains the strangest -- and coolest -- song to ever become a Top 20 hit."That really sums it up, doesn't it? I don't know how it ever managed to become a hit, but I'll take it. Great song.
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 28, 2006 16:56:40 GMT -5
This was Lou's only pop single to the charts reaching #16 in 1973
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Post by mst3k on Nov 28, 2006 18:03:06 GMT -5
Great song, although whenever I hear it now I think of the scene from a Simpsons episode with some whiter-than-white "Up With People" group singing it at a school assembly. "Hey, kids! Take a walk on the wild side!!"
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Post by oscillations. on Nov 28, 2006 18:49:27 GMT -5
Didn't "Perfect Day" also chart pretty well?
I mean, it's borderline Elton John territory. Radio should have eaten it up.
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 28, 2006 21:52:31 GMT -5
Nope, Lou Reed's music was very confusing among US DJs during his career
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Post by Hervard on Nov 29, 2006 11:46:52 GMT -5
Surprised nobody's mentioned that this song was sampled in "Wildside" by Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch, from late 1991.
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Post by oscillations. on Nov 29, 2006 12:05:49 GMT -5
^I never knew about this atrocity.
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 29, 2006 16:48:46 GMT -5
And it was sampled a whole lot better on "Can I Kick It" by A Tribe Called Quest
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Oct 29, 2013 21:06:53 GMT -5
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Post by Luckie Starchild on Oct 30, 2013 7:57:37 GMT -5
So ahead of its time!
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Post by disman00911 on Sept 3, 2021 13:30:13 GMT -5
Cool song. One of the best from the early part of the decade.
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