Lou Reed - Sad Song (Official Audio)

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Official Audio for ”Sad Song” by Lou Reed
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Lyrics:
Staring at my picture book
She looks like Mary, Queen of Scots
She seemed very regal to me
Just goes to show how wrong you can be
I'm gonna stop wastin' my time
Somebody else would have broken both of her arms
Sad song, sad song
Sad song, sad song
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@kevinsteviestevenson4001 Жыл бұрын

In my opinion this is Lou Reed's masterpiece. Absolutely.

@mssamhierlmeier5073 10 ай бұрын

❤

@gurrenmed5319 9 ай бұрын

There is many masterpieces of Lou Reed

@toranderson8141 5 ай бұрын

❤

@thiagom.3097 5 ай бұрын

Yr opinion is gold

@philobeddoe4837 5 жыл бұрын

There is beauty in Melancholy

@martinharrison1504 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't Joni Mitchell sing something like that?

@patrickkever706 7 жыл бұрын

the best lou reed album

@sanborns 4 жыл бұрын

I'm inclined to agree, certainly his best non commercial en devour.

@rael2099 4 жыл бұрын

Undecided between Berlin and Magic and Loss.

@thomasworkman8882 4 жыл бұрын

Soooo good

@gogoyubari366 2 жыл бұрын

@@sanborns Endeavor not en devour.

@Bobmacca64 2 жыл бұрын

Transformer ranks pretty high as well in my humble opinion:)

@tommaynard5002 8 жыл бұрын

the Berlin album is amazing. It's one album that can make me smile one day, yet depress the hell out of me the next. Only great music can do that. Lou was incredible.

@BenCulture 8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Maynard -- No kidding. I had listened to this album about 20 times, until one night I sat outside, with a bottle of bourbon, and listened through the whole album. By the end, I was having a nervous breakdown, bawling my head off, waking the family and neighbors. I almost went to a psych ward that night, but I didn't, and I was fine the next day. I can only wonder what making this album did to Lou Reed and producer Bob Ezrin. It sounds so complicated, stressful, and expensive.

@marshsherrif2824 7 жыл бұрын

check out Trout Mask Replica by Beefheart for a similar experience. But hide the razors first. Let me know.

@marshsherrif2824 5 жыл бұрын

try Smile

@warrencloud6873 4 жыл бұрын

#moodstabilizers

@nidalamir9512 4 жыл бұрын

This album cures me, as most of my depression consists on hiding from hard realities and not dealing with them, I walk without me and this album makes me a whole being, who I am, the same way that Sarabande by Ingmar Bergman does, based on Sarabande by Bach.

@kirstenjakobsen1651 6 жыл бұрын

Great album, sadly my husband of 40 years is't here anymore. We have more than 20 albums of lou and not a single one is bad. RIP ❤️Lasse and RIP ❤️Lou

@juliansanby9994 6 жыл бұрын

Kirsten jakobsen Although my former partner is still alive we are no longer a couple and at first hearing Lou Reed and some other albums we'd grooved to was heart- breaking ,over time it got better and now I have to smile remembering the great times we had, some still make me cry but Lou can do that to me and it's always been the case. I hope you are/will be at the stage where the joy you remember heavily outweighs the sorrow. jules

@alessandrorossini8704 2 жыл бұрын

I send you my love 💖

@thewhoman8252 Жыл бұрын

One day this song will be remembered by the children of the future as one of the greatest of all time

@krisscanlon4051 Жыл бұрын

From Transformer to Berlin is the best one two punch in anyone's career. To think Lou was using alot of chemicals...the work still shines through...still the same man

@joenicholls461 6 жыл бұрын

BERLIN! Easily one of the best records of the 70s

@springycfc1 5 жыл бұрын

The best

@privatetartanarmy 4 жыл бұрын

Jings, it's one of the best albums of all time.

@rodrigoviegas606 3 жыл бұрын

@@privatetartanarmy It is! Lou's magnum-opus! ♥

@clc-gl4jn 3 жыл бұрын

How did I just discover this one when I had all his other stuff? Amazing. Berlin is what I’d like to have listened to a while ago!💯🤙

@joecarney9307 2 жыл бұрын

Berlin is lou reeds masterpiece,the fact it tells such a disastrous story so beautifully is unbelievable. As Martin Scorsese said, lou reed spoke the language of people with nothing. He will be remembered for a long time

@sethwetzel974 8 ай бұрын

He will be remembered forever.

@umbertobressan5455 6 ай бұрын

Berlin is a beautiful great album Lou Reed is vero great writing the word and the music of this concept album. He is the best n.1❤

@shawnathanj8291 6 жыл бұрын

Goosebumps and tears. Every time.

@sikamt 5 жыл бұрын

No one like Lou. So spiritual, high and low, like looking back at life in a picture book. Good night.

@klaustoth6982 3 жыл бұрын

majestic. reed's masterpiece album.

@user-uh1rw7wu9o Жыл бұрын

😅j'ai decouvert ce disque en 1973, alors que je vivais dans une petite chambre de bonne à Paris. Cette oeuvre magistrale me plongeait dans une forme d'extase et de melancolie. Je l'écoute toujours avec le même ravissement.

@ThreeWishesFairy Жыл бұрын

The Berlin album is such a masterpiece. It helds me captive from start to finish. To me it always felt like a film and this particular track would be the one over which the credits would roll IF it was a film. The whole album builds up so much tension which is then released with this song. This is how I personally always experienced it.

@yoggystyle 5 ай бұрын

you nailed it @ThreeWishesFairy

@oilyshoes9969 6 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece

@frommetoyou1981 Жыл бұрын

Amen brother

@lauradwyer4256 2 жыл бұрын

I can't get enough of this song

@cicadadrive 8 жыл бұрын

great song for a "Sad Song"

@susankutner3217 4 жыл бұрын

This album changed my life-

@paulpeterson4320 4 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece.

@stevenmorris2234 4 жыл бұрын

Bed was so damn sad. I'm glad this song made up and ended on there's hope in the end kind of song to end the Berlin Album. Lou is a genius songwriter. Unbelievable talent he had. A song about a couple he either knew or heard about. This song was a true story. Absolutely sad. Love this beautiful hope kind of song.

@jaslinc3371 4 жыл бұрын

I love Lou.

@jasonwitwicker9796 3 жыл бұрын

what an epic "Sad song" chorus

@simonknott224 7 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful... How can you not like this..awesme !! RIP Lou ... Love You

@srglepore 2 ай бұрын

Great album.

@missdee4927 3 жыл бұрын

Berlin is a masterpiece!

@spudcustardx1 8 жыл бұрын

this just blows me away as it did at the time it came out, not fair to hear it out of context but. Lou always believed in this album, so did I

@TheIanoTube Жыл бұрын

Not fair to hear it out of context is such a great remark. I came to these comments to hear people's perspectives on this tune in particular, but we need perspective of the album as a whole to appreciate how we got to this tone. Good man Lou

@pmac024 8 жыл бұрын

Bob Ezrin produced this and you can hear in the arpeggios the influence it had on his later work Pink Floyd's The Wall, particularly the track 'Comfortably Numb'

@johnnyjohntheschemindreame9193 8 жыл бұрын

You can also hear the 'Bob Ezrin' effect on his work with Alice Cooper and Kiss' Destroyer here on this Lou Reed record. Of course Wagner and Hunter joined Cooper's band for Welcome to My Nightmare.

@BenCulture 8 жыл бұрын

+Peter -- Of course, you're right. The string arpeggios are just different enough to avoid any plagarism case, but most likely, Bob Ezrin was merely plagarizing himself. Roger Waters and David Gilmour get the songwriting credits, and Michael Kamen is credited with the orchestral arrangements, but this is one case in which Bob Ezrin clearly had a hand in. From what I've read, Ezrin works as hard as the artists he produces, and he's a very "hands-on" producer, who expects to be treated as equal to the artist. (He claims he "re-wrote" _The Wall_ overnight. Hmm.) You don't hire a guy like Ezrin just to add a lick and a polish. Funny thing is, after Ezrin imitated "Sad Song" for "Comfortably Numb", Roger Waters and Michael Kamen imitated "Comfortably Numb" for the song "The Final Cut".

@kostasxrysogelos 6 жыл бұрын

The orchestration on Alice Cooper's "Only women bleed" definitely came from this. Especially the guitar fills at the end.

@muhrvis 5 жыл бұрын

@@kostasxrysogelos yes!

@jonesy2111 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely and one of the greatest producers of all time if not the greatest

@shaunsmith6703 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing song. I'm always so disappointed when it ends! Why can't it go on a little bit longer!!

@simonjager9259 3 жыл бұрын

The Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of depression.

@noctourniquet_ 2 жыл бұрын

Sgt. Pepper ni si quiera se acerca en concepto, musica y estilo a Berlín. El primero es una pomposidad, el segundo, la desnudez del alma frente al infierno.

@Inkblot67 2 жыл бұрын

@@noctourniquet_ that’s why Simon Jager said it was the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band “OF DEPRESSION”.

@theslo777ery Жыл бұрын

I belly laughed when I read your comment. I love Lou and this song, but I also loved your comment here.

@hideousruin Жыл бұрын

Not a Beatles fan anymore. But I love Lou more every time I play an album, especially this one.

@edhelvey Жыл бұрын

I will never listen to that horrible Beatles album again but I'll listen to sweet Lou's "Berlin" for the rest of my life

@GiantDoucheNG 6 жыл бұрын

this shit makes me tear up late at night in my room just like it did when i was in fucking highschool, beautiful music is timeless. rest in peace Lou Reed he lives on through his music, like all great artists who have died

@SPooKYChristopher 2 жыл бұрын

Berlin's 50th birthday is coming up and I would love to redo it with my take, but I would never know where to begin. It almost seems like it would be sacrilegious. There's only about 10 pieces of musical art that Goosebump me ... This is definitely at the top, I can barely get through the first 5 minutes watching the performance in New York without tearing up immediately. Lou's been along with me all my life and will be missed as well as so many other brilliant artists. Sad song.....

@tricanico 6 жыл бұрын

The melody announces the future

@shanebecker2113 Жыл бұрын

An Incredible song

@richmac5533 3 жыл бұрын

I had to listen to the original again after watching the stream of the 2006 live version at St Ann's Warehouse that Julian Schnabel made into a movie - streaming live on KZfaq until November 29th. The original is a masterpiece, harrowing and wonderful at the same time. I'd go so far as to say that Berlin will be remembered as opera, it's like a classical Greek tragedy, complete with chorus - Sad Song is monumental. I think Berlin is in the top 3 of all time great albums.

@jahlenmusic 4 жыл бұрын

great song, great album

@rodrigoviegas606 3 жыл бұрын

An absolute masterpiece! You may not credit this, but my late Mom - march 1929/february 2016 - loved listening to Lou Reed!

@reverendayglow 2 жыл бұрын

credit this?

@nickdipples8562 10 ай бұрын

@@reverendayglow Perfectly correct, if slightly archaic, English. "Credit" as in "believe". (See "incredulous" and the translation of "believe" in at least Italian and French. See also Mark E Smith's lyrics to Glitter Freeze)

@barrycoad2080 4 жыл бұрын

call it as it is .. is always a relief

@jeffdawson2786 2 ай бұрын

The twin guitars go so well with the orchestra on the crescendos. Lou’s greatest album, for my money.

@landysuniga4800 5 жыл бұрын

Thx Lou Reed been going thru it sense my mom passed 9 months ago much love to anyone feeling like there not worth it you are u are we are

@johnsrome8459 3 жыл бұрын

2 years later, I bet it still hurts. Recent anniversary of my dad, 2020, from 26 years ago. It still hurts. Just occasionally & briefly nowadays.. Love to your mom. Love to you. I wish that ending could go on for hours. Sad Song. He said it. Hope you have found happiness, Landy.x

@seanconnolly4503 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@geoffwoade6965 6 жыл бұрын

Staring at my picture book She looks like Mary, Queen of Scots She seemed very regal to me Just goes to show how wrong you can be I'm gonna stop wastin' my time Somebody else would have broken both of her arms Sad song, Sad song, Sad song, Sad song My castle, kids and home I thought she was Mary, Queen of Scots I tried so very hard Shows just how wrong you can be I'm gonna stop wasting time Somebody else would have broken both of her arms Sad song, Sad song, Sad song, Sad song

@dallascalahasin6583 5 жыл бұрын

@JohnReganSeattle 8 жыл бұрын

so dark it is bright

@marshsherrif2824 7 жыл бұрын

too right

@sanborns 4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@Brian-sh5ne 4 жыл бұрын

There is life affirmation in tragedy.

@Hoffmanniac 3 жыл бұрын

Brian • man I always took it the opposite way. Like, this is denial and refusing to acknowledge the narrators role in Caroline’s suicide.

@Hoffmanniac 3 жыл бұрын

What drove her to suicide, I mean. Like I have very little faith this dude is going to be better going forward. I still think the song is incredible and powerful.

@socorrofilms 3 жыл бұрын

Those drums...

@cosmicdrifter287 7 жыл бұрын

we miss you lou.

@mathiasschenk9257 7 ай бұрын

this gracious song makes me really sad! wonderful song!

@martinperotti5954 3 жыл бұрын

The most important concept album ever made.make a work so pretentious and with this perfect result is something to admire.Reed was a genius artist

@AUX-alexanders 2 жыл бұрын

Having been often in Berlin in the 80’s….this album has the exact atmosphere from how it once was over there, very special……

@marcopalladino8624 4 жыл бұрын

Sad (best) song.

@guybudziak6830 2 жыл бұрын

After first discovering Lou and the Velvets I was left with solo Lou to pursue in the early mid-Seventies. This was the one album of his I played over and over, and it still sounds superb all these decades later. I have never found it depressing in spite of its content, for me it's just too rich for that.

@hideousruin Жыл бұрын

It always cheers me up tbh. I guess it's the catharsis and black humor as well as the gorgeous music.

@1NationUnderwood 7 жыл бұрын

I can't listen to Lou Reed without thinking about my dad anymore. Born in the same month and passed in the same year. RIP to both my dad and Lou Reed. 2/14 marks four years since my dad's passing. I may just listen to Lou Reed that day. Fuck. Sorry. :(

@jessgarcia1368 7 жыл бұрын

Shakey Greene sorry for your loss. I think of my dad when I hear Lou Reed too. my dad passed away at 47 when I was 16 in jan '05. my dad loved Lou Reed. we got to see Lou put his hands into cement down in Hollywood for the hall of fame and watched him perform that day. I remember because I ended up with a bad headache through the concert but enjoyed the concert and didn't tell my dad about the headache because I knew he loved his music too much. on new year 2000 my dad decided we'd all play our favorite songs to celebrate new years and his #1 was egg cream! haha. my aunt left me with his cds so I have a bunch I haven't even listened to yet.

@GiantDoucheNG 6 жыл бұрын

i love you, i hope things will be okay for you, hang in there please

@raahilbhatia1866 6 жыл бұрын

Take care. Im sure smwer hes smilin and proud seeing u listenin to lou

@williamshrader272 3 жыл бұрын

It’s ok

@tinchoguitar5 6 жыл бұрын

REED deserves an epiphone signature guitar ,perhaps transformer-berlin are the two most iconic photos with an epi guitar on the album cover

@RedGoldGreen-Dub 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful song the whole record is beautiful yet dark in places 💙👌🏻

@chaz7608 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, Dark in most places. As is Berlin. Dark, disturbing and unsettling. A place where Communism was removed and Socialism is present. But nobody knows as all living there have been robbed of initiative and don't know how to work. True story. So the LP does fit in.

@BasVoets-fj9bx 4 ай бұрын

I heard lou reed play this song live. In amsterdam.

@francourbinati8561 Жыл бұрын

Sad Song mi fa venire la pelle d d'oca, Fantastica

@user-fi8no1ne3j 4 жыл бұрын

Happy 2020 everyone! Life goes on.

@nono-ln8kf 3 жыл бұрын

this didn’t aged well bro

@ProfessorChomsky 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely magnificent x

@gramefreer9684 4 жыл бұрын

Such beautiful music on this and so easilly, it seems, well written. Can't let it go and respect to all involved in the production. Regards L.R.

@nosferaturock 8 жыл бұрын

GREAT SONG!!!!

@SteelM4chine Жыл бұрын

What a sad song

@jaslinc3371 4 жыл бұрын

It's Art.

@paulashcroft7712 10 ай бұрын

O what beautiful

@springycfc1 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome..best ever song IMO

@pascaljeanne6520 2 жыл бұрын

a very rare album ! so great !

@archtop26 5 жыл бұрын

I've always found this song throw away and complex. Lou Reed is so conversational I find. Like having an intimate chat with a stranger at a bar. Was he influenced by Chuck Berry I always wonder? Berry had much the same technique..."Meanwhile I was thinking...". I listened to this song endlessly when I split up with my wife. He sets you up "I'm gonna stop wasting my time". And then "Somebody else would have broken both of her arms" is so grimly true and funny.

@privatetartanarmy 4 жыл бұрын

So very true. The conversational intimacy is the mark of a great writer.

@chaz7608 Жыл бұрын

? omg, whatever you're on cut the dose.

@ProfessorChomsky 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and magnificent x

@francesco0360 2 жыл бұрын

the best lou ever! rip my love

@toharzamir7948 4 жыл бұрын

an all time favorite. i take pleasure in knowing that one day people will discover the beauty in Berlin

@chaz7608 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, Dark in most places and not beautiful. Dark, disturbing and unsettling. A place where Communism was removed and Socialism is present. But nobody knows as all living there have been robbed of initiative and don't know how to work. Public transportation is a mess. You wait for an hour for a menu at a restaurant while the waitresses smoke cigarettes and look uninterested. Citizens are non-responsive until you give them something extra...True story. So the LP does fit in.

@Jlipnicki Жыл бұрын

Lou Reed had never been to Berlin when he did this album.

@timothyoaks1193 11 күн бұрын

Lou Reed didn't come to Berlin. Berlin came to Lou Reed.

@AtondroMahmud 2 ай бұрын

lou reed the complete artist

@2msvalkyrie529 Ай бұрын

Complete A*****e !!

@pascaljeanne6520 2 жыл бұрын

lou reed spoke the language of people with nothing. so true !

@barrycoad2080 9 жыл бұрын

LOVE

@magnuskallas 2 жыл бұрын

Man up. I was lucky enough to see it in live. In Tallinn, Berlin Tour, Linnahall (Tenet place).

@hassanas-sabbagh6562 3 жыл бұрын

It's a sad song indeed.

@GuyJordan-sz7nd 3 жыл бұрын

I'm having a collapse of self and identity. Lou aligns

@michaeltsang5653 3 жыл бұрын

Emotional album what make me in deep

@lucapasseroni6371 5 жыл бұрын

bellissima

@billotjacques9274 Жыл бұрын

Very Beautiful album, the best of Lou Reed.

@josiplukovic2884 7 жыл бұрын

genious

@nickdipples8562 10 ай бұрын

I do love the fact that he thinks anyone else would have broken BOTH of her arms. Probably my favourite song about domestic violence. From an album with a couple of contenders..

@Hoffmanniac 6 ай бұрын

It’s SO dark. From the POV of an abuser both wistfully remembering and making excuses for himself at the same time, delivery that becomes more and more emotionless and backed by almost triumphant music. It’s one of a kind.

@federicobratovich2215 2 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece!

@frommetoyou1981 Жыл бұрын

"Somebody else would have broken both her arms"

@markbaker134 Жыл бұрын

None of his solo albums come even close to this....none.

@200405InVision 3 ай бұрын

Lou ironically name checking Mary Queen Of Scots. I wonder if he knew the parallels with his Berlin to her own in this dramatic story? Guess so. Genius.

@tinchoguitar5 7 жыл бұрын

maybe the best reed solo song,is an epic progression and arrangements the shape of the loop is awesome.i said to lou that i heard this song 200 times in a row(in gran rex theatre-argentina)

@user-tu5ej5lg2c 9 ай бұрын

It is a wonderful experience.

@barrycoad2080 5 жыл бұрын

outstanding

@markusbans1680 4 жыл бұрын

Art

@TheSeren75 Жыл бұрын

Lou, You're still with us et Berlin est bien le meilleur album

@peterrieder8180 7 жыл бұрын

great song

@alejandrovazquezcelaya839 2 жыл бұрын

Listening to this song makes me feel like I'm in the end of the fucking world.

@manonvernon8646 2 жыл бұрын

"its just the way i smile" he said

@ProfessorChomsky Жыл бұрын

Just brilliance x

@davidkokaska8130 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, and as a kid in the 1970s I’d give anything a listen - Maybe one of the weirdest albums. I mean, I’m just responding to the comment one of the best albums. I did come around to enjoying it - still very weird.

@MattHibbard1993 6 жыл бұрын

I love this and vu's version

@luigibriotti6425 3 жыл бұрын

Ho passato,i migliori anni della mia esistenza,assieme; alla soavità, della musica di Lou..ma anke Berlin è un capolavoro ..luigi.b ❤️ R.i.p. grande Lou!!!

@harryanderson5255 2 жыл бұрын

This is the album I've had to buy the most. Had people borrow it and never got it back. Buy again. Preach to someone else. Borrow. Not get it back, rinse and repeat. Although annoying it's also admirable as they blatantly either lie about not being able to find it or just vanish from your life with a treasured possession. One guy was extolling the virtues of Roger Waters concept albums, it's like a story... I knew if he borrowed it I wouldn't get it back but fuck it I thought... a story... This is a film for the ears... and it's Fucked up and beautiful... put your Roger Waters in the bin you ain't gonna need them no more and you will see what story albums truly are. Don't know what you will garner from reading this? Either don't lend Berlin out or lend it out and save a soul for the price of it or jesus why have I read this bloody comment? Fin

@richmac5533 Жыл бұрын

It's as capable of changing someones life as listening to Beethoven or standing in front of a Matisse or a Rothko - art from the soul that enters the soul. Berlin manages to be raw without being rough - it really is a modern version of a classical tragedy. When you gift a work like this to someone, it will change them if they are open to it. I introduced Berlin to a good friend, and he ended up changing his surname to Alaska!