Lou Reed - The Blue Mask (Official Audio)

[@joshg.4448]

"when a sin goes too far, it's like a runaway car/it cannot be controlled" one of the most petrifying lines in music

[@JohnCane147]

These are his best lyrics imo

[@bean-spiller]

Robert Quine and Lou's guitar stew. Sublime!

[@user-li3fr8jl3b]

Quine was unreal. Voidoids

[@geekymatt1382]

Kick ass. Lou decided to show the metal kids he could do it too.

[@joecat916]

He showed them a world that they sung about but never experienced.

[@heraldvanderzanden9223]

My favourite song of Lou Reed. R.I.P.

[@sebasdebordeaux8347]

his craziest song for sure!!

[@jj80808]

​@@sebasdebordeaux8347his heaviest song,and that is saying something considering his whole career lol it's too good!

[@JCHaywire]

"And it caused his brain to holler." I just love Lou Reed. This song is as brutal as they come, and never goes down easy. Amazing song.

[@biankacosma]

Had to look up "holler" 😂

[@Jap_Schpanker]

Robert Quine, all day, every day

[@jangreen5618]

Superb, awesome, just brilliant, what a genius Lou Reed was and is.

[@sebasdebordeaux8347]

yes crazy !!!

[@jonholmes6125]

Noise rock at its finest organized chaos from the prophet Louis reed

[@enricogodini7455]

Can't get any Better than this.

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

Lyrics: They tied his arms behind his back To teach him how to swim They put blood in his coffee And milk in his gin They stood over the soldier In the midst of the squalor There was war in his body And it caused his brain to holler Make the sacrifice Mutilate my face If you need someone to kill I'm a man without a will Wash the razor in the rain Let me luxuriate in pain Please don't set me free Death means a lot to me The pain was lean and it made him scream He knew he was alive He put a pin through the nipples on his chest He thought he was a saint I've made love to my mother, killed my father and brother What am I to do When a sin goes too far, it's like a runaway car It cannot be controlled Spit upon his face and scream There's no oedipus today This is no play you're thinking you are in What will you say Take the blue mask down from my face And look me in the eye I get a thrill from punishment I've always been that way I loathe and despise repentance You are permanently stained Your weakness buys indifference And indiscretion in the streets Dirty's what you are and clean is what you're not You deserve to be soundly beat Make the sacrifice Take it all the way There's no "won't" high enough To stop this desperate day Don't take death away Cut the finger at the joint Cut the stallion at his mount And stuff it in his mouth

[@michaelwilson8713]

Reminds me of early days

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

@@michaelwilson8713 Yeah.. The good old _squirting the blood from your syringe at the wallpaper_ -times.

[@floglobe]

wow thank you for posting. -

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

@@floglobe You';re very welcome

[@DavyDredd14]

This vocal performance by Lou Reed, makes me think of Ian Curtis..

[@madontherun]

YES , but Lou came first

[@user-li3fr8jl3b]

Curtis was a Velvets and Iggy acolyte ❤

[@pedroanselmi1461]

Great sound & feedback god!!!

[@christinejautee2308]

Brilliant, genius is

[@massimofabbri2937]

Lou...probably the best ever

[@lornebailey1568]

The most vile and angry song i ever heard , I love it ! the whole album is a master piece.

[@frederickmckenney8377]

The best lp, all songs one cut, except my house solo overdubbed, nothing to beat!

[@MelBee128]

Even Lou said this song scared him. He said this song was really devastating and found it tough to listen to. Ha

[@stephanejournoux9478]

absolutely right .... this song is devastating on the level of rock'n roll ... and the lyrics... I would like to have a giant sono to make the whole world listen to this .... and cry ...

[@panghule1]

This is why Metallica wanted to work with Lou Reed.

[@Kenny-Blankenship]

Yep, but they were too late by the time they did work together.

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

Agreed. His best song and album.

[@robertoferrabone9867]

@@Kenny-Blankenship Lou was sick

[@acmemasteri]

@Mister Arnauna to me: horrible swansong... But: 2005 Lou was a boss... too much smoke machines: "he seemingly try to kill me." Place86, 4th row...51€. 11th of May 2005. Almost 17 years ago. One drunk shouted behind:" Come on! We are hurry." Row10 or 12... 4x 2m wearing black and glasses +then kinda new thing: earplug with loopwire... I was into my gf: "He's gonna fly off soon -and Reed got salutes, again for us. But we can lost one song because that fuxxxr..." Because 30 000€ were thread back then he wasn't recorded. Drummer was inside his plastic walls. Misstimings, doublebassars. His cymbals were made at hell. Bassist were same man played over 20yrs with him. Ring the bell? They changed instruments. LR is not a bassist :/ Ecstacy material (name song with beautiful cello player were just magical...)& the Blue Mask stuff (heavy!) Transformer must-be's were ok and Coney Island Baby one's... suprises. We walked out there 50cm from the ground and saw his black buss. We took some beers on our ex-town. We played next day improvizied song to us 8 artist collection. We had 3 doers. My Marshall were overdrived by my mother's Maruni Clock-radio from 1974. It had 2x 2W speakers. We used headphone-link and that made too late like anally dirtorted sustained rumble... strings were hammered by Conan the Barbarian. It's opening track of our first release. So our village had 16 000 residents I guess 277 had heard of LR. Or tVU. We were all three on his gig... I had all tVU & all LR -one album (Nah, it wasn't MMM... I bought it from our capital city 2001... inside it there was ticket and day and nro. Month and our row/line I remembered. It was just one of those few "I will never forgot this"-days.

[@chunguschungus]

@@Kenny-Blankenship Not too late to make Lulu, maybe Reed's best album and one of the greatest pieces of art in all of human history.

[@normanbaratelli4651]

this song... this, song- this f.'ing song. I MEAN IT!

[@MARIO-uf1no]

Pretty intense cut.

[@paulkennard2408]

Boys, it old you so. guitar music, zappa, lou, and arlo guthrie

[@pietroprogman]

It sounds like Metal Machine Music with a rock band.

[@7hourglass975]

So deadly..

[@inakit.dieste5674]

Brutal

[@Matthew-xr5be]

It sounds

[@bartcornelis4058]

beter dan dit wordt het niet en ook heel up 2 date maskerz enso love LOU

[@jackcontreras4786]

Electro Shock Wave Poetry

[@robertbetzag5055]

what year did this album come out

[@tjwolfe77]

1982

[@colingordon8265]

1982

[@edwinpilchard6325]

when there are time machines un a veil able i can finally set all my com.mets on 0 seconds ago and just play hard chords in distortion

[@davidwitkowski9216]

."..and stuff it in his mouth!" cue: blazing guitar shred!

[@conorkennedy3304]

make the sacrificee

[@gabriels.s.basilio]

Melhor musica do Lou Reed fodase

[@normanbaratelli4651]

NO... REALLY!!!!!!!! Right? JEE-Ziss

[@madontherun]

I pity the youth of todaY

[@edwinpilchard6325]

its helter skelter in dracula mineElton

[@6Mr6mr6mr]

death means a lot to me

[@clumsydad7158]

this compared to legendary hearts is like gold to shit

[@uzivert3210]

C'mon Legendary Hearts has got top notch moments, don't talk to me about work, betrayed, legendary hearts. Blue Mask is easily the better record for sure but I always liked Legendary Hearts

[@Boddav]

Bob Quine was great.

[@bau6078]

Angry man he is good when hes Angry like strawman

[@alansmith7699]

If only Lou Reed,got to see the world wearing a blue mask on the street. As Government soundly advised!?

[@jackal59]

Lou couldn't abide fools, so I doubt he'd have much to say to you.

[@MrJoeawsome]

Root canal go

[@cescorosa61]

Never liked this album, don't know why. I prefer Coney Island Baby, Street Hassle (for me number one), Take no prisoners, The Bells... For me there is something weak in his voice, while the sound Is too mainstream for a genius like Lou Reed. ..

[@II-xl7lj]

Just the same, this 'weak' gives some strength in its own way

[@cescorosa61]

@@II-xl7lj credo che dopo The Bells inizi il suo declino, il suo ripetersi all'infinito: e credo che egli lo sappia. Del resto, dopo un capolavoro come The Bells era difficile fare di meglio. Un po' come i Rolling Stones: dopo Exile potevano ritirarsi. E invece...

[@II-xl7lj]

@@cescorosa61 Really. Except, of course, that 2 of his 4 great albums were released in the 80s

[@cescorosa61]

@@II-xl7lj Quali grandi albums?

[@II-xl7lj]

@@cescorosa61 Transformer Berlin Blue Mask New York

[@gasparucciox9706]

lou the greatest

[@manskullman6509]

Oh, my ! That band I’ve never liked at all.Crap.- jon fisher