Lou Reed - The Original Wrapper (Official Video)

[@Lugh444]

I picked this up in a record store and the owner said "You can just have that.". True story. So I own this.

[@christopher9000p]

But, was it in the original wrapper?

[@fern5971]

That’s so fucking funny omg

[@christy7698]

That is hilarious!!🤣

[@ArnoTheLad]

Holy shit that’s really good

[@jamesedwards7844]

Yes

[@ericdavidwallace]

There is a God, and he blessed the earth with Lou.

[@kellyharvey9531]

I love the 3 people roller skating. Takes me back to the late 1970's when I had a pair, those were the days.

[@theneedledrop]

ALL THIS GLITTER!

[@natetheguitarkid]

theneedledrop Cant polish a turd, but you can throw glitter on it ;)

[@mrocznyemo1275]

fuck u racist i am from Poland

[@conorbaerg6162]

tfw a wild anthony memetano appears

[@robertbeckerbecker1354]

theneedledrop Do a review of The Bells and Street Hassle!!!

[@destrokes1534]

hey babe

[@joannehack7588]

Can’t seem to get enough Lou Reed

[@joannehack7588]

🙏🇺🇦

[@nitrousninja882]

I'm on a Lou Reed jag too. Nothing else satisfies me right now. Normally I listen to Hendrix and Roy Buchanan, but the last few weeks only Lou pleases my mind.

[@solarwave]

There's something just really cool about the three skaters.

[@sensibleshews]

That bass line is awesome.

[@JonasPlanck]

The 1980s is a hell of a drug.

[@briannewmyer]

And no your rippin sick

[@aguy7321]

This song is a guilty pleasure for me.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

SAME I am starting to see its beauty but it's horrible

[@simplechronology2605]

If we ignore the fact that it is Lou Reed, it's pretty funky and catchy.

[@thomasgraham5840]

It's like apex boomer

[@kayamilchin]

​@@simplechronology2605shut up

[@hakanlundberg2190]

Lou reed the best rock poet ever

[@idiotwolf5823]

And he got sick bars - he murdered it with this fire track

[@Destiny-bt7oi]

Relevant today! 👁️ 🔮 Lou Reed 🥰

[@AdamThorton]

I LOVE this song and the video is awesome! Lots of memorable imagery.

[@peterlaray5501]

I've been looking for this video for 30 some odd year......KZbin. I. ❤. U.

[@mauropacheco5802]

Lou was so multifaceted in his musical career that this foray into rap was left for anecdote.

[@stevetrip100]

The dog is a nice touch

[@konigeurichderwestgoten4460]

Ironically, the Dachshund, who should be the easiest to put in a wrapper, is having none of it.

[@heggy_69]

This is amazing

[@marrowbonez]

Not as bad as Lulu is the best compliment I can pay this

[@kayamilchin]

shut up

[@Fikser11]

Imagine Lou Reed rap storytelling with lyrics from "I'm waiting for the man"

[@MeanManu]

Im truly perplexed

[@patrizioginanni8649]

Sempre anticipatore dei tempi e dei gusti... Lou innarrivabile

[@kayamilchin]

❤

[@FarocheCouture]

Drunk in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal, and I'm still playing this song. So deep, and ahead of its time. Then again.... I don't even know if its time is here yet in 2022..... Genius. And I need to know what the roller skaters are doing now..... Fabulous.

[@MatthewFazioFromCleveland]

"And I need to know what the roller skaters are doing now....." SAME!

[@FarocheCouture]

@@MatthewFazioFromCleveland 🙂 They are out there somewhere. And the people around them are unaware of how epic they are.... 😀

[@nakatakafka]

I discovered this on a train trip to Madrid. A documentary on Lou Reed was showing on the train TV.

[@mondoenterprises6710]

With a good hip video to the lp mix that could've been a hit video.

[@MarvinMonroe]

I've always assumed this is about making sure your drugs aren't cut up too bad before you inject them

[@jaybowden2658]

Unlikely cos he sobered up completely in the early 80s

[@setdrift]

the bass line is pretty good....

[@HODIUSDUDE]

Fernando Saunders is under appreciated.

[@NotMallex]

Wow the quality here is way better than the video that was taken down. Definitely worth.

[@prototapes]

o m g

[@setdrift]

The bass line is excellent!

[@fernandosaunders5661]

Thanks ,)

[@fernandosaunders5661]

;)

[@salvattorebeteta]

@@fernandosaunders5661 Hey Fernando, love all your music, great and really unexpected to see you on this video. Thank you for your work, you've inspired many of us to be musicians ourselves as I'm sure you already know. Love from Lima, Peru.

[@chuckhurlocker2180]

Thank you for your contributions Fernando to the Lou Reed body of work. As a life long Reed fan, I always enjoyed your work

[@MobiusBandwidth]

@@fernandosaunders5661 killer bass line!

[@markivey4186]

Lou was the Reel Wrapper 8-)

[@johnwright291]

For some reason the audience Booed this song when it was on Saturday night live. Never discovered why.

[@LonelyPlanetBoy92]

No taste

[@MusicTelevisionPromoLover]

Who remember this video was part of Lou Reed's Rock Against Drugs ad on MTV?

[@ns2547]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5bNlaSjgNh4mdE 3:34 it's real my lord

[@a.vestige]

@@ns2547 😭

[@GodOfVictory501]

Someone should do a mash-up of this and 'Down In It' by Nine Inch Nails.

[@bobmiclette9156]

Or a video mashup with Art of Noise's "Close (to the edit)".

[@stonerr3685]

@@bobmiclette9156 this video was made by the same director of "Close (To The Edit)" :)

[@christopher9000p]

HELL YES!!

[@t.c.bramblett617]

@@stonerr3685 I didn't realize that, it explains why I was thinking they were so similar! lol

[@pineoandloeb]

This rules!

[@mariaemma16]

true

[@K3vinK]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@thesoulservice]

it really doesn't

[@kayamilchin]

​@thesoulservice no one asked you

[@professormause]

I can finally ask for a Travolta in a barbers.

[@dannycostello1978]

Intensely clever lyrics.

[@JasonKatsanis]

Directed by the great Zbigniew Rybczyński

[@alvesmonteiro5022]

Ate Sempre Lou

[@UnkleAce]

I wish itunes had this music video

[@manukadiyala5819]

1:11 the guy is my middle school science teacher.

[@monkey4938]

nice

[@desolationangel5136]

'Baby Jane' Holzer from Lou's Factory days is also in this video.

[@RommelEGH]

Oh my god and I thought of Lou all these decades as the coolest of the cool. This I didn't need to see. Can I unsee this?

[@kayamilchin]

you should dig out your eyes then silly person

[@eblackadder3]

The faster version of the song on the "Mistrial" album is MUCH better than this slow version. Somebody should re-edit the video and synch it with the album version.

[@billionpod]

YES. The album version is ten times better. It's fast and funky.

[@jaybowden2658]

The reason there is this slowed down version is because the label believed that people couldn’t tell out the lyrics

[@greenmanwl]

Mucho fantastico. Freon as here, the man at least a decade ahead of his time. LOUUUUUUUUUUU

[@esseen100]

Lou was kind of a PIMP on this! 😄🙏🏿

[@nickbyroglou4468]

"Bloody artists" ;)

[@SpiderGorah]

Amazing that this talented Reed guy wrote crap like Sweet jane and Heroin too! No quality control I guess?

[@t.c.bramblett617]

I see what you did there but I think this is in its own way goddamn brilliant it's like Kraftwerk meets Old Man Rap

[@navmanshack1579]

@@t.c.bramblett617 "Old Man Rap" is just mid-80's rap, which is basically what this is, and Kraftwerk? Only thing in this that is close to Kraftwerk are the frankfurters.

[@angel-zg2nw]

esta super

[@ScipioM45]

I remember when I first heard this on the album, I thought it was one of his worse songs. I play it pretty often nowadays, I love the song, so catchy.

[@loureed1285]

Cool

[@mrocznyemo1275]

이민 jeszcze jak

[@UnkleAce]

iTunes needs to make this music video optional for purchase. I wants

[@drostarosta]

i really don't understand what happened to Lou Reed's music in the 80s, but this shit is funny af

[@markivey4186]

Still a good Lou Reed video in 2018 :)

[@goldengordnuggets4805]

Sign Up Dirty Blvd. Lou Reed Lyrics About Tracklist Comments Dirty Blvd is the 3rd of 14 tracks on Lou Reed’s 15th solo album, New York, released in 1989 to… Read More 1 26.1K 13 Dirty Blvd. Lyrics [Verse 1] Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel He looks out a window without glass And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet And his father beats him because he's too tired to beg [Verse 2] He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man But that's a slim chance, he's going to the boulevard [Chorus] He's going to end up on the dirty boulevard He's going out to the dirty boulevard He's going down to the dirty boulevard [Verse 3] This room cost 2,000 dollars a month, you can believe it man, it's true Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard [Verse 4] Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I'll piss on 'em That's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard [Chorus] Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard Going out to the dirty boulevard They're going down on the dirty boulevard Going out [Verse 5] Outside it's a bright night, there's an opera at Lincoln Center Movie stars arrive by limousine The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan But the lights are out on the mean streets [Verse 6] A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel He's selling plastic roses for a buck The traffic's backed up to 39th Street The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck [Verse 7] And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming He's found a book on magic in a garbage can He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked ceiling "At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear" [Chorus] "And fly, fly away, from this dirty boulevard I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard I want to fly, fly, fly, fly, from the dirty boulevard" [Outro] "I want to fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away) Fly, fly, fly (Fly, fly, fly away) Fly, fly away (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, fly away) Fly away" (Fly, fly, fly away) (I want to fly, woah-woah, gonna fly away) 😢 and downtrodden residents. It is regarded as one of his most conceptual albums, and in the liner notes Reed himself instructs listeners to take in the whole album in one sitting, “as though it were a book or a movie.” Apologies to Lou for breaking it down song-by-song. Dirty Blvd describes the life of Pedro, a boy living and hustling in seedy areas of Manhattan. Pedro’s wish to magically disappear is his only respite from an abusive father, abysmal living conditions, and a bleak future that Reed portrays as near-inevitable. Reed’s deadpan delivery implies that he’s seen many unfortunate youth like Pedro end up “dealing on the dirty boulevard.” More broadly, Dirty Blvd is a lament for the poor and vulnerable in a New York that, in the late 1980s, was beginning its obsession with “cleaning up” its most notorious districts of crime and vice. Longtime NYC mayor Ed Koch was leaving office and future mayor Rudy Giuliani was beginning to rear his ugly head. The NYPD was growing in power, and police-inflicted violence against the homeless was becoming commonplace: “Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ‘em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard.”

[@websurfer5772]

It's not 'Walk on the Wild Side' but I had a good time watching it.

[@ChrisUnlimitedGames]

Right, watching it. The video is definitely enjoyable. The song itself is terrible.

[@websurfer5772]

@@ChrisUnlimitedGames 😂

[@berganpardun7837]

watch out

[@Wood3narms]

check that batter

[@krunkystardust2846]

wow! nice comment

[@krunkystardust2846]

@@Wood3narms hahah, this comment is awesome!!

[@GouchHard]

I love the irony of the lyric 'I grew up straight'. IIRC he was subjected to electro-shock therapy as a teenager to 'cure' his gay leanings. Also this just goes on for fucking ever

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I was surprised about this, because of his girlfriend Nico in the 60s, and he got married in the 80s and had a son.

[@thomasfazzini4424]

tHIS FROM THE SAME GUY WHO WROTE 'WAITING FOR THE MAN'??????

[@mikehunt8997]

Probably the best wrap song I ever heard besides Frank Zappa's, "Promiscuous."

[@scottmace2002]

Tailor-made for a pandemic.

[@setdrift]

you know it....

[@1NationUnderwood]

I love Lou Reed's singing, but I still think he should have been a rapper. Not feeling the video though but loving the song. I have deep respect for people who are doin' the things they want to.

[@stoneskull]

he was the original rapper

[@kristens3793]

I didn’t know he was rapping

[@alexanderschmidt3935]

Walk on the wild side is the first rap song therefore Lou is the original rapper

[@eze0ficial133]

Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo Al tercer mundo!!!

[@philokrnotch387]

the moment I realized why Metallica wanted to do an album with you, Lou Reed. This is that magic moment! Not saying I even like even half of what he had put out but the fact he put it out speaks volumes

[@mondoenterprises6710]

Different mix than what's on the Mistrial lp?

[@heidisinaimoralesvencedor3340]

Funk

[@fernangonzalez4358]

Mi libro de religión me ha traído aquí

[@michellerodriguezserrano1602]

Fernan Gonzalez x2

[@camilovelasquez4219]

x3

[@fernangonzalez4358]

@Alejandro ashcroft Creo que decía que artistas como Lou Reed o series como los Simpsons no tienen morales y corrompen a la juventud o algo así jaja Fue hace 8 años y aún le estoy agradecido por eseñarme al maestro Lou!

[@davidzasloff8797]

I find myself wondering how many takes of the skaters and hazmat suit people, or the dancers or other pedestrians, before they got one done without everybody crashing into each other. (Looks like they might have filmed those clips in slower motion and then sped up for the video, so maybe not too many tries.)

[@paulsmith3057]

Well written lyric. Snazzy track. Not much to hate here. Mash with Blood Bitch by Cocteau Twins

[@johnk4403]

Blood Bitch from Garlands is awesome but this ... There is so much to hate.

[@John-fj5tr]

Anyone not getting this isn't meant to.

[@ripetomato9629]

The 80s affected everything. Music included.

[@Mistamista69]

Every decade affected everything

[@setdrift]

Hard core cool

[@motman52]

Yessir, Brother Lou : AMERICA : "The Politics of Hate (in a a New Surrounding.)"

[@dlowery51]

I can tell you one thing, if you try rollerblading like that on the street, any cars behind you will give you an earful.

[@mainmaam]

??????!!?!!

[@blackhawkX02]

Didn't this have thousands of likes last time I checked?

[@sasbeachs]

You can tell these were produced during the years of Max Headroom same thing with the song no money down

[@DwigtArmyOfChampions]

WTF this sounds so different from the version on Mistrial.

[@jaybowden2658]

It’s pretty much a different song, isn’t it? But it’s a slower re-recording because the label believed that the lyrics couldn’t be made out

[@d.r.7737]

He was the original rapper

[@PAULLONDEN]

This is not the (better) LP version.....

[@josefk5659]

Imagine if Bob Dylan's career took a similar detour. Jesus H Christ.

[@lukasw689]

Dylan made Wiggle Wiggle

[@duhreetohs2103]

Imagine a switch up. Dylan rapping and Lou Reed putting out albums about Jesus Christ

[@eijiaquarius]

なるほどこれが村上春樹の「TVピープル」を生み出したのかあ！ 「ねじまき鳥クロニクル」の裏には「ツインピークス」があって。

[@bigguys45s29]

3:03: The Boos Babby.

[@dezy456]

You see you realize when you listen to the album version it’s complete ass but then you listen to this it’s a bop!!!

[@lunarvision]

Well, this happened.

[@awrogers3013]

THE low point

[@Rock-iw7ov]

This is the same guy who made 'Heroin'

[@th_modrn_age1541]

I'm shure that Devo liked this song a lot

[@joannehack7588]

❤️

[@joannehack7588]

✌🏽

[@joannehack7588]

☮️

[@joannehack7588]

☮️

[@SIJ-m4u]

im big lou reed grououpy but i cant still no more of this

[@elibaumann9718]

This really isn't that bad

[@setdrift]

If this isn't New York then what is?????

[@JohnSmith-wj7ge]

I've heard worse Lou Red songs, for whatever that's worth.

[@RommelEGH]

no u haven't

[@jasonpfinch]

Far worse ones than this exist. This isn't even in the bottom 25 per cent of them.

[@JohnSmith-sq4wh]

@@jasonpfinch Nah this is among the worst unless you like this one quite a bit. You don't sound like much of a big solo Lou fan though

[@thedrabfour]

Odysee Guy Mike martins. The real deal guy about the current housing prices.

[@madmattycarlson]

Mr.T was the original rapper.

[@tea1w480]

This was real, that's the worst part

[@MichaelJohnson-yr3ub]

LMFAO

[@MafiaOnYourCase]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks brought me here

[@robinraianiemi4030]

Lou Reed and MTV just didn’t mix.

[@NPGLAMB]

The way he spelled rapper like wrapper is hilarious!

[@bobhenry9662]

I own that tiger striped ESP RS Custom guitar used in this video.

[@setdrift]

nice!