Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side (Official Audio)

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Lyrics:
She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side"
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[@notecodeluvrecords7649]

I used to listen to this when I was 80 and now I'm dead, gosh how time flies.

[@rosetandy2360]

NoteCodeLuv NoteCodeLuv LOL

[@jamesgwinn2210]

You da man

[@freshmountain]

Looking forward to being 80, but, I can wait.

[@Oi_Grubsy]

Sick, dude

[@colin2709]

We'll all be there with ya soon enough; just give it time

[@marianagalindobutron3227]

This song just make me feel so relaxed when everything is so fucked up

[@chriscollins343]

Seriously me too.

[@eddiebradley1839]

amen to that.

[@kubajz896]

Yea it's that time you realize it could be much worse than this and even everything is fucked up.. anyway you've just smiled to that whole situation :))

[@luigicafolla8614]

You know I have a funny feeling some righteous cunt will get this song Band watch because I love this song just saying

[@mehdyseraiche3210]

Same.

[@DavidSmith-qs2mw]

Not many songs can be calming, mysterious, hilarious, cool and meaningful all at the same time. Cool song.

[@user-kv6vh5ug4i]

yup neli

[@sylviemermet4078]

​@JP-qk6jf😂❤

[@kiwimanetta]

agreed.. and I believe it's because the instrumental is so incredibly hypnotic, that people struggle to realize some parts of the lyrics

[@claude-co4yo]

​@@user-kv6vh5ug4iNFL foot ball

[@charleshales4634]

Yes, indeed!

[@paulhill7818]

64 now and Man i Loved this Song Growing up in the 70s. Still Loving it in May 2024!! 😎

[@bethgallagher8156]

Me too.. class of 78.. still rocking that music in my house 😀😀❤️

[@garyterry7443]

63 this year in Liverpool, England. Cool Times right ?,😅

[@bekiadam108]

Next May, during Brighton Festival, go and see Herbie Flowrrs open house / if he still does it - as he has done in recent years. He’s that iconic bass line. It’s so precious. Kris the photographer neighbour had Heribes Walk o then Wild Side guitar on display.

[@helenafreitas1012]

Just turned 59, and I still remember the surround sound of the coloured girls; with a Walkman. In Leeds.

[@websurfer5772]

June 2024 I'm a Lou Reed fan forever!!

[@Justinvestor_]

That sax at the end is like the definition of bringing a song home.

[@KennethDumasig12]

nft

[@tireguytireguy5214]

Credit...Mr David Bowie , RIP

[@ebillyboi]

ronnie ross baritone ......

[@MahatMagandi93]

perfectly said

[@willyjames8300]

sax can do no wrong.

[@soulfullmusic100]

If you don't Like this song take a Covid test, your sense of taste is gone.

[@lindsayp.1982]

Good one!! Lol 😆

[@angelacaudill537]

Good one!!! 😎😂🌹🌹💜

[@sherryabner9002]

Amen.

[@LilYeti420]

😂😂😂

[@lrbs921]

I don’t know you or your voice but I somehow heard you saying this.

[@cedar5531]

This song is beautiful, not just for itself, but because it comes from a time of innocence and freedom when there were no "community standards" on any media to censor what we can say, express or like. I bought this album when it came out and now I'm 83 and still loving it!

[@swrennie]

Pffft. Tell that to Lenny Bruce, Black people from that era and Vietnam.

[@swrennie]

Or The Smothers Brothers, gay people and the Democratic Committee National Headquarters situated in the Watergate Hotel.

[@disposablecynic]

​@@swrenniePipe down woke agent 🤦

[@leftylou6070]

If that's what you think, you sure do have a wild imagination. Carry on brother police dog.

[@joecaluorie3452]

​@@swrenniea aquarium qqqqqqqq a

[@user-nc5tb5go3d]

I am 71 and still kicking when this song was in the charts I couldn't hear it enough. I have every intention that when I'm in my coffin this will be played. In my humble opinion this is the best single I have ever heard. RIP Lou.

[@brigittea5110]

My brother had just bought 2 tickets for the Lou Reed concert in Luxemburg when the doctors told him that he had endstage cancer. They gave him a few month, maybe just a few weeks. The concert was 8 months later. My brother said that he is not planning on dieing before seeing Lou Reed. He had a spontaneous remission of the cancer.The doctors called it a medical miracle when they discharged him from the hospital. My brother went to the Lou Reed concert as he had said. He even outlived Lou Reed by 2 years.

[@williambrindle8574]

I'm also 71 & have not gotten tired of hearing this song.

[@robertorrom8712]

71 as well and still rocking

[@thomasfisher5742]

And hire a chorus of colored. girls to sing DO T DO T DO T DO...STAY WELL

[@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk]

Lou Reed agreed with you.

[@nathang.justice3258]

Lou Reed is a cross between David Bowie and Bob Dylan. This is when drugs were drugs

[@jellyfishkiss3886]

when drugs were good drugs.

[@alessandrofilosa7873]

Lou is Lou :)

[@joseneron8023]

Mook

[@TheDimachaerus]

Interesting comparison, but there is only one Bob Dylan.

[@dobrozner7784]

I mean, Bowie did convince Reed to make the album, then produced it himself, and played backing vocals, keyboards and acoustic guitar on this track lol

[@jaeyeonkim7656]

I really love this bass line

[@mysiberianhuskymsh8349]

Jaeyeon Kim Perfectly simple. It's amazing.

[@FBicoolshaman]

can i kick it

[@jaeyeonkim7656]

FBicoolshaman Yes you can

[@user-nt6zz2ce9n]

its a cello

[@sylvainperrier450]

it's both actually

[@valwalker25]

Hearing this song in 1980 at the age of 19 was the first time I knew that there were other people in the world like me. It still makes me cry even today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Lou xxxxxx

[@robertschacter7733]

❤😢Me too.

[@slavec4956]

Have you seen the film that was based on the song there’s a music video Director pretty well known who did a 17 minute film sent it around walking on the wild side. He actually interviewed Lou Reed and found out who the people were that he was talking about in the song, some of them were still alive at the time that he did it….

[@evelynnblack4657]

yeah, as a trans woman this song has a special place in my heart

[@stephgreen8415]

My heart 3....x

[@alexiskelley5586]

I’m trans and love this song. Will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@JG-cr5xf]

Lou was a friend of mine when he went to Syracuse University. I was younger than Lou. We would talk for hours about our art projects. Lou was amazingly creative and focused. Good memories and Lou lives on in his music.

[@mariemiller5478]

D

[@sophdog1678]

A radio interviewer asked if he was sick of this song, and Lou replied that he loved the song as it had been paying his rent for the last thirty years.

[@santaclase3410]

i'd have to agree with this 1. I'v had morE days Of haPPies then with haVing bad dAys . get well everbody 🥰🥰🥰 Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰Thanks forn sharing🥰🥰🥰

[@parkjamesshaw3189]

Great Intel sophdog

[@thatgirlnamedcarol8268]

I love this answer! I remember exactly where I was and who I was with. 30 yrs later I’ve reconnected with the boy that introduced it to me. I used to “sneak” into the restaurant where he was a cook at a tiny old school diner and we had a summer of love. No messy breakups, we didn’t put a label on any of it. He moved and so did I. Now all these years later, we’re madly in love, but still won’t put a label on it!

[@zaratustra4218]

Here, in Brazil, we use to say "never spit in the plate where you ate". I don't know if the translation was clear.

[@mattbellmont9380]

​@Matt Hartnett here its "don't bite the hand that feeds you"

[@dennisfisher5]

That bass is hypnotic, what a song!

[@chrisjimenez603]

Iconic baseline

[@ramonluna4266]

Andy Warhol decía de Lou que era un musico horrible, pero eran muy compinches, antes de morir Andy, estaban peleados. Lou toco lo mejor de su carrera en el funeral de Andy.

[@liammusgrove6334]

Crankin it up on the stereo with the BASS BOOST on... hell yea

[@benmeltzer]

It's two basses: an upright and an electric.

[@ph03beuwu]

sampled in tribe called quest :)

[@majdrezik8129]

My 70 year old Italian mother-in-law introduced me to this beautiful song. She's been listening to it since she was a kid. And i think I'll keep listening to it till i reach 70!

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

The great stuff endures. Like the Warhol soup cans.

[@chanfisch6781]

Why stop at 70? 😂

[@garyhink2015]

Beautiful honesty the music is so very beautiful

[@coryplace6965]

When u reach her age u will remember her every time u listen to this song

[@georgedudleysashtray3860]

Zoomers man. I'm a millennial and this song was a radio mainstay my whole childhood...

[@jimburgess7397]

To have the guts, gall and balls, to sing a song like this nearly 50 years ago. Is truely amazing. All hail Lou Reed, an amazing musican and performer.

[@Rat-mk6fk]

"and the colored girls go do do do do do do" lol

[@Rat-mk6fk]

He's making fun of the T people lol

[@christian-helsting4195]

The lyrics actually suck

[@Rat-mk6fk]

@@christian-helsting4195 The lyrics are great lol

[@Rat-mk6fk]

@@christian-helsting4195 "but she never lost her head even when she was giving head"

[@misterhot9163]

Can’t believe this song is more than 50 years old, still sounds fantastic!!

[@markrichards6863]

And they'll still be listening to it 50 years from now.

[@christophedallaporta8836]

Good old jazz gets better as years go by. It has gained some sort of classy aura which none of the stuff they produce these days will ever get as no one will remember it anyway.

[@Europa_Del_Este]

Argentina rock music kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWGZgqqimst3iNU

[@sh230968]

This song is anything but shy.

[@gypsy4659]

Makes me feel old lol

[@inthekingdom1996]

It's mind numbing that such an old song can play on the radio and still not only sound fresh but be subversive as ever

[@jamesteichler1290]

Subversive is relative

[@lynnmarsh3721]

It's definitely a true but gritty story. How it was in the 70s.

[@inthekingdom1996]

@@jamesteichler1290 subversive relative to pop/mass market/radio airplay is where I'm coming from and as a straight heterosexual male. Now, the song heroin would be relatively less subversive to me because I lived that. Wild side as a kid came out of far left field and I developed an ear for "eccentric" music. For someone Ellis I'm sure walking the wild side sounds like a Tuesday

[@russs7574]

I graduated high school in '73. Everybody in school LOVED this song. Maybe 10% knew what the lyrics meant.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bonitasilver9379]

great time for music. graduated 74. Loved this song.

[@danielmccurdy9948]

russs7574 I graduated in '73 also. I liked it alot back then. Everyone in our hick country school knew what it was about. I don't care too much for it now. I saw Lou in concert a couple of years later.

[@hightops77]

I’ve first heard it 50: years ago and have no idea what the lyrics mean , it’s just a fantastic song . 😂😂

[@MrNajibrazak]

i first heard of it in 1988, something inside my head told me i should try smoke weed. i was 13.

[@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk]

68...baby the rain must fall was pretty good

[@sweper]

The first time I heard this song was on a Pan-Am 747 on a flight between London and Los Angeles in 1972. It has been stuck in my head ever since. You could rent headphones for $5 and there were 10 different channels of music to listen to. After about an hour, the music started all over again. I longed for this song every time. The song is timeless.

[@1left2theright4jc9]

Thats cool as fk

[@mollycarr3522]

Life❤

[@Jasmine215100]

It really was a lot easier to board a plane back then!

[@mikegalvin9801]

​@@Jasmine215100You walked up to the gate, showed your paper ticket and that was it.

[@powertothesheeple5422]

$5 for headphone rental in 1972? That's the craziest part of that story.

[@Tasoq]

My boyfriend always greets me with "hey babe" and i'm always tempted to just reply with "Take a walk on the wild side" 😂

[@dermotleslie3610]

Do it.

[@M4T1J4P0]

Live a little.

[@faro8784]

M4T1J4P0 or walk on the wild side, perhaps?

[@Tasoq]

I have before, but I don't think he'd appreciate it every single time lol

[@faro8784]

Tasoq HE MUST LEARN TO

[@mrsbluesky8415]

It was groundbreaking when FM radio played this 50 years ago but boy what a song. The background singers and sax do it for me more than anything. RIP Lou.

[@MichaelLaFrance1]

Lou lived a lot longer than I thought he would. Brought a lot of joy. RIP Lou.

[@sarahstraight4809]

I love the doubled bass tracks. I guess the studio bassist got paid twice for that.

[@aabb6677]

Sax played by jazz musician Ronnie Ross, who had tutored a 12-year-old David Bowie...

[@colleenuchiyama4916]

I heard this on am! No censoring!

[@silversnail1413]

One of Lou's greatest achievements as an artist is getting a song about transgenderism, drugs and giving head on mainstream radio. Talk about subversive.

[@LynnRowarth]

I just love this song. When it comes on the radio at work I show off. I know all the words. Take a walk on the wild side.

[@user-uj9ke1iw4l]

LOL!!!!!

[@user-uj9ke1iw4l]

But she never lost her head even when she was giving head... !!!!!

[@littmad]

Rock on momma.

[@markaho4777]

I think the song sucks

[@gaurikasirohi]

How is this not an anthem? It’s so far ahead of it’s time, the music, the way the words make you feel, the do do doo do doo do do doo, it’s a little ridiculous. 2024 and still relevant ❤

[@markaho4777]

John Lennon's imagine should be an Anthem not Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side

[@joshuatealeaves]

@@markaho4777 Looking at your other replies, it’s very strange of you to try your hand at robbing others people to joy. You remind me of 13yo music snøb me

[@markaho4777]

@@joshuatealeaves 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@markaho4777]

@@joshuatealeaves bet you can't play one🎸🎸

[@markaho4777]

Because it would be dumb

[@jeffhamilton2499]

The bass line ...🤌

[@richiesnyder9269]

I absolutely love the bass line! I remember hearing this song in a store and at the time I didn't know what the songs name was. I remember hearing the bassline and fell in love with it. It wasn't until a couple months ago until I found this gem.

[@jacquesanquetil8243]

Few better.

[@markjackson5665]

Herbie Flowers

[@JasonCunliffe]

I think Toni Visconti said they actually have two bass tracks woven together into the mix..

[@markjackson5665]

@@JasonCunliffe That's right. One bass does the C down to F glissando, the other does the high harmony. However during the verse, there is only one bass playing a more jazzed up lick. We could always ask Herbie Flowers for the definitive answer, I guess! ;)

[@lorenwalsh6401]

What a trailblazer, truth teller, poet and musical genius. A true gift to humanity.. RIP Lou

[@gobigorange]

Well said ☮️

[@seanotron4559]

😥

[@mickeyhale890]

This song was one in a long list of nostalgic tunes...1 of all time faves

[@judith6571]

Amen to that, Friend.

[@MH-zg5yw]

Not exactly a trailblazer. He was also a pervert

[@Daniel-ts3uy]

Not many musicians like Lou. Way ahead of his time and still is. They say he was very much loved by his fellow musicians. Had to have been one heck of good dude. I didn't know him but I sure as heck loved him.

[@markaho4777]

👎too Lou Reed he sucks

[@user-vh6rj3be5w]

This song kinda opened-up a whole world for me. Lou sings it so well; his voice hit the spot..

[@harellevi9687]

Me: **Trying to sleep** My brain: tu tutu tututu tu tutu

[@notguilty8626]

Yep. Still here...

[@ArturiusMaxwell]

Yer brains doing the vocals, yer bowels doing the saxaphone bit.

[@robbydougherty7199]

That’s literally the reason I looked it up

[@bloopy6478]

Same but I woke up earlier

[@julifarskydedada6699]

thought i was the only one

[@GamesOverMovies]

the balls on this man to write this back in the day -- damn

[@eseven2547]

Comment of the year 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zackzallie8735]

the lyrics are so hardcore it could be written by Eminem in 2000.

[@billinct860]

Things were tolerated back then in early 70s. About the same peroid Deep Throat played in local movie houses.

[@rageagainstthemicrowave1313]

@@billinct860 john waters movies too, and a clockwork orange came out in the 70s.

[@jaybruz.5688]

in some ways the scene was better then because the culture was our own, we werent trying to take over the world

[@zinksflame]

It's crazy how modern sounding his use of slang is for a song as old as this.

[@lynnmarsh3721]

I played this today to some black friends of mine, and they had never heard it but loved it. Soul music, blues.....

[@TheJaydonone]

@zinksflame I was listening to this song in the 70's. This is not Modern slang. Maybe modernized

[@zinksflame]

@@TheJaydonone I know it's not modern slang, it wouldn't have existed back then were it so, it's just all still used today, unlike a lot of other slang at the time.

[@ioannisyfantidis3312]

What I love is that nobody has a bad word for Lou, RIP mate

[@Gozzillacia]

Been listening to this song for 50 years - still sounds great.

[@michaelkline884]

This was our “unofficial “ senior class song 50 years ago! 😂

[@kimfarrell1560]

You and me both.❤️

[@geezermann7865]

@@michaelkline884 Wow, really? Very few in my class listened to Lou Reed. He wasn't in the "top 40". I guess I was different.

[@recoswell]

i remember in 1980 this song was still getting regular airplay

[@adrianrijkeboer2185]

Me too

[@eightreasons566]

Reed never cared what anyone thought of his art, loved or hated. He just made what he felt like making. He was a true artist.

[@dkara4473]

great song

[@techie8359]

Well he does care, because he removed "colored girls" from the lyrics. He does care, he's a sheep now, bending to commies.

[@eightreasons566]

@@techie8359 hard to be a sheep when you’re under the dirt there chief

[@nadiamccall4311]

many artists make what they themselves want to hear or read or see. So, yes, while he was a true artist, he certainly isn't alone in this. It's just people are so used to autotune disgusting pandering bs written by someone else and performed by trained monkeys.

[@eightreasons566]

@@nadiamccall4311 amen

[@phillipsandoval3058]

🇺🇸 the song brings back so many memories

[@Tammohawk1]

I still love this song more than 40 yr. later!! My friends thought I was crazy for liking it. But it's still a favorite for many.

[@philbraithwaite1316]

Your friends didn't know s**t, you did!

[@Tammohawk1]

@@philbraithwaite1316 Some of them still don't know s**t. lol

[@Whydontijustusespotify123]

A tribe called Quest brought me here lol. Rip Lou Reed and Rip Phife Dawg

[@WhatIsTheDill]

I played this song for a few friends. None of them liked it. Clearly I need new friends.

[@ronaldreagan850]

Dill I've seen your videos, they are great (You have a good taste in music)

[@slhue]

Clearly, they need to take a walk on the wild side!

[@kearl3490]

Clearly. Did you play it from his 1975 Live album? Did they listen to the other cuts? 'Heroin' or, 'Waiting on the Man' or 'Vicious'? If they reject them all, I'm afraid they have but one chance left. "What a perfect day". ...and if they continue to remain unmoved, you never really knew them at all.

[@johnmartino590]

Sad. But TRUE.. NO CONCEPTION OF MUSIC

[@johnmartino590]

@@slhue THIS IS REAL MUSIC

[@maryaliceoconnor1914]

My Dad loved this song. He would have been 93 this month. He introduced us to some amazing music growing up. Miss you Dad.

[@JoseSanchez-ek3xp]

YOUR DAD EXPERIENCE GOOD TIMES & MUSIC 🎉

[@romanvanbuch]

One of the greatest songs ever....

[@AndreaLamm-Haake]

Kann ich nur zustimnen,ich liebe dieses Lied❤❤

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

No

[@louannpapasodora6315]

I love this song, it’s cool, singing about people that do their best to exist in this world despite our differences and finding a way to be who they are!

[@elenaderoet4926]

I love that people still adore Lou's music in 2021. I am glad knowing that a lot of people after 2021 will love it.

[@axelhagendorf9902]

Hey

[@christinafidance340]

@@elenaderoet4926 This was my mom’s favorite song. She passed away in 2014 and she ALWAYS enjoyed “walking on the wild side”! I miss her SO MUCH!!!

[@Hannah-kb8ft]

@@christinafidance340 ❤️

[@vonwantsanswers]

Agreed!

[@BlankRami]

Our good music taste has brought us here

[@sebz7610]

Yeah boy 🤌🏾

[@angelheadedhipster2214]

Oh yeah.

[@judahsotelo5573]

100th like

[@michaelschlabach836]

I GOT HERE AFTER A TASTE ;) .

[@coolman321ism]

My traumatic childhood brought me here🤣

[@mrreeman2829]

I remember this song growing up...😲...and never batted an eye at its lyrical content. It's amazing what you can hear when you listen!

[@AnnieShakespeare]

Me too 😮🙉

[@breakfreak3181]

Same. As a kid, I didn't pay any attention to the lyrics. It's the music that counts

[@vinnyboombatz1399]

Tell you what.... they sure as hell knew how to write some funky grooves back in the day. Been listening to this jam throughout my life on various classic rock stations, and my mind is STILL blown away by the way the stand up bass (at least, thats what it sounds like to me), the brushed snare, the slide guitar (cant tell if thats the bass sliding or a 6 string) & the kick drum all just quake when they all come together on the up/down beats. And... the sax. Smoove....like buttah.

[@Newt0rz]

What I love about this song, is how Reed obviously met these people, and developed a huge respect for them and their lives. Not for the people that were front and center stage, but for the people in the dark corners, on the street, living their lives more fully than anyone else. He truly spoke for the outsiders.

[@MrShekoexile]

Word

[@luciabraithwaite3446]

How absolutely fantastic, I don't know much about him though I have always liked his music. Some people have such incredible depth within themselves - wish I could read more about this remarkable man. Thanks for the info. x

[@johnhayden2547]

Cool do ur thing

[@kevinpotts123]

These were all people he actually met at Andy Warhol's New York studio The Factory.

[@npcx-mq6cr]

Imagine a verse for Valarie.

[@RK-ml2ns]

This masterpiece is aging like a fine wine. He was highly regarded as a songwriter/musician by his peers.

[@lindakrause4597]

You got that right!

[@antmac2545]

Everyone who saw a velvets concert left wanting to start a band !!

[@jonesy2111]

👍👍👍

[@gettupp]

💋 KISS

[@lachlanwilson6946]

No shit he is a songwriter/musition

[@PunkyBruiser-wm1oy]

Hey honey take a walk on the walk on the wild side....this album changed my everything

[@tiborszentpetery2931]

That song never gets old !❤❤ I love it so much

[@SuzyQpip]

This is without doubt (IMO) one of the coolest songs ever!

[@giuseppesaporito5581]

Mandate il commento grazie 957 kr

[@user-xk9rd7no2h]

I recommend Euphrates Ride 'Colours of Grey'... ❤

[@worlore1651]

Devil went down to Georgia and the Johnny cash song where he steals a whole car are other cool ones

[@chuckwallet]

Yes! This and Sweet Jane!!! ❤ 🎸 🎷 🎶 🇺🇸

[@johnseabron]

As with so many of Lou's. But this one, no doubt - hard to beat.

[@MrKoughee]

This is one of a very limited number of songs that, if it's on the radio while I'm heading to work, I'll clock in late to finish the song.....period.

[@TheSonnyjim1000]

Hell Fucking Yes Baby! That's What I'm talking about!

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

Then, you would like the soundtrack to 'The sound of music'

[@lowendtheory802]

MrKoughee can’t miss the sax solo

[@tomybertsch5391]

Started to sing this one night to a much younger friend from work you tuned it for him and he's loved it ever since

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

Doing that right now with the gym. Cant miss the sax!

[@catlamp4135]

This song ruined my life. And I still love it. The first time I heard this I was 7. I was hypnotized, mesmerized, entranced. I walked the wild side anywhere I could find it. I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to experience real wilderness. And I did. All of it. Now I’m 40, peaceful and happy.

[@Rick-S-6063]

I remember hearing it for the first time when I was a senior in high school, and that was in late 1972 or early 1973. The people sitting around on lunchbreak were spellbound, wondering just what the song was and what was going on.

[@user-hh4er7mv7l]

Your not the only one. I'm sure many young boys tried it. Now that you admitted it, your free of it, and access to heaven in the end ....Granted!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😜🤸🤸🤸🤸🇺🇸🇨🇦👍

[@ARTHURNeeleman-ie9cm]

i,m 60 years old now and every single year give it more and more respect for this song thanks mr. lou reed

[@WolffBachner]

I love my life and being 70 is cool, but I was twenty years old once too. Miss you, Lou Reed.

[@susanbaker-schloth1152]

My feelings, precisely... . And where is Iggy Pop?

[@kathybouziane5269]

Yep. 70 here too and still love this song

[@ericksixtos1069]

I lobe this comment.. I'm 43.. but ill be 70 one day.......... I hope

[@madelinesolomon2968]

@@susanbaker-schloth1152 Iggy Pop is performing in Europe this summer, Aug 17 at Cossany, Switzerland and a few days later in Vigo, Spain :) You asked a good question so I typed it into Google: where is Iggy Pop? So glad to know he's still with us, still performing. God bless 🙏

[@junelupescu5334]

Sir you and I were born at the best time for music and life

[@jamescarter2314]

Does anyone else wish there was a 10 minute version of this song? It kinda puts me in a trance and I'd love to hear more lyrics ect...

[@andrewcairns8266]

@Jackson Lewis he said more lyrics. Does looping create new lyrics from the original artist?

[@jamescarter2314]

@@davidkrassner5993 sweet thanks!!

[@kearl3490]

You need better drugs

[@T-MIC]

Look up can I kick it by tribe called quest...they flipped the beat and fucked this song UP...SO GOOD

[@jamescarter2314]

@@kearl3490 lmao I need to "take a walk on the wild side" ?

[@user-du4uh7ht7s]

Brilliant the first time I heard it 30 years ago and it gets better with time. A masterpiece

[@melodycazakoff7482]

One of my all-time favourites.

[@32mybelle]

Bowie produced this album and helped write this song. RIP both of them!

[@sortilegesmoon4831]

mick ronson was the producer in the studio, bowie producer in name and made the connection (spent very little time in the studio), but it was mick ronson's genius that made this record sing.

[@Nostre38]

+sortileges moon not really

[@anabeatrizm9788]

Cami Castle wow! :c rip

[@littlebrayutd]

+sortileges moon yeah your right mick ronson did

[@curiousworld7912]

Lou Reed frightened my parents more than any other musician or band that I listened to. God bless Lou Reed.

[@janegodson390]

I love that comment hahaha ❤️

[@sonoyta5386]

@@janegodson390 big Mikey....Thx

[@katezzzz]

s p 😂

[@vandeolkon]

I was singing to it while doing dishes and I think it scared my kids...

[@kartikaye3313]

He frightened my parents in 2011 too. My parents are Metallica fans, you see.

[@LibertyBelle71]

The smoothness, and seemingly effortless coolness of this song is something no artist in today's generations of "artists" could every match. True beauty.

[@alanforbes2020]

God I love this song! Never gets old

[@marielollini9958]

NEVERRRR👊

[@oneangrygoy]

When I was 14, I was sleeping in my room n my dad came bursting in and was excited and said " hey get up, they are playing a song about you on the radio" he was excited so I was excited so he brings me out to the living room and im trying to wake up listing to this song for the first time and figuring out the lyrics and I hear "sugar plum fairy came n hit the streets" I was like awww damn, buuurn, lmao, best dad joke ever! I sure do miss you dad, rip.

[@Ipam6]

That's so sweet

[@jimmyyorkshire4495]

Cool 👍

[@martinblondel1531]

Sounded like you was right it’s freaking out

[@martinblondel1531]

Its best you just forget about all that stuff it won’t do you no good thinking about it it will just make it worse

[@d_murphy4415]

I'm trying to be mean put if your old enough for your dad to be dead (RIP) you wouldn't put that on KZbin

[@broncodeviltexas]

From 1972 and still sounding cool.

[@VikramSingh-wi1tw]

bronco devil music doesn't get old (: you love it you love it

[@broncodeviltexas]

Well, if you were in 1972 and heard music from 44 years earlier, you'd say it was OLD!

[@ricardo1232213]

bronco devil everything from 1972 is cooler than what we have right now, even disco wasn't that bad.

[@grimabsolssbm]

Richard 3365 You're ignoring all the fact that there was shitty music back then. You know why you haven't heard it? Because people realized it was awful and stopped listening to it.

[@grimabsolssbm]

Jimmy Grant Oh great. It's one of you people

[@beechpilot12000]

Thanks Lou. This song has been one of my favorites for a time.

[@frankedwardstone58]

Best to listen while stoned.

[@willrokos]

true

[@markaho4777]

Not

[@milletrad8871]

This song never grows old. R.I.P. Lou.

[@davidlecaros887]

Very good .Hereikn Lima Peru

[@markaho4777]

To me it does

[@garysimms6412]

This song never seems to get old.. it is truly a masterpiece..

[@dizziemisslizzie4040]

Agree 100%

[@sammargidis9316]

@@dizziemisslizzie4040 rr

[@christian-helsting4195]

I disagree

[@Theirishcannoli]

@@christian-helsting4195 I disagree with your disagree

[@katrubioso4835]

Fantastic in June 2022

[@joyturner7646]

Listening in 2024. Cool and cute! I’m 63, fine it’s a great song.

[@eandsm4620]

67 and here too. Hadn't heard this in ages!

[@markaho4777]

Hate Lou Reed

[@fennyellis3366]

My mom loved this song...i loved it also even though i was a child and didn't understand the lyrics! So soulful. Thanks, Lou!❤

[@oldman2800]

I remember when this was first sung in the 70s and i was young and cool. Time is a bitch but this track is still evergreen

[@sharonanderson2073]

I think your words r definitely yours to say , I am 54 and the lyrics transcend age and go on 4 e era with time ,x

[@sharonanderson2073]

4 ever I ment to say

[@sharonanderson2073]

No era no time, I listened to the lyrics never got them, I loved the sound. Stupid me all about, brown. Anyway I still love it ,always x

[@dalesco4205]

I'm a lot like you were

[@sharonanderson2073]

Never put yourself down 4 starters, u were happy and in that time line ,and yes life is a bitch ,in your words the lyrics r still cool and u still live it

[@malcolmcoco6458]

i really just feel the rhythm of this song it's so soothing

[@professorpopkiss]

Leonard Cohen "Suzanne" does it for me.

[@helenhunter7424]

They both do it for me xx

[@EricvanDorp007]

Found Lou in 1978 as a ten-year-old and never left. Thx Lou for all the good music you gave us....

[@davidtrent399]

Lou yeah ❤

[@jorgegamarra1524]

1973 I'm living in Miami a lot memories I was 22 from Lima Peru with 120 dollars in packet but very happy . Listen this song 2021 more happy. Thanks god

[@iHopeyoure0ffended]

God didn't do that for you, you did, congrats on getting yourself to a happy place. 😀

[@Aaron-8989]

Interesting story hope your doing well !! During this year

[@jorgegamarra1524]

@@Aaron-8989 thanks my friend .I'm still alive thanks God . happiness to you

[@jorgegamarra1524]

@@iHopeyoure0ffended thanks Jerry . good vibration for you .from Lima peru

[@jorgegamarra1524]

@@Aaron-8989 thanks .Aaron good vibration to you from Lima peru

[@justincase4812]

His lyrics are just so perfectly clear, anyone can follow along.

[@scottnowlin1787]

Hey Justin is your brother David CASE AND Did your dad teach at DWYER

[@captainkeyboard1007]

The melody keeps me on keel with the song.

[@user-lm5lh2po8p]

They broke the mold. As well it should be. There will never be another.😢 God Bless.

[@veronicapanek2797]

One the best songs from my generation. Love it.

[@alexandre.bernalte]

Was my mother's favourite song, I remember hearing at the stereo with less than 6 years. Each time I hear it I think of her. Music has this beautiful thing, evocation.

[@kimberluna2226]

Happy Great reminiscing ...

[@kadishangel1652]

man you had a wonderful mom, didn't you? :)

[@harridan.]

evocation is a great word!

[@mustymandude]

Was your mom your dad?

[@liennitram9291]

The song remembers when....

[@samh.8965]

8 years old, 1981, road trip, east Texas, sis in front, Mom driving. First time my ears were blessed by this Tunage. "Mom?" "Yea son?" "What's giving head?" Mom- "OOH A&W, Whose hungry?!"

[@claudegagnon999]

Good joke...american style!

[@BeardedFrog]

Hey mum, what's a coloured girl? XD

[@paulhill7818]

Lol.. Mom gave You the answer You were looking for.. 😎

[@marlenethompson6359]

😂😂

[@markaho4777]

Too bad that song sucks

[@glennhughes9394]

I remember when I saw lou reed live at the Sydney entertainment center in th 80s he had an acustic guitar strung over his shoulder while he sang this song strutting his stuff, amazing performance rip lou

[@philipsoulos3569]

He was great, I think. Hard to recall those wonderful substance fuelled nights. Van Morrison played there. Had his back to the audience all the time, but the sound was good. Bob Scaggs at the Horden was fabulous.

[@janmcintyre2569]

How terrific to have seen him perform ❤️

[@KittyGrizGriz]

You were so very lucky!! I would have loved to see him too.

[@Roland-lo5fu]

Only one Lou Reed.......nuff said...Among the Greek God's of Music.....

[@williamglenn777]

I love the fact that David Bowie co-produced this album. Two icons!

[@henryjohnston]

and played the sax line

[@RoyPage1970]

He didn't co-produce anything he produced it

[@RoyPage1970]

​@@henryjohnstonwrong

[@luciabernreiter8483]

45 years later and I still love this song

[@ulrichwill496]

👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🇨🇭

[@luciabernreiter8483]

@@ulrichwill496 Hope you love it too

[@gelubatir9794]

i can say the same...it seems just like two-three days ago...how wonderful and yet how strange feeling

[@luciabernreiter8483]

@@gelubatir9794 Yea it seems just like yesterday, crazy feeling

[@ronames6394]

;-)s ... Timeless n C:lassic, miss U a lot Uncle Lou, RIP n Thanx for the Music, the movement n the memories. Like all GGGreat things, his music lives on !

[@inez8335]

This song sure made high school years SO much cooler...what a groove❤‍🔥🎶

[@PhilDonegan-ry8wq]

CLASS IS TIMELESS.

[@adinocc2042]

Q: Can Lou kick it? A: Yes he can!

[@antoniusbritannia8217]

well played

[@linkthompson8772]

Music is universal!!

[@xkee2013]

Tom & Jerry

[@connornugget6065]

Lou has a very semi charmed life.

[@Random-ul2gv]

Q: Can he quest like the tribe does A: No but he can walk on the wild side

[@kyle4605]

This song never ages. It hits on every known situation, no matter the time.

[@marlenazawadzka9761]

Wow it's from 1972! What a ballsy song!!! Whenever I heard it , never paid attention to the lyrics but to the music.... Now M My head is blown! :O

[@willvan1890]

this never gets old

[@DeadHandX]

Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!!!!

[@namenotneeded5654]

To escape this false reality we are forced to exist in. I'd come back for more too.

[@petersellers3489]

50 years later still relative and awsome fucking love this song

[@ulrichwill496]

@@petersellers3489 Me too❤️❤️🇨🇭

[@lisagonzalez1371]

Basic ahh comment get out

[@alexcarratu5554]

A classic never ages, this song has pure gold written all over it. Thank you for your musical brilliance, Mr Reed.

[@annabahatska1433]

Exactly!.

[@infolibertad_1]

He is a poet with music

[@alexcarratu5554]

@@infolibertad_1 he definitely was. Genius musician, Mr Reed. One of a kind

[@everyday775]

That dark achievement will stay forever, RIP Lou Reed

[@notsure1969]

I'm catching a nice buzz while listening to this gem right now. This song always makes me smile and sing along.

[@dalesco4205]

I may not have much money but my soul is rich in experiences. My life has been a walk on the wild side.

[@reynru]

That is everything!

[@richardbrown2419]

The words in this song are shockingly brilliant

[@bp6329]

no it's a song

[@blakesisk7301]

Those are all real ppl. Look it up

[@bp6329]

it's a song

[@Pneut]

@@bp6329 Dude songs can have deep meaning full lyrics. In fact they can mean great things too whole generations.

[@Jewels122003]

just a few notes will have everyone groovin'. Truly

[@EmotionmotionEmotionmotion]

Just a perfect day, I finally found it!

[@brookeperk93]

nobody is a "cross between " when it comes to lou reed, the man and this timeless gem of a tune are simply incomparable.

[@ivejustseen4887]

ваще хз о чём ты там на своём басурманском языке толдычишь

[@clmentksh]

agreed

[@brushfuller330]

Listen to songs from Velvet Underground like Heroin or Femme Fatale

[@jules8159]

@@brushfuller330 good thing they’re good artists

[@brushfuller330]

@@jules8159 why do you say that? They were an S&M band

[@patriciafootejohnson2817]

I was a colored girl in the 50s as a child and black detroiter as a teen in the 60s and I love and will always love this song! Also love any song that mentions One of the handsomest and most beautiful man that ever lived James Dean.

[@christophersteele5709]

i found out about this song causr a tribe called quest samples this song for can i kick it, it amazing to see the influence of previous generations and the evolution of music.

[@johnoman1710]

Good taste girl👍

[@faincondicional8732]

Gênio. Sinto sua falta 😢 Gratidão por ter deixado um legado para os ouvidos apurados e afinados com suas músicas fantásticas.❤

[@SCOTTADAMS-et7pl]

"Hustle here, Hustle there" ... 50 years ago.... Booom.... I love a line of good coke and listening to this ❤