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"Pale Blue Eyes" has been covered by a number of artists [6] in addition to Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker from Velvet Underground: Patti Smith performed the song live in the mid- to late-1970s; Edwyn Collins recorded the song with Paul Quinn and released it as a single in 1984. R.E.M. covered the song for the B-side of the single of "So.
The song is told from the perspective of a man cheating on his partner. The lyrics may reference a previous song by Lou Reed dating back to his time in the Velvet Underground: "Pale Blue Eyes," and the lyrics "But mostly you just make me mad, baby you just make me mad." Both songs describe illicit affairs in Reed's life.
Lester Bangs, writing in Rolling Stone magazine, felt that it is not on-par with White Light/White Heat and has missteps with "The Murder Mystery" and "Pale Blue Eyes", but ultimately said that its combination of powerfully expressive music and profoundly sentimental lyrics will persuade the band's detractors into believing they can "write and ...
The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records (Reed described his tenure there as being "a poor man's Carole King"). [10]
Wildwood Flower Drive at the Carter Family Fold at Maces Springs, Virginia now Hiltons, Virginia. The Drive is named after the Carter Family hit song. "Wildwood Flower" is a variant of the song "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets", [1] published in 1860 by composer Joseph Philbrick Webster, who wrote the music, with lyrics attributed to Maud Irving.
Jane’s Addiction playing Stanhope, New Jersey in 1991. From left, Dave Navarro on electric guitar, a Greek goddess on fruit, Eric Avery on bass guitar, and singer Perry Farrell on mouth.
On June 2, 2014, she appeared a fourth time on Late Show with David Letterman, performing Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes". In 2016, Cook released her sixth studio album, Exodus of Venus. Starting in 2020, Cook began hosting Upstream with Elizabeth Cook, a fishing show on the Circle network. On September 11, 2020, she released the album Aftermath.
Transport the audience somewhere, “The Pale Blue Eye” does. The setting is West Point in the 1830s, where Bale’s Augustus Landor — a cagey, grief-stricken veteran detective — is hired to ...