| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Bosko:11102] correct, lou Reed states in a loaded interview that the inspiration "is Selby; uptown." | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[minuette:11101] The 36 minute version of sister Ray at the Matrix in November69 has very clearly enunciated lyrics, and it's a slightly different rap. I hear: "Duck and Sally inside, you know they're cooking for the down five. Who's staring at miss Rayon, She's busy looking up at pigpen. Me, I'm searching for my mainline " It is a clear recording, so I'm pretty sure of my translation of that version. Definitely " cooking for the down five" and "looking up at pigpen" |
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| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The 36 minute version of sister Ray at the Matrix in November69 has very clearly enunciated lyrics, and it's a slightly different rap. I hear: "Duck and Sally inside, you know they're cooking for the down five. Who's staring at miss Rayon, She's busy looking up at pigpen. Me, I'm searching for my mainline " It is a clear recording, so I'm pretty sure of my translation of that version. Definitely " cooking for the down five" and "looking up at pigpen" |
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| The Velvet Underground – Sweet Sister Ray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Cynothoglys:2496] about a cross dressing, prostitute, heroin-dealer, to be eexact | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – Sister Ray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The sister's played this live in 81 - 84, usually as the final song, and Andy E would leave the stage after the lyrics had finished, while the bassist and guitarist would roar on, all to the pounding drum machine. The song would eventually end with the guitars left onstage, feeding back, while the beat pounded on. I had one good bootleg of a German gig with about 2 minutes at the end where everyone's left stage and it's just the rising and falling feedback over the drum machine. I think those 2 minutes were the closest to the VU original: just distortion and rhythm. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[minuette:2494] it's worth listening to as many live versions as u can find, cos they give insights, and show the song actually had no definitive version, with many varying raps. I hear 'cooking for their down TIME' not downpipe. Never heard of Downpipe in any slang, but down time kinda fits the sentence meaning: they're cooking a shot to enjoy some chillout time. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[minuette:2493] it's worth listening to as many live versions as u can find, cos they give insights, and show the song actually had no definitive version, with many varying raps. I hear 'cooking for their down TIME' not downpipe. Never heard of Downpipe in any slang, but down time kinda fits the sentence meaning: they're cooking a shot to enjoy some chillout time. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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DRUG HIT SALLY INSIDE... possibly the coolest line to open a provocative song. Theres a VU bootleg of a 68 gig called that. So imagine my utter disappointment when, 20 years after first hearing Sister Ray and mishearing it's opening, when I read a Reed interview (Mojo interview: Overloaded) where he states the 1st line is Duck and Sally inside. What a weak line. Mine is much better. My friends and I would spend hours discussing coolest lyrics etc, and we all thought DRUG HIT SALLY INSIDE was the greatest opener for the coolest sleaziest grunge rock freak out ever. What a disappointment. Reed, I want u to come back and acknowledge that my line is better! The Overloaded interview says this: There was a real Sister Ray. "This black Queen," Reed says, "John and I were uptown, and up comes this person, very nice - but flaming." Reed wrote the words, a set of incidents and character studies, on a train ride from Conneticut after a bad Velvets show there. "It was a propos of nothing: 'duck and sally inside' - it was Selby, uptown. And the music was just a jam we had been working on" The provisional title was SEARCHING. Selby was an NY novelist /poet. As to the debate about the meaning of I Couldn't Hit It Sideways: I have personal experience of injecting, and I never ever saw nor heard of anyone injecting a vein sideways. The proper way is in the direction of the flow of the blood, follow the line of the vein. A reason for this is that veins are elasticky, rubbery, and they can be moved about. So as you dig a spike into a vein, the first pressure just pushes the vein away from the spike, so u have to sort of pop the spike thru the rubbery vein wall. The most successful method to do this is to enter along, parallel to the vein, then it doesn't recoil left and right. 'Hitting it sideways' would be much trickier, as the vein would try to roll out of the way. It maybe possible for someone with fresh veins, that are easily pierced, to hit sideways, but why bother when u can hit it more easily/safely in line. Another fact about injecting is that it damages the vein, whose walls harden and the vein sinks deeper under the surface. By the time you've screwed your mainline (the big vein in the inside elbow) so bad that you can't successfully hit it normally, in line, then your chances of hitting from the side are much reduced. Trying to navigate directing a spike at an angle (down and sideways) to hit a buried vein that you can't see on the surface is a spatial nightmare, and that's before you encounter a hardened vein-wall that will prefer to move aside rather than pop. So, in my humble opinion, the Hit it Sideways reference might be akin to 'I couldn't hit a barn door'... I so smashed that I can't hit a bloody thing.. I think. |
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