These days I’m listening to music in my car, having given up audiobooks for a while. My iPod is connected to my stereo system, which is great, but finding music on the little display while driving is a bit difficult, so I tend to play something a little like roulette, spinning the dial until something that looks good comes up. Not entirely random, but close to it. A few days ago Lou Reed’s New York album came up. The album certainly evokes its time, but this song, it seems to me, has some continued relevance. The live versions I’ve found can’t match the pure anger that he projects in the studio version, but you can’t have everything, and this is still a good performance.
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