Lou Reed - Perfect Day (Official Audio)

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  • Official Audio for ”Perfect Day” by Lou Reed
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    Chorus:
    Oh, it's such a perfect day
    I'm glad I spent it with you
    Oh, such a perfect day
    You just keep me hanging on
    You just keep me hanging on
    #LouReed #PerfectDay #OfficialAudio
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  • @holipinieo1
    @holipinieo1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11014

    It's so strange how a song called "Perfect Day" is one that I find myself wanting to listen to when my day is everything but perfect.

    • @joseph78355
      @joseph78355 7 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      False hope. The emotional and mental maggot.

    • @a.bourne6386
      @a.bourne6386 7 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      exactly

    • @jimbee01028
      @jimbee01028 7 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      what other kind of hope is there???

    • @annagodel951
      @annagodel951 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Omg same

    • @kyleashcraft86
      @kyleashcraft86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      Its about a perfect day of doin heroin in central park in NYC

  • @Gr13fKvlt
    @Gr13fKvlt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4559

    My wife and I danced to this at our wedding reception. The greatest day of my life and an appropriate song for the occasion. At the time I was in the Army and was a severe alcoholic. The lyrics at the end was the cherry on top because she was fully aware of what she was willing to get into.
    I’ll never forget hearing her cry over the phone a couple years after we got married when I told her my chain of command signed off for me to get help at a rehabilitation center in Oregon. I got off of heroin through the same means to be able to join the Army so she was aware that I had already gone through a withdrawal process. 7 years clean of heroin, 3 years sober of alcohol. Thank you so much my dear Hannah for taking a chance with me. Thank you so much Lou for all of your work I’ve listened to ever since my father raised me with your art.
    We now have two beautiful children, I was able to successfully transition back into civilian life, and the future looks quite promising. Some folks can’t comprehend the power of art and music, but it’s a power that can’t possibly be denied.

    • @RodHammett95
      @RodHammett95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Congratulations on your recovery! Keep going strong :)

    • @K1Nd0m
      @K1Nd0m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      RIGHT ON MY DUDE!! you're the fucking man!! congrats!

    • @BrianNewport
      @BrianNewport 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Great story you give us all hope for that we can get thru any dramas! God bless you and your family!

    • @whoman1505
      @whoman1505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Semper Fi my good man! God bless your family and friends!

    • @vexbotz
      @vexbotz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Comments like this are diamonds, have a great rest of your life brother.

  • @paulkelly1162
    @paulkelly1162 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I used to play this song as the heroin hit, every relapse, after relapse. It's the sixth year anniversary of me getting sober today. Still love this song, it just means something very different now.

    • @stereosanct1ty
      @stereosanct1ty หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Great job dude. Best of luck

    • @roykeene8868
      @roykeene8868 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Train spotting was a good movie but waking up with paramedics around u is a good n bad feeling stay strong brother we are in it together

    • @andreapenarete
      @andreapenarete 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well done! that takes tones of strength and courage ❤

    • @WPAPi3.14
      @WPAPi3.14 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      34 years for me

    • @user-ww1gq6qr3l
      @user-ww1gq6qr3l 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      transformer what a album i am so free

  • @juanadrianarquinegogomez3610
    @juanadrianarquinegogomez3610 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +300

    best song, best movie. thank you Lou Reed, thank you Wim Wenders.

    • @silvanabalmamion4693
      @silvanabalmamion4693 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Grazie! Questa canzone sarà per il futuro uno dei motivi che accompagneranno le mie giornate

    • @xavittu
      @xavittu หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I am so fucking addicted ever since I saw it

    • @OfficialArkoMotions
      @OfficialArkoMotions หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What film?

    • @mitchbob789
      @mitchbob789 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Perfect Days directed by Wim Wenders@@OfficialArkoMotions

    • @OfficialArkoMotions
      @OfficialArkoMotions หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@mitchbob789 Thank you

  • @SuperDevolution
    @SuperDevolution 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3209

    "You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good" might be the most relatable lyric in history.

    • @igotthepowers
      @igotthepowers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Good point, really fucking brilliant. And so relatable!

    • @adrianramsey1369
      @adrianramsey1369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It hit home

    • @ferdinandreinheimer1080
      @ferdinandreinheimer1080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      oh yeah, that's the undisputed truth !

    • @RPPification
      @RPPification 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Auxiliary Stream Services Why are you here?

    • @Kieransm09
      @Kieransm09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wow so edgy

  • @robbieclark7828
    @robbieclark7828 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1475

    This song is like watching something beautiful die.

    • @DoctorBlankenstein
      @DoctorBlankenstein 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Robbie Clark like Summer :( see you next year dear friend...

    • @lisaandjonnewhard4430
      @lisaandjonnewhard4430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      We're all beautiful and we all die.

    • @gavynfees578
      @gavynfees578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very that

    • @akarto
      @akarto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This song is like you are the joker and you shoot Every one in the room And at the end
      You drinking vodka 😂😂😂

    • @toffeeapple4145
      @toffeeapple4145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@akarto exactly what I was thinking

  • @thatjoshwright5577
    @thatjoshwright5577 ปีที่แล้ว +931

    Lou was a deeply flawed man. His music was honest, simple, and intimate. That’s what makes him so relatable.

    • @riffraffrichard
      @riffraffrichard ปีที่แล้ว +22

      So true, he had problems but in a way in the time period he was living he was facing them head on through his art.

    • @tammybrunet5739
      @tammybrunet5739 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@riffraffrichard .

    • @samsquanch1996
      @samsquanch1996 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      His problems were part of what made him such a great musician!

    • @linalicious415
      @linalicious415 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      We are all deeply flawed...flaws are sexy

    • @thatjoshwright5577
      @thatjoshwright5577 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@linalicious415 indeed flaws ARE sexy 😂

  • @Dremeli
    @Dremeli ปีที่แล้ว +611

    Reed's voice breaking on 2:11 is one of things which makes this song excellent.

    • @redskies4530
      @redskies4530 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

    • @angelj4ne
      @angelj4ne ปีที่แล้ว +11

      literally

    • @ZoeKaylor
      @ZoeKaylor ปีที่แล้ว +37

      It's the imperfections that make it so perfect.

    • @sonarparth3204
      @sonarparth3204 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@ZoeKaylor So true

    • @tombirmingham7033
      @tombirmingham7033 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Reed wrote a song so powerful that when it's in personal context you can't help but cry

  • @hapilydamaged
    @hapilydamaged 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2600

    This is what having fun with depression is like.

    • @tao5143
      @tao5143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Exactly, bro.

    • @otemporizador3550
      @otemporizador3550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      So true, the teen days

    • @DETRACT0RD00M
      @DETRACT0RD00M 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      this is what having fun with skagg is like..

    • @oiramsq73
      @oiramsq73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Having fun with depression - and David Bowie and ‘Ronno’ otherwise it would just be another unfinished chess game against that one friend who never just never shows up on time or ever.

    • @AAA-et1cf
      @AAA-et1cf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, funny depression

  • @FultonLMiller
    @FultonLMiller 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2639

    I can't explain the nightmare I just went through searching for this song, the sense of relief I am feeling having found it, but I will try. I thought I was going fucking nuts. When all you can remember from this song is, "You just keep me hangin on," which only returns results for "You Keep Me Hangin On", a completely different song from the 1960s, and not at all what you're looking for. "Okay," you think, "I'll give it a listen and see if the song I'm looking for is some sort of modern cover." Fuckin' nope, not even close. You look through three pages of results, none of which have this song, and you honestly have no idea what you can do to refine a search for the only six words you remember from a song. At this point you begin to question your own sanity, is the song real at all? Did I get the words wrong in some small way that means I may never figure out what song I'm actually looking for? Am I doomed to be nervous and angry until by chance I suddenly figure out what song I've been looking for? You just want to break things, because in no way should it be this difficult to find a catchy song on the *internet!* WHERE IS IT?! Is there some kind of grand conspiracy to keep you from finding this song? Make you doubt your own mental faculties until you are left a dribbling, emotionally ruined shell of your former self?
    If you don't figure out what song this is, you aren't eating, you aren't going to bed, you aren't doing anything because now it's personal. *You* can't find this song, and if you can't find it that means you are wrong, and you know you aren't wrong. It's a horrifying paradox, you cannot give up or else every day that you live having not found that song will be a day lived in agony at the knowledge that you can never prove what you know to be real. Why even continue living?
    Anyway, I finally found it, by chance after a couple days. The real struggle is figuring out how I'm going to dispose of these bodies.

    • @deansaldanha1468
      @deansaldanha1468 8 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      +FultonLMiller that was intense mate.. rather start watching some amazing movies .. like this song is in the movie trainspotting ..! Great movies have great soundtracks!

    • @qwer3881
      @qwer3881 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      you spoke my heart out mate

    • @haisydaisy10
      @haisydaisy10 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      oh my god. Ive had so many nightmares to this song too...

    • @johncavanaugh1911
      @johncavanaugh1911 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      If only only there was a way to add comments to my favorites

    • @rockettlaunch8059
      @rockettlaunch8059 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You're a funny guy.

  • @montanisemperliberi3153
    @montanisemperliberi3153 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    When I was in active heroin addiction I truly understood the bittersweet feel of this song. Longing for the high and longing to be clean at the same time. Clean today I still love it.

    • @kimberlyharshfield8629
      @kimberlyharshfield8629 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I feel ya!!! clean for 3 now after struggling for 34! Still love this song,and can honestly say, i can listen to it , and it doesn't make me wanna get high now! 👍😜 Yay for us!

    • @jonatanlj747
      @jonatanlj747 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      To both of you, you should be incredibly proud of yourselves. Knowing the struggle I've had with alcohol, I can only imagine the superhuman strength and commitment needed to get off of heroin. Take care of yourselves.

    • @alicelovell3905
      @alicelovell3905 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I have 10 years clean icr

    • @p2pat
      @p2pat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This song makes me want to use…

    • @Cpl4200
      @Cpl4200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Guess this was a "Perfect" song for the movie Trainspotting!!

  • @Eric578
    @Eric578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    This was "our song"! My fiancée and I kept each other hanging on... every day was a perfect day with her!
    I miss her so much! Rest in peace Shelly. I love you!!! Always and forever!!! ♥️♥️♥️

    • @fernandeaux1631
      @fernandeaux1631 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      God bless your angel I lost mine in 2013.

    • @flyingsword135
      @flyingsword135 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sorry for your loss may her memory sustain you.

    • @Eric578
      @Eric578 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@fernandeaux1631 I'm very sorry for your loss. Our angels have wings now.
      Maybe they'll find each other and fly together.

    • @Eric578
      @Eric578 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@flyingsword135 Thank you!
      She still "keeps me hanging on"...
      I miss her every day! But, I keep hanging on to the hope that I'll be with her again, someday.

    • @valerioria8505
      @valerioria8505 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      God bless you ❤❤

  • @caitlinteague3193
    @caitlinteague3193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1963

    my friend Maddie died in April. This was one of her favourite songs, and they played it at her funeral.
    It reminds me of her everytime I listen to it.
    “it’s such a perfect day.. I’m glad I spent it with you...”
    I love you Maddie. I miss you every single day. ❤️

    • @thorazine666
      @thorazine666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Rest Easy Maddie.

    • @rickgardner9126
      @rickgardner9126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      My God Caitlin! I’m sorry for your loss. There is something so sweet and beautiful about it too at the same time. You hang in there!

    • @AntonioMaceo0740
      @AntonioMaceo0740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      My deepest condolences to you!

    • @teddng1828
      @teddng1828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      May she Rest In Peace...

    • @SlavicUnionGaming
      @SlavicUnionGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No, why would you play this at a funeral!!?? Its fits better in a wedding

  • @ashutoshbhadoria9948
    @ashutoshbhadoria9948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1067

    "You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good". Hits too hard man. Too hard

    • @monsieurluciferdiablo6871
      @monsieurluciferdiablo6871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      🥀

    • @frog_of_winds7459
      @frog_of_winds7459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      damn

    • @thebelen2359
      @thebelen2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@monsieurluciferdiablo6871 That emoji sums up the whole song

    • @eoinreilly3925
      @eoinreilly3925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Someone good, yeah??
      Various artists for comic relief 98 I think is when I first heard it

    • @MatthewMuhammad
      @MatthewMuhammad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same, dude. This is my first time hearing this, and I think it strikes a brilliant balance between happy and melancholic.

  • @pedrobezerra6610
    @pedrobezerra6610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    My father died about 9 months ago...
    I'm glad I spent 17 years with you, dad.

    • @user-ww1gq6qr3l
      @user-ww1gq6qr3l 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      my mother dead maybe m'y father not biological both passed i miss both

  • @ronaldsimmons9517
    @ronaldsimmons9517 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +570

    After listening to this I have a sudden urge to clean toilets in Tokyo.

    • @jkta97
      @jkta97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      And take photographs of trees

    • @seog1233
      @seog1233 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      And have canned coffee for breakfast

    • @jkta97
      @jkta97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@seog1233 And play shadow tag

    • @natusaddeficiendum
      @natusaddeficiendum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      And take care of my plants

    • @jkta97
      @jkta97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      @@natusaddeficiendum And look up at the sun every morning on my way out the door.

  • @Chiaretta-xl3bf
    @Chiaretta-xl3bf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    This song hurts...its a piece of art.

    • @joyvasquez8685
      @joyvasquez8685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It'll be a better one when you drive on sunsets and speed 😂

    • @user-rx3js1no3s
      @user-rx3js1no3s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What hurts even more is looking at your ugly mug

    • @jimmyjames950
      @jimmyjames950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If right cc

    • @KK-pw9sq
      @KK-pw9sq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Perfect song for an imperfect day

    • @dailyflash
      @dailyflash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Auxiliary Stream Services There’s also an art to trolling.

  • @celticbird2398
    @celticbird2398 8 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    Lou Reed brought me here, nothing less, nothing more.

    • @bevmason5898
      @bevmason5898 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      👍 likewise!

    • @BarakaTheGreat
      @BarakaTheGreat 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Celtic Bird That's not even possible, you were influenced from an outside source.

    • @celticbird2398
      @celticbird2398 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      BarakaTheGreat Yeah, the album Transformer.

    • @jgt-er9nk
      @jgt-er9nk 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +BarakaTheGreat for true

    • @rickyrhoades4083
      @rickyrhoades4083 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Celtic Bird That's way more than enough "Bird" man. Go Green-we need #18!

  • @indiaatkinson1035
    @indiaatkinson1035 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    My dads funeral song...died unexpectedly of a heart attack when i was 13...this ones for you dad x

    • @shivnorth3141
      @shivnorth3141 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      RIP to your Dad.🥲💚🎶💕🎸💚

    • @hillybilly7165
      @hillybilly7165 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      🥀💔😔

    • @rjohn3471
      @rjohn3471 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wow, at 13, I remember worrying and praying for my Dad. So long ago, my sympathies.

    • @mikegallagher3700
      @mikegallagher3700 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Rip brother 🙏

    • @PuppysMum
      @PuppysMum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's rough. I'm so sorry. 😢

  • @tracey6416
    @tracey6416 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    I played this song on loop while my cat (my baby) was dying in my arms... such a beautiful song. I still get tears now listening to it and remembering our perfect 15 years together

    • @zamithemyth440
      @zamithemyth440 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I´m so sorry for your loss.. My beloved dog died 3 weeks ago and I am also listening to this song to grief.

    • @tracey6416
      @tracey6416 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@zamithemyth440I am so very sorry for your loss 😢

    • @PuppysMum
      @PuppysMum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm so sorry (both of you). 😢

    • @loisarends3968
      @loisarends3968 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm so sorry ❤ pets truly are family

    • @johnbarry1965
      @johnbarry1965 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's people who have a beautiful soul like you that make me realise that life can be wonderful XXXX

  • @evancodsworth2
    @evancodsworth2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1073

    A song this beautiful can only be written from the darkest depths of the human mind.

    • @pixelsailor
      @pixelsailor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      So true !!!
      I'm crying at this song...

    • @JKTube
      @JKTube ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MickBellTV: No.
      “Perfect Day? Aaaoh, that’s… so laughable. You’re talking to the writer, the person who wrote it. No that’s not true. I don’t object to that, particularly… whatever you think is perfect. But this guy’s vision of a perfect day was the girl, sangria in the park, and then you go home; a perfect day, real simple. I meant just what I said.”

    • @mikevlad13
      @mikevlad13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Light comes - darkness disappears!🤣

    • @MarjorieJCat
      @MarjorieJCat ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or, if like me, you really dig heroin

    • @criticalmind93
      @criticalmind93 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@MarjorieJCatbrownstone

  • @jamesonjaksch4883
    @jamesonjaksch4883 7 ปีที่แล้ว +434

    This song gives me chills.

    • @sterlingblake7655
      @sterlingblake7655 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HEROIN IS DEATH!!!!!!! DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL. Heroin is heaven CUM too soon; Premature ejaculation and no one is satisfied!!!!!! My best friend just died; AGAIN

    • @bigsweeper8022
      @bigsweeper8022 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am so very So Sorry to hear of such tragic news. Hang in, just hold on..

    • @4narchydigital
      @4narchydigital 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      it's all fun and games till fentanyl laced dope kills off people you love

    • @waynehackney5812
      @waynehackney5812 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JamesonDoesStuff Why?

    • @jamesonjaksch4883
      @jamesonjaksch4883 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wayne Hackney I don't know, maybe its the hook of the song that does it.

  • @NotYoDad482
    @NotYoDad482 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    « Next time is next time Now is now ». Thanks you Perfect DayS.

  • @adamhagen6639
    @adamhagen6639 2 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    This proves you don’t need a perfect voice to make a masterpiece.. Love all the imperfections and pitchyness, feels so natural.

    • @emmanueludoh77
      @emmanueludoh77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly how I feel about this Nico tune.
      Perfectly imperfect!
      th-cam.com/video/-nGLqXZ-f70/w-d-xo.html

    • @salvo3650
      @salvo3650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agree

    • @karolk7711
      @karolk7711 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, then you became songwriter writing songs for artists who actually can sing, not trying to be some rockstar

    • @FucklesTheEnchilada
      @FucklesTheEnchilada ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@karolk7711 well it worked for Lou.

    • @riffraffrichard
      @riffraffrichard ปีที่แล้ว +25

      That's exactly what's beautiful about its human and real. There is no perfect voice just different ones.

  • @tonecot8932
    @tonecot8932 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Lou, David, and Mick Ronson are playing this in heaven now. :(

    • @dexterdog717
      @dexterdog717 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Velcon Nirnroot There is no other place.

    • @antygoniusz
      @antygoniusz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +nallly there is just one place. The one in your head. Sorry to tell you this...

    • @gilliangracee
      @gilliangracee 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +tonecot89 Now Prince as well :(

    • @antygoniusz
      @antygoniusz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Gillian Bennett let us celebrate just for the idea of those 4 playing one, ultimate, ethernal song somewhere out there.

    • @Danny_Cruz
      @Danny_Cruz 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah...

  • @joezink881
    @joezink881 8 ปีที่แล้ว +580

    This song is a masterpiece. Has a dark undertone to it while explaining joyful things. Then the music ramps up and for a short moment they sync.

    • @samhaghighi8551
      @samhaghighi8551 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree

    • @hairylox5980
      @hairylox5980 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Or, you know, the song itself proves that it has a dark undertone to it...

    • @olderjeans
      @olderjeans 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ur pretty

    • @officialclownbusiness7788
      @officialclownbusiness7788 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      the perfect day is when I die. not much darker than that.

    • @mikenichols5473
      @mikenichols5473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lou Reed can't sing a lick. But his songwriting wasn't bad and he knew how to surround himself with terrific musicians.

  • @phoenixmastrogiovanni157
    @phoenixmastrogiovanni157 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I've struggled with alcoholism for years, this song hits like nothing else

    • @AmyEG1988
      @AmyEG1988 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cheers…

    • @jbranum3087
      @jbranum3087 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Keep coming back. You don't have to drink again even if you want to and you don't have to be alone even if you want to.

    • @jamiechappell9116
      @jamiechappell9116 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      stay safe bro

    • @phoenixmastrogiovanni157
      @phoenixmastrogiovanni157 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jamiechappell9116 not a bro

    • @r2dxhate
      @r2dxhate 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I should not be seeing this comment when I'm drunk.

  • @barneyhansford411
    @barneyhansford411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    The great Mick Ronson played the piano and did all the arrangements of this song which is one of the greats of all time

    • @tachyon2357
      @tachyon2357 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Mick was behind my favorite albums in rock history.

    • @yudhasibarani8476
      @yudhasibarani8476 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ronno the hidden gem in rock

    • @RiverRat_1977
      @RiverRat_1977 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @barneyhansford411 Ronno composed, arranged (orchestrated), and conducted all of the piano and string parts, as well as playing that entire, lovely, and melancholic piano masterpiece that frames the entire song… Bowie only wrote most of the the lyrics and outlined some basic chords that Ronson filled in… not only with the full layout of the song, but he wrote the sheet music as well, which includes arranging all of the individual instruments, with their separate compositions within the song…
      Ronno also knew how to arrange the placement of all the different instruments in the studio for the proper balance of sound since he was a professionally trained musician, composer, and instrumental arranger (he also played the violin and mandolin). Ronno contributed to the lyrics as well according to Angie B!! Mick also did this to most of the other songs on the album, and only for a few bucks… thinking he was doing a favor for a friend and would be looked after and treated as an equal… but Bowie knew how to take advantage of him (just like he did to the Spiders…)
      Ronno also engineered most of the entire album (and parts of others), yet his name doesn’t show up on one credit since Bowie claimed them all for his own greedy narcissistic self!! Ronno gave Bowie his image during the Spiders from Mars period!! So without Mick Ronson David Bowie wouldn’t have received all the the attention and accolades he got… which were mostly due to Ronno… who (along with the other Spiders) was unceremoniously fired like a day labourer!!
      The D.A. Pennebaker movie shows everything Ronno did to encourage Bowie, and Bowie always played with him side by side as equal frontmen, when Ronno was the whole package behind the scenes!! Sometimes when I hear this song it angers me that Ronno didn’t get the credits, royalties, and the professional respect he deserved from Bowie. So whenever I hear this song (especially in Trainspotting) I think of Mick Ronson as the real mastermind behind the scenes!! (Brian Eno would never let Bowie take advantage of him, especially in such a disrespectful way)!!
      Bowie was just a leach!! He didn’t even visit his ‘friend’ and former partner when he was dying of cancer and begging friends for small jobs to keep a roof over his family’s head!! It’s a shame he was so disrespected by Bowie, as Ronno should’ve been one of the great composers and arrangers like John Williams, John Barry, Michael Kamen, etc. But Bowie deliberately held Ronno back and also wouldn’t let other people in his organization tell Ronno how much of an asset he was and what he really deserved and the position he held in creating David Bowie’s image and career!!
      The documentary “Beside Bowie” brings everything into the light, only it wasn’t made until after Mick had passed away (Ian Hunter was there helping to take care of his mate and make sure he had an income)! David Bowie didn’t even attend Ronno’s funeral, nor contribute a single penny to support Mick’s family and the monument they felt he deserved as recognition for his musical contributions that brought an element of fame to the small eastern seaside town of Kingston upon Hull in the County of Yorkshire in Northern England!

  • @lyndal4227
    @lyndal4227 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1294

    Produced by David Bowie
    Lou Reed - vocals
    Mick Ronson - piano, string arrangements
    David Bowie - keyboards
    Trevor Bolder: trumpet
    Herbie Flowers: tuba
    Klaus Voormann - bass
    John Halsey - drums

    • @GOW397
      @GOW397 7 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Lyndal god bless Bowie

    • @wongnaichungrd
      @wongnaichungrd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Good points!

    • @lyndalbreen7690
      @lyndalbreen7690 7 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Ronson's piano is so strong, it completely lifts the song above and beyond. Ronson was recognised as a very talented arranger too. But you can't pull Bowie out of the equation. Reed, Ronson, Bolder all had more prominent careers because of their association with Bowie. As for the money, we all know that many 70s musicians were done down by their managers and this was the experience of Bowie, Ronson and Bolder with Tony Defries. Bowie ended up very wealthy due to his decision to manage himself and later through the creation of the Bowie bonds which allowed him to buy back his own back catalogue.

    • @Captainawesomesauce
      @Captainawesomesauce 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I don't have anything to add, but this discussion is fantastic!

    • @UMCProductions2013
      @UMCProductions2013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you know who wrote the lyrics?

  • @javascriptkiddie2718
    @javascriptkiddie2718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    This song perfectly describes how I feel about this song

  • @PunksInVegas
    @PunksInVegas หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thank you Wim Winders for giving this classic song new meaning in Perfect Days.

  • @josephrivera1679
    @josephrivera1679 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If the phrase “it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all” were transcribed into an emotion-evoking song, this would be it.

  • @blake432
    @blake432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    had the honor of meeting him once. RIP Lou.

    • @Gr13fKvlt
      @Gr13fKvlt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Blake
      How was the encounter?

    • @benkenon
      @benkenon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gr13f Lou Reed was a notorious curmudgeon. I’d wager not well

    • @giannagiavelli5098
      @giannagiavelli5098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wait what? hes dead? NO!

    • @giannagiavelli5098
      @giannagiavelli5098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      chrieke 2013. sheesh. RIP slack man

    • @Futurevenomzone
      @Futurevenomzone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it bad that I was expecting this to be a Limmy "Surprisingly down to earth and very funny" reference?

  • @lucanclair2414
    @lucanclair2414 7 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    R.I.P Lou Reed

    • @carrieambrosini8553
      @carrieambrosini8553 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I cried for days. Miss everything I felt he was, everything he portrayed himself to be.

    • @breyonnasimpsfor2dmen401
      @breyonnasimpsfor2dmen401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was a good man his song was on my favorite show Gotham

    • @neptunestardust
      @neptunestardust 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      CJ P.
      😭

    • @googlereviewer4039
      @googlereviewer4039 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I miss him. I miss David Bowie. Bowie helped so many new muscians get started. Lou Reed was one of them. Love them both.

  • @oludotunjohnshowemimo434
    @oludotunjohnshowemimo434 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    One of Lou Reed's greatest masterpieces.
    It is always a Perfect Day listening to Lou.

  • @etherdog
    @etherdog 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I bought the album the day it came out. It kept me hanging on. The movie "Perfect Days" is a perfect match for the song.

  • @Nicholas-tv4do
    @Nicholas-tv4do 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Depression, love, drugs, suicide, family, friends, music, literature...
    Who gives a fuck, let's just enjoy Lou's work for a few minutes.

    • @gomathcheatz2601
      @gomathcheatz2601 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nicholas Fillipone how about for an hour on loop and you just sit ba... *_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_*

  • @John_Notmylastname
    @John_Notmylastname 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I hope everyone reading this finds the love they deserve. Even when you think you don’t, you most certainly do. We all do.

    • @hwoods01
      @hwoods01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm 55 and waiting.. I'm getting anxious

    • @hildagadea1685
      @hildagadea1685 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      GRAZIE.... LO AUGURI A TUTTI ... TROVARE L'AMORE CHE SI MERITA ...

  • @newyorkvulgarian8865
    @newyorkvulgarian8865 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    Can’t keep “You’re going to reap just what you sow” outta my mind every year of my life. I still listen to Perfect Day on rainy days on the streets of NYC. Glad someone like Lou existed.

    • @YasminTheJewish
      @YasminTheJewish 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you. Thanx people like you are among us

    • @newyorkvulgarian8865
      @newyorkvulgarian8865 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@YasminTheJewish you are so kind, thanks besides Lou Reed always been my idol as young as I can remember.

    • @juniornunez2583
      @juniornunez2583 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Me too. I be listening to this every time I ride my bike on a beautiful day through riverside park while I’m headed to Times Square and Union Square looking towards the West Side Highway and the Hudson River

    • @newyorkvulgarian8865
      @newyorkvulgarian8865 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@juniornunez2583 it’s a great song to listen to while strolling by many picturesque NY locations like the places you mentioned. I listen to it while walking the Brooklyn bridge on warm summer nights. Speed walking through crowds in busy Manhattan streets after a night out drinking.

  • @RunsingBagaiNakGila
    @RunsingBagaiNakGila 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

    A Japanese toilet cleaner brought me here.

    • @nammm25
      @nammm25 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      me too.

    • @user-oc5hy9sd4c
      @user-oc5hy9sd4c หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Trainspotting 1996 was before

    • @97magner
      @97magner หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bro, me too ❤

    • @chiaradiclemente4432
      @chiaradiclemente4432 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beautiful...

    • @peteeckford3336
      @peteeckford3336 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same 😂

  • @aldrichuyliong8143
    @aldrichuyliong8143 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    "I thought I was someone else... Someone good"
    Damn that goes straight to the feels.

  • @soulCracka1
    @soulCracka1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    ...I thought I was someone else, someone good...

    • @leshoc
      @leshoc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      great line

    • @annyfenton1
      @annyfenton1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You are, buddy.

    • @SuperDevolution
      @SuperDevolution 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Such a devastating line, one I think most of us can relate to at times.

    • @nigelgrolla2268
      @nigelgrolla2268 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      reminds me a bit of Charlie Brown

    • @toffeeapple4145
      @toffeeapple4145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's singing about a fkn drug

  • @RadagonTheRed
    @RadagonTheRed หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As someone who has been batting opioid addiction for the last 15 years, the lyrics in the song speak to me so painfully.

    • @nomiddlenamenmn427
      @nomiddlenamenmn427 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lou was adamant it was not written about heroin.

    • @fedda9999
      @fedda9999 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i hope you are doing well

  • @user-ie4xi8kj1g
    @user-ie4xi8kj1g 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    PERFECT DAYS観てきました!
    カセットから流れる音楽の全てがよかった!!

  • @ROBERIOPIZZA
    @ROBERIOPIZZA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +589

    Just a perfect day
    Drink sangria in the park
    And then later, when it gets dark
    We go home
    Just a perfect day
    Feed animals in the zoo
    Then later a movie, too
    And then home
    Oh, it's such a perfect day
    I'm glad I spent it with you
    Oh, such a perfect day
    You just keep me hanging on
    You just keep me hanging on
    Just a perfect day
    Problems all left alone
    Weekenders on our own
    It's such fun
    Just a perfect day
    You made me forget myself
    I thought I was someone else
    Someone good
    Oh, it's such a perfect day
    I'm glad I spent it with you
    Oh, such a perfect day
    You just keep me hanging on
    You just keep me hanging on
    You're going to reap just what you sow
    You're going to reap just what you sow
    You're going to reap just what you sow
    You're going to reap just what you sow

    • @alexmarshall4331
      @alexmarshall4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you from a cold overcast south east London lalala 👉❤👈

    • @auroraborealis13579
      @auroraborealis13579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank You from California 🌴🌞💚

    • @alexmarshall4331
      @alexmarshall4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@auroraborealis13579 Good morning Aurora!!! 👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈

    • @auroraborealis13579
      @auroraborealis13579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alexmarshall4331 Good Morning, Alex!

    • @alexmarshall4331
      @alexmarshall4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@auroraborealis13579 Hey Aurora! How's the weather in California? It's clear skies but cold here near Waterloo Bridge South East London LALALA... Stay safe... Alex👉🇬🇧👈👉😷👈👉🙏

  • @Claudia-wx3vq
    @Claudia-wx3vq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Lou Reed brought me here

  • @johnbarry1965
    @johnbarry1965 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    The greatest feeling ever is forgetting who you are

    • @anneominous7172
      @anneominous7172 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love you, man.

    • @cathyclayton8444
      @cathyclayton8444 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Actually for me the greatest feeling is knowing exactly who I am

    • @MauRelita
      @MauRelita หลายเดือนก่อน

      F A C T S

  • @user-fo5gc8rf9k
    @user-fo5gc8rf9k 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "You're going to reap just what you sow"
    This part was always so ominous to me...everytime I hear it I think about my current problem (whatever it may be) and think "fuck, you're gonna reap just what you sow"

  • @rafahounds
    @rafahounds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I met Mr Reed as an 18 year old hippie, DuPont Circle , summer of 69. I knew nothing about him except for what he told me, and I didn’t believe him. We spent the afternoon and night trying to score junk from DC’s local junkster, Beethoven, and his associates. I was all acid and a little speed. A new world for this dippy hippie. Cut to 1970 a friend and I were at a place where they were playing The Velvet Underground and Nico. Wow, that’s the guy....!Loved the album, a whole new level for me.
    Cut again to last night and I finally said, “I really need to listen to Perfect Day.” Never heard it before.
    What can I say. Another day, touched by Mr Reed, reaching back from one day and night in 1969. “You’re going to reap just what you sow” ... indeed. Thank you.

  • @geryon1162
    @geryon1162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    i cannot imagine this song in any other setting but the end of the world

    • @chuleta441
      @chuleta441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That'll be soon

    • @andrewalison2882
      @andrewalison2882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Soooo true.them mushroom clouds are rising.AA som.U.K

    • @mikepatrick5909
      @mikepatrick5909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@andrewalison2882 A virus outbreak is used before a nuclear war...

    • @mrleet4101
      @mrleet4101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m killing myself to it right nos

    • @SuperBandMom
      @SuperBandMom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just keep hanging on anyway 😘😘😘

  • @kaned5543
    @kaned5543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    The use of this song in episode of 9 of Our Flag Means Death felt so great, even more so now that I'm hearing the whole thing and learning the lyrics

  • @SamuelEMPowell131
    @SamuelEMPowell131 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The first time I properly listened to this song I was a teenager about 16, laying at the bottom of a half pipe with my friend who is now a music producer, I had heard it before from trainspotting. We were sharing a head phone each and staring at the stars, I will never forget that night, Thank you Lou, while I'm here I wanna throw my friend some love for all the good times, try searching Lonely Gimmick - All Along the Watchtower, it gives me Lou vibes and I think my friend is really talented and deserves more recognition, he records it all himself on his laptop

  • @Thefabrizzio97
    @Thefabrizzio97 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The piano at 2:22 is just beautiful!

  • @andregrolly
    @andregrolly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    The best new literary style is the TH-cam coment, I can listen to first-person narrarives of what each piece of art meant to each individual person, and that is so inspiring and humbling and rich.

    • @JoannaSternbergYoutube
      @JoannaSternbergYoutube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      this comment needs more attention! you are so right

    • @stephendoyle4416
      @stephendoyle4416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Can you believe many official uploads disable comments? Breaks my heart for all of the lost stories

    • @iost5459
      @iost5459 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Which is why it’s a travesty most songs on official pages got their comments auto disabled by youtube. It leads us to uploads from other people rather than the artist just to see comments. In other words, fuck you youtube!

    • @jeffreymccarty1388
      @jeffreymccarty1388 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Far out

    • @dongately2817
      @dongately2817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This songs about heroin - I always listen to it when I’m ready to go out, fuck somebody over, and score.
      You’re gonna reap what you sew.

  • @marieeeckhout1689
    @marieeeckhout1689 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    J'ai connu cette chanson grâce au film de Wim Wenders "Perfect Days", magnifique.
    👋

    • @thiagom.3097
      @thiagom.3097 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Conheça Lou Reed, el3 é maravilhosa

    • @HamtaroSan85
      @HamtaroSan85 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Perfect Days est pour moi un des meilleurs films de 2023 sans hésitation. Une très bonne performance d'acteur de la part de Kōji Yakusho et une histoire qui nous incite à apprécier les choses simple que la vie a à nous offrir et les moments passés avec nos proches, un très bon feel good movie !

  • @marcusaurelius7419
    @marcusaurelius7419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Finally listening to this song on a perfect day. Unironically. God bless.

    • @Wildguns76
      @Wildguns76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless so much

  • @craigthomas2455
    @craigthomas2455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    Personally, this is an example of the pure power and magic of music. When a song causes a physical reaction in your body! It may be a shiver up your back, goosebumps all over or make you burst into tears.... that's the power of music. Humans have known this since we've had ears to hear with. It's a beautiful thing.

  • @toluca8371
    @toluca8371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Honestly, this song is a writer's haven. Melancholy, cheerful, pure joy, or a horror scene. You could write anything to this song.

  • @stevelaconte8802
    @stevelaconte8802 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    He was underrated, everyone knows him from take a walk on the wild side but he was awesome and may he rest in peace

    • @tbrj
      @tbrj ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm not sure that I would refer to Lou Reed or the velvet underground as "underrated"

    • @JKTube
      @JKTube ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tbrj: Only in the sense that they should have sold a lot more records and been much more successful than they were.

    • @armarq8091
      @armarq8091 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Underrated? Lol most stupid word for mister Reed who is world famous

  • @aliakuhn6320
    @aliakuhn6320 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everyday with my boyfriend is a perfect day [ hmu when you read this Christian] ❤️

  • @nutbastard
    @nutbastard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    It doesn't matter, but I had a perfect day today. It wouldn't be notable but I can't remember the last time I had one. Today was one.
    I wrote a whole long post about why today was perfect but it was a bit too self indulgent. Suffice to say, my last year and change has been astronomically shitty. I'm pretty sure I saved my relationship with the love of my life today.
    It can happen, no matter how shit your life is. Every once in a while, you get a perfect day.
    Step 1: Show up
    Step 2 is up to you.
    UPDATE: I did not in fact save my relationship. She's gone. I ruined it. I guess I reap just what I sow.

    • @the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.
      @the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Love is unreasonable sometimes. Or maybe that was lust. Maybe love is certain is all and won't take yes for an answer.
      A bliss for lust, a lust for bliss."
      ,dan'

  • @barneyronnie
    @barneyronnie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Ssgt. John Boyd - Vietnam '68 - 69, '70 - 71; You were Someone Good - One of the Best! RIP

  • @annenouveau1308
    @annenouveau1308 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The movie of wim wenders is beautiful really, with a marvelous and plenty of charm 70 years japonise old actor ,and I saw it twice, but I am not here for that reason; i am just a 64 year old woman and I was listening perfect day and so others songs of Lou ( for example in is record "berlin" ) because they are magnificent and wonderful. I was 14 and now i am 64 and I still continue to hear his records. I am just an old french woman. But in my head and my heart, I am not old

    • @sapphicfilmnerd
      @sapphicfilmnerd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wim Wenders is 👑 I saw it twice too

  • @loltadynicneni913
    @loltadynicneni913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    anyone here after our flag means death ep. 9 finale? yeah, so this is the sound of my heart breaking, goodbye.
    btw, the bridge at 2:25 slaps.

  • @imsimpingforbillkinandpp2425
    @imsimpingforbillkinandpp2425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    *the irony of this song and the contrast of the vibes the artist gives, its like a song that will play on your last remaining days on earth*
    btw, lorde’s 73 vogue question is the reason why i am here,,

    • @huguesmassin8903
      @huguesmassin8903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep, normal, the guyis talking about heroin and not a person. Just like a last day of life.

    • @jessiegasc3650
      @jessiegasc3650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sameeeeeee 😅

    • @Isrealkillskids
      @Isrealkillskids 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol u got it good for u

    • @jessyv8
      @jessyv8 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @nicoleralston2837
      @nicoleralston2837 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

  • @ProtoMario
    @ProtoMario 3 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    Great song!

    • @kartikaye3313
      @kartikaye3313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh boy do I have a Lou Reed and Metallica collaboration for you!

    • @Mike.325
      @Mike.325 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Facts

    • @dirklammertse4174
      @dirklammertse4174 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Still is after 40 years!! Greetings from Holland

    • @nanibruh9992
      @nanibruh9992 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed it is👌

    • @rockinrollinntrollin616
      @rockinrollinntrollin616 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      PERFECTION ...is forgetting yourself ?.

  • @worer850
    @worer850 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    love this song. Remembering sitting in the park with my father dying of alzheimer's. Singer together.. ❤❤ 😢

  • @skyrulez4837
    @skyrulez4837 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Trainspotting & Perfect Days
    Iconic song for movies which can't be more different

  • @ru2388
    @ru2388 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Oh such a perfect song...

  • @elmochaorejas6122
    @elmochaorejas6122 9 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    the best record that Lou Reed ever made, this song is just a perfect song

    • @paulgraymedia
      @paulgraymedia 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      jaime nuñez I'd rather take a walk on the wild side ;)

    • @Luchacooks
      @Luchacooks 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Paul Gray Lana omg

    • @coreyreck6144
      @coreyreck6144 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      jaime nuñez

  • @leehenderson8132
    @leehenderson8132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a love song.Its just a perfect song.

  • @chelsiaroberto971
    @chelsiaroberto971 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I am unable to contemplate how one song can make me so incredibly happy and be the absolute perfect illustration of profound sadness at the same time. This is the power of music. I have a very beautiful memory every time I listen to this song, it reminds me I place where I felt for the first time , that I belong and that I am seen with passionate eyes. It is such a perfect day indeed. Thank u for this masterpiece.

  • @flyingmerkel6
    @flyingmerkel6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    Many years ago, I had a Perfect Day with my new wife. We're still married, but her health is deteriorating fast. Perfect days are becoming rarer.

    • @sawtoothiandi
      @sawtoothiandi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thats Tough! Godspeed!

    • @sawtoothiandi
      @sawtoothiandi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Your love for each other is the true essence of being alive as human in the universe today! I send up a prayer that she recovers!!

    • @pauljenkins6807
      @pauljenkins6807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I hope that you two have many many more perfect days

    • @flyingmerkel6
      @flyingmerkel6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pauljenkins6807 Thanks. Things may not be perfect, but they're still good.

    • @nobodysXghost
      @nobodysXghost 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      is it from addiction? no matter the disease, that is very tough. but your love is beautiful.

  • @iNiCkGOD
    @iNiCkGOD 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    3 years ago today we lost Lou . Thank you Mr.Reed for everything youv truly changed my life. Rest easy legend

  • @motorxrules1
    @motorxrules1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    This is such a clever song.
    From the lyrics describing a mediocre life that's not too downtrodden but subtlety sad. Firmly hammered in by the chorus. Not only by instruments but by a slight voice break indicating a hidden struggle.
    Perfection.

    • @nneisler
      @nneisler ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It is indeed a clever song that combines a bright, upbeat melody with melancholic lyrics. The juxtaposition creates a unique and compelling listening experience, and the slightly strained vocals in the chorus do add to the emotional impact of the song. It's a great example of how music can communicate complex emotions and experiences in a way that words alone cannot.

    • @angelj4ne
      @angelj4ne ปีที่แล้ว +3

      think ur reading a little too into it

    • @johnhatchel9681
      @johnhatchel9681 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its about heroin.

    • @guitarheroplayer-fs5js
      @guitarheroplayer-fs5js 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nneisler doesn't sound to bright and upbeat to me.

    • @thefriend4264
      @thefriend4264 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@johnhatchel9681no, its a poem that reed wrote to his gf

  • @steffanhoffmann
    @steffanhoffmann 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Probably the most laid back, and yet somewhat similarly, dramatic song; anybody composed.
    Thanks Lou.
    RIP mate.
    🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇸

    • @r2dxhate
      @r2dxhate 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're right, it is dramatic. It's like giving in to an emotion as deep and uncontrollable as rage., except inverted into a jaded sadness.

  • @buckybarneswhothehellisbucky
    @buckybarneswhothehellisbucky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    that piano solo after you just keep hanging on

    • @DoctorBlankenstein
      @DoctorBlankenstein 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Clint Francis Barton played by David Bowie

    • @jonathanrandol794
      @jonathanrandol794 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bowie okayed the keyboard... The Piano is ALL Mick Ronson. Musical savant...

  • @TheLarryburns84
    @TheLarryburns84 6 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    a combination of my love for the Velvet Underground and mood swings brought me here.

  • @gong256
    @gong256 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    It’s so kind of Mika to sing this for us 😊

    • @werwer_yt
      @werwer_yt หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Are you a fellow vod watcher that had to investigate?

    • @gong256
      @gong256 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@werwer_yt feasibly

    • @spottybubbles2861
      @spottybubbles2861 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Holy shit Mika CAN sing 😮

    • @radicalmars
      @radicalmars หลายเดือนก่อน

      he actually does sound like mika, im never gonna unhear that now

    • @koenbook901
      @koenbook901 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where can I find this. The SDMP vods? May I have a timestamp?

  • @ninconanco4926
    @ninconanco4926 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The right song for sad days.
    🎶🌻🎶

  • @florantejrhermosado5170
    @florantejrhermosado5170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This song made lorde cry 😢

    • @qerqeqg.9255
      @qerqeqg.9255 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      who is lorde

    • @olegbutt07
      @olegbutt07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Qerqeq G. Randy marsh

  • @Rock-iw7ov
    @Rock-iw7ov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    So many people view this song ironically, but with how gorgeous it is, even when I listen to it on a bad day, it feels like a perfect day

  • @ernievame
    @ernievame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    After many love dissapointments, every time I go out and spend a saturday or sunday with my daughters, I finish my day at my appartment listening to this song. And then, I find that life gets so well when the definitive and beloved ones are happy with you by just sharing simple things and you can forget everything when it's spent with them. A day with my daughters is a perfect day.

  • @dirkdiggler6962
    @dirkdiggler6962 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The piano solo is so simple yet so beautiful, just pure art.😥😩☺

  • @biggywan9765
    @biggywan9765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I am listening to this song in honor of My good friends mother who passed away last night via overdose, Rest easy Gina theres no more pain for you on this earth.

    • @cocob6752
      @cocob6752 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry for your loss and friends loss id be lost w-o mama and im 35 .

  • @jonfazzone5125
    @jonfazzone5125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Lou Reed’s Vocals along with Guitarist Mick Ronson’s Piano & Strings on Perfect Day are Perfect

    • @janpakowski3084
      @janpakowski3084 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I think that Mick Ronson is one of the best guitarists and even pianoplayers in the world, but truly underrated

  • @user-ip9td3vu5g
    @user-ip9td3vu5g หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Spettacolo...
    Senza parole.
    ...❤

  • @laramiebracken9305
    @laramiebracken9305 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I heard this song the first time at a movie theater in Berkley CA in 1996 watching Trainspotting with friends. I had quit smoking about 8 months prior. The movie itself was great, but this song had such a profound effect on me, and the very strange place I was in my life at that time that I left the theater, abandoned my companions (including my girlfriend at the time) and went to a nearby liquor store to purchase a pack of Camels. I starting smoking again that day and didn't quit for 10 more years. "Perfect Day" is such an incredible song. It is this beautiful song that Lou Reed is adamant that he wrote for his high school sweetheart and muse, Shelley. I have never been so deeply moved by a song before or since. I am unable to contemplate how one song can make me so incredibly happy and be the absolute perfect illustration of profound sadness at the same time. RIP Lou Reed and thank you for all of your incredible music.

  • @Mrariesdave
    @Mrariesdave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Always seem to play this song at the end of the day when I feel sad and long for my youth and all my friends who are all dead and gone. Even though I never wanted to be thirty, I somehow always thought I would indeed have all my friends with me when I got older. I will be 66 next month and it is just me and my cat. But 30 years off heroin/coke/benzos/barbiturates/booze. Got this album in '74. Thank you Lou for being on the planet with me.

  • @armorers_wrench
    @armorers_wrench 5 ปีที่แล้ว +888

    "would you like a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?
    "No thank you I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs please"
    What a great film. I personally quit doing opioids but trainspotting is still among my favorite films.

    • @CSestp
      @CSestp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Without context its just a strange movie, with context it is an amazing film.

    • @shaunakmitra963
      @shaunakmitra963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zbear5920 yeah lol on some pirates of the Caribbean shit lol

    • @laurarookey5155
      @laurarookey5155 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow...you are a peon

    • @laurarookey5155
      @laurarookey5155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I apologize for what I said before I was lost in the song and did not read this in full. High five to you for kicking the monkey. I have as well. I shouldn't read these comments I get far too upset. #FUCKHEROIN

    • @kevinlitton1399
      @kevinlitton1399 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Perhaps sir would like for me to call a taxi?

  • @mickcarlon8147
    @mickcarlon8147 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mick Ronson rules. His piano, his orchestrations.

  • @Ma3mal612
    @Ma3mal612 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Perfect

  • @anthonyarens797
    @anthonyarens797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is one of the best songs ever

  • @db_41000
    @db_41000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1011

    - Have you taken a break since you started drinking?
    - Not until right now.
    - Do you feel like lying on the couch, rubbing your eyes, while listening to Lou Reed’s Perfect Day?
    - Yes!
    - Then I’ll tell you what’s wrong with you, you got a hangover

    • @mattymmmm2362
      @mattymmmm2362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Family Guy

    • @Whaylie
      @Whaylie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Yeah I just saw that and realized I had no idea what Peter was talking about so I thought I'd check this song out.

    • @Annie2220
      @Annie2220 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      D. Ball LMAO.
      I'm very sleep deprived tonight and I was watching Season 16 of Family Guy on Netflix today. When Peter mentioned this song I HAD to hear it.
      I was laughing so hard at the next scene, his sunburn, that I had to pause it because my stomach muscles hurt and I was practically crying..LOL

    • @kevinnoonan5534
      @kevinnoonan5534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That episode also taught me about Chris O'Donell who apparently I look like

    • @jonathantwaddell2469
      @jonathantwaddell2469 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      D Bail Literally why I’m listening to this

  • @helenateixeira9274
    @helenateixeira9274 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It has gradually grown on me. ❤

  • @vinx3078
    @vinx3078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    "hanging on
    By a thread
    Hanging on
    Shouldn't let go
    If I let go
    All will fall
    Fingers bleeding
    Down to the bone now
    Can't let go
    Nothing makes sense
    Hold on
    Hold on
    Hold on"

    • @oogieboogie8043
      @oogieboogie8043 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      NOOOOOOO

    • @whateveryouhearditwasntme4109
      @whateveryouhearditwasntme4109 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shut up I can't take this

    • @SuperClaire35
      @SuperClaire35 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Too soon 😭

    • @Matty442
      @Matty442 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just re watched ofmd and I cried even more this time it was so much worse knowing what was going to happen

  • @KevinSmith-qn8fn
    @KevinSmith-qn8fn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Always reminds me of Trainspotting when he ODs and just sinks away into the carpet

  • @jizzicasupsupa4953
    @jizzicasupsupa4953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    sticking needles in my vein listening to Lou. ahhh what a perfect day. oh what a horrible sickness.

    • @evilfuzzybunny100
      @evilfuzzybunny100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wtf

    • @yharnamhunter8759
      @yharnamhunter8759 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Get off that shit before your loved ones find your corpse

    • @jeeperscreeperskilla
      @jeeperscreeperskilla 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      saaaame

    • @lsdelicious8844
      @lsdelicious8844 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shake it off sugar

    • @mobmike93
      @mobmike93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jizzica Supsupa hope ur ok im an addict too im detoxing and i kno the struggle hang in there ^_^

  • @TheBrixBK
    @TheBrixBK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My ex-fiancè just mailed this song with lyrics adjusted to our shared memories, together with link to this clip, as a wish to my name's day. I broke with her 3 years ago. She is in new relationship and I live my solo life, with my daily routine, at its finest.
    Our worlds splited apart, bad things are gone, but there are still those beautiful memories that keeps a kind of best friends connection alive. The perfect day could mean so many things.

  • @shikimasaoka7479
    @shikimasaoka7479 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tears come to my eyes when I listen to this song reminds me of my days with my son who used to be around me

    • @carmonaangel84
      @carmonaangel84 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He’s with you in your heart. You’re amazing